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!

You don't even need a firestick, just go to yandex and search watch... Have a decent ad blocker.

I cancelled sky after 10 years+ subscription, they were so manipulative with the exit scripts, it was actually hilarious.

I've stopped phoning up to haggle better deals or trying to play chicken with companies. If they want to retain me as a customer, they should offer me a decent price from the get-go. It's incredibly easy to switch stuff online, so if the price they give on referral is a piss-take then I'm not wasting my time on them. I just go somewhere else. So after a year, we are ditching Sky because they only offered a £33 a month package when a new client could get £26 and I ended up getting £25 elsewhere (which actually works out at £20 because it comes with a £100 Amazon voucher). Seems wasteful when they gave us a new router etc but that's not my problem.

The router I got on my new provider is actually quite expensive on amazon, seems an odd business model.

2 years ago I rang to try to reduce the new cost and they wouldn't budge so I cancelled. A couple of weeks later I got a cam asking if I wanted to stay and they reduced it. I pay £50 off for broadband and basic package. This year I called again and it stayed basically the same

I cancelled after Covid … I don’t miss it at all..
I pay for prime anyway - used to use my friends Netflix but now with teen we have our own

We were Sky VIP customers for years. Our bill was about £130 a month but they kept threatening to increase it every 18 months by loads, with the faff of calling up to negotiate. The last straw was when they wanted to charge an additional £5 to not have adverts on catch up. We cancelled in February and they didn’t try very hard to get us to stay!

We haven’t missed it at all as we have Disney+, Netflix and Prime, with Now TV whenever a series comes along that we want to watch.

Feel bad for all the money we wasted.

I’m baffled by this - what were you getting for your £130 a month that you thought was a normal/reasonable amount to pay as a VIP? Glad you cancelled now, don’t get me wrong, but how do people ever get to the stage of paying that much?

We've got a firestick and use IPTV for £50 a year. Every channel under the sun, we just pay £26 a month for broadband