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Deals On Sky TV Service - (Mostly Cancellation deals)

bromley52 · 2012-08-27 16:46:53

I saw a friend of mine get a letter today advertising half price Sky + for 12 months with free install. Ring 0818 762 867 and quote 'Irelands No.1 offer'. Fatcheese are giving up to €135 cash back if you book online but I imagine if you then ring quoting the half price offer you might get that too and perhaps more if you…

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#4112 24-11-2015 3:03pm
LaMoose

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Nice one, thanks

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#4113 24-11-2015 6:09pm
ablelocks

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cancelled back in August. Started getting calls last week, but missed them. They called again today and said that because I had been with them from 2008 on, with no missed payments, blah blah blah, they would offer me 3 months free and half price for the next 9 months on variety and HD (this was our previous package, I don't think I could have got anything on top of that). No contract, just the normal 31 days notice if I want to terminate the service.

thanks Sky - kids will be able to watch the Toy Show now...

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#4114 24-11-2015 6:12pm
GY A1

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can u take the 3 months free and then cancel lol

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#4115 24-11-2015 6:21pm
ablelocks

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GY A1 wrote: »

can u take the 3 months free and then cancel lol

yes I can actually! and probably will because by that time, we should know the Sky Q pricing so there should be decent sign up offers for that ...

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#4116 24-11-2015 6:28pm
jca

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ablelocks wrote: »

yes I can actually! and probably will because by that time, we should know the Sky Q pricing so there should be decent sign up offers for that ...

I got an email about that, it looks great. I registered my interest. Anyone know how it works?

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#4117 24-11-2015 6:58pm
TitianGerm

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ablelocks wrote: »

yes I can actually! and probably will because by that time, we should know the Sky Q pricing so there should be decent sign up offers for that ...

What's Sky Q ? I normally just delete my emails from Sky.

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#4118 24-11-2015 7:14pm
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emmetkenny wrote: »

What's Sky Q ? I normally just delete my emails from Sky.

Here ya go

...or for a more analytic view see here

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#4119 24-11-2015 9:31pm
lycan238

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Gave my 31 days notice last week getting cut off on the 21st of December. Will be interesting to see what offers I get in advance of the new launch and post launch if I can last that long.

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#4120 25-11-2015 1:34pm
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Are the half price offers only on the packages, variety etc and the HD full price ?
I was offered half price variety and full price HD, so €34.50pm . Was told no way anyone getting half price HD.
Plus only offered it for 9 months. Gonna ask for 12 months no contract.
Any thoughts on the HD price ???

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#4121 25-11-2015 1:55pm
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Sasso wrote: »

Are the half price offers only on the packages, variety etc and the HD full price ?
I was offered half price variety and full price HD, so €34.50pm . Was told no way anyone getting half price HD.
Plus only offered it for 9 months. Gonna ask for 12 months no contract.
Any thoughts on the HD price ???

I've never paid for full price hd. Say you don't want it then if it's not discounted. They'll prob give you one then.

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#4122 25-11-2015 2:55pm
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Just off the phone to them

Contract up (I had variety, sports, movies, hd and 1 extra box)

Got Variety sports and movies HALF Price for 6 months, HD FREE for the year and half price multi room

They also threw in 2 free remotes

GERRR IN

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#4123 25-11-2015 3:05pm
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Sasso wrote: »

Are the half price offers only on the packages, variety etc and the HD full price ?
I was offered half price variety and full price HD, so €34.50pm . Was told no way anyone getting half price HD.
Plus only offered it for 9 months. Gonna ask for 12 months no contract.
Any thoughts on the HD price ???

I pay €5 a month for HD!

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#4124 25-11-2015 3:06pm
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Skuxx wrote: »

I pay €5 a month for HD!

Ditto

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#4125 25-11-2015 3:23pm
jca

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Delta Echo Charlie wrote: »

Just off the phone to them

Contract up (I had variety, sports, movies, hd and 1 extra box)

Got Variety sports and movies HALF Price for 6 months, HD FREE for the year and half price multi room

They also threw in 2 free remotes

GERRR IN

Nice one. Any contract? How much is it now?

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#4126 25-11-2015 5:40pm
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I rang in to cancel sports and only got offered a reduction down to €26 per month which I declined so after consulting with someone else they improved the offer by €1 to €25 per month for 9 months.

Not much of a deal for someone who has been a customer for best part of 10 years so bye bye sports.

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#4127 25-11-2015 5:48pm
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nc6000 wrote: »

I rang in to cancel sports and only got offered a reduction down to €26 per month

Im a little confused here. Is that the cost for the sports only or for your entire sub?

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#4128 25-11-2015 5:52pm
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muffler wrote: »

Im a little confused here. Is that the cost for the sports only or for your entire sub?

Just for the Sports. I would have happily taken a reduction like that if it was on the whole package.

* At least I assumed it was just for the sports. Whoever it was I was dealing with wasn't very good. Offering me broadband etc which works out more expensive than I currently pay Vodafone and then telling me it would be cheaper in a bundle but unable to explain how.

From what I can tell the current broadband deal is €10 per month on top of €30 line rental. Not much of a deal.

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#4129 25-11-2015 8:28pm
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Delta Echo Charlie wrote: »

Just off the phone to them

Contract up (I had variety, sports, movies, hd and 1 extra box)

Got Variety sports and movies HALF Price for 6 months, HD FREE for the year and half price multi room

They also threw in 2 free remotes

GERRR IN

Well done that's a great deal.
Do you mind me asking did you let them cut you off or did you just ring up threatening to cancel ?
Also was there much haggling for the 50% or did they just come up with that.
We are out of contract on Dec 3rd ,not sure what way is best to approach it.

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#4130 25-11-2015 8:34pm
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after 3 weeks of disconnection, finally got that call.
new offer - 12 months half price - no contract + no billing till feb 25th.
hd for 5euros.
said yes to the offer.
was on cpw offer for the last 1 year.

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#4131 25-11-2015 9:48pm
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jasus lads, rang there, am out of contract, and best price for variety, movies and sports, and hd is €86 and that's with a discount!! with sky for 9+ yrs!!!

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#4132 25-11-2015 9:51pm
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bittihuduga wrote: »

after 3 weeks of disconnection, finally got that call.
new offer - 12 months half price - no contract + no billing till feb 25th.
hd for 5euros.
said yes to the offer.
was on cpw offer for the last 1 year.

So is that 3 months free ??

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#4133 25-11-2015 10:20pm
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Just been disconnected today and a bit píssed to find out you can't reset the hd boxes to the UK epg to watch free channels. Luckily I have 2 old dusty sd skyboxes in the attic!

Been reading through uk forums and it seems half price offers appearing in the "MySky" section of their website is common on the day of disconnection. Im seeing nothing here except that offers aren't available online and then a prompt to call them? Do Irish customers get similar online offers?

I'll bide my time anyways.

bittihuduga wrote: »

after 3 weeks of disconnection, finally got that call.
new offer - 12 months half price - no contract + no billing till feb 25th.
hd for 5euros.
said yes to the offer.
was on cpw offer for the last 1 year.

What package are you on out of interest and what are you paying @50% off?

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#4134 25-11-2015 10:35pm
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Agricola wrote: »

Just been disconnected today and a bit píssed to find out you can't reset the hd boxes to the UK epg to watch free channels. Luckily I have 2 old dusty sd skyboxes in the attic!

i just brought a uk card off adverts for €5 that done the trick.

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#4135 25-11-2015 10:43pm
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tellmeabit wrote: »

jasus lads, rang there, am out of contract, and best price for variety, movies and sports, and hd is €86 and that's with a discount!! with sky for 9+ yrs!!!

You need to push them by at least threatening to cancel and get talking to the loyalty team. The normal operator won't budge much from your standard price. I'm planning on doing this for ours next week so that if I have to go ahead and give my 30 days notices it won't be cut off during the festive period.

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#4136 25-11-2015 11:16pm
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I've been on half price sports, variety, HD for 9 months, ends in January. Plus I have sky talk & BB.

Going to ring mid December to cancel sport and HD, I'm not in contract with the tv service but am on the phone/BB.

I'll see what they say. I think at this stage I'd happily go netfliix and just BB from sky.

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#4137 28-11-2015 10:55pm
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After waiting nearly a month since my cancellation went through, I finally got the call from Sky yesterday.

Any package half price for the year.
First 3 months free.
No contract

Took original plus sports and movies at 38 a month. First bill in February

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#4138 01-12-2015 6:15pm
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i was due to be disconnected on the 7th but phoned them today and got any package half price for 9 months with no contract .:D

thanks to everyone whos posted im this tread and kept it going !

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#4139 01-12-2015 6:22pm
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whatawaster wrote: »

After waiting nearly a month since my cancellation went through, I finally got the call from Sky yesterday.

Any package half price for the year.
First 3 months free.
No contract

Took original plus sports and movies at 38 a month. First bill in February

I got the same deal ie 1/2 price for 12 months with no contract but my first bill in January will include charges for Dec, Jan.

Are you sure its free for the first 3 months or is it first bill in Feb for 3 months?

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#4140 01-12-2015 6:23pm
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I cancelled my CPW deal today, to be cancelled on 2nd January.
Best I was offered was 10% discount on any package, so told them no.
Signed up to the current CPW deal of 25% off, but might just cancel that as well if Sky are offering half price on the day of cancellation.

I'll ring next week and say I had a voicemail offering half price packages and see if I can get that.

Otherwise, I'll just go with CPW deal. €100 voucher for new phone could be handy.

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#4141 01-12-2015 7:55pm
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Macca07 wrote: »

I cancelled my CPW deal today, to be cancelled on 2nd January.
Best I was offered was 10% discount on any package, so told them no.
Signed up to the current CPW deal of 25% off, but might just cancel that as well if Sky are offering half price on the day of cancellation.

I'll ring next week and say I had a voicemail offering half price packages and see if I can get that.

Otherwise, I'll just go with CPW deal. €100 voucher for new phone could be handy.

It's actually more like 2.5 months.
There's 90 euro on my account. I'm getting bills in Dec and Jan, but they will be zero. Feb bill will be 20 euro or something like that

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