Another Sky Price Increase

[wiggy001]

PapaJohns said:

Iv signed for another 18mth ,

All the TV except boxsets for £51pm

Useful to know. Thanks.

[AWRacing]

bad company said:

Does that work at the same address?

Yep, goes off the name on the account not the address.

[chunder27]

I don't use Kodi oir any other system, there are ways round that if you only watch certain programs, as I do. I don't miss tv and never watch stuff as it is being shown.

But the way these companies try it on is the best advert for those systems there can possible be.

I don't consider it the crime of the century, and in reality streaming, unless you are doing it on a monumental scale is unlikely to be found out. Detectot vans are a scam as are the threats.

the biggest threat is your ISP blocking every site they set up!

Which is why VPN is now a very profitable business to be in

[steve-5snwi]

I've been using now tv for the past few months alongside sky, the days of needing or wanting to record stuff are behind me with most things available on catch up or youtube. So i think it might be time to go soon. The only thing i need to work out is how to get BT Sports .... we pay for that at the minute and although we could get it free with BT internet i really don't want to join BT for that.

[Original_Nuttah86]

Hi All,

I’m moving house this week and am looking to sign up to Sky Q (basic package with broadband) any tips for getting a good sign up deal?

Cheers
Dan

[f1_dragon]

For a new setup I'd PM b4gga83 to see what he can do.

Edited by f1_dragon on Wednesday 28th March 12:56

[wiggy001]

Just had the first offer from Sky to tempt me to stay: £5 off the Entertainment package! I think I'll pass...

[bad company]

wiggy001 said:

Just had the first offer from Sky to tempt me to stay: £5 off the Entertainment package! I think I'll pass...

Have you spoken with ‘retentions ‘ yet?

[wiggy001]

bad company said:

wiggy001 said:

Just had the first offer from Sky to tempt me to stay: £5 off the Entertainment package! I think I'll pass...

Have you spoken with ‘retentions ‘ yet?

My wife just spoke with the "Values team":

Sky Entertainment: £20
HD: £5
Kids: £5
Box Sets: £5
F1 HD: £14
Multiroom: £6 for 6 months

Still doesn't sound a great loyalty reward to me.

[aka_kerrly]

I wasted 20min on the phone to Sky eventually negotiating fibre for less than my current broadband only for it to turn out that although there are fibre connections in my area they are all allocated

Anyhow, I'm now paying
£20 Sky entertainment, binning off box sets & kids.
£5 HD

Broadband & line rental
£20 for 12 months with the option to upgrade to fibre for £2pm if a connection becomes available.

Better than the £72 Sky quoted after the recent price increase..

[rscott]

aka_kerrly said:

I wasted 20min on the phone to Sky eventually negotiating fibre for less than my current broadband only for it to turn out that although there are fibre connections in my area they are all allocated

Anyhow, I'm now paying
£20 Sky entertainment, binning off box sets & kids.
£5 HD

Broadband & line rental
£20 for 12 months with the option to upgrade to fibre for £2pm if a connection becomes available.

Better than the £72 Sky quoted after the recent price increase..

£20 + £5 HD add-on is the list price for the entertainment pack now. Surprised they didn't offer you a discount on that..

[wiggy001]

wiggy001 said:

My wife just spoke with the "Values team":

Sky Entertainment: £20
HD: £5
Kids: £5
Box Sets: £5
F1 HD: £14
Multiroom: £6 for 6 months

Still doesn't sound a great loyalty reward to me.

Not heard a thing from Sky since this last update so it looks like we are leaving early next week.

[Jasandjules]

Just got Sky Q multi and movies etc for not much more than we pay now for boggo single room HD. Took a bit of effort mind.

[bad company]

Jasandjules said:

Just got Sky Q multi and movies etc for not much more than we pay now for boggo single room HD. Took a bit of effort mind.

I’d love Sky Q but they couldn’t make it work in my house. There’s a big inglenook fireplace between the 2 rooms I wanted the boxes in. I’ll try again when they get it all working on Broadband.

[rscott]

bad company said:

Jasandjules said:

Just got Sky Q multi and movies etc for not much more than we pay now for boggo single room HD. Took a bit of effort mind.

I’d love Sky Q but they couldn’t make it work in my house. There’s a big inglenook fireplace between the 2 rooms I wanted the boxes in. I’ll try again when they get it all working on Broadband.

That won't make any difference whatsoever to your setup. The link between boxes would be the same,either wired or wireless, so you'd have exactly the same issues.

Dishless Q is highly unlikely to arrive in the UK this year either.

[Halb]

bad company said:

I’d love Sky Q but they couldn’t make it work in my house. There’s a big inglenook fireplace between the 2 rooms I wanted the boxes in. I’ll try again when they get it all working on Broadband.

Is that not how it works now?

[rscott]

Halb said:

bad company said:

I’d love Sky Q but they couldn’t make it work in my house. There’s a big inglenook fireplace between the 2 rooms I wanted the boxes in. I’ll try again when they get it all working on Broadband.

Is that not how it works now?

The main and mini boxes can either connect to an existing wired/WiFi network or one can connect to the current network and they then form a wireless mesh between Q boxes.

The only difference with the new dishless version is that it'll stream from Sky over broadband to the box, rather than receiving via satellite.

[Jasandjules]

bad company said:

I’d love Sky Q but they couldn’t make it work in my house. There’s a big inglenook fireplace between the 2 rooms I wanted the boxes in. I’ll try again when they get it all working on Broadband.

Might just need a wifi signal booster ? I guess I find out this week when the engineer comes to fit it...

[IIIRestorerIII]

If anyone is an IPSE member their Perkbox has some good offers. If you don't fancy the bother of cancelling and then signing up again you can at least use those to renegotiate a better deal.

[skahigh]

IIIRestorerIII said:

If anyone is an IPSE member their Perkbox has some good offers. If you don't fancy the bother of cancelling and then signing up again you can at least use those to renegotiate a better deal.

It's for new customers only? Not sure how that helps? Do you just mean as something to use as a benchmark for negotiation?