Sky Gnome is not available to ROI

Just got this email from the Sky Gnome website.......



Hi there..

Just a quick note to thank you for your recent interest and to let you know my price.

I'm gonna be £69.99 plus p&p, direct from Sky, with no additional subscription cost.

I'm not ready to take home just yet...planning to drop by in October so I'll keep you posted.

Check out my website www.sky.com/skygnome if you wanna catch up.

Bye for now
Sky Gnome

P.S. If you would like to be taken off my database, please click here.

Digital satellite system required. Compatible with all Sky Boxes. All prices inclusive of VAT and subject to change. Sky Gnome is currently not available in the ROI.
P&P: Unless otherwise stated, postage and packaging is £6.50 per Sky Gnome purchased for delivery in England, Wales, Scotland (excluding the Highlands and Islands). For Northern Island and the Scottish Highlands & Islands, postage and packaging is £13.99 per Sky Gnome.

Mossy Monk

****ing bastards

why the hell are we always after the UK

1st was the free box and dish, 2nd was Sky+ now this

they really do piss me off

Sparky

Mossy Monk wrote:

****ing bastards

why the hell are we always after the UK

1st was the free box and dish, 2nd was Sky+ now this

they really do piss me off

there's always ebay, im sure some will be poping up soon.

dwayneburke

whats sky gnome? Satellite radio?

Mossy Monk

Sparky_S wrote:

there's always ebay, im sure some will be poping up soon.

thats true but it is the way they treat us as second class subscribers that pisses me off

Doodah7

dwayneburke wrote:

whats sky gnome? Satellite radio?

Love to know myself. Looks like a natty digital radio. Am I correct??

Macy

tallpaul wrote:

Love to know myself. Looks like a natty digital radio. Am I correct??

Baically a device that you hook up to your dodgy box which enable's you to listen to audio in other rooms. There's another thread on it that'll explain more.

Anyword on whether it requires a sub or will it work FTV/FTA?

Widescreen

Just checked with Sky about the Sky Gnome again. Hoping to get one before the summer. Still not available in ROI. Reason believe it or not is that they have not got a courier set up to deliver them here.Nothing to do with legalities etc..I said to the girl, if Rupert knew he'd probably go ballistic...what a daft reason not to be selling a product.:mad: However,if I was to buy one on my Irish credit card and get it delivered to the folks in the UK do you think that would work? I said it to the Sky person and she said NO as they would get paid in Euros. I don't think thats the case is it? Apparently the software glich will be sorted by end of June whereby you can preset the channels and it is an excellent product...

any help appreciated...

Skyuser

Sky HD was released in ROI from beginning. That's a positive.

watty

Widescreen wrote:

Just checked with Sky about the Sky Gnome again. Hoping to get one before the summer. Still not available in ROI. Reason believe it or not is that they have not got a courier set up to deliver them here.Nothing to do with legalities etc..I said to the girl, if Rupert knew he'd probably go ballistic...what a daft reason not to be selling a product.:mad: However,if I was to buy one on my Irish credit card and get it delivered to the folks in the UK do you think that would work? I said it to the Sky person and she said NO as they would get paid in Euros. I don't think thats the case is it? Apparently the software glich will be sorted by end of June whereby you can preset the channels and it is an excellent product...

any help appreciated...

Your Credit card could be from Betelguese and using Alvarian Pepples and as long as it is Visa/Mastercard/Amex etc they get paid in Sterling!

A different delivery address can pose a problem for some online ordering systems. However I found that Tesco UK accepts a Irish Credit card address. Tesco ROI only delivers flowers in IRELAND. So I created a Tesco UK account in ONE UK address (real), got flowers delivered to a second UK address (also real) and used Credit Card from Third Irish Address (definately real). I'm curious if I can use Tesco Poland some time (I'd have to borrow and address of a local Limerick Pole).

The Gnome will work here as well as anywhere, which is not entirely flawless.

byte

watty wrote:

Your Credit card could be from Betelguese and using Alvarian Pepples and as long as it is Visa/Mastercard/Amex etc they get paid in Sterling!

ROFL

Yes they still take sterling, and you get charged the relevant exchange rate (plus maybe an additional percentage for the lenders)

watty

Three gravel chips commisson on the Betelguesian Visa.

Nollaig53

Heard these gnomes were **** anyway, and still suffering for EPG problems since the recent shuffle.

Widescreen

Thanks lads. I'll try the jocks again... I believe they're a very nifty product..

If I get one I could be the only person in Limerick listening to the test Match commentary in my sunny backgarden this year:)


Also it may be the nearest we'll come to DAB radio in Ireland in my lifetime and I'm only 40 but I've no faith in the powers that be ever providing that service for us:D

Mossy Monk

maybe not so long to wait, they were testing it not so long ago

Satellite radio it is for now

bk

Actually the reason why this probably isn't available here is because it uses FM transmission and all FM transmission devices must get a radio license from Comreg. This is the same reason why iPod FM Transmitters aren't strictly speaking legal in Ireland.

Of course everyone just ignores this silly rule and buys them off ebay.

Ulsterman 1690

Surely if the Sky Gnome is being sold in the UK it will be using either Bluetooth or UHF (theres a licence free allocation 8?? MHz cant remember exactly)

When it comes to FM broadcast band transmission OFCOM are even more more anal retentive than COMREG

watty

It is CE marked using 860MHz ish Lincence Exempt I think.. Rustles Comreg stuff on desk...

See Comreg 02/71 Permitted Short Range Devices in Ireland.
Some CE marked Wireless gear has an ! meaning look at manual to see list of countries that forbid it.

863 .. 865MHz Wireless Audio Systems 10mW erp ETSI 301 357, ERC/REC/70-03 and ERC/DEC/(01)18

Stuff like CB27MHz, PMR446, PMR(UHF) etc are not SHORT RANGE and have a different document.

watty

AFAIK those iPOD Tx units that talk to FM radios are not legal ANYWHERE in Europe.

lawhec

watty wrote:

AFAIK those iPOD Tx units that talk to FM radios are not legal ANYWHERE in Europe.

I read a report that they now are in Switzerland, and that some EU countries now were looking at the same possibilities, including Ofcom in the UK - don't know about Comreg.

Skyuser

What's so illegal about them anyway? They hardly transmit the music miles around.

watty

Illegal is illegal.

Skyuser

Knowing this country, I could see someone being locked up for a couple of years for using this and having downloaded and uploaded thousands of songs. And then being released around the same time that Wayne O'Donoghue gets released for murdering a child.

Sorry about going waaaaaaay off topic.

Mossy Monk

hardly a good comparison

stay OT please

Ulsterman 1690

watty wrote:

Illegal is illegal.

Technically Watty is correct
However the situation is rather silly.

In the US (and some other places) they have a legal provision (known as Part 15) wherby transmissions below a certain power level are ok but there is no such provision in most European countries.

Virtually all radio RECIEVERS radiate a low power signal from their local oscillators which in some cases is just as powerful as the output from any Ipod transmitter

Also theres all that interference radiated from badly designed computers, TV sets, flourecent lights, domestic appliances, power tools, car engines, industrial equipment, power supplies, Electricity substations even some tape recorders. Again far more problematic than any Ipod transmitter

watty

I didn't voice an opinion on the morality or sense of it.

It would better if there was a provision say of 1mW* ERP (adequate for cordless connection to car radio) and clamp down on the "mega power" products that cause interference.

*Or whatever ERP makes sense on a particular band.

But what is hypothetically a "good idea" and what is "legal" isn't the same thing.

There is no point in legislation unless:
1) It is properly enforced (Drink driving, seat belts, using phone while driving in hand)
3) It makes technical sense.

Ulsterman 1690

watty wrote:

There is no point in legislation unless:
1) It is properly enforced (Drink driving, seat belts, using phone while driving in hand)
3) It makes technical sense.

Absolutely agree but the *Irish statute books are chock a block with laws that are brought in to solve some problem or other without any thought put into how theyre going to be actually enforced.

Ive always maintained thet things would work out far better if they completly scrapped 90% of them and actually put some time energy and resources into enforcing the other 10%

* Not suggesting the UK is that much different

BrookieD

I got one of these sent in from the UK and love it. Works perfectly never an issue. Great to have in the garden etc... on a nice day to listen to the footy or to BBC Radio 1 and the like.