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New BBC football website ... no team lineups
- Thread starter goldstone
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Why are you needing to pay Sky over £120 a month? Jesus, get yourself a deal.
I know.....need to have a row with them. Fibre broadband, phone, 2 x HD boxes and one normal box, sports & movies
Ouch. No doubt you know, but you can have sky in other rooms by using your laptop, iPads etc, and signing in to your sky account. Not difficult, but perhaps not as user friendly and easy, so if you can afford the charge for the extra boxes I don't blame you. There's no reason why you can't get your sky tv package for half price though. Just by telling them you want to cancel and switch to BT/Virgin/Netflix/Amazon etc, they should offer you a third off. I had to actually leave and wait a few days before they offered me half price, but I see no point in paying more.
LowerWesty
LowerWesty
This, usually watch the BBC channels, what's on the hundreds of satellite channels isn't usually worth watching.
Sussex Nomad
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Whenever I'm involved in planning new websites, sometimes you just have to say 'of course they'll see that won't they?' Just goes to show you have to take absolutely everything into account regardless of whether it is obvious or not.
Thanks - we do that as well depending on who is fighting for what TV but don't really like watching TV on the ipad or PC/laptop much. Last time I tried the 'I'm leaving for Virgin' trick (about a year ago), they didn't buy it (poss because I did it once before and got a reduction for 6 months, maybe 5 years ago) so will have another go at some point.
Hook them up to your TVs, so you aren't watching on the iPad. If you haven't got smart TVs, get some of those gadgets that make your TV smart, so you can watch youtube etc on the TV too.
No, they just beat you at the poker game. They bluffed, you folded. I get the deals every year, they don't black list you. If you're planning to go on holiday or something, cancel so that your subscription runs out just as you're about to go, so if you have to go through with the cancellation, you don't miss any TV as you're leaving anyway.
When you're talking to them, obviously be polite etc, but don't let them think you can't do without Sky. I make it clear it's about money, we simply can't afford it, but that I do use a bit of both movies and sport etc, so I'm not willing to remove something from the package, it's all or nothing. I tell them I plan to switch to Netflix and BT etc, and I don't need so much sport as I'm an STH at my local football team don't you know
As I said, last year the deal wasn't good enough (33% off for a year), so I left, and a few days after leaving I joined back with 50% off.
Although this was 20 years ago, I still remember it clearly - guy who sat opposite me at work was on the phone to his bank, ranting at them and what they'd done wrong - they denied it all, but he wasn't having it and demanded to speak the the supervisor, then ranted at them. Then suddenly he politely said, I'm terribly sorry, wrong bank.
