Sky HD price reduction

[skoff]

Hi All,

Just thought I would let you know that there is a new offer available for those of you that are Sky inclined. It's an HD box for £49, with a £30 installation fee for existing customers. I think you have to take the HD sub for 12 months, but you get a month free. It's still not as cheap as freesat, or Virgin, but for those of us tied into Sky already and who don't have virgin as an option it seems to be a fairly good offer.

You have to register your interest, and I think it's going to be popular, so if you want to go for it I'd do it quickly.

[Tycho]

Sky think it is going to be popular as we have been putting new servers in place for the last few weeks and have been sworn to secrecy about it all.

[SwanJack]

Sky's treatment of existing customers is IMO appalling. If I was a new customer I could get SKY+ for £49. Being a customer of over 12 yrs, to upgrade to SKY+ will cost me around £150. I'd like to upgrade to all sorts of packages including HD, but I don't like being ripped off with various upgrade fees.

[LeoSayer]

Thanks for the heads up, I have registered.

I was looking the other day and Sky wanted £99 + £60 installation!

[Plotloss]

£30 for a box swap.

Happy days for Sky installers.

[MrV]

SwanJack said:

Sky's treatment of existing customers is IMO appalling. If I was a new customer I could get SKY+ for £49. Being a customer of over 12 yrs, to upgrade to SKY+ will cost me around £150. I'd like to upgrade to all sorts of packages including HD, but I don't like being ripped off with various upgrade fees.

I think that you will get it for the same price if you ask ,or suggest that you are going to move to virgin

[Legend83]

For brand new customers:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.htm...

[LeoSayer]

MrV said:

SwanJack said:

Sky's treatment of existing customers is IMO appalling. If I was a new customer I could get SKY+ for £49. Being a customer of over 12 yrs, to upgrade to SKY+ will cost me around £150. I'd like to upgrade to all sorts of packages including HD, but I don't like being ripped off with various upgrade fees.

I think that you will get it for the same price if you ask ,or suggest that you are going to move to virgin

Or buy a Sky+ box off ebay and you won't need to pay Sky anything extra.

[JustinP1]

SwanJack said:

Sky's treatment of existing customers is IMO appalling. If I was a new customer I could get SKY+ for £49. Being a customer of over 12 yrs, to upgrade to SKY+ will cost me around £150. I'd like to upgrade to all sorts of packages including HD, but I don't like being ripped off with various upgrade fees.

I would have to agree with that.

Since the Sky plus box upstairs died for the third time in four years I was considering upgrading to HD upstairs and take advantage of the cheap deal.

However, I found that as I already had Sky HD downstairs I was not eligible for a cheap HD box upstairs. Great eh?

So, being an early adopter and paying £200 for the HD box when they first came out, and an extra £250 in HD subscription meant that I have to pay double the going rate than another customer to get a second HD box!?

[Plotloss]

JustinP1 said:

SwanJack said:

Sky's treatment of existing customers is IMO appalling. If I was a new customer I could get SKY+ for £49. Being a customer of over 12 yrs, to upgrade to SKY+ will cost me around £150. I'd like to upgrade to all sorts of packages including HD, but I don't like being ripped off with various upgrade fees.

I would have to agree with that.

Since the Sky plus box upstairs died for the third time in four years I was considering upgrading to HD upstairs and take advantage of the cheap deal.

However, I found that as I already had Sky HD downstairs I was not eligible for a cheap HD box upstairs. Great eh?

So, being an early adopter and paying £200 for the HD box when they first came out, and an extra £250 in HD subscription meant that I have to pay double the going rate than another customer to get a second HD box!?

Get one off eBay, the first gen boxes were more functional IMHO, they never should have dropped the component ouputs.

[Deva Link]

SwanJack said:

Sky's treatment of existing customers is IMO appalling.

You need to hit them for offers when they're losing customers - at the moment they're gaining so many they're having to take on more staff:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/28/sky-ta...

[skoff]

Plotloss said:

£30 for a box swap.

Happy days for Sky installers.

I know, not exactly taxing swapping over a few cables, but £30 is better than £60 as it used to be. Really annoying when you consider that as a new customer you would get free installation which would most likely involve putting a dish up and running cables etc.

I suppose you have to look at it as £79 for the hardware (plus the 12 months of £10 for the subscription to HD services!) in which case I don't think it's too bad as Sky do seem to offer more channels than Freesat, and we are not in a virgin cabled area, so that's not an option.