Will I lose Sky F1 if I....
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Evening Gents,
Once again I look at my sky package plan in fear as I plan on adding something to my current package. However I am uncertain if this would mean the end to my currently free sky f1 package (still on the old school HD package).
Is Sky Go Extra linked to my TV package? If I upgrade so we can watch TV on the Playstation in the bedroom will my hopes of watching the Jap F1 race in bed be for naught?
Any one tried this?
Once again I look at my sky package plan in fear as I plan on adding something to my current package. However I am uncertain if this would mean the end to my currently free sky f1 package (still on the old school HD package).
Is Sky Go Extra linked to my TV package? If I upgrade so we can watch TV on the Playstation in the bedroom will my hopes of watching the Jap F1 race in bed be for naught?
Any one tried this?
ukaskew said:
I phoned them today as I'm on a £41 legacy package, unhappy with price but didn't want to lose F1. 5 minutes later...£22 for HD Pack, Kids, Docs, Music, F1.
Give them a call, they're pretty flexible and well aware of the legacy F1 'issue'.
What? I have the same plus movies. Spent 30 mins on the phone and got a fGive them a call, they're pretty flexible and well aware of the legacy F1 'issue'.
king measily £8 off.I clearly got the wrong person.
944fan said:
What? I have the same plus movies. Spent 30 mins on the phone and got a fking measily £8 off.
I clearly got the wrong person.
Phone call took 13 minutes including the initial 2 minutes trying to explain the situation to India before I was put through to Scotland.king measily £8 off.I clearly got the wrong person.
They dug themselves a huge hole when they adopted the 'best discounts for those that are trying to leave' policy, as a huge number of people are playing the game now. My brother-in-law is paying £36 a month for absolutely everything (complete Sky package with movies and sport, HD etc, line rental, broadband, phone). My Dad was paying somewhere around £100 for the same so phoned them up and complained/threatened to leave...instant massive discount.
944fan said:
I threatened to quit but that was the best they could do. Did a lot of umming and ahhing but they wouldn't budge.
Was left with either having to take it or actually go through with the cancellation. Didn't want to be left with nothing so bottled it.
I cancelled everything last year and gave a month notice (was intending to get BT tv) and they phoned me a couple of weeks later with a cracking deal to stay Was left with either having to take it or actually go through with the cancellation. Didn't want to be left with nothing so bottled it.
SydneyBridge said:
I cancelled everything last year and gave a month notice (was intending to get BT tv) and they phoned me a couple of weeks later with a cracking deal to stay
They run an application now that quickly compares options in your area. If you have an option of easily swapping to Virgin for example then expect a good discount, if your options are limited then only minor discounts if at all. We live in a cabled postcode area but don't actually have access to Virgin as they never did our road (even Virgin themselves send us mail shots and think we can access their services, I've assured them several times that we can't!), so that may have worked in our favour.
I played the BT card as they offer a pretty competitive £15 bundle which includes quite a few key HD channels (the only ones we watched on Sky anyway, such as Discovery, Nat Geo and Comedy Central), the kids channels and all of their Sport in HD. As I first mentioned that F1 was key to me the tipping point for the really big discount was when I added that I planned to use Now TV for the Sky F1 races at £6.99 a pop. That meant £22 on average per month, way, way below the £41 we were paying with Sky, which they then matched.
I played the BT card as they offer a pretty competitive £15 bundle which includes quite a few key HD channels (the only ones we watched on Sky anyway, such as Discovery, Nat Geo and Comedy Central), the kids channels and all of their Sport in HD. As I first mentioned that F1 was key to me the tipping point for the really big discount was when I added that I planned to use Now TV for the Sky F1 races at £6.99 a pop. That meant £22 on average per month, way, way below the £41 we were paying with Sky, which they then matched.
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