Another Sky Price Increase

[bad company]

BT and SKY both overpaid for football imo.

[MissChief]

bad company said:

BT and SKY both overpaid for football imo.

I, and I'm sure they would agree. The issue is the FA and PL running a blind auction. Sky NEEDS the lions share of the football as it underpins Sky Sports. Nearly half of Sky's subscribers take Sports. Without it sky would be hundreds of millions down each year.

[Lucas Ayde]

bad company said:

BT and SKY both overpaid for football imo.

If they would just load the charge onto their sports packages and let would be subscribers decide whether or not to pay, I don't think anyone would have an issue with how much they paid.

Unfortunately it appears that they both just dump the ludicrous cost of buying PL football across their ENTIRE customer base. It's worse in the case of BT as their customer base will include many people who only want a phone and broadband and have no interest in pay TV whatsoever.

The only way to not end up underwriting obscene salaries for monkeys in the Premiership is to not have BT or Sky services at all. Given their massive reach, that is actually quite tricky.

[0000]

Lucas Ayde said:

If they would just load the charge onto their sports packages and let would be subscribers decide whether or not to pay, I don't think anyone would have an issue with how much they paid.

Other than people who want to watch any other sport.

[bad company]

Lucas Ayde said:

bad company said:

BT and SKY both overpaid for football imo.

If they would just load the charge onto their sports packages and let would be subscribers decide whether or not to pay, I don't think anyone would have an issue with how much they paid.

Unfortunately it appears that they both just dump the ludicrous cost of buying PL football across their ENTIRE customer base. It's worse in the case of BT as their customer base will include many people who only want a phone and broadband and have no interest in pay TV whatsoever.

The only way to not end up underwriting obscene salaries for monkeys in the Premiership is to not have BT or Sky services at all. Given their massive reach, that is actually quite tricky.

I'm a football fan but have to agree. At the moment I have Sky for TV and BT for phone/broadband. When the BT increase comes through I will have the right to cancel their contract. Thinking of seeing what Sky will do if they were to provide the broadband AND tv or looking at Talk Talk or even Freeview.

[bad company]

Just received this from Sky:-

As a valued customer, we’d like to offer you 25% off Sky+ TV for 9 months. That's 25% off over 50 channels including Sky Atlantic – a channel exclusive to Sky customers – when you stay with Sky for another 12 months.
Don’t miss out on the hotly anticipated new US drama The Catch and Season 2 of The Tunnel: Sabotage, plus other must-see shows.

Take advantage of this exclusive offer before it expires on 11 May.


My initial thought is that they want me to commit for a further 12 months but only offer the discount for 9 months. Doesn't sound great to me.

Edited by bad company on Saturday 7th May 09:42

[MissChief]

So they're offering a discount, something they don't have to do at all, and you're unhappy? Don't forget Sky doesn't do anything for existing customers.

[bad company]

MissChief said:

So they're offering a discount, something they don't have to do at all, and you're unhappy? Don't forget Sky doesn't do anything for existing customers.

True and neither do existing (in my case long term) customers have to stay with Sky.

[LC23]

If you are out of contract or coming out of contract then just cancel. Ten days into my notice period and 50% off the TV package for 12 months and a £50 credit on my first bill offered. Plus no contract.

[KTF]

bad company said:

My initial thought is that they want me to commit for a further 12 months but only offer the discount for 9 months. Doesn't sound great to me.

Thats exactly what they want people to do. They hope that they see the discount part but not realise it is only for 9 months then you are back on full price for the remaining 3 months.

[bad company]

KTF said:

bad company said:

My initial thought is that they want me to commit for a further 12 months but only offer the discount for 9 months. Doesn't sound great to me.

Thats exactly what they want people to do. They hope that they see the discount part but not realise it is only for 9 months then you are back on full price for the remaining 3 months.

The offer was also silent on the figures involved. They said the discount % but not the monthlies with or without discount.

You gotta watch the bar stewards.

[ooo000ooo]

My BTTV box was delivered today, £8.50 instead of £42 a month. Hopefully it'll work out ok. Going to miss the F1 and will be relying on the android box for those shows that are sky only but a quick review of my planner suggested that most of our stuff should be available.

[KTF]

This thread prompted me to log in to mysky again to see what offers were on showing for me to ignore and now they are teasing every package at 50% off (12 months) with a £25 account credit on top.

Example:

[mazdajason]

KTF said:

bad company said:

My initial thought is that they want me to commit for a further 12 months but only offer the discount for 9 months. Doesn't sound great to me.

Thats exactly what they want people to do. They hope that they see the discount part but not realise it is only for 9 months then you are back on full price for the remaining 3 months.

Annnnd that's exactly what I did nearly a year ago when we moved house. Renegotiated a new deal for 50% off for 9 months and then full price for the remaining 3 months. Now I am into the 11th month and I can't believe I'm paying around £70 for telly per month and I haven't turned it on in a week as the weather has been too nice to be inside!
Undecided what to do when I can give my months notice - leave or stay at a discounted rate for another year.

[Johnny]

Just cancelled.

Already have a 50% off TV offer on the Sky Service app.

Anyone got anything better than this? Was planning on another option, but interested to see.

[bad company]

Well I just sorted the BT contract. Unlimited broadband, BT sport, unlimited calls and line rental for £30.94 monthly rising to £32.49 in July. Cheaper than last year.

Will tackle Sky again later this summer.

[silobass]

Johnny said:

Just cancelled.

Already have a 50% off TV offer on the Sky Service app.

Anyone got anything better than this? Was planning on another option, but interested to see.

My Sky is off from tomorrow, best I've ever been offered was the 50% off, never any credit. I've half got it in my mind just to let it go but I think I'd miss the ease of it all. The only thing with the 50% is that there's a price rise in June so you 'll get that and it doesn't include HD if you have that.

24 hours to decide! Actually I may let it lapse and see what happens if they want to entice me back.

[karma mechanic]

I was fortunate to be on the £25/month for 25 months deal for everything. So it was a bit of a shock seeing what that would cost when the 25th month was up...
I called them and cancelled, then installed the Sky Service app. Straight away it showed the 50% off offer. I initially called the normal Sky number, and I was told that they could do 35%, but they didn't know anything about the 50% shown by the app - it simply wasn't possible.

I called the number given in the Service app and got the same story. 50% doesn't exist... I asked how this could be since I was calling that number specifically but I was told that 'online' is different so try that.

I tried live chat, but by the time I'd entered my name and reason for the chat it came up with 'all busy, try later'. Over and over again.

I finally managed to get on to a live chat session, gave all my details and security stuff, and asked how to get the 50% I was being shown. After some discussions I was transferred to another live chat rep, went through security all over again, gave all my details etc etc... Then some discussions took place where I dropped Sport (never watched it once) and Movies (will probably come back to that later in the year) so the total bill is now £18/month for Family and Sky+HD, including box sets in HD etc. That's fine for now...

Edited by karma mechanic on Wednesday 11th May 20:55

[0000]

After cancelling Sky, I signed up with BT. Nearly cancelled them too until they said they'd pay my ISP termination fee. By which time the operator had accidentally cancelled it anyway.

I was going to sign up with BT again but now Sky have posted me a 50% off offer. If it ever doesn't say busy at sky.com/staywithsky I think I'll sign up again and use the extra 12 months to get the aerial sorted to actually switch next year.

I'm sure all this is more hassle than it needs to be.

[bad company]

0000 said:

I'm sure all this is more hassle than it needs to be.

Absolutely.