Originally Posted by Videostar:
Why do people still allow themselves to be robbed blind by sky TV with these "special events packages" on sky?
Surely if you subscribe to sky television you shouldn't have to shell out another fee for a boxing bout or any sporting event, you pay enough each month for your regular sky tv so wshy pay even more on top of that....it's insane.
I do feel that those who are unhappy with sky after not being able to watch the David Haye fight tonight due to technical issues deserve what they got...they shouldn't have been so foolish to pay this rip off fee in the first place.
If we all refuse to pay for pay per view events this rip off tv with go away and we can watch all these sky sports events on the usual channels.
Absolutely could not agree more Vid...I think Sky are a roaring great rip off. My hubby was tempted by a sky 'offer' the other week... he is quite easily led, bless him.... 'Look' he said: 'twenty quid a month for the tv and the internet and the phone!!!' And I'm like 'yeah right... sure it is.....' No WAY would it be that cheap. We had it for a couple of years when we had been getting hacked off with telewest (now virgin) and it was costing us about ÂĢ100 a month (and more sometimes,) in total...
Anyway, when I scanned the smallprint in the paper with a magnifying glass (which I needed as the writing was SOOOOOO small..; ) it said 'after 3 months THIS fee applies and after 4 months THIS fee applies, (and so on and so on,) and before you know it, it's triple what they quoted, and there's connection fees and other stuff to purchase and line rental after so many weeks, and basically it was all a con!
We may have had our moments with cable pissing us off, (they're now virgin; ) but in the 22 years we have had cable, we have not found anyone better or cheaper. ÂĢ50 month for the tv and phone (including limited landline calls which is invaluable as me and my family and friends can't half gabble!) and the internet for 4 of us.. No sport channels but then we don;t want them...
And yes Vid, to pay an extra tenner when you're already paying for the sports is a piss take.