So we've just cancelled sky TV.....

[Terzo123]

ukaskew said:

£32 for absolutely everything finally expires for us soon so have cancelled before it goes up to £80. Will sit it out for a few months and see if we can get it all back for under £35.

I've got an older sky HD box and not a Q one, but had all the tv channels, sport, films and HD for 20 quid a month. That deal was meant to end last December. I phoned up to cancel prior to the bill going back up to the regular price. The women confirmed my deal was ending and that I was no longer under contract but the price would remain the same for another 12 months. Brilliant, although my sky box is really slowing down. Might see if I can get a free Q box next time round.

[ukaskew]

Spoke to them today, the 70% off which we've had for 3 or 4 years now is a one time thing apparently and the team offers big discounts for recently cancelled customers no longer exists (apparently!)

Offered £32 for Entertainment, Cinema, Boxsets etc and HD for 18 months, but declined as we have just paid exactly that with Sport as well for the past 12 months.

[anonymous-user]

I have just cancelled this morning.

We have found ourselves watching a lot less 'traditional' tv.

We mostly watch:

Live news channels.
Box sets and movies on Netflix/Prime.
Programs on BBC/ITV catch up and similar.

We only had the basic entertainment and box set type package with Sky, but I felt it was worth trying to live without it.

Went out and bought a Freesat HD 1TB box, which I have to say is very good. Took me all of 60 seconds to install it in place of the Sky HD box.

While I was asking to cancel, Sky offered me £26 a month for the basic package with box sets which I decided.

They said I was a 'VIP Platinum' customer (sounds like a made up term to me...) as I had been with them 11 years.

They then clearly stated that if I rejoined, I wouldn't be offered any deals as good as the £26 per month.

Oh well... Freesat is installed!

[juggsy]

Been a year since I left sky, not getting on with the freesat box and thought I’d look at the offers from Sky as they ring me pretty much once a week, but I normally miss the calls.

Packge for sky fibre max, sky q 2tbs, extra box and HD is £62 on the website. When I phoned I was given the same price as on the website, said I was hoping for some deals to get me back as a customer, put through to win back team who offered me £67! Clearly not interested in winning back customers then!

[MissChief]

juggsy said:

Been a year since I left sky, not getting on with the freesat box and thought I’d look at the offers from Sky as they ring me pretty much once a week, but I normally miss the calls.

Packge for sky fibre max, sky q 2tbs, extra box and HD is £62 on the website. When I phoned I was given the same price as on the website, said I was hoping for some deals to get me back as a customer, put through to win back team who offered me £67! Clearly not interested in winning back customers then!

Or don't want customers on huge discounts when they have people joining as new customers paying more?

[Rick_1138]

Seriously considering giving SKY up after this years f1 ends.

We are on £36 a month for basic package and HD. I reduced our package removing the entertainment and i believe box sets to standard keeping the HD legacy, which meant i still have the F1 channel.

However its pretty much all i watch sky specifically for and tbh some £400 a year is daft.

Plan is to get a Freesat box that has planner and recording function, with access to NOW TV and ill get the passes as needed to watch F1, works out at half what i am paying now (including buying a decent box) for the first year.

I am just waiting for the legacy deal to end and ill be forced into having to pay for sky sports when all i will watch is F1, so eben if i get a 6 month deal etc, it'll end up costing a fortune for very little value.

I like the sky box interface but with netflix and amazon prime THEN sky ontop, its just not worth the money.

If they did a standard HD package with F1 channel as a addon for like £25-30pm id be interested but for F1 being some £18 on its own, its just way too expensive.

[anonymous-user]

MissChief said:

juggsy said:

Been a year since I left sky, not getting on with the freesat box and thought I’d look at the offers from Sky as they ring me pretty much once a week, but I normally miss the calls.

Packge for sky fibre max, sky q 2tbs, extra box and HD is £62 on the website. When I phoned I was given the same price as on the website, said I was hoping for some deals to get me back as a customer, put through to win back team who offered me £67! Clearly not interested in winning back customers then!

Or don't want customers on huge discounts when they have people joining as new customers paying more?

They seem perfectly happy to slash prices for existing subscribers to stop them leaving whilst letting new customers pay full whack.

So I don't think its anything to do with not wanting some customers with large discounts.

[juggsy]

Lord Marylebone said:

MissChief said:

juggsy said:

Been a year since I left sky, not getting on with the freesat box and thought I’d look at the offers from Sky as they ring me pretty much once a week, but I normally miss the calls.

Packge for sky fibre max, sky q 2tbs, extra box and HD is £62 on the website. When I phoned I was given the same price as on the website, said I was hoping for some deals to get me back as a customer, put through to win back team who offered me £67! Clearly not interested in winning back customers then!

Or don't want customers on huge discounts when they have people joining as new customers paying more?

They seem perfectly happy to slash prices for existing subscribers to stop them leaving whilst letting new customers pay full whack.

So I don't think its anything to do with not wanting some customers with large discounts.

Exactly, it’s the fact they were charging more for being an existing customer I was surprised at, so nothing to do with new customers paying full whack

[Ridealong]

Rick_1138 said:

Seriously considering giving SKY up after this years f1 ends.

We are on £36 a month for basic package and HD. I reduced our package removing the entertainment and i believe box sets to standard keeping the HD legacy, which meant i still have the F1 channel.

However its pretty much all i watch sky specifically for and tbh some £400 a year is daft.

Plan is to get a Freesat box that has planner and recording function, with access to NOW TV and ill get the passes as needed to watch F1, works out at half what i am paying now (including buying a decent box) for the first year.

I am just waiting for the legacy deal to end and ill be forced into having to pay for sky sports when all i will watch is F1, so eben if i get a 6 month deal etc, it'll end up costing a fortune for very little value.

I like the sky box interface but with netflix and amazon prime THEN sky ontop, its just not worth the money.

If they did a standard HD package with F1 channel as a addon for like £25-30pm id be interested but for F1 being some £18 on its own, its just way too expensive.

I previously was a HD legacy customer, I reduce my bill around £20 by getting rid of the F1 channel and Childrens channels.
Currently you can get all the Skysports channels inc. F1 for £20pm if you have the entertainment package if not it is £22pm but I believe you have to sign up to a 18 month contract.

[Rick_1138]

Ridealong said:

I previously was a HD legacy customer, I reduce my bill around £20 by getting rid of the F1 channel and Childrens channels.
Currently you can get all the Skysports channels inc. F1 for £20pm if you have the entertainment package if not it is £22pm but I believe you have to sign up to a 18 month contract.

The problem there is if i did that, id lose HD, be saving £10pm, so paying £26, then add £20 on top so id be paying £10 more than i am now for the same service IYSWIM.

Its just not good value for what we use it for, given how more and more shows are going to more and more services, its becoming a bit pick n mix with what you can and cant watch unless you have everything.

I will try the Freesat and now tv for a season of f1 and if its crap i may come crawling back

[ukaskew]

The stupidly cheap deals for returnees seemed to have dried up. I'm getting nowhere near the hassle or deals as per the previous three years when I took a month or so off before coming back. £25 for HD/Sport/Cinema in 2016 and £32 for the same package in 2017. I'm nowhere near that in terms of the offers they've given us this month.

Not worried though, a Roku 4K stick plus Prime and Netflix more than has us covered, I can live with highlights only for F1.

[LosingGrip]

Are there any deals out and about at the moment? Moving in with the other half and seeing what is out there. Most of what we watch is on Netflix, but I would like the F1 and BT Sports for MotoGP.

[ExVantagemech..]

Must be coming up to 2 years of leaving Sky now.
BT box for tv, Amazon Prime and swap Netflix ( fee month now and again) for those box set binges.
we dont record stuff anymore, I got a 3TB drive to save the programmes on but never used it.
Leaving Sky has changed how we watch the tv, for the better .
The only PITA is that no one seems to have marketed a magic eye that works for BT boxes in another room.

[Halb]

Is there a way to get some soccer and superleague rugby in other places than sky?

[bad company]

Halb said:

Is there a way to get some soccer and superleague rugby in other places than sky?

Only BT as far as I know and they’re as bad as Sky. Football is the only reason I’m still paying Sky rather than using Freesat boxes.

[chunder27]

Just get a Kodi and be done with it all!

[wiggy001]

chunder27 said:

Just get a Kodi and be done with it all!

Just get a Kodi and spend your whole life frustrated at how unreliable it is.

OP - there might be some Black Friday deals coming up, so I'd wait for then. Also, don't forget Quidco or similar - the likes of Sky offer good cashback incentives for their new customers

[kmpowell]

ExVantagemech.. said:

Leaving Sky has changed how we watch the tv, for the better .

After 6 years I've cancelled all my Sky TV (BoxSets, Kids, HD, Sports etc etc) as they weren't prepared to do any sort of decent retention offer.

I've kept my legacy broadband deal (£28pm for Fibre Max), so I'm going to see how I get on with my Smart TV, and if I can't deal with the sluggish Android UI I'll get either a 4K Roku or 4K Firestick and use that. I already have Prime, and if needs be I'll get Netflix.

The quote above is what I'm hoping will happen to me. I think I'm just used to how I've always consumed my TV, so using 'catch-up' services will be a case of remembering what's on rather than relying on Sky+ series links etc.

[rednotdead]

kmpowell said:

After 6 years I've cancelled all my Sky TV (BoxSets, Kids, HD, Sports etc etc) as they weren't prepared to do any sort of decent retention offer.

I've kept my legacy broadband deal (£28pm for Fibre Max), so I'm going to see how I get on with my Smart TV, and if I can't deal with the sluggish Android UI I'll get either a 4K Roku or 4K Firestick and use that. I already have Prime, and if needs be I'll get Netflix.

The quote above is what I'm hoping will happen to me. I think I'm just used to how I've always consumed my TV, so using 'catch-up' services will be a case of remembering what's on rather than relying on Sky+ series links etc.

We did similar around 2 years ago. Now make do with an Amazon Fire TV for everything - Prime, Netflix, iPlayer, and TVPlayer app. We've found we only watch what we really want to on TV, usually documentaries on BBC2 or 4. For everything else we dive into box sets and binge those. TV was hardly on over the summer though, it's only the darker evenings that have seen us sat in front of the box for any length of time.

[eybic]

wiggy001 said:

chunder27 said:

Just get a Kodi and be done with it all!

Just get a Kodi and spend your whole life frustrated at how unreliable it is.

This 1000%, so many times we've been set to watch a film, found it and then it won't work or buffers or simply stops