Sky tv-price rise again! Alternatives??

[QueenLagertha]

Sick of sky tv increases. A couple of weeks ago I negotiated a small decrease when they put my contract price up again. Then yesterday they sent me an email about price rises in April. Plus I see they stuck a £10 admin fee on my account for recent negotiation which I done online.

DH and DS (nearly age 4) watch a few channels on the sky. I only watch Netflix really. So I'll have a battle on my hands cancelling it. And maybe I'm being unreasonable just because I don't use it.

Any suggestions for other services we could switch to?

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Thanks all. Great advice on this thread that I'm reading out to DH. I think he's just so used to sky, the layout etc that he hates the thought of change. He's agreed that we cancel it and see how we get on. I think he'll live in hope that sky will beg us to to stay with a great deal.

So we have sky, Netflix and prime  I didn't even think about using prime for tv.

We have just changed from Sky , we now have all ours now from BT , £68 a month for BT sport, Netflix, Bt TV , broadband 50 megabits , Now Tv phone line , we don't use the house phone at all but we have kept it for my elderly Mum.

Now tv for Sky channels. Sky movies is cheaper and payable monthly. They also do a lot of deals when you cancel. Just remember to keep an eye on what's finishing when.
Apple tv is £4.99 a month and again easily cancelled. You can do a month by month.
Netflix through Sky is cheaper but if you want to get rid of Sky, you might just as well pay monthly.
Disney+ pay monthly and a lot of choice. A lot of older programmes as well so that's good.
I watch a lot of tv. Negotiated Sky down to a good price but if they keep putting it up sneakily I'll be cancelling. They already added 6 months to my contract when I removed something in December....I did cancel multiroom and went to now tv with Disney and Netflix. Much cheaper!

@AnotherEmma

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it took blooming 40 mins on hold because it can't be done over the app but it's done - cancelled. Feel happy about keeping that money in my account going forward.

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

DH was made redundant so I attempted to cancel it. They kept offering it for less until I agreed.

Our Sky bill is eye watering, but we've got a main box and 2 mini boxes, broadband, 2 mobiles and we have a stupid amount of Apps. We were at £150 a month at one point, but got it down to just over £110 with threatening to cancel. We're also rural so no cable or alternatives are available.

We don't smoke, drink or have many luxuries so our TV is one to us.

I find they're generally quite helpful if you say it's too much and you've found a better offer elsewhere.

We were looking at getting Sky Glass... I'm being put off now!

We've been with Now tv for a few years and every year they say my bill will go up after the 12 month contract passes. Every year I phone up and they waiver the increase. Been really happy with them so far and their broadband seems to be a lost faster and reliable than what we had with sky. They are the same company I think but much different experience.

We pay about £60-70 a month for virgin and the only reason we keep the TV and landline is that it makes our 200mb broadband cheaper to have a package. We almost never watch the TV as we use Netflix, Disney and prime or iPlayer.

We have just renegotiated £24 a month for the standard sky package with Netflix included. It’s all the extra channels that cost a fortune. The standard package with a skyQ box is pretty reasonable I think and better than my parents deal with Virgin.

@ithoughtisawapuddycat we pay £50 for the super fast broadband and weekend calls.

He likes the sports but I don’t care.

If anyone is ready to change broadband provider then Now Broadband have an offer for unlimited fibre at £20 plus you can add Now Entertainment (lots of Sky channels) for £5.99 pm. I think you can also add Now movies for another £5.99 once you join. The beauty of that is being able to watch Now Tv in different rooms.

I pay around £60 a month for subscription services, its actually split with another household so we pay £30 each. There's always something to watch!

Now TV Entertainment & Movies
Now TV Sports mobile pass
BT Sports through EE
Disney+
Netflix
Prime

Then freeview for live TV and catch up services too.

I've just been out and bought a free sat box. I realised I'm paying a fortune for a record button. They are charging me 5£ so I can watch Netflix. Wtf. I've got a smart tv. They are charging me 15£ for one multi room box that works intermittently. They are charging me 5£ a month for a broadband boost that doesn't work since I upgraded the internet.
I've figured out that I can have now tv (already got that in all rooms) Netflix (already got that) Disney plus in all rooms for 7.99 a month and brittbox for 7.99 a month.
I hate that you can't speak to a human when you phone up. We had a broadband outage in my area a while ago, it was down for three days, they gave no updates I had to join fucking Twitter just to find out what was going on. Ridiculous so sky can fuck off.

Is Now TV HD?

Placemarking with interest. I’m in a similar situation, looking for a much cheaper option. I’ll give Sky a ring later this week.

@ithoughtisawapuddycat We are the same, have Virgin tv as it is cheaper in the package than without. I'm currently paying £29 pm for 200mb broadband, tv and phone so it may be worth a call if yours is £60/£70.

We have Amazon Prime (and Fire sticks) and a Freesat supported by a big disc Humax.
DH would rather go to the pub to watch rugby and just about copes with Formula 1 highlights.

OP maybe get your DH to go on a Radio Times app/website. You can filter to see what is on Freesat. Also get him to keep a diary of what he was watching.

We had Sky when i was on maternity leave and dropped it when we realised that i was only really watching Grey's Anatomy.

Im not bothered about sky. Id cancel but DH pays for it and he (and 3 kids) watch a lot of football plus BT sport. He never goes out, doesn’t drink, smoke nor does drugs so im not one to tell him to cancel it.

I’ve cancelled Sky today as the costs were becoming ridiculous with the latest rises. I waited since Saturday on live chat, finally got someone who offered me 2 quid below what I will be paying with the price rise plus a 20 quid admin fee - saving me a grand total of 90p a month.

I’ve cancelled it all for now and hope they’ll come back with a better offer.

I was looking at the manhattan freesat box as the only thing I do like is recording / pausing etc - this sounds ridiculous but if I have sky, I won’t need an aerial will I? Does anyone have it?

I have Sky Q so apparently it means I have to return all the equipment if I cancel. Including the satellite!

Sky Plus is fine if you cancel as then you get to keep all the equipment.

I would just buy the TVSat if I convince them I want to cancel. However I still need a satellite dish for that.

Looking at doing the same with Virgin. Effectively paying £70 a month for the broadband, which is very fast here. Every time we renegotiate the price down it gradually creeps back up again.

Just to note that if you change from Sky Q to freesat you might need to change the LNB which is on the actual dish. Some of the older freesat boxes don’t work with Sky Q dishes
www.freesat.co.uk/help/using-your-existing-satellite-dish