Have any of you successfully reduced your Sky payments?

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I feel our are getting out of hand now and they seem to be refusing to budge. Looks like we’ll have to cancel some of the things (which is fine, and I know it’s a luxury and lots don’t/ can’t have a big TV package). What are you all paying for Sky and have any of you recently managed to challenge their payment hikes?

Full package is increasing to £160 for us (just not the highest possible broadband).

Thank you!

I cancelled mine this month (out of contract) and they offered me it for about £10 (not sports or movies etc).
They will try to keep you, so worth a shot.

I'm with BT and pay £52
Thats broadband, Netflix and NOW oh and discovery plus

Switch to NowTV instead, month to month contract and they’re always sending through offers. We tend to do entertainment package for 2 or 3 months then cancel and wait for the next offer.

I left when they wouldn't drop out prices.
We now have now TV's fasted broadband for £25 a month
Sky sports for £19.99 a month
Sky entertainment for £3.99 a month.

We turn the entertainment package off when there's nothing worth watching.

We cancelled when ours got to £40 a few years ago.

We pay about £50 for BT sport (just changed name, broadband and calls) £20 (just under for Netflix) £0 Disney currently free but soon to be cancelled when the free deal ends. £8 amazon prime which I really have for the deliveries. Oh, and we pay the TV licence too

Down grade your broadband unless your a serious gamer uploading and downloading mega files on a wired connection you only need 40 meg tops
a lot of people pay extra for massive speeds then connect using wi fi with will no way operate at huge speeds waste of money

We cancelled ages ago. Only have internet with sky for £35 a month (superfast broadband), got a smart tv so watching live tv via freeview and dowloaded apps for netflix, channel 4 etc…

We have the full package (including stuff like Netflix and Disney+ too) and top broadband and we're around £100 a month for it.

DH always phones up and just asks for a deal when it's renewal time. If the person he speaks to can't help, he'll hang up and try someone else. He's done it a few times in one day if necessary. The only time we couldn't get a deal that day we only paid a higher amount for a month as we were told to wait a bit as a good offer was about to come in so we got that when it started.

I have no idea how DH does it every time tbh. He's never once had to say he wanted to cancel either.

Fucking hell, £160?
I pay £43.
That's for the basic entertainment, broadband, it includes Netflix and I currently have Sky Cinema, Discovery+, Paramount+ with it.

Oh and Apple TV for six months.

We paid £80 years ago and now it is £50 odd...I know we removed the movies part. I think there were some sport parts removed, not skysports but another extra DH had

That’s crazy. I sorted mine out a few weeks ago. Full fibre, basic phone package, Sky Sports, Netflix with a new router for £76. I got an online price as a new customer and then rang them up, told them what I had seen online and that I could get similar elsewhere.

I didn’t “threaten” to leave though. I said I really didn’t want to leave because of the hassle of doing it, but I wouldn’t have any choice. They matched it.

Our monthly Sky cost was around £80 per month. I cancel them a few months ago after being with them for twenty years. We just use Netflix, Prime, Disney etc now and don't notice no Sky/miss Sky.

I totally regret staying with them for so long. What a waste of money.

I never had any luck with trying to reduce our bill (which was nowhere near yours 😵) but I rang up when the COL crisis started and told them straight away that I need to cancel because I can’t afford it due to the cost of living crisis and without any messing they halved it.

I cancelled and got Now TV instead as I mainly watched Sky for Atlantic and Arts progs which I now get for £6.99 a month. I can add on cinema and sports etc for extra, but there’s no way it would end up being £100+

Did they put you on a contract to do that though.....so leaves you stuck with them for another 2 years?

I've just cancelled and gone with a different broadband provider for broadband only. I tried to change to them sat on hold and hour agreed an engineers appt, they changed it as soon as I hung up to a date I was away as I'd already told them, called back waited another hour told the person didn't change appts, got transferred and waited AGES then just gave up and cancelled.

They don't really do the deals anymore I don't think I'd already had an email saying I could stay on the same deal and it wasn't going up. Just can't justify sky now.

Going to dip in and out of Now TV when there is a good series on.

You have to go back on contract generally to get a deal for 2 years

Mnetters are an honest bunch. No one even mentioning firesticks 👀😂

Cancelling mine in November when context up. Made the mistake of adding movies and didn't realise it made a year's contract.

Might keep just the broadband so will see what other offers are nearer the time.

Once have cancelled that am cancelling license fee too as am not paying money to BBC to cancel people for speaking out and not acting when yet another predator is roaming free (RB).

I won't miss Sky when have Netflix and Prime.

Erm.

Not such a great deal then is it!?

In the past yes but they don't seem keen to keep customers now, especially if you check the retentions thread on MSE.
Our bill was £69 a month for start of year, went up to £109 and decided I wasn't paying it. They could only knock £10 off. A friend of ours works for Sky and got us a friends and family offer for £78. Sky wouldn't even let us put this on my account, I had to cancel and then DH took out a new subscription for the friends and family offer. Even though Sky would have to sort out us sending equipment back and arrange for an engineers visit (to fit something that was already installed!), every single member of staff I spoke to said it was bonkers.

Cancel and get broadband only. Then buy a separate online TV service. You can get now TV if you like sky’s program. Otherwise, you can choose from Netflix, Prime, Apple TV or Disney+.

Holy shit that is a lot of money. Pretend you are on a murdoch purge and just get decent broadband haha.