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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #15 on: 27 July 2010, 20:22:22 »
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #16 on: 28 July 2010, 01:01:21 »
http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=whatson.Main

after film4 on the listings I have no interest.

But I watch bravo and discovery a lot which is where sky have a tight hold.
Not available on freesat.

I so wish some serious competition would come along and then I would love to see sky having to compete to survive.
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #17 on: 28 July 2010, 08:48:36 »
Judging by this thread, Virgin Media will be getting my business instead of Sky, when I need to purchase my TV/phone/broadband deal in about 6 weeks.
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #18 on: 28 July 2010, 09:17:01 »
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Alright for you to moan about Sky increases.
I am a treasurer of a Social Club which is in a Community Centre, and have been pressurised into getting Sky. A total joke !!!!! They supply on a Public viewing licence, and want £8640 per year from us. Bear in mind, our room is about 50' by 17' max and is open to members only.
Because the Centre has a rateable value of £15,000, they want us to pay on that rating, irrespective of our tiny part within.
So they can poke it where the sun don't shine  :y :y

They tried this with Sandhurst Sports Club and after a battle it was agreed that it should not be on whole building. Sports Club I think got a big refund
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #19 on: 28 July 2010, 23:06:38 »
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Judging by this thread, Virgin Media will be getting my business instead of Sky, when I need to purchase my TV/phone/broadband deal in about 6 weeks.
The only thing any good that VirginMedia offer is the internet  :y
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #20 on: 28 July 2010, 23:43:18 »
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Judging by this thread, Virgin Media will be getting my business instead of Sky, when I need to purchase my TV/phone/broadband deal in about 6 weeks.
The only thing any good that VirginMedia offer is the internet  :y

Well if I could join virgin I would jump at the chance.
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #21 on: 28 July 2010, 23:50:10 »
Long Story:

I got Sky a couple of weeks ago.  They're coming tomorrow to take it all back and remove the dish.  I was messed around with the installation date for TV, which they got wrong anyway and turned up two hours before they should have, and then proceeded to cover my TV, PS3, furniture and carpet in brick dust.  They failed to mastik up the hole they drilled for the cable, so there's an open hole into the wall cavity now.  The phone installation I had to spend 30 minutes on their Customer Service line (which is a premium cost call) only to find out that they'd failed to organise the line with BT, and they couldn't do anything till Tuesday, because Sky customer services don't work Mondays.  They won't let you cancel over the phone - it has to be in writing - even though the brochure says you can contact them by phone to cancel.  They failed to respond to the email sent to the address they gave me over the phone.  They failed to respond to the email I sent via their website for over 48 hours.  The Customer Services people can not, or will not, speak to the people in their own 'Cancellation' department, and you can't speak to them because they don't deal with customers over the phone - only via email.

Short Story:

Sky = FAIL
Virgin Media = WIN

Virgin - rang me soon after receiving my cancellation letter, reduced my bill to undercut Sky, gave me a free HD Box, gave me more channels, were thoroughly pleasant when I called their freephone customer services number to activate the HD channels - got me back as a customer with the vow never to let Sky near my house again.  And the TV pictures better too.
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #22 on: 29 July 2010, 14:23:12 »
I wouldn't let a sky Gibbon installer anywhere near my property. ;D

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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #23 on: 29 July 2010, 20:51:07 »
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Alright for you to moan about Sky increases.
I am a treasurer of a Social Club which is in a Community Centre, and have been pressurised into getting Sky. A total joke !!!!! They supply on a Public viewing licence, and want £8640 per year from us. Bear in mind, our room is about 50' by 17' max and is open to members only.
Because the Centre has a rateable value of £15,000, they want us to pay on that rating, irrespective of our tiny part within.
So they can poke it where the sun don't shine  :y :y

They tried this with Sandhurst Sports Club and after a battle it was agreed that it should not be on whole building. Sports Club I think got a big refund
Good to hear someone got the better of them....I am hitting a brick wall so far  >:(
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« Reply #24 on: 29 July 2010, 20:57:59 »
Well, the guy from sky turned up to take it all away today.  He moaned about not wanting to seal the hole in the wall up, saying that we'd have to get in touch with their office and log a complaint about damage to our property from the original installation.  When we pointed out that it was him that installed the daft thing his attitude did a 180 and couldn't have been more obliging - even to the point of going to the local B&Q to get the necessary materials to make it all right again.

I agree with KW - they'll never step on my property again.
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« Reply #25 on: 29 July 2010, 21:07:03 »
Put it this way, my Freesat cabling is a lot neater than next doors Sky cabling
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #26 on: 30 July 2010, 00:16:53 »
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Virgin - rang me soon after receiving my cancellation letter, reduced my bill to undercut Sky, gave me a free HD Box, gave me more channels, were thoroughly pleasant when I called their freephone customer services number to activate the HD channels - got me back as a customer with the vow never to let Sky near my house again.  And the TV pictures better too.
The trouble with these companies is that their existing customers get shafted while the new ones get the deals.
I've just signed up for sky, I've got a better deal than my mate who has only had it 3 months, I hope I'm treated better than you were :o
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Re: Sky price increase,
« Reply #27 on: 30 July 2010, 00:55:20 »
We dropped sky some months ago, they did not try to stop me ::) ::) freeview and now freesat, we are not serious viewers just find the choice of nothing to watch a little smaller, save £42 per month...... :y
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« Reply #28 on: 30 July 2010, 15:33:37 »
Just received my magazines from Sky. They are going to increase my Sky World Package by £2.50 per month.

I called Sky and mentioned the lack of deals for existing customers and the fact Virgin are cabled through my street.

I was promptly offered a 25% discount for 12 months. That is good enough for me. :y :y :y
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