Lost sky F1

[Eric Mc]

I wish there was a "head exploding" smiley.

[Podie]

Silver940 said:

Interestingly..

go here: http://www.sky.com/products/ways-to-watch/sky-plus...

Expand the Sky Sports and Sky Movies HD channels

Click on the "i" above the F1 Channel..

Says:

Sky Sports F1® HD is available at no extra cost with the HD Pack

I had this conversation with someone at Sky about 3 months ago. despite the page still being live on their website, it's no longer available.

[Eric Mc]

Report them to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Placing incorrect information on a website constitutes false advertising. They will take the incorrect message down if the authorities start taking action against them.

[Podie]

Silver940 said:

Interestingly..

go here: http://www.sky.com/products/ways-to-watch/sky-plus...

Expand the Sky Sports and Sky Movies HD channels

Click on the "i" above the F1 Channel..

Says:

Sky Sports F1® HD is available at no extra cost with the HD Pack

[madbadger]

Eric Mc said:

I wish there was a "head exploding" smiley.

[Disastrous]

Eric Mc said:

I wish there was a "head exploding" smiley.

Yup - absolutely mindbending.

'Packages' have become my new hate. I'm now all in favour of companies who have one thing at one price. Sick of choice.

[Eric Mc]

madbadger said:

Eric Mc said:

I wish there was a "head exploding" smiley.

Excellent.

[Funk]

MissChief said:

Funk said:

I'm no BT fan-boy but as an ex-Sky customer, BT's BB and Talk package was miles better than Sky's.

Sky Fibre Unlimited Prr @76Mb BB - £30/mo
Line rental - £14.50/mo
Fibre setup - £50

BT Infinity 2 @76Mb - £26/mo
Line rental - £15.45/mo
Fibre setup - £0 and I got £50-worth of Sainsbury's vouchers on top

Essentially £100 difference in price and even then it's £3 a month cheaper than Sky - so £35/year saving on top.

BT are even currently offering £100 Sainsbury's voucher with Infinity 2. Sky's offering is very much the dearer of the two...

Strange how you picked the only BT broadband package that is cheaper than the equivalent Sky BB package.

For unlimited DSL broadband Sky charge £7.50 (£10 if you don't have Sky TV). For Unlimited DSL Broadband BT want £16 a month! Sky's Line Rental is cheaper @£14.50 a month compared to £15.45. BT advertise 'up to' 16 Meg but I don't know if that's a hard cap or not. Sky advertise 'up to 20' but I know if your line can support a faster speed then it can happen. My line is trained in at 23 Meg.

If you want 'standard' Fibre services Sky's is unlimited anyway. 'Up to' 38 meg, which most people will get is £20 a month. BT's unlimited Infinity package is £23 a month. Both companies do a free Weekends call package if you don't use the phone much or at all, although if you don't make any chargeable calls on your BT line (i.e. you get it just for Broadband and don't use the landline/have a phone at all) then BT charge an 'admin fee' of £1.50 a month. Sky's next package is an 'Anytime UK' package which gives free calls to any landline number starting 01, 02 or 03, 0845 and 0870 numbers and is £5 per month. BT's equivalent calls package is £7 per month.

Edited by MissChief on Friday 13th September 01:21

Not strange - I just used the package I purchased as the example and I've no doubt it goes tit-for-tat on other packages. BT are offering 6 months free on most BB by the looks of it as well as £50 Sainsbury vouchers for new BB customers (£100 for Fibre?).

The bottom line is that to state that BT's products are 'overpriced' was erroneous. On top of this, there are a few neat features that come with the BT package; the ability to share other peoples' BT-FON connections when out and about means pretty much 'wi-fi everywhere' (Sky's Cloud WiFi coverage is pretty sparse). I also have the option to make calls from my mobile using my BT landline call package (ie. the free evenings and weekends package) using an app and I've also got 50Gb of cloud storage online included with BT. They're all things that add value to the proposition and I couldn't see a similar offering from Sky.

As I say, I'm not a BT fanboy (in fact, a browse back through some of my earlier posts will show how much I've been 'anti-BT' in the past) but given that you work for Sky then to slate BT as broadly as you did was factually incorrect.

[MissChief]

Podie said:

This has now been fixed and no longer mentions the HD pack.

[Podie]

MissChief said:

Podie said:

This has now been fixed and no longer mentions the HD pack.

Changed in under 6 hours of being posted on the internet.

Interesting.

[Eric Mc]

I can just imagine Rupert in his office -

"Tarnations, drat and double-drat. I thought we'd got away with that one.
If it hadn't been for those pesky kids over on PH, no one would have been any the wiser".

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 13th September 14:41

[rscott]

Podie said:

MissChief said:

Podie said:

This has now been fixed and no longer mentions the HD pack.

Changed in under 6 hours of being posted on the internet.

Interesting.

Yep. Compared to 4 months to fix two other links on their site. But they didn't have the potential to affect the revenue - just the ability for customers to get help with problems.

[Roo]

Eric Mc said:

I can just imagine Rupert in his office -

"Tarnations, drat and double-drat. I thought we'd got away with that one.
If it hadn't been for those pesky kids over on PH, no one would have been any the wiser".

Edited by Eric Mc on Friday 13th September 14:41

Oi, it was nothing to do with me.

[Haves1979]

Just to update this thread and as a warning, seems lots of people are falling for the entertainment extra ploy from sky:

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Programming-Channe...

[TheAngryDog]

I fell into that trap in September, but due to the fact I only watch f1, I cancelled my sports subscription saving me £35 a month! Come September when my 12 months are up, sky is getting completely cancelled.

[MissChief]

TheAngryDog said:

I fell into that trap in September, but due to the fact I only watch f1, I cancelled my sports subscription saving me £35 a month! Come September when my 12 months are up, sky is getting completely cancelled.

You could probably get Sports half price for six months which would take you through to November?

[RedAlfa]

Sky Who?



Astra 19.2E all the way...

[SMB]

RedAlfa said:

Sky Who?



Astra 19.2E all the way...

Just wish it didn't have adverts in the race.

[mikefacel]

RedAlfa said:

Sky Who?



Astra 19.2E all the way...

Yep, works very well with 5 Live Extra.

[nadger]

RedAlfa said:

Sky Who?



Astra 19.2E all the way...

I'd never heard of this Astra thing before. How does one get it, a d how much is it!