How much are you paying for Sky?

[Florence4170]

I'm paying £94 a month.
This is for Sky Signature
Broadband
Broadband boost

I have said I'm leaving and they have offered me all sorts - Sky Cinema (don't want it), Sky Spirts (No thanks)...
I just feel that even £74 is ridiculous - or am I just out of touch?

How did you manage to go back to sky Q - did you just keep the box and get it back out? Oh god that sounds awful I need the planner! What were they thinking!

Sky (Essentials?) £15/ month, doesn’t include cinema or sport, nor phone or broadband. Netflix £12.99 and I’m fed up paying so much just to entertain the grandkids who are seldom here. I only really watch Sky Arts.

You get SkyArts on Freeview.

£200 a month:
Sky.q (5 boxes)
Netflix
Disney
Sky cinema
Sky sports
BT sports
Broadband
Paramount plus subscription Inc
Discovery plus subscription Inc
All channels exc kids

Plus amazon prime annual subscription

It's 'f'ing extortionate

£90 for: broadband, landline, Sky Q, sky movies, kids, Netflix, Disney and paramount.
I thought I was being ripped off but seeing that some people get almost nothing for a similar price maybe I’m not? Get two free cinema tickets a month as well.

£107 but it’s due to go up to £120 next month! We have tv full package inc movies, sports, kids. Broadband and phone, multi room, HD plus Netflix and Paramount. It’s still a lot of money if I’m honest.

I was £63 just for Sky tv (no cinema or sorts) but with Netflix so cancelled. I did actually leave and panicked about losing the record function. Plus was a faff trying to get onto Netflix etc. I now pay Netflix separately as Sky have given me basically the same package for £7.50 a month obviously to get me back. Am happy with that but didn’t like my 10 days in the wilderness!!

We need our sports channels too (come on you reds . . . ). Sky were quoting way too much at renewal last month, so we left and went to Virgin Media. We have everything except Sky Movies and broadband (which turns out to be much faster than Sky’s) for £72 per month!

I don’t understand how people are paying so much when they haven’t even got the cinema or sports package. Even PPs who are happy because they’ve got it down to a more reasonable £45. For what though?

I just watch Sky programmes through Now TV which I cancel and then they come back with an offer to come back. Currently paying £2.99 a month for the Entertainment package, which is all the TV programmes. I’ll cancel it when the deal runs out, think it’s £11.99 or something full price and no way is the content worth even that.

I knew within two days that it wasn’t working for me so I just phoned them. Said I liked the tv set but the lack of planner didn't suit at all.

They said i could get a sky Q box and plug it in to the tv like my dvd player is. Although Q and Glass aren’t designed to work together and sometimes the remote controls could get confused with each other as they use the same frequency, but it would be an option and apparently a good few people have said the same as me. It’s been fine.

Honestly, even sky Q planner isn’t as good as the old sky hd system was ( as programmes you record vanish after a while unlike the old one that I could use as a dvd library with all my favourites on tap for free). Apart from allowing me to access Netflix YouTube etc. which is good. Some of the remote control buttons do my head in. Like the back button that takes you back one step or right back to the programme that happens to be on as it sees fit, no continuity. You don’t get that in a phone or computer, back us always back one stage, but apart from that Q is fine.

Haha we’re a reds household too! My renewal is due next week I think I’ll look into switching to Virgin too after what you’ve said!

£57 for q tv and broadband. I wanted to q to keep recordings and films we’ve bought. Free paramount for a year. Ring and go through to the cancellations dept. They also changed our router recently. We get Netflix, Disney and prime extra.

£80 for Signature, Netflix without ads, multiroom, UHD, cinama, not including broadband, Broadband costs are very varied anyway depending if you have ultrafast or not fast so a bit deceptive. DH is probably going to add TNT as annoyingly, Eurosport has gone so that will add £30, I give DS the free cinema tickets as there isn't a Vue near us and they would be wasted otherwise. All the telly costs a fortune each year nowadays by the time all the extra streamers and TV licence are added in.

I don't.
Never had it then late DH got it for the racing channels when he moved in. I cancelled it when he died.

Use the old dish for Freesat (built into TV), or aerial for Freeview on other TV.
Around £25 for broadband (no phone line anymore).
Sometimes have basic Netflix, but haven't had for 18m and not missed.
Currently have 2m free Disney + and definitely won't be keeping that.

The free Paramount has got worse as well it's now the one with ads with no downloading so pretty useless and I shall probably have to get a separate subscription for that as I don't like the ads one.

same for us

That's about what we're paying for what you've got but no Broadband boost with Sky Sports. I didn't realise we were paying for Boost plus HD so cancelled them to get my bill down as it was going to be £159 per month which is ridiculous.

The guy offered me Sky Cinema and 2 free cinema tickets monthly and was incredulous when I turned them down due to never watching films and our nearest cinema being 60 miles away.

Turns out we can add the sports channels package on to Now TV too. I’ll certainly be looking into that when my current contract runs out. Although, given that our £72 pound a month includes (very) fast broadband. Our deal is pretty good.

When I signed up, they gave me a code. If you’d like it, PM me. It will give you (and me, and the Virgin engineer who gave it to me) £50 credit.

Just had to go with sky subsidiary for broadband as it was literally the only option(new build estate) cost me £8 a month more for slower speed( though in honesty I can’t really tell any difference in speed) looked at some of the tv options but cheapest one is £15 literally for Freeview, Netflix and about half a dozen basic sky channels, definitely not the best , having said that, cheap as chips compared to EE

I’m just worried then when my sky Q box eventually breaks there will be no replacement

I had to get a new router and sent the old one back. 6 weeks later I keep getting emails telling me I must return it.
Thankfully I kept the proof of postage receipt.

We pay £37 for super fast broadband and the basic package on sky plus

@mamabluestar, I did the same two years ago. I contacted Sky to cancel and they persuaded me to stay on the £15 a month package. I have been saying for the past year I should cancel as I can watch all the channels I want via streaming but haven’t got round to it. This thread finally inspired me to pick up the phone this afternoon and finally cancel. Thanks OP!

I’ve decided I’m in an abusive relationship with Sky and I can never leave 😂! I rang them today with my ‘I’m leaving’ decision made then they put me through to the retention team who basically matched the EE package… Staying with Sky means we keep Sky Go which DS uses as he lives away and DH uses to watch NFL when I’m watching Antiques Roadshow. Cost goes down from £94.50 to £67.49 which is a decent saving but I’ve accepted that I’m probably going to be with Sky forever!