Sky+ now €69

JohnC.

I saw a display in a shop window today saying so, but didn't have time to get further information. The Sky site doesn't seem to be updated with this yet, as that is still saying €149

kaizersoze

The price in the UK has dropped £49 on the Sky site so €69 is probably right.

chorus techy

If you ring 0818 719 822 then you can get sky+ for €69 with free installation (if you're a brand new customer) or €69 if you get sky+ with multiroom (if you're an existing customer). Otherwise its €149. This offer has been going for the past month and was due to end last Monday, but surprise, surprise they extended it! Was thinking of going for it myself only I don't want to risk being landed with a bloody amstrad box! :mad:

bigpaddy2004

No amstrad box's being used, only pace.

legend99

BigPaddy...you know anything more about the mirror sub being dropped to 5.99 a month???

Borderfox

C**c I got it last Friday and payed €149 :eek:

bigpaddy2004

legend99 wrote:

BigPaddy...you know anything more about the mirror sub being dropped to 5.99 a month???

I will know for definate by next week, but it is going to happen

Doodah7

Just to ask, how much is Sky+ now per month for someone (like me) just on the Family Pack?

€6 pm for multiroom is VERY tempting...

kaizersoze

tallpaul wrote:

Just to ask, how much is Sky+ now per month for someone (like me) just on the Family Pack?

€6 pm for multiroom is VERY tempting...

€15p/m

bigpaddy2004

tallpaul wrote:

Just to ask, how much is Sky+ now per month for someone (like me) just on the Family Pack?

€6 pm for multiroom is VERY tempting...

€30.50 for the family pack and then €15 per month for your recording, if you wish to have it =€45.50

chorus techy

bigpaddy2004 wrote:

No amstrad box's being used, only pace.

No Amstrad's in Ireland?! Grand so, was worried I'd be landed with a ticker, as most of the UK seems to have been. I might give them a ring so, and if the mirror sub is dropping to €5.99 per month, then even better

bigpaddy2004

chorus techy wrote:

No Amstrad's in Ireland?! Grand so, was worried I'd be landed with a ticker, as most of the UK seems to have been. I might give them a ring so, and if the mirror sub is dropping to €5.99 per month, then even better

Dont order it until you hear about the price drop first from sky otherwise you will have to pay €15 pm for your subbed card until your contract has reached its 13th month.

chorus techy

bigpaddy2004 wrote:

Dont order it until you hear about the price drop first from sky otherwise you will have to pay €15 pm for your subbed card until your contract has reached its 13th month.

You're not serious?! Jesus, they'll rob for all you're worth - talk about customer loyalty!

Flukey

€69 is €69 too much. I have more sense than to be ripped off by Sky. Stop paying them and they may get the message.

bigpaddy2004

Flukey wrote:

€69 is €69 too much. I have more sense than to be ripped off by Sky. Stop paying them and they may get the message.

It's alot cheaper than it used to be in fairness, mirrored card price dropping and all...even I think its cheap and I would be a terrible critic of them.:D

legend99

so if the mirror sub does come down to 5.99 a month you could have
Sky+ with Multiroom

6 entertainment mixes, 30.50 a month
get 2 Sky sports premium channels instead of paying for Sky+ by itself.Add 23.50
Mirror sub 5.99.

So for 60 quid a month you could have Sky+, mirror sub and 4 Premium sports channels. Thats not bad I have to say in my opinion.

No, next question. The 5.99 a month...will that be announced before the 69 upgrade sale price offer ends on Nov 30....and can you get the 69 euro offer price to upgrade to Sky+ Multiroom from local installer...i prefer giving my business to a local guy to be honest.

Flukey

It is cheaper, but it is still too much. Sky have been ripping people off for years. You may celebrate that they are ripping you off by less, but they are still ripping you off. If they were offering it for €0.01, they'd still be ripping you off. Being ripped off, no matter by how much, is nothing to celebrate. It's less that €149, but it is €69 more to add to all the other money they've ripped people off of.

It's like people saying they smoke less. They tell you "I used to smoke 40 a day, but now I only smoke 10." Well that is 10 more each day on top of the total they have smoked, so they are not cutting down, but adding more. So this €69 is less than before but it is another €69 on top of everything else upt to this. When they start returning the millions upon millions that they have ripped people off of, then go out and buy a bottle of champagne!

You get the "If you ring 0818 719 822 then you can get sky+ for €69 with free installation" If you are paying €69 then it is not free. It is like a car salesman telling you that if you give him €40,000 he'll give you a new car for free! Cop on people!

bigpaddy2004

Legend99 I do not have the anwers to your last question(s) as i do not know as of yet. I do know that I will have all the info next week, but it will not be official to the public.

Flukey, you seem to misunderstand Sky's tactic's. Installation is free, all you pay for is the equipment costs, i.e. box and quad lnb.

LegacyUser

I don't particularly want to upgrade to Sky+, so just wondering, how much is it to get multiroom installed on a normal €30.50 p.m. subscription?

Do both boxes or just the mirror box have to be connected to a phone line? Basically, can i still use the FTV card on the box that's not plugged into the phone line, or will it be detected by Sky?

jaggiebunnet

Flukey wrote:

It is cheaper, but it is still too much. Sky have been ripping people off for years. You may celebrate that they are ripping you off by less, but they are still ripping you off. If they were offering it for €0.01, they'd still be ripping you off. Being ripped off, no matter by how much, is nothing to celebrate. It's less that €149, but it is €69 more to add to all the other money they've ripped people off of.

It's like people saying they smoke less. They tell you "I used to smoke 40 a day, but now I only smoke 10." Well that is 10 more each day on top of the total they have smoked, so they are not cutting down, but adding more. So this €69 is less than before but it is another €69 on top of everything else upt to this. When they start returning the millions upon millions that they have ripped people off of, then go out and buy a bottle of champagne!

You get the "If you ring 0818 719 822 then you can get sky+ for €69 with free installation" If you are paying €69 then it is not free. It is like a car salesman telling you that if you give him €40,000 he'll give you a new car for free! Cop on people!

Where do sky say they will give it to you for free? and why should they? why is that being ripped off? the cheapest hard drive recorder that could do a similar job to sky + without being as good at it is 300 euro so why is 69 euro a rip off?

Mossy Monk

Flukey wrote:

It is cheaper, but it is still too much. Sky have been ripping people off for years. You may celebrate that they are ripping you off by less, but they are still ripping you off. If they were offering it for €0.01, they'd still be ripping you off. Being ripped off, no matter by how much, is nothing to celebrate. It's less that €149, but it is €69 more to add to all the other money they've ripped people off of.

It's like people saying they smoke less. They tell you "I used to smoke 40 a day, but now I only smoke 10." Well that is 10 more each day on top of the total they have smoked, so they are not cutting down, but adding more. So this €69 is less than before but it is another €69 on top of everything else upt to this. When they start returning the millions upon millions that they have ripped people off of, then go out and buy a bottle of champagne!

You get the "If you ring 0818 719 822 then you can get sky+ for €69 with free installation" If you are paying €69 then it is not free. It is like a car salesman telling you that if you give him €40,000 he'll give you a new car for free! Cop on people!

ooooh, a misinformed rant

the installation is free, the box and lnb is €69

Tony

On sky's non sky + service you get the box free and you get it installed free, wheres the rip off? Flukey you need to check the facts before launcing into "rant" mode. I'm not a fan of sky as an organisation but lots of readers here rely on this forum for accurate information so lets stick to the facts.

Brando_ie

I have a fairly tasty hdd dvd recorder and was going to get vanilla sky to basically have the same kinda features of sky+ (I do know that the sky plus can record 2 shows at the same time but what the hey!!). If I was to get sky+ does anyone know if it would work with the recorder? My main issues would be 1- can you bypass the sky+ and record a show currently playing direct to the hdd or dvd or are there any encryption issues?. and 2- can you 'play' a sky+ recorded show and record it to the hdd dvd recorder at the same time for archival?. Actually this post may be a bit off topic. mods feel free to ditch it if so and i'll post fresh later.

kaizersoze

Buckfast wrote:

Do both boxes or just the mirror box have to be connected to a phone line? Basically, can i still use the FTV card on the box that's not plugged into the phone line, or will it be detected by Sky?

Yes

IMHO €60 is way too much to pay for any television service and I wouldn't pay it or anything near it.
I would rather pay €300 for a harddisc recorder than pay Sky for Sky+. It's harking back to the old days when people rented their VCR from the local electrical shop knowing it was dead money. The only difference now is they give you the equipment but charge you to use it.
Were too eager to fall for the hype and advertising and part with our hard earned cash to line someone elses pockets.
Just my 2 cents. Sorry for the rant.:)

Flukey

Buy a steering wheel for €40,000 and we'll give you a free car with it!
Buy a bedroom for €600,000 and get a free house with it!
Was €149, now €69 with free installation.
They sound like great deals, don't they?

Come on, it is standard marketing practice. All sorts of companies do the same kind of thing. But whatever it is, you still have to pay something. On the "buy one, get one free" type of promotion, you can never just take one and get it for free. You always have to pay something. They never lose.

It's the same with the first issue of a series of magazines when the first one is cheaper than all the other issues. It's just to try and make it look like a good deal and drag more customers in. Once they buy the first issue, they feel like they have to buy the rest. The people doing it are not going to work for nothing. Their wages and the production costs come from somewhere, from what the customers pay. They are not losing out. It's all worked into their marketing plan and costings for the product.

They can well afford to drop their prices and add a bit of marketing spin to attract more customers. Rather than them showing their goodwill it actually proves they could do things cheaper. They are entitled to make profits of course. Even with the lower price, they'd still come out with huge profits. If it was €149 and is now €69 they've been ripping you off to such an extent that they can dramatically reduce the price to make it seem like people are getting a good deal. Of course some have already paid the €149. Rupert Murdoch is laughing all the way to the bank! Sky is not a charity! That's a fact. So my last post and this are no rants, just reality.

Mossy Monk

oh no, are you telling me that Sky want to make money?

your point is still invalid as the sky+ box is heavily subsidised. €69 for a Sky+ box with lnb and installation is a great price imo

Tony

kaizersoze wrote:

Yes

IMHO €60 is way too much to pay for any television service and I wouldn't pay it or anything near it.
I would rather pay €300 for a harddisc recorder than pay Sky for Sky+. It's harking back to the old days when people rented their VCR from the local electrical shop knowing it was dead money. The only difference now is they give you the equipment but charge you to use it.
Were too eager to fall for the hype and advertising and part with our hard earned cash to line someone elses pockets.
Just my 2 cents. Sorry for the rant.:)

Sounds like a reasonable arguement to me rather than a rant

Tony

Flukey wrote:

Buy a steering wheel for €40,000 and we'll give you a free car with it!
Buy a bedroom for €600,000 and get a free house with it!
Was €149, now €69 with free installation.
They sound like great deals, don't they?

No they sound like ridiculous examples that have no basis in reality with the exception of the last one. It is up to the consumer to decide what is a good deal and what is a bad one. Nobody is forced to take up any particular offer, its a choice.

Flukey

Ok then, let's go along with this line that the installation is free. Right, so all week these technicians have been going round and installing them. Come payday then, they will get no wages whatsoever and be happy with it, because a few weeks ago they all willingly agreed to work for absolutely nothing for a few weeks, because installation was to be free. Get real folks. They'll get their wages in full for this week and in fact may even get a few bonuses because of the larger volume they'll have installed due to demand. That money is coming out of what the customers have paid this week and in their previous payments over the years. The installation is not free.

Sky, as they have to do, are making their profits, and at the expense of anyone who mistakenly thinks they are getting a good deal. Just because you are willing to be ripped off, don't take it out on the few of us that are pointing out the realities, and call our posts rants. The installation is not free or at some wonderful rate. It's a marketing ploy. All companies do it. With some, you are actually getting some sort of value, so it's worth doing, but Sky is a rip-off from start to finish.

I wouldn't give Rupert Murdoch a single cent. The TV is paid for, the license is, and last night I sat down and watched the Man Utd. match and didn't have to pay some additional charge to Rupert Murdoch for the pleasure. Some people are prepared to do that kind of thing every week. I may not see them live, but I can sit down at the weekend and see Premiership match highlights and all the goals without having to pay anything extra. That some people are prepared to pay Rupert Murdoch to do almost the exact same thing, just doesn't make sense. Luckily I have some sense and I'll continue to enjoy TV soccer at no extra charge.

Tony

So you dont have a Tv licience then ? Of course you do and you have paid good money for it, your choice whether to have Tv or not in the same way as Sky customers choose to have sky. Installers do not get bonuses for volume installs they get paid by sky as you well know. The installation is free for the customer on the basis that they take out a contract and connect to a phoneline for 12 months, if they choose not to they can pay for the install and the dish and box (currently around €200) The market decides between good and bad value , are you suggesting that you are the only one who knows what is going on?

Flukey wrote:

Ok then, let's go along with this line that the installation is free. Right, so all week these technicians have been going round and installing them. Come payday then, they will get no wages whatsoever and be happy with it, because a few weeks ago they all willingly agreed to work for absolutely nothing for a few weeks, because installation was to be free. Get real folks. They'll get their wages in full for this week and in fact may even get a few bonuses because of the larger volume they'll have installed due to demand. That money is coming out of what the customers have paid this week and in their previous payments over the years. The installation is not free.

Sky, as they have to do, are making their profits, and at the expense of anyone who mistakenly thinks they are getting a good deal. Just because you are willing to be ripped off, don't take it out on the few of us that are pointing out the realities, and call our posts rants. The installation is not free or at some wonderful rate. It's a marketing ploy. All companies do it. With some, you are actually getting some sort of value, so it's worth doing, but Sky is a rip-off from start to finish.

I wouldn't give Rupert Murdoch a single cent. The TV is paid for, the license is, and last night I sat down and watched the Man Utd. match and didn't have to pay some additional charge to Rupert Murdoch for the pleasure. Some people are prepared to do that kind of thing every week. I may not see them live, but I can sit down at the weekend and see Premiership match highlights and all the goals without having to pay anything extra. That some people are prepared to pay Rupert Murdoch to do almost the exact same thing, just doesn't make sense. Luckily I have some sense and I'll continue to enjoy TV soccer at no extra charge.

watty

Sky can GIVE AWAY FREE the Sky+ and I won't take one...

But if it was €300 and had NO RECORDING RENTAL, then this would be good value. I might even get one then.

My original Sky box still in use (non sub) after five years,

Five years of a FREE install, free delivery Sky+ is 900 EURO!

I'd expect any non-Sky PVR box to last at least 5 years.

I have some PCs here I use for semi-dedicated application that are ten years old. PCs go out of date faster than anything.