Am I missing out on Sky offers?

brav

Hey, Ive had Sky world package(the one with everything, 64.50pm I think) for about a year now, and I am wondering am i missing out on any offers?

Like the wasy sky+ is not at any extra cost a month, just I would have to pay 150 or something for installation. Am I right in this?

Also if I were to move house do I own the box and dish or just the box?

Finally, I now see they have packages i have sky movies and sky sports which i want, i also want rte etc + discovery. so would it be worth my while dropping kids channels etc or would it be the same price. Thanks

Blackdragon

brav wrote:

Hey, Ive had Sky world package(the one with everything, 64.50pm I think) for about a year now, and I am wondering am i missing out on any offers?

Like the wasy sky+ is not at any extra cost a month, just I would have to pay 150 or something for installation. Am I right in this?

Also if I were to move house do I own the box and dish or just the box?

Finally, I now see they have packages i have sky movies and sky sports which i want, i also want rte etc + discovery. so would it be worth my while dropping kids channels etc or would it be the same price. Thanks

I can answer the last two for you -

1st if you move house the box is yours and so is the dish but sky ask that you leave the dish behind and they come and isstall a new one for you free. The idea is that the next guy that moves in will sign up for sky as well as they now already have a dish installed.

2nd - if you drop kids channels the price will remain the same as the kids channels are tied into sky movies.

pjq

1st if you move house the box is yours and so is the dish but sky ask that you leave the dish behind and they come and isstall a new one for you free.
Sorry to but-in , can the Sky dish and LNB that are left behind be used with a non sky STB. I know that this has been answered before , but I had no interest in the answer then and cant find it now .

watty

Yes.

samo

1st if you move house the box is yours and so is the dish but sky ask that you leave the dish behind and they come and isstall a new one for you free. The idea is that the next guy that moves in will sign up for sky as well as they now already have a dish installed.

Sky tried to charge €62.50 last month for moving house and installing a new dish until we told them to feck off and that we would cancel - so anyone planning on moving - watch out for a moving house charge off them!!

watty

samo wrote:

Sky tried to charge €62.50 last month for moving house and installing a new dish until we told them to feck off and that we would cancel - so anyone planning on moving - watch out for a moving house charge off them!!

Stupid comment!

You can try DIY with new cable and old Dish and LNB. Or buy a new Dish, LNB and Cable for more than €63 Euro. The Sky charge is not obligitary (you can DIY) and is a bargain for what you get.

Most people can't DIY install a dish, I can, and I would take up that bargain offer, so very bad advice.

samo

I was replying in relation to the previous comment that Sky would install a new dish free if moving house - in our case this wasnt offered and a charge of €62 was quoted. Within a couple of minutes of querying why this would be the case primarily because we were customers for over 5 years who had not had an initial free install as no landline - they then waived the charge with little or no bother over it.

I wouldnt feel this is bad advice saying I found they would waive the charge if queried - yes if it came to it, I would definitly pay €62 rather than try and install myself and to receive a new dish but the comment was in relation to the previous one that they do this free of charge anyway!!

watty

Where or when did Sky generally offer free moves as standard rather than a special offer? The tone of your post suggests that 62.50 is unreasonable (it isn't) anf that for Sky to charge is unreasonable (it isn't).

OTH I think most of the subscription packages are unreasonably inflexible and the premium packages a rip off. Also that the high cost of Sky Sport & high payments for "rights" is distorting and destroying sport, esp. football.

Blackdragon

samo wrote:

I was replying in relation to the previous comment that Sky would install a new dish free if moving house - in our case this wasnt offered and a charge of €62 was quoted. Within a couple of minutes of querying why this would be the case primarily because we were customers for over 5 years who had not had an initial free install as no landline - they then waived the charge with little or no bother over it.

I wouldnt feel this is bad advice saying I found they would waive the charge if queried - yes if it came to it, I would definitly pay €62 rather than try and install myself and to receive a new dish but the comment was in relation to the previous one that they do this free of charge anyway!!

Sorry if i was unclear on this comment.
When i moved house a few months back i rang sky and told them i was moving and do they need to send someone around to take down the dish and reinstall it(im no good at diy).

They advised me not to worry about it.Told me to take the box with me and they would send someone around in a few days to install a new dish.
48 hours later a sky tech came aroud and installed one.
Took him about ten minutes(as usual - sky have some of the best techs) and i was not charged.

Sorry if i caused any confussion

Cupart

You could always call SKY and threaten that you want to cancel your subscription or just ask for the cancellation department when calling.

Think of it: You have had your 12 month of contract subscription so no new obligations. You're paying for the top package and this is where SKY gets most of their revenue from...

They might give you movies and sport for 1/2 price for 6 months or free new SKY installation with a new SKY+ box. There is also the possibility for SKY HD...

brav

so i guess im not missing out on any offers :P

samo

watty wrote:

Where or when did Sky generally offer free moves as standard rather than a special offer? The tone of your post suggests that 62.50 is unreasonable (it isn't) anf that for Sky to charge is unreasonable (it isn't).

OTH I think most of the subscription packages are unreasonably inflexible and the premium packages a rip off. Also that the high cost of Sky Sport & high payments for "rights" is distorting and destroying sport, esp. football.

Wasnt trying to be unhelpful - and agree with you 62.50 for a new dish is good value - but have to say (although my case would be specific I guess!) that as a customer with them for a number of years and who had never availed of any other offer or free install, it would have been better to have cancelled the contract, taken out a new subscription for a free install for new house and perhaps received special offers such as free movies plus a new digibox , hence my comment that it did not seem like good value (perhaps not made that well!) which is why I queried the charge with them.

I dont doubt there's any way I could get an independant installer to even take a ladder out of the van ,let alone provide a dish for 62.50 but it does seem like poor value in comparison to offers for new subscribers etc! Anyhow I guess I'm going away from the OP's point but I mainly replied in relation to the fact that I when pressed they were flexible with regard to charges etc!

watty

Getting what ever is going free is good too.

I got a new box (mine was over 5 years old) when I renewed. The only penaly was minimum 3 months rather than minimum 1 month on renewal. The tuner failed on the old box about 2 months later.

ixtlan

brav wrote:

Finally, I now see they have packages i have sky movies and sky sports which i want, i also want rte etc + discovery. so would it be worth my while dropping kids channels etc or would it be the same price. Thanks

My understanding is that you could drop 2 of the six packages/mixes (I'm not talking about movies/sport) and get a small reduction in price. Maybe kids and music?

Unfortunately, the pricing is geared so that the more channels you have the less the additions cost, so for me with movies but no sport removing 2 packages/mixes saves €1.50... and I have not bothered.

Ix.

watty

The minimum with or without premium is indeed two mix packs, not four, so you can drop 4 mix packs. Save a bit more than 1.50
Variety + Knowledge are definately best value.

Better Kids channels are free than in the Kids Pack.

Lifestyle is mostly repeats of BBC /ITV/Discovery etc anyway.

News has almost nothing of value for most people given amount of free news channels. Pop ditto.

Most of the actual pay News Channels are free on other Satellites (except Eurosport News and Fox News) and bucket loads of similar pop on Sky and other satellites.

The contents of Variety & Knowledge packs aren't free anywhere except for the Irish channels via the TV aerial.