Sky Offer

[GreiginFife]

BTW, thanks to the guys that have realised what the intent of this thread was.
As pointed out, I stand to gain nothing from this other than knowing that I may have helped others.

Important line in OP was You must not have had Sky in the last 12 months in your name....
I can't explicitly say any more but I'm sure you guys know what I'm getting at here.

 

[Andy808]

Think people have a choice here. A guy is trying to help and gets slagged off. It is not his fault if we receive bad service. It you are not satisfied write to The CEO.

I have had Sky since 1989 when there were 2 Companies. I find the biggest problem is that they do not look after their existing loyal customers who are unable to take up the offers. Similar to churning with The Banks'.

There is nothing for loyalty is this day and age

I'm not slagging him off I'm just making the point the company isn't the best by a long way.
As you say they dangle a nice big carrot for new subscribers and do nothing for the people they have got. They did the same with my broadband. I spoke to them one September and they told me they would have their equipment in my exchange by Christmas so with the "free" 3 months then I would only be paying the £17 connect charge for a month or 2 at most then it would be £5 a month. BARGAIN!!
THREE YEARS later paying £17 a month for a service I was informed would only cost me £5 I was feeling a little agrieved.
Again nothing to do with the OP he is working for them and trying to offer those who want it a great offer BUT there's nothing wrong with people posting their bad experiences as well it is a FORUM not a marketplace.

 

[Andy808]

BTW, thanks to the guys that have realised what the intent of this thread was.
As pointed out, I stand to gain nothing from this other than knowing that I may have helped others.

Important line in OP was You must not have had Sky in the last 12 months in your name....
I can't explicitly say any more but I'm sure you guys know what I'm getting at here.

Sorry to be an idiot about this but you obviously work for sky and you say you stand to gain nothing from posting this on here, so what is your job with sky then?

 

[GreiginFife]

Sorry to be an idiot about this but you obviously work for sky and you say you stand to gain nothing from posting this on here, so what is your job with sky then?

I'm a business analyst. Plain and simple. I get paid regardless of whether people take up this offer or not.
So I gain nothing from it other than helping people that would like to be helped.

 

[Aztecs27]

So you pay the BBC a license fee of £xxx.xx per year regardless of using their service, so if your TV broke down would you expect the BBC to replace it free? You have a warranty on electrical equipment, if YOU choose not to extend the warranty then you take your chance. If your TV, Microwave, DVD, XBOX etc break down out of warranty you want free replacements yeah?
That's not how it works I'm afraid.

My old sky plus box broke and I called sky and said i wasnt going to pay to get it fixed amd cancel my subs....i had a brand newsky plus hd box installed 2 days later free of charge. Who says they Dont look after their customers!

 

[Captainron]

My old sky plus box broke and I called sky and said i wasnt going to pay to get it fixed amd cancel my subs....i had a brand newsky plus hd box installed 2 days later free of charge. Who says they Dont look after their customers!

Same happened to me and I was looked after really well. I LOVE sky and happily shell out the £50 or so for it each month. There are 4 of us in the house so it works out at around £12.50 each a month for an entertainment source which we use every single day. I would say that it is us that are ripping them off......

 

[RichardC]

Cracking offer, and would have bit your arm off if you were 1 week earlier.

Have just upgraded to BT Infinity 2 and that required a new contract for the phone line, so unfortunately im out

 

[GreiginFife]

Cracking offer, and would have bit your arm off if you were 1 week earlier.

Have just upgraded to BT Infinity 2 and that required a new contract for the phone line, so unfortunately im out

Cooling off period...?

 

[RichardC]

Cooling off period...?

Being installed tomorrow, so would have had to give 48 hours notice to cancel the engineer

 

[GreiginFife]

Ah no worries. Not sure how their programming stacks up to be honest.
Infinity 2 sounds like a good product.

 

[sydney greenstreet]

My old sky plus box broke and I called sky and said i wasnt going to pay to get it fixed amd cancel my subs....i had a brand newsky plus hd box installed 2 days later free of charge. Who says they Dont look after their customers!

THIS ^
I too did the same my old box kept freezing so phoned them to be told the usual about £70 or so for an engineer i acted surprised and told them to cancel all sky subscriptions , an Engineer round the next day brand new sky+ box and half price for next 3 months. They would rather keep you than lose you so doesnt cost them to give you things for FREE but it does cost them if you walk away.

 

[Marshy77]

not connected to this offer but it might be useful to people who already have sky.

I mainly watch sky for football and golf, every summer whilst the football season is finished I've always rung them up and told them to cancel it until the season ko's again, they always do you a deal to keep it switched on and just reduce your charges for June to August. Think this year they knocked it down by about half. Just a heads up if you want to save a bit of cash during the summer months.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Sydney,would you call that unethical trading?
The little old lady or dimwit would just have paid up.

I have to use Sky as I live in a very rural area.
I just have the basic package as life is for living.
I don't want to be sat in front of a square box for a third of my life.

 

[sydney greenstreet]

not connected to this offer but it might be useful to people who already have sky.

I mainly watch sky for football and golf, every summer whilst the football season is finished I've always rung them up and told them to cancel it until the season ko's again, they always do you a deal to keep it switched on and just reduce your charges for June to August. Think this year they knocked it down by about half. Just a heads up if you want to save a bit of cash during the summer months.

Did this last week cancelled espn and got my sky sports for half price for the next 3 months.

 

[GreiginFife]

I have to use Sky as I live in a very rural area.

Why do you have to use Sky? Terrestrial broadcasts can be received in almost all rural areas. I think the governments DSO research showed that only something like 5% of the country would not be able to receive the digital services and most of those were Northern Scotland, North West Wales and some in England that have large moor areas and long distances between relay transmitters (which they have committed to resolve this year).

 

[Wheyayeman]

PM sent

 

[chrisd]

You lot crack me up sometimes...

Someone who most of you probably dont know offers an opportunity to get something as a good deal, with no benefit to himself. And you want to use the thread to bad mouth the service being offered.



Thanks for the offer by the way, I already have it so cant take you up but maybe others will.

Cheers...

Spot on Scott

I also got a deal recently which effetively gives me free HD

 

[MDG]

Thanks for the heads up.

No idea why people feel the need to come on here and state they will never have Sky, they hate Sky etc etc. How strange...

I watch everything on SkyGo now so will call to cancel the TV package shortly and just take-up the SkyGo monthly ticket. I only watch SkySports, SkyNews and the occasional show on SkyAtlantic/SkyOne.

 

[sev112]

Why do you have to use Sky? Terrestrial broadcasts can be received in almost all rural areas. I think the governments DSO research showed that only something like 5% of the country would not be able to receive the digital services and most of those were Northern Scotland, North West Wales and some in England that have large moor areas and long distances between relay transmitters (which they have committed to resolve this year).

Ha ha ha
Come to Wokingham - always in the counties Top 5 most well off areas in the Sun / Star
And just down the road from the luxury of Bearwood Lakes
Can't get a telly signal and we have the slowest broadband speed in the world
Civilisation eh ?
Also you cant get Talksport or %Live on a DAB radio ??? And that's in a postcode ares where you are supposed to be able to .
They talked about putting a communal telly and radio aerial on the biggest oak tree in the street !

And we are sub-urban rather than rural

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Last week I traveled through the Western Isles from Lewis to Barra with a vodaphone signal all the way.
Back home and it is off/on.

Greig we have a very poor terrestrial signal, we live in a valley on the edge of the Galloway Forrest, one of the UK's least populated areas.