How much is your Sky subscription?

[Poppins17]

Our subscription is up in April.

We currently pay £84.50 per month for sky Q, multi room and internet plus Netflix.

I want to try and get this down, but do not wish to leave Sky. Our only alternative in this area is BT and we tried them once and were useless.

We have to have multi room as we spend most of our time in our extension, with the main tv in the lounge.

We don’t have films or sports, but if I could get one or both included would be nice extra.

How much do you pay currently, and what do you get for it?

We are paying £64 per month on an 18 month contract for Sky Q, the full Sky Sports package, ‘landline’ & broadband. No Netflix, movies or kids.

We have Platinum VIP status, which in theory means we get a better deal, but I’m not sure if this actually applies in practice. I have found over the years that in order to get a sensible deal out of Sky you have to prove you are prepared to cancel & negotiate hard.

Around £100. They threw in kids and films for £1, it's the sport that makes it so expensive 🙄🙄

If you say you're leaving they'll give you a better deal but you have to say you're leaving or they can't offer you the best deal. A patient told me that years ago and that's how we got the extra Chanel's for so cheap 🤷‍♀️

I pay £83.50 but that's with £16.50 discounted so it'll go up to £100 when my deal ends. 😫That's for Sky Q with multiscreen (minibox in the bedroom), Sports & Sports HD, HD and UHD. No internet or phone (I use BT for both).

£36.00

Broadband is £31
TV essentials £5 (it means we can still use the sky box to record, pause/rewind live tv, access streaming apps & use it as a freesat box)

We pay for streaming services separately, as & when we want them.

We were paying close to £100 a month & when I looked in to it we weren't really using them so I cancelled it all down to this.

£61.50 for SkyQ, UHD, sports, Netflix, kids and multiroom.

That was the long game though - had to cancel and wait for them to contact me with a better deal, which they did a week in to my notice period.

£67 for TV. Internet and netflix. Have fibre

Sky give next to no discounts now when threatening to leave. Our friend works for them and passed on a friends and family discount - they wouldn't even match that. We had to cancel the account in my name and DH take out a new contract in his name for the discount. I argued as they would need to arrange an engineer visit and new equipment for something we already had! The guy on the phone agreed with how ridiculous it was but said there was nothing he could do.
We pay (with the F+F discount) £72 a month for broadband, Sky Q with UHD, sports and Netflix (only thing we don't have is movies and kids) and multiroom. The best they could get it to when our contract was up was £90.

£68 for sky glass with the 55 inch tv,
Multi room
Sky cinema
Sky entertainment
Netflix
Fibre max broadband and phone line

This is an interesting thread. I don’t have Sky but I have an elderly (mid 90s) relative paying about £90 pm for basic Sky tv (no films or sport etc.), internet and phone line. I was thinking of calling them to discuss their social tariffs - she does not get pension credit but has now spent all her savings on personal care. It’s really tricky as they are not transparent about tariffs.

Not true. I phoned recently & said I was looking on ways to reduce my bill. The service advisor was great. Found me various deals & reduced my bill by £40 a month

Same for me - called a couple of weeks before Christmas and said I didn’t want to pay the £100 or so they were going to increase to, and was there anything that they could do.

Although it’s increased from £66 to £74, I’m no longer paying separately for Netflix (£10), so overall it is cheaper.

£54 for sky q, with an extra box for the bedroom. That's for a decent package, although no sports or movies, and includes netflix, broadband and phoneline. I call them every time my deal ends, and play chicken with customer cancellations until they bring my payment down to the a reasonable amount.

I don't know if it's because we have the ancient Sky+ HD that Sky no longer supports, if anything goes wrong you have to move to Q but our price just stayed the same when the contract ended.

If the boxes break we will just cancel altogether and see going forward if SkyQ, Stream or Now is the best option for us, we own the boxes rather than rent them as you do with SkyQ.

We are thinking of giving up the tv element (sticking with the broadband) and going to Now TV.

We looked at Now because it's cheaper but unfortunately it didn't have DH's beloved Eurosport on there so would have meant another subscription for that, Now would have fine for me, in fact it is mainly for DH we are staying with Sky anyway, he hates change, I don't think he would cope easily even changing to Sky Q, though that would mean I would have to share a planner with him, my Sky planner runs at about 25% full, his is about 97% full.

Also DH has lots of films and series on his planner that have disappeared from Sky now but remain on his planner which he won't want to willingly lose

£41 pcm Sky Q multiscreen. Going to cancel altogether when subs expires end of December 2024.

Was on £41.50 a month, gave my notice. They have just emailed me, to offer the same package for 18months for £26 a month. so i take that as a bit of a win. and will continue.

Kids werent happy that it was cancelling, so will be happy its still live.

Ours is £112 that includes movies, internet, phone, Netflix and Disney plus

Very embarrassingly...£140 😱 Sky HD, plus cinema and Kids package (they are 12 and NEVER watch 😱) with broadband and landline 😱

I NEED to shift. Then I get confused with the packages, don't get what Sky Q and end up doing nothing.

Don't even get Netflix included. Pay separately for that.

I think you are being ripped off @BrassicaBabe ! But if you are happy with the Sky HD and it still works fine, why switch to Sky Q? I have heard it's complicated to use. So I stuck with Sky HD until we moved house and left (another reason was that I didn't want to lose my recordings on the Sky HD box).

We've moved somewhere with no satellite dish, and we just stream now. We have all the streaming services like Netflix etc, including Now for the Sky programmes. Can't record, but it makes me feel freer that we are not tied into a long-term contract as with Sky, I am able to stop and start each streaming service on a month-by-month basis.

What you have to do is threaten to leave, and actually be prepared to do it, that's what used to bring the offers in. You will probably end up paying more with Sky Q, plus you are more trapped in with them if you have that. That's because the Sky Q box remains their property, so if you leave at a later date you have to send it back to them. Whereas the Sky HD box is your own property, and you can continue to use to receive free-to-air channels, eg BBC 1, even after leaving Sky.

When we left, in autumn 2022, we were only paying about £20 a month, for the Sky Entertainment package or whatever they were calling it most recently (includes Sky Atlantic etc.), no Cinema, Sports, broadband or landline.

At the moment I am getting the Entertainment package on Now (streaming) for £3.99 a month, plus Cinema for £4.99 a month. This is an offer, but whenever it is about to run out I just go to cancel and they reduce it down again.

@BrassicaBabe If you want to keep Sky+HD I would ring up and renegotiate a new contract, if you cancel Sky +HD you can't go back to it, you will have to have SkyQ. If you want to have Sky Q then you could cancel and start again as long as you are out of contract or see if you can get a better price with Sky Q. Don't cancel though if you want to keep Sky+HD as they are legacy boxes and new customers can't have them anymore. It's worth looking at the Sky forums to see what Q is like as there is quite a lot of stuff on there about it.

£67.50 sky q, cinema, sport hd, Netflix, ultimate, kids, paramount, discovery, superfast fibre and phone line.

But if you're only watching Free view then it's.... free.

We don't have Sky, we've occasionally looked at it but I can't see the point. We watch Freeview. We used to have Netflix but stopped because we didn't often use it.

Our Broadband is Vodafone, it costs £25 per month and is fast enough. DH and I both wfh and it's fine