Best of British if you change to Sky............

I have Sky+, Broadband and Phone for a total of £45 (or near enough) a month.  Don't have the movie channels yet and I can't get free internet with them in this area so I pay £10 for my BB.  They were the worst company I've ever come across to deal with and it's been one screw up after another with them.  When everything was finally installed and running properly it's been great to have.  They seem to be good at giving you good bargains if you annoy them often enough, I got free phoneline installation because they ballsed up my tv installation and debited my sisters credit card for payment of my account :S  My sister has recently rang them to say she wants free sky+ with no installation fee ( the cheek of her!) and they actually agreed to it!  AND she got free sky movies for 3 months.  I really have to ring up and moan for a better deal tomorrow!

We got Sky + for the first time a few months ago, and never regretted it.. but we only have the Sky+ and 1 more package  , which cost us about £18 Karma. I think if you want the multi room bit and the movies, it wil cost over £30 a month..... but not really sure.

Sky + and another box. Think it's £68 quid 

That's @£800 p.a. for the footie.

Too dear. Might get rid as I think it's gone downhill film wise too.

I have Sky+ and one extra box and it's about £45pm I think. And I have the sports - not movies though. Recently it broke and although they couldn't come out for a couple of days (Grrr) when they did they were quick and efficient!

EDIT sorry it's £50!

Two box insurance is £120 a year too 

Hmmmm so it's a bit of a mixed bag then..

I'm with Virgin media and used to have the VIP package at 90 odd quid a month, but I didn't make use of all the channels so I reduced the package and now my boy has all the channels in his room and I have none. I dont mind paying 30 - 40 a month, it's just I've heard Sky can offer better value.

I may keep my internet and phone with Virgin and just have Sky for the tele, gawd I dunno there's so many decisions!

Thank you all xx

Oh he's REVOLTING.  I hate muscly men like that  

Oh we're doing the opposite and going for Freesat HD box.

I have had sky for at least 15 years, more or less when it came out, never had any trouble with it, we pay a lot as have nearly all channels,kids, films sports, plus MUTV, £68 month,  in Jersey we can't have the broad band and telephone,

But can't find any fault with Sky, in fact just going in for thier new HD box.

I've had Sky for about 6 years and haven't really had any problems with them, Customer services are a bit rubbish these days, but had to phone Techy services last week and they were great.

I have all packages and it costs 47.50 per month, want to update to sky + but the deals are a bit expensive, I'm considering ringing them and saying I am thinking of changing to Virgin VIP with the record facility and see what happens.  I don't really think that current customers should have to pay a lot to upgrade.

Wouldn't be without Sky for the sport, films and the Hallmark channel basically!!

I've just been on the phone and online to try to arrange HD+ for  my Mum and Dad. They want £30 set up and another £18 per month. They'd have your eyes!
I'm with the local firm Virgin.

He has muscles, I never got any higher than his pants.

Vive la sport!      .... or something.

That's why my sister rang them up.  She wanted sky+ but they would only do it for an installation fee which she wasn't willing to pay.  So she rang them up and told them to cancel her subsription because she wasn't happy that she couldn't get sky+ wthout having to pay more than anew customer has to.  They rang her back a few days later and offered her it at the same price as new customers.  She said no and told them the only way she would stay was free installation and they agreed.  Might be worth a go for you also.

I hate sky, we have them for the phone and internet and all that, I'd get shot like a flash if they ever decide to get round to giving us cable.  I think they think we're too uncivilised for cable

We have it though but You don't get much more uncivilised than this area.

Leccy I think we're one of the only areas in Newcastle that don't get cable!  I do love my sky tv though.  I did have sky for my internet, but it was rubbish and would disconnect when the phone rang, so have recently changed it.

Everytime we had inclement weather we lost picture quality, sometimes the picture completely. As soon as the cable arrived I went for the full package. Never looked back. Tis a shame that peeps like Leccy and mater and pater don't have the choice yet.

Yeah we have problems when the weathers bad.  We don't have a telly aerial either so if sky goes off we have no telly at all.

We used to have the problem with the sky picture being interrupted due to weather, but when we changed to the HD box we don't have that problem any more.

That's the only thing that's bothering me. My mum's recently changed to Sky and she loves it, except for bad weather when the picture goes (and it's always in the middle of the Weakest Link or summat and she does her nut). I tried setting up a freeview box but the reception was shite. I think I might just have a conversation with my cable people and see what they can offer.

I used to get trouble in bad weather but since the new card came it's been so much better

NOOOOO dont do it, dont change to Sky TV, you'll spend the rest of your natural life regreting it.

We have Sky and Virgin in our household

With Virgin, we have internet, a phone and a box for £60 a month.

And with Sky we have the HD with sports package and an extra room (my boy also gets sports as Sky covers all boxes), we pay £70 a month.


Feck we pay a lot....thanks to his good self!

We have sky multi room, one with sky and the other sky plus. Broadband, calls and phone line, with entertainment pack with documentaries. I pay £53, I think it's great apart from when it's raining I'm also in an area where it's not possible to have cable or I probably would have had that rather than sky.

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you've been sussed out lol

damit  

no honestly i tried to switch from virgin to sky   nightmare !!!!!!! i decided to stay with virgin  but sky took £ 148 out my bank and it took countless phone calls and 3mnth to get my money back , i had to report my bank card stolen just so they could'nt take money again and that was just an enquiry!!   now i cant use my paypal account on ebay   sky are murder  step away