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AIBU?

To ask neighbour to remove sat dish?

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Girlincognito1 · 18/04/2017 07:47

Just walked out of my door thus morning and noticed a freaking satellite dish attached to the front of our house!! I've come to work to calm down a bit but I can't believe the brass neck! Would I be unreasonable to go around and ask them to remove it and make good the holes?? What if they decline??

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SoupDragon · 19/04/2017 22:40

Jeanne I thought you had a life?

Patriciathestripper1 · 19/04/2017 22:29

protective cover

Patriciathestripper1 · 19/04/2017 22:29

I'm a closet brick lover!

Patriciathestripper1 · 19/04/2017 22:28

They are Accrington bricks if I am not mistaken? closet brick loverThey will have damaged the protective cost.
Sky should make good the damage.

melj1213 · 19/04/2017 22:16

To avoid a confrontation then find out the facts. So rather than confront the neighbour directly contact the company first, in case it has nothing to do with the neighbour.

Or, how about ... don't confront the neighbour, just speak to them face to face and ask them for their side of the story?

Why the hell would you go to a company (which btw we didn't actually know it was specifically a Sky dish, it could have been many companies) and jump through hoops only to be told that as it's not your account they can't do anything, when you could just knock on the neighbours door and have a 2 minute conversation first?!

BonnieF · 19/04/2017 21:05

I can't believe how stroppy, rude and ill mannered some people are. Upbringing, I suppose.

As anyone who has ever had any dealings with Sky will know, they are completely useless. It doesn't surprise me at all that they fitted a dish to the wrong house.

Just have a sensible, civil, adult conversation with the neighbours and give them reasonable opportunity to get Sky's numpties to sort it out.

Chloe84 · 19/04/2017 20:51

@Jeane

To clarify. Sometimes you merely have to think a little. To avoid a confrontation then find out the facts. So rather than confront the neighbour directly contact the company first, in case it has nothing to do with the neighbour.

If you RTFT, Jeane, you would have seen that another poster said they once rang Sky about a dish on their property, and Sky told them they couldn't talk to her because she wasn't the account holder. They said she would have to ask the homeowner to call Sky, and couldn't even tell her which house was the account holder.

So your advice, days late, is shit. You merely have to read a little.

ScissorBow · 19/04/2017 20:51

Glad it's sorted.

FWIW the note was fine except I'd have said 'make good any holes' rather than 'huge' or in expectation of them.

QueenArseClangers · 19/04/2017 20:42

Jeanne I understood none of your last post

Jeanneweany · 19/04/2017 20:41

To clarify. Sometimes you merely have to think a little. To avoid a confrontation then find out the facts. So rather than confront the neighbour directly contact the company first, in case it has nothing to do with the neighbour.

Jeanneweany · 19/04/2017 20:37

What is pointless is the truly dumb responses. Some of the replies are irrelevant. Thus is the Guardian or some political summit deciding the future of mankind. It is for fun. Because if it is not fun then are you joking??

Jeanneweany · 19/04/2017 20:32

Yawn

Jeanneweany · 19/04/2017 20:29

Mumsnet is fun not dreary with the post police riding the airwaves.

snarferson · 19/04/2017 20:22

Far too reasonable a solution. Must be a

halobean · 19/04/2017 20:18

Ohhhhh I had popcorn ready and everything :( How totally reasonable of everyone involved! At least there was a photo!

Craftylittlething · 19/04/2017 20:15

Slightly off thread but we had a neighbour who connected to our sky so that she could have it free. She was pissed off when we cut the cable, some folk are just baffling.

SoupDragon · 19/04/2017 20:10

Soupdragon cos there are hundreds of replies and ive got a life.

There aren't hundreds of posts by the OP though. Maybe take the time to read those.

SnugglyBedSocks · 19/04/2017 20:00

Jeanneweany - we all have a "life" but we also don't waste other's time by posting pointless comments.

cocobatter · 19/04/2017 19:51

then ctrl + f the op's username and skip to the updates. takes 5 seconds.

Jeanneweany · 19/04/2017 19:48

Soupdragon cos there are hundreds of replies and ive got a life.

Goldfishjane · 19/04/2017 19:42

I don't think the note was rude at all.
If I was the neighbour I'd not be annoyed by it.

SoupDragon · 19/04/2017 19:36

Why don't you read the thread, Jeanneweany?

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Jeanneweany · 19/04/2017 19:26

Why dont you ring sky and tell them to remove it. They may have made an error. This avoiding the uncomfortable wtf conversation with the neigbours.
I was buying a house and the next door neighbour had a whopping great sign. So i reported them to the council.

pollymere · 19/04/2017 19:22

Mine is on the back of my house. This one needs to be likewise on your neighbours.

ClemDanfango · 19/04/2017 18:23

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