Deals On Sky TV Service - (Mostly Cancellation deals)

Cancelled my HD and box sets about 2 months ago, was paying €15 a month! Got a call today from an 021 number offering HD and box sets for €5 a month no contract!! Happy out!

jca wrote: »

My hd is gone about 2 weeks now I wonder will they ring me? I'm with them 6 years now and never had a call from them.

Just call them saying you got a call but didn't have time to take it.

vienne86 wrote: »

I never had hd but was offered it with box sets for €5 per month....for 12 months over the phone the other day.....and 021 number.

If you watch quite a bit of telly then you cant go wrong at €5.

There is a flash sale for existing customers today, movies and sports for €20 per month for 6 months.
Valid when you sign up online only.

Just be careful as I think when you sign up for this it may remove any existing offers on your account

http://www.sky.com/ireland/offers/top-tier/?DCMP=bac-ROI:ec_flash1#!2-3

i cancelled today, paying 37 that was going up to 39 , got offered 10 percent off for a year in a contract or 29 a month for 9 months .
no better offer put forward , call cost me 4 euro! (20 cent per minute), i still decided to leave

joefuss1986 wrote: »

Just got my price increase letter. Changing terms in February as well. I'm on a 12 month contract, 10 half price. 10 months are nearly up. Can I cancel now as they are changing terms?

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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So I rang and said I didn't accept the terms and he said that I can't cancel my contract as they havent broken any of their terms and conditions. He was trying to explain why they are going to charge for missing the direct debits and general waffle to fob me off! No matter what i said he told me I couldn't cancel. Anybody know if hes right?

Got this from a rep who I requested a call back from . In fairness he was very helpful and transferred me through to loyalty to see if I could cancel....

I have spoken with our legal team in relation to the late payment fees. Please see below.

We have introduced the late payment fee to cover our costs of servicing customers who have failed to pay on time. As the charge is only applicable where a customer has failed to meet the terms of their contract we do not consider that it will materially disadvantage customers and there is therefore no termination right for customers.

It is worth noting that Sky’s rates will be the lowest late payment charges in the TV market in Ireland with one operator charging €18.45. We will send warning notices to customers before imposing the charge whereas other operators impose the charge as soon as the payment is missed. Customers will not need to worry about this charge if they meet their payments on time.

Thanks for the replies as well Fred

jlm29 wrote: »

I just ordered sky tv today. We have no landline. Does anyone know if I need to inform them of this, will it make a difference to set up?

It wont make any difference,no landline needed

Just took me forever to cancel my SKY TV. I was on $19 per month for basic plus varity as i canceled 6 months ago but got dragged back...


I havent turned my Sky box on siince then so really wanted to cancel. I stream everything i watch the last year or so with Kodi installed on an android box. I dont think ill ever go back to a TV service

What's the best alternative boxes to Sky plus? Just have the regular channels currently.

Want to keep the recording function and possibly pause, rewind too.

richy wrote: »

I want to get a better deal on my sky. Was on the carphone warehouse deal for like 15 a month but got charged 53 yesteday for this months. Last time I rang up to cancel like a year ago? The lady offered me like 10% off and nothing more so I cancelled. Expected to get a counter offer later but never did. How do I play this? Should I just cancel and wait for a good deal to come out soon? I havent seen any in a while so should be some soon maybe

There doesnt appear to be any hard fast rule on this. I see various posts here saying you will get this, that and the other but what they fail to mention is that there is not a "one size fit all" policy operated by Sky. What discount one person receives may not be the same as what someone else gets.

From what I can see based on my own experience and from other posts here is that the longer you have been a subscriber the better the offer you should get if you decide to cancel. There is also (Im guessing here) the small matter of staff bonuses. If they can retain you as a customer with a 10% or 20% discount then I would think that their pay packet is a wee bit heavier at the end of the month. Different agents seem to be a bit more flexible than others while the same can be said about different departments within Sky.

My advice would be to ring in and tell them you want to cancel and go as far as cancelling if you have to. After that you can "uncancel" again within the 31 day notice period or alternatively just get cut off and call back and ask what offers they have for a returning customer.

adox wrote: »

So after cancelling in August and promising myself not to go back, I got a call last night from them and got suckered back in.

24 hours later and I've already changed my mind. Tried to cancel by email but have got a reply back saying that I have to call them, which I'm dreading.

It has just proved to myself and my wife that we really aren't missing that much and actually prefer the EPG with our English card inserted than our subbed Irish card.

What was the offer? Ive been wth out sky since August too.

Finished with them last month after my year with the €15/month CPWH offer.
Got a letter from sky yesterday informing me that my monthly bill will be going up by a euro and there I was thinking maybe it was another offer to tempt me back.
To be honest I think I'd only go back if they reduced it to a couple of euro a month just for the pause record facility :D

donegal. wrote: »

you'll still have pause/record if you use ANY sat box other than the sky one.

Nonsense - the majority of freesat boxes are receivers only although some have USB ports to allow recording. You need a Freesat+ box with dual input and hard drive to pause and record.