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Got a shock today when I clocked we are at 137 a month. That’s sky tv, phone and broadband.
We want the F1 package, we want unlimited Broadband.
What am I targeting and how do I go about getting it? Just cancel and rejoin?
122 a month here. phone, broadband and sports package.
you pay for what you get i think.
i spent 20 years selling blokes dodgy internet boxes to get sky for nothing.
ace when working. but rubbish when you want to watch something and the shit thing freezes up.
i will keep the sky package.
Tell em you want to leave.
If I take my BT Fibre - £56 month, Disney £8, Netflix £12 and Amazon £8, it adds up, but nothing like Sky. Any footie ? Isn't F1 on terrestrial ?
NowTV sports offer at the moment, £25 a month I think. I only ever bother with it when the football season starts
TV licence is £107 a year and there's enough good stuff on iPlayer to fill an hour an evening. That'd be a great way to save over one and a half thousand pounds a year just for some F1.
Ditch Movies if you have it. Sod all on. Can’t believe I didn’t realise it was costing me £20 a month.
We have sky fastest unlimited broadband, nearly all tv inc F1, sports and Disney and a second box in bedroom.
Ours was £130 a month but negotiated it to £95 for a new contract.
We have landline with Sky but haven’t had a phone for years so they dropped the line rental which saved £17 a month iirc.
Worth a look on your Sky account as some of their packages change name and become cheaper. All very strange and slightly annoying really but we like the Sky user experience so pay a little more.
We have landline with Sky but haven’t had a phone for years so they dropped the line rental which saved £17 a month
@twonks, I thought you had to have a landline if you wanted broadband? I havent used a landline for years. Its just scam callers anyway.
Can I just pay for broadband and TV with sky?
122 a month here. phone, broadband and sports package.
£62 for new customers right now. You should have a chat with them.
https://www.sky.com/deals/tvandbroadband?irct=tp-bns-deal-CTA1-42tp-seealldeals
You may to go into the cancellation pipeline to get that deal - I would have thought they would make you a decent offer pretty quickly.
Can I just pay for broadband and TV with sky?
Yes - making calls on the landline gets a lot more expensive, but since you don't do it anyhow, there's no issue.
Was same for us recently. I rang and gave my 31 day notice, then rang back on day 30.
Without much effort I was offered the quickest broadband, phone line, telly with boxsets, HD, full Sports and multi-room that includes enhanced Sky go (ace for laptops and phone) for £73. Happy enough with that.
I phoned to cancel after the Lions tour ended, was up to £70 [just tv].
Interestingly was told that there are VIP discounts to be had! Well the only VIP info I’ve seen were meet celebs bullshit, and these oh so special “events” and progs available… they never mentioned I could get money off!
So got my bill down to £24, which is quite a discount, though I did still cancel the sports seeing as its almost entirely sports I have no interest in now they’ve stopped showing rugby.
Tell em you want to leave
This - a mate does it every couple of years and gets his bill slashed to sensible levels.
Never seen the attraction of Sky, seems very overpriced for what we would want to watch, but if they have the exclusive on a sport it's tricky. We manage with Freeview, Prime and GCN+ for cycling
Freeview plus Netflix and Disney still under £50 a month Inc broadband and calls.
We pay less than £80 a month for SkyQ + Movies, kids, HD, Boxset, docs + BT Superfast Fibre + Disney + Prime + Netflix.
TV licence is £107 a year
I thought it was £159 ?
Freeview plus Netflix and Disney still under £50 a month Inc broadband and calls.
....and you can easily get pretty much the same from Sky.
You don't need to tell them you're leaving, as an existing customer you are entitled to the same offers that a new customer can have (their words, not mine!)
I was on £50+ a month a while ago. Got it down to £27 for fibre unlimited, landline and sky Q basic package (not interested in the extra packages.)
However, Sky have a very sneaky way of gradually upping your bill it seems, it's back near £40 already after about 6 months and we don't get anywhere near the promised 70 mb download speed, but it's fast enough and I can't be arsed spending half a day on the phone complaining about it.
@damascus Yes we totally removed the landline cost as the latest Sky hub has a VOIP socket for a phone. Not sure if you have to have this hub but we certainly no longer have a land line.
Downside is it will probably cost a fortune to have one put back in if needed, even though it will only be a switch somewhere.
I think what damascus means is that the Internet, (the I in VOIP) is delivered down a phone line, so you can't have it 'taken out' Also, AFAIK unless you are in a fibre area all the lines are owned by Open Reach and that £17 per month is paid to them.
Ah, hang on, that might explain it. Does the Internet come though a fibre connection?
Might be fttp
Vodafone is £23.28 a month (fibre broadband at 50Mb/s and no landline).
BBC TV etc through Freesat (just plug a box into your existing Sky dish).
Wife subscribes to Netflix: £9.99.
Total is £34.
I don't watch much TV beyond the Olympics. My boys spend their lives riding bikes, skating etc
You don’t need to tell them you’re leaving, as an existing customer you are entitled to the same offers that a new customer can have (their words, not mine!)
Odd, I've always had to go through the cancellation route. I've been under a Sky Q contract for the last couple of years but got called by Sky last Friday (on the pretence of being able to provide me with offers as a VIP customer). Turns out they couldn't (apart from the usual BS of being able to add new stuff at a reduced rate). Fair play to the guy though he was quick to say he couldn't discount my current package and that I should just call up the cancellations team and they'd offer me a discount that way (that I already new but I hadn't realised my Sky Q contract lock-in had ended until he pointed it out).
70 Mb/s broadband with plusnet for £25 ish a month + £8.99 / month for Netflix.
Wow, Sky prices are insane!
By threatening to go to Vodafone got our bt broadband down to £25 a month, prime sub on top + Iplayer and we never want for things to watch!
Fair enough you want f1 but that's a crazy amount to pay
Wow, Sky prices are insane!
It's partly the football rights. They lose money on every match they show because viewing figures just aren't that great, so I guess it gets amortized across other packages too.
Still, that's an obscene amount of money every month!
It’s partly the football rights.
BT competing for rights must have pushed prices up, althogh they've exited now so possibly they'll start falling. Having said that, I'm sure I read somewhere that Amazon were interested in showing some matches.
Too much money,
Too little imagination.
I'll probably repent on my death bed, oh how I wish I watched more telly.
BT competing for rights must have pushed prices up, althogh they’ve exited now so possibly they’ll start falling. Having said that, I’m sure I read somewhere that Amazon were interested in showing some matches.
The broadcasters signed a roll over deal for the Prem in the last year or so at the same price. Sky have most of the rights, BT the Saturday teatime match and Amazon the odd game week throughout the season. BT still have the European games.
yeah but if you threaten to leave (even more so if you can handle [I]actually[/I] leaving for a few weeks) you might be offered an even better deal!You don’t need to tell them you’re leaving, as an existing customer you are entitled to the same offers that a new customer can have (their words, not mine!)
What OP is paying is crazy though - can you not get it all on Now TV for a fraction of the price? Like others I've got all Sky channels via Now TV, Disney, Amazon, Netflix, Apple, etc, for less than I used to pay Sky!
A lot of the reason I stick with Sky is convenience, both the UI and being able to record, it's a significant price to pay for that convenience though. Despite also having Disney+, Prime, Netflix and Apple TV+ probably 90% of my viewing is Sky stuff. I suspect virtually all the Sky stuff I watch is available via NowTV though, I keep meaning to subscribe and try using it for a month (and avoiding using Sky) and seeing if I really can do without Sky. It's a shame there's no UHD content (yet) on NowTV but if I'm honest probably less than 5% of the Sky content I watch is UHD.
I thought you had to have a landline if you wanted broadband?
You need a landline for xDSL because that's how it's presented. Nothing to do with actual phones. If your Internet connection is provided via cable (in most cases this means Virgin) or Fibre directly to your home then you don't need it.
Perversely, I went with Virgin because I begrudged paying BT nearly twenty quid a month for line rental, and they still insist on you having a talk plan (albeit not requiring a traditional landline, it's a dongle in the back of the router) or the package is way more expensive.
You don’t need to tell them you’re leaving, as an existing customer you are entitled to the same offers that a new customer can have (their words, not mine!)
You'll likely need to commit to a new 12-month contract though.
The key word you need here is "Retentions," that's the department you need to talk to. It's their job to keep customers and they have more authority than most to throw deals at you. It feels like a blag but I called them because money was tight at the time, I was saying to them "this is just a temporary blip" and they were the ones telling me "no no, you absolutely must call us back in 11 months and we'll sort out a deal for you."
I’m sure I read somewhere that Amazon were interested in showing some matches.
Absolutely. The football broadcast model is completely broken, and the clubs' financing with it - as illustrated in part by Barcelona and Real Madrid's current fiscal woes, and the collapse a couple of years ago of the French Ligue Un broadcast deal. The only companies that can *actually* afford to buy the rights are those where TV isn't the main source of revenue.
Or like Sky, where they can try to spread the cost across other packages. BT is apparently trying to find a way out of its deal, if not now, then at least when the rights come up for renewal again.
Always baffles me how people spend so much on Sky.
£130 seems fairly normal, plus TV licence comes to almost £1700 a year
I pay £20 for broadband and £9 for netflix, comes to £350. Obviously that only makes sense because I watch very little TV and have no kids, fully understand why folk that live in front of the TV or have kids to keep entertained do it
Then again people are usually baffled at what I spend on pushbikes so....
From the difference between having and not having Sky you could just but half an ounce of weed every month and then you'll find normal TV waaay more interesting. Chocolate biscuit bill may go up a bit though...
I am with yo on that - not only paying money to the dirty digger ( morally wrong) but paying that much for telly?
he sold his stake 3 years ago, nowt to do with it any morenot only paying money to the dirty digger
It's laziness. Our Virgin bill crept up for year to over £70 a month for fairly basic TV package, landline, and fast internet. Plus Netflix and Prime. Couldn't be bothered switching as we would need a new BT landline.
Eventually I got annoyed by the fact that deals for new customers were so much better. They wouldn't budge on price and never even called me when I eventually gave notice to leave.
Now with Vodaphone £28 a month and get freeview through an aeriel. Don't miss any channels we no longer get. The only difference I notice with slower broadband is that downloading films from Netflix takes a few seconds longer.
Saved about £500 a year.
The Vodaphone engineeer put the BT line in place in under an hours in with the socket in the exact place we wanted. Kept same landline number. Painless.
Do people still have landlines? We got rid of ours 7-8 years ago, all we ever got was scams and salesmen
Even my 95 yo great Nan manages to call me on my mobile 😀
From the difference between having and not having Sky you could just but half an ounce of weed every month and then you’ll find normal TV waaay more interesting.
Have you got a link to that deal?
Always baffles me how people spend so much on Sky.
£130 seems fairly normal,
"Seems"?
Bear in mind that isn't just TV. It'll likely be TV, Internet, line rental and possibly a talk plan. Add in movies (how much is a cinema ticket?), sports (how much is a football season ticket?)... It adds up, and that's still "only" like four quid a day.
I wasn't paying anything remotely like that before I rang them up to tell them it was too dear.
Do people still have landlines?
Yes, just had our phone line reinstalled as part of the latest sky contract because the mobile signal is virtually non-existent in my house. I do "on call" for work and would have to leave my phone in a very specific place to get signal, I've even ended up taking calls stood in the middle of the street. Got fed up and reinstated the land line!
Too much money,
Too little imagination.
I’ll probably repent on my death bed, oh how I wish I watched more telly.
Wind it in a bit. You sound like a dick.
It’s unlimited fibre BB, sports packages and full box sets and cinema. Package got bulked up in lockdown.
We have it for the F1 - that passes for religion in this house.
I’d be fairly comfy at £90 or so.