Virgin tv

[Simbo]

Right so how did you hagglers go about a better deal with virgin/sky??
I phoned up last week and while I was only going to cancel my tv package I ended up cancelling the whole thing, broadband/tv/phone. While the phone is totally unimportant as I don't even have one I wanted to keep the braodband but they wouldn't let me have a rolling month contract they wanted to tie me in for a year which I don't want as I might move to sky.
Last time I spoke to sky they were prepared to give me a full package for 50% of for a year they wanted me to sign up for an 18 month contract which meant the last 6 months the bill would be way over £100, I'm not prepared to pay anywhere near that.
Any other decent options out there?
I was just going to get broadband and use it with Netflix over summer as I won't watch much tv but I don't want ties into a year long deal so anyone know of any other options?

 

[Simbo]

Probably should have added the guy on the phone never even tried to convince me to stay with virgin. He just said have you spoke to other providers, when I said yes he just said ok, I'll send you out the bags for the equipment for you to send back, it will cut off in 30 days.

 

[gmhubble]

Hmmmm - interesting

I just went through the same thing when I saw my bill hit £130

I just called customer services (not the leaving team)

Yes I am tied in for a year but I have the phone, fibre and EVERY tv channel (every hd sports plus every hd movies plus Netflix) for £100 a month

Bargain

 

[Simbo]

I don't mind the year deal for everything, just don't want it for broadband

 

[Crazyface]

Probably should have added the guy on the phone never even tried to convince me to stay with virgin. He just said have you spoke to other providers, when I said yes he just said ok, I'll send you out the bags for the equipment for you to send back, it will cut off in 30 days.

I did this about two months ago. I wanted to keep the BB as it's the best. I also wanted to keep the TV for the recorder but got no resistance. They cut off the lot and gave me BB for £22.50. Last week I was chatting to someone who has just moved house and got BB/TV/Phone line for £24 off them. Not impressed.
PS Freeview is cpar.

 

[ger147]

I don't mind the year deal for everything, just don't want it for broadband

You won't get any deals on any product without being tied in to a minimum term contract. All of the other main suppliers work the same.

 

[Khamelion]

I've got virgin at home, been with them since 2000, got the highest BB, large TV package, don't have sky movies, but have all the sports, and a small phone allowance. Also got two V+ boxes, one TIVO box and the new V6, bill comes in at under £100.

The guy who just fitted the new V6 told me that the V+ boxes are getting replaced fairly soon with TIVO boxes, as the V+ are now out of date and most if not all of the boxes in peoples homes are refurbished units, quite possibly have been refurbed several times.

 

[Simbo]

That was another thing, I put my name down months ago for the new V6 box, nobody even phoned or emailed me about it.
Iv been with virgin for around 12 years.

 

[full_throttle]

get the other half to join as a new customer...would that work,

 

[RustyTom]

Ive always felt ive had a good deal in the end with virgin but you do have to be persistant.

My deal of £74pm for every thing minus movies came to an end in feb, that next bill came thru at £110.

Phoned them up to say im not happy with that and want a new deal, the best they could give me was £85 for the same service, i said this wasnt good enough and to cancel my contract. A week later they phoned me dropping the price to £80 which i still felt wasnt good enough so asked them to proceed with cancellation. A week later they tried offering me a different package all together but was no good so they put me thru to retentions who said that he could drop the price to £66pm for the year. I felt this to be a very good offer and litteraly bit his hand off!

So for £66 i get:
1TB tivo box
V+ box upstairs
150MB fibre optic internet
TV XL + sky sports
and a phone deal but we dont even have a house phone to connect to the lines!

Very happy with that.

 

[Crazyface]

The Tivo box is sooooooo slow. Although Freeview is poor (quantity) the TV is on IMMEDIATELY. So refreshing.

 

[Simbo]

Ive always felt ive had a good deal in the end with virgin but you do have to be persistant.

My deal of £74pm for every thing minus movies came to an end in feb, that next bill came thru at £110.

Phoned them up to say im not happy with that and want a new deal, the best they could give me was £85 for the same service, i said this wasnt good enough and to cancel my contract. A week later they phoned me dropping the price to £80 which i still felt wasnt good enough so asked them to proceed with cancellation. A week later they tried offering me a different package all together but was no good so they put me thru to retentions who said that he could drop the price to £66pm for the year. I felt this to be a very good offer and litteraly bit his hand off!

So for £66 i get:
1TB tivo box
V+ box upstairs
150MB fibre optic internet
TV XL + sky sports
and a phone deal but we dont even have a house phone to connect to the lines!

Very happy with that.

Yeah that's a good deal, I'll use that to try and haggle them.