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by madeindevon
We have been a constant customer of Sky since 1999
We first got an analogue box all those years ago, when Granada TV in the high street were about to close down, we had been renting a television and video from them (remember that, when it was normal to rent such things?)
We decided our TV was due for an upgrade ... and went into Granada, where we were told of a good special offer, for the same price we were paying, we took out HP for a TV and Video and got a free Sky box and free installation - we haven't looked back.
Over the years we have had the basic entertainment package, occasionally with the Movie channels - but we realised that we didn't get the time to sit down and watch the movies very often, so my sports mad hubby and son convinced me that it would be a great idea to have the sports channels, which is what we have now - Entertainment and Sports.
Around 8 years ago (it must be about 8 years, although I do lose count) I upgraded our Sky box to a Sky + system - which we found brilliant and cannot really imagine not having any more.
I believe that when you sign up to Sky+ you take on a 12 month contract, during which time special offer deals are hard to come by - we however have been out of contract for about five years.
Firstly I will list the channels that our package lets us watch:
Sky Atlantic
Sky 1
Comedy Central
Syfy
Fox
MTV
Universal
Gold
Dave & Dave Ja Vu
DMax
Sky 2
Discovery Real Time
Alibi
Sky Poker
TCM & TCM2
Home
Movies 24
Travel and Living
Shed
Sky Living & Sky Living It
Sky Arts 1, Sky Arts 2
Good Food
Home
Really
Home & Health
Style
Sky News
T5Monde
Life OK
Star, Star Plus, Star Gold
240 Free to Air channels, which I assume can be watched on other Freeview boxes (including BBC/ITV/C4/C5 etc
We also subscribe to Sky Sports, which shows the Premier League.. and the men in my home would be lost without..
Anyway, being out of contract I was in the fortunate situation to negotiate with Sky and with the ever increasing costs of houshold bills, I wanted to cut some costs..
My phone bill from BT came through and I realised that I was paying over £130 to them, per quarter for my broadband... I know that Sky have a broadband package, so I phoned them up for a chat..
Absolutely superb.. I explained to them that I was looking to cut costs - they were aware that I was out of contract with my Sky package and keen not to lose me as a customer.
They basically have saved me around £100 per quarter with one phone call (but it gets better with phone call number two)
I was offered the broadband and calls package with Sky at a bargain price of £6.00 per month for 6 months, followed by £12 per month for the further 6 months, on a 12 month contract, this contract however is only for broadband and calls and does not touch my TV package. They assured me the swap over from BT to Sky would be simple and in about a fortnight, I received the router in the post a week later with all the details and information, and they were right, the swapover was trouble free and simple.... the broadband service is perfect too, no difference to the BT service - great, recommended to anyone.
So at this point, my Sky monthly bill is £47.50 for the TV and £6.50 for BB and phone...
A month later, I phoned Sky once more, it was Christmas time and again, I was looking to cut costs, so I explained that I wished to cancel my TV packages and just have the free channels...
To convince me to stay, Sky offered me 25% off the whole of my monthly bill for 6 months, including my phone and broadband... and my TV is still out of contract
Ok!! they convinced me, I didn't want to leave anyway, just save a few pounds.... so I now have considerably more with Sky that I did before, at a considerable discount..
I was told that in 6 months when this offer runs out, to phone back and they would see if they could help me further.
Well worth the call, give them a ring and see what they offer you!
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Across the Room (Dating Agency)
by dave
I got divorced at 45.....Where do you go to meet "Nice" women at the age. SO, taking the plunge I joined. I can honestly say, I had a BALL. I met some strange women, some takers, some sad women, BUT I also me some really nice ones as well. This club is a collection of everything.
I once ended up in a ladies hotel room for ... the night. Waking up at 08.00 and can't remembering her name. I ones decorated the "Love of my Life" house. Then she dumped me when I finished. I even ended up one evening snogging in a ladies Aston Martin. Then she told me about her husband. She used the club as a social night out.
All in all, it's a great club where you find all sorts. The best advice I can give is to go and enjoy the nights out. But don't take it to serious.
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See Sky TV
by gooners1983
I have been a customer of sky tv for close to 9 years. Recently, I have been looking at ways of cutting my monthly expenditure and the £84 that I pay to sky each month for tv, phone and broadband had to be called into question.
In previous years, I was informed that if I called sky once per year, I would be entitled to a discount ... of up to 25% off. I was very happy with this offer and would have continued to be.
However, upon calling this year, I was informed that I wasn't entitled to any reduction in my bill. At first, I thought that this was fair enough, until I entered into a discussion with a friend who had recently cancelled his sky subscription, only to be contacted by sky a few months later to be offered a 75% discount for 12 months.
This was also forwarded to my email address by my friend as further proof.
Upon contacting sky, I was told that I wasn't eligible for such an offer as that came from sky's commercial team and because I was an existing customer, I wouldn't be afforded the same offer.
Trying to forward a complaint to sky is difficult enough but to be acknowledged is almost impossible. After waiting on the phone for 12 minutes to talk to somebody about why they see fit to offer different tariffs to different people, I was greeted with an advisor who was obviously following a script and had no interest in sorting my problem/issue out.
I would advise anybody who is looking to subscribe to sky or virgin media to compare them both very carefully and consider swapping companies annually to achieve the best offers as they both seem more interested in new/previous customers than they are existing ones.
Loyalty is obviously not rewarded by sky and as a consequence, I will be switching my tv package to virgin media very shortly.
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