Sky, Virgin & BT TV Haggle down prices and get serious discounts Article Discussion

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Last night I phoned up to leave sky as we are moving house. We have been out of contract for some time, but never tried to get a deal before. Spoke to a very helpful lady in retentions who let me upgrade my package (basic + sports) to everything and then gave me a 50% discount on the whole lot for 6 months. Ive gone from paying Ј40 p/m to Ј24p/m and now I get the movies! Happy days.

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• Last night I phoned up to "leave" sky as we are moving house. We have been out of contract for some time, but never tried to get a deal before. Spoke to a very helpful lady in retentions who let me upgrade my package (basic + sports) to everything and then gave me a 50% discount on the whole lot for 6 months. Ive gone from paying Ј40 p/m to Ј24p/m and now I get the movies! Happy days.
• Been a sky customer since the analogue days n Called sky the other day as we have just normal sky in the lounge n 1Xmulti room, we have a sky + box in the lounge but can't use it as we don't have sky+ active anyhoooo lol called n asked to have the current multiple room changed to sky+ and one more multi room sky+ was told it would Ј396 in total WTF - going to try the cancellations route tonight - any tips etc would be good........
  Many thanks
  Peter
• As long as you have any Sky subscription, turning the Sky+ box's record/playback facilities on is FREE (Sky call it a Sky Plus subscription but that's historical from when they used to charge).
• Ten minutes ago I rang sky I tried to cancel and was offered the works,
  6 months 1/2 price tv package ,HD sky + box and even the Ј15
  postage refunded well pleased.
  We already have virgin phone and broadband so we really were going to
  cancel maybe not now.
• called up to leave virgin and they didn't even try to offer me anything decent.
  Have, at the moment:
  XL TV and V+ HD box
  2 additional V Boxes
  M Broadband
  Line Rental
  Sky movies and sky sports
  Paying Ј93.99 for that all.
  Best offer I was given was Ј87. Absolutely shocking.
  bye bye virgin.
• Has anyone had any luck negotiating on the price of the 1TB sky box?
  We're forever running out of space, as we record lots of HD content, and just watch as & when we have time.
  We currently have TV+HD+BB+LL+LR package - so are pretty good customers. I just begrudge paying the Ј250 asking price for the box
• Are the chances of getting a discount any better nowadays or is the world of half price for 6 months gone?
  I have nirmal sky in just the one room but have movies and sport packages included however have a need to reduce some of my bills and my sky is currently Ј67. Is it worth threatening to leave or do they know that trick now?
• I tried to get a reduction from my HD , multi room, sports package. My HD box was bought privately and on the way out.
  Nice guy who said there were no deals at the moment and could not reduce the price. He did offer an engineers visit (Ј65) to assess the box and a repair or replace as necessary. I kept talking and he gave me the visit free. Not a great deal but if I get a new box free I will be happy. Are they new or reconditioned and will I get a guarantee ?
• I phoned Sky on behalf of my inlaws on Saturday. They have been with Sky for 4 years and still have the old non-Sky+ box with 4 `mixes' and Sky Sports. I was put through the retentions team and they only offered a new Sky+HD box and installation. The guy wouldn't budge on lowering the monthly cost or anything else
• Hmm, judging by other people's responses, it doesn't sound like SKY are giving much away - perhaps I'll just have to keep saving up for that 1tb box )
• Engineer just been and installed a new HD box. He did say that it should have been a reconditioned box but he had just installed his last one so a new box it was !! Very happy.
• Called Sky on Saturday to cancel as am on 90 day notice, underpaid menial Public Sector worker. Got a 50% reduction in my package, subs only, so saved Ј26 a month for 6 month and advised to call back in June to adjust package if am still not working. Was prepared to cancel if needed and but a Freesat box.
• Sky have moved their call center to Asia and will happily keep you on the line for 3 hours, premium rate, before they tell you they have no authority to give you a discount. Eventually they just hang up. Sky tv used to have one of the best service levels going, now it is a complete sham.
• I did this last week and received films for 6 months free; it actually works out Ј1.00 cheaper than if you didn't have the films in the first place!