GI ends -Sky pricing really rising!

Widescreen

Lads,

Was on G1 package for last two years €53.21 per month for SKy World:)

Sky world from September will be €66! per month. I will probably put up with
Film 4 for my movies plus other freebie movie channels and revert now to Skysports plus 2 Mix for €50.50 per month. Haven't watched a movie on sky in months anyway... this way I save 3 euros a month and Sky are the losers

Any other G1 losers out there want to outline their new strategy...:D

Skyuser

But your losing also. You won't have the option of watching movies like you had.

Widescreen

I won't really lose. There is a difference of €180 per year between getting Skysports and two mixes plus the freebie movie channels,i.e. TM1,TM2,Film Four and a few more. BBC3,More4,BBC4 all show good movies as of course do RTE. Only way for us to maybe stall the price rises is to be sensible with package choice, i.e. only get what you REALLY need. In my case its Sky Sports plus a reasonable movie/light entertainment choice. I can get that without Sky Movies. So as I say in this case Sky lose-not by much-but they do lose...:D

colmranger

I fully agree i know a way to save more money too!

Every summer i call sky and i get switched off, they try everything to pursuade me not to switch off but i just tell them that i am off to my villa in Spain for the summer and i don't require channels for an empty house.

Then the following October every year without fail i get a letter from Sky asking me to come back to them and they offer me Skyworld package for 3 months at half price.

I do this every year and i save a fortune, there is enough of tv for the summer with teh free to air plus i am lucky as i have channel 4 etc on the old analogue outdoor antenna.:D

Widescreen

I would get switched off too, but the problem is I like the cricket! Not getting Premplus this season either, its €85 for a season ticket. Gonna watch the big Prem Plus Man U matches (that doesn't include Fulham or Spurs by the way) in the pub, otherwise listen on Radio 5 Live or Sports Extra.Something has to give with all the price rises.Not point paying Sky for a load of channels never even looked at. I reckon they'll have to divide the Sky Mixes singly in the next year or two to give punters more flexibility to only pay for what they actually really want....Hope people don't preceive me as being negative. Just being a realist. Only way to stop Sky in their tracks is for people to react against their excessive pricing!

_Kaiser_

Completely agree.. if I could I'd drop a whiole load of the channels - already dropped Sky Sports for the summer and seriously thinking of not bothering upgrading again come August.. with Multiroom/Sky+ its €80 a month for me (and that's before the upcoming increases) :eek:

And really.. for what? Sky Movies is now full of films I saw when I first subscribed in the early 90s and yet the price remains the same/goes up annually.
In the old days it was worth it for the first run films, but now with DVDs and "other" ways of getting films (which personally I dont bother with as the quality can range from good to totally unwatchable) it's just not worth it anymore in my opinion, plus I feel like I'm paying again for stuff I paid to see over 10 years ago!

As you say..something has to give and Sky are going to end up pricing themselves out of the market at this rate. Aside from Sky+ I'm not interested in their "value-add" services like Interactive and no matter how much Sky HD literature they send me (it's at 1/2 a week now!!) I'm not gonna buy into that for a long time yet... I don't think I'm alone either?

kiss103

cancelled last week after 5 years, its just not worth it