Sky TV price rises...

[gbb]

Just for general consumption may help someone drive down the cost...
We have a fairly basic subscription which does include Netflix and i believe internet speed of 1 or 2 gig, current cost £58 a month
As our contract has recently ended, they upped the new cost to £83 a month.

No way, that's a massive rise for nothing more.

So here we go with brinkmanship, rang them up, see what they could do...they offered £78 a month.

No thanks, can you put us through to cancellations please.

And so a new operator, makes a counter offer but its still too much (£73 iirc)

No thanks, we'd like to proceed and cancel...so we are put through to another operator same rigmaroll...he now offers us a slightly refined bid of £53 a month. That's cheaper than our current payments...only (afaik) differences are a couple minor options we don't use anyway.(uhd being one)

Thankyou, we will stay at that thanks 😊

 

[Drago]

I never bargain with these firms. If my custom is not of sufficient value for them to give me their best offer first go then I walk.

If everyone stood their ground and did the same then they wouldn't pull this stunt in the first place.

 

[dicko]

Bargain works a treat we grovel to Virgin and are enjoying over £25 off currently

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just for general consumption may help someone drive down the cost...
We have a fairly basic subscription which does include Netflix and i believe internet speed of 1 or 2 gig, current cost £58 a month
As our contract has recently ended, they upped the new cost to £83 a month.

No way, that's a massive rise for nothing more.

So here we go with brinkmanship, rang them up, see what they could do...they offered £78 a month.

No thanks, can you put us through to cancellations please.

And so a new operator, makes a counter offer but its still too much (£73 iirc)

No thanks, we'd like to proceed and cancel...so we are put through to another operator same rigmaroll...he now offers us a slightly refined bid of £53 a month. That's cheaper than our current payments...only (afaik) differences are a couple minor options we don't use anyway.(uhd being one)

Thankyou, we will stay at that thanks 😊

I have had this

WHen I last changed I went through all the options

got the "lowest price"
rang them up to discuss it and got a lower price

but it was still higher than Virgin - and we preferred Virgin when we had it before
I said several times that this was the LAST CHANCE - and if they COULD not match Virgin then my next phone call would be to Virgin to confirm with them and commit to it
Nope - this was THE LOWEST POSSIBLE!!!

so I confirmed the contract with Virgin
Then rang Sky to tell them to cancel it all - and suddenly they had a better offer
too late mate - I had already agreed a contract with Virgin
I did say

 

[bikingdad90]

I cancelled Sky recently as their basic TV package is free view with their Sky channels added on. You have the pleasure of renting their boxes just to record and start/stop live TV for £24pcm give or take.

If you want to cancel sky TV you can get a fire stick and download Now TV. For £9.99pcm you can get the full access to Sky channels (new thing since Dec 24), all the free view stuff and then use U TV for the Dave channels.

When the tour is on or if you fancy channels like TLC subscribe to Discovery + for £6.99pcm and you can use the fire stick for it.

Hey presto, same service for £17pcm or less if you don’t take a full 12 months.

The internet offering was a laugh. Their fastest internet is £29.99pcm and it’s 250mb. I switched to a competitor nearly 2 years ago which charges £29.99pcm but I get 1GB upload and download and it’s full fibre not ADSL.

If you don’t know, satellite TV is getting phased out as everything can come via an internet connection, you don’t even need a digital aerial either as you can stream it now.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Mrs SD takes this 'sport' to another level and positively enjoys hassling away for savings.

I'm a bit scared to do the same being honest, possibly influenced by an episode of haggling in Goa in the early 90's.

I felt some shame after spending the best part of 20 mins getting the price of 4 cotton (Indian style) shirts down to around 25 UK pence.

 

[gbb]

I never bargain with these firms. If my custom is not of sufficient value for them to give me their best offer first go then I walk.

If everyone stood their ground and did the same then they wouldn't pull this stunt in the first place.

Sadly I thinknits gone the way car insurance has, they rely on people not bothering...or brinkmanship.
We had looked at going back to Virgin but their service simply isn't as stable as Sky, frequent buffering and drop outs last time we were with them. For comparison, by the time we had included a decent bandwidth and subscribed to Netflix.. it wasn't worth changing over.

 

[cyberknight]

I have had the same conversation a month or so ago.
I got the package i have now plus movies plus paramount plus and full fibre and it was about £13 less than i payed without the movie and paramount add ons

 

[CXRAndy]

We cancelled sky 3 years ago. Not missed it.

 

[postman]

Mrs P looks after our house things,and she did the same with Virgin last year.Sorry too much blah blah blah,down it came.Well done Mrs P.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Haven't a TV package in over 10 years, I just pay for Broadband and buy my own services as I need. But broadband is an essential service for me, so I tend to stick with BT/EE as they've always been reliable.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I have been changing from Virgin to Sky every 18 months for at least 7 years, to get the new customers offer.
Previously I had been with Virgin for 25 years, their prices went up and up every year without room for negotiation.
I only take the medium speed broadband - 1 person household, no TV.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

One of the reasons we swapped back to Virgin - apart from the price - was the interface was better
less flashy and better for use from a remote - the Sky one seemed designed for a phone and someone spent 10 minutes making it work on a remote after lunch

New Virgin box arrived and it has gone more like Sky - much less easy to use than the previous version

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

One of the reasons we swapped back to Virgin - apart from the price - was the interface was better
less flashy and better for use from a remote - the Sky one seemed designed for a phone and someone spent 10 minutes making it work on a remote after lunch

New Virgin box arrived and it has gone more like Sky - much less easy to use than the previous version

I had Sky Stream for a year, before cancelling. Aside from increasing costs we got rid as the UI was terrible. All designed to try and get you to consume their premium stuff and not just turn it on and watch TV.

 

[MontyVeda]

Just for general consumption may help someone drive down the cost...
We have a fairly basic subscription which does include Netflix and i believe internet speed of 1 or 2 gig, current cost £58 a month
As our contract has recently ended, they upped the new cost to £83 a month.

No way, that's a massive rise for nothing more.

So here we go with brinkmanship, rang them up, see what they could do...they offered £78 a month.

No thanks, can you put us through to cancellations please.

And so a new operator, makes a counter offer but its still too much (£73 iirc)

No thanks, we'd like to proceed and cancel...so we are put through to another operator same rigmaroll...he now offers us a slightly refined bid of £53 a month. That's cheaper than our current payments...only (afaik) differences are a couple minor options we don't use anyway.(uhd being one)

Thankyou, we will stay at that thanks 😊

they keep doing that with my mother... but she doesn't get offered any more than a 5 or 10 pound discount on the new inflated price... and moving to a new provider appears to mean losing her landline, which she doesn't want to lose.