Sky bill £114!!!

[Bellyblueboy]

I am reviewing my monthly outgoing and my sky bill is out of control!

£114 per month for broadband and a TV entertainment package.

i rang to see if they can reduce it - the best offer they could give me is £101 including a glass TV. I said I don’t want a glass TV and I got an incoherent answer about the TV making it cheaper!

I am considering switching to Virgin - but I think there must be something I am missing - the equivalent bundle seems to be £52 (albeit with a few less TV channels).

anyone made the switch? I can’t believe I pay so much to Sky plus apple tv and Netflix ontop😩

Go to cancel the subscription and you'll get put through to a department where – miracle! – they'll suddenly come up with a package that'll be even cheaper than the £101 they quoted. Happens with us every time. Ours is now down to about £60 and that includes Movies and Sport.

Broadband is £26 of it. It is very good actually but the tv was very temperamental.

We ditched sky a few years ago after a similar realisation - not missed it once, if there is a series on Sky you really want to watch you can just pay for one month on NowTV and cancel it.

Sky is ridiculously expensive, I don’t know anyone who still uses it. Most of us have just have Netflix, Disney+, NOWTV etc on the firestick/smart tv. I can guarantee that you can at least reduce your spend by 50% by getting rid of Sky. I mean there’s only so much TV you can watch lol and there’s so many channels/apps that are free.

You dont have to barter
Do compare the market
Find a deal, do Smartswitch

I just got rid of Virginmedia-it was costing me silly money
Got a smart tv, prime and netflix
23.99 BT broadband

Is this a serious question? You just go to the channel guide on the TV and choose the channel you want to watch! Or press 1,2,3 etc on the remote.

I WFH and have EE wifi (which was previously BT) and it’s very good and fast. You would probably get a new customer discount too.

Ours is the same, it’s because of BT sports here. Insane

Interesting- this never seems to happen with my husband but I’ll give it ago

It's a faff unless you have an ariel . If you just have streaming then you can't do the above afaIk.

I would go back to Sky if they offered a proper box with planner etc, and it was a reasonable price.
I believe they plan to ditch satelite altogether in the next few years, hence pushing the Sky Glass streaming service (which has terrible reviews)
I just want a planner, with all my programmes, where I can press one button and resume wherever I left off. That's why I've stuck it out so long.

Why do you even have sky? My BT internet and TV is £30. Sky is a rip off

if you cancel completely they then send you a really dirt cheap offer a few months later. Won’t ever go back to them.

I gave up sky tv and i wish i did it years before. i still have their broadband and phone and will be getting rid as there are cheaper deals and the customer service is naff.
If you just need the home internet once a week you can connect the broadband from your phone to the laptop.

Our Sky is about £30, but broadband only and we pay for BBC and Netflix on top. We don't watch much telly though because it's brain-rotting crap.

I’m dreading them getting rid of satellite. We get very little signal with an aerial here as the house has very large trees at the back.

I am doing research thanks: just on here for a chat😊. People are being really helpful and high is great - as I said I am also researching other options.

I ditched sky (partly because my internet was awful - paying for 150mb and lucky to get 70) and went to virgin.

Internet is much better and I'm paying £84 per month instead of £106

I pay £22.99 per month for broadband with plusnet. I have a set top box which records, fast forward and pause. This was a one off cost.
If I want to watch netflix, prime etc I pay for a month at a time and can cancel whenever I want.

Im ringing them now - mine is £170 a month 😳

When I cancelled my sky I thought I would miss it but I didn’t at all. When they called me back with a good deal I didn’t want it, that’s how much I didn’t miss it.

After 19 years of being with Sky we moved to Virgin in November last year. We have some kind of very high speed Internet which my gaming mad boys think is great, Netflix without ads and all the entertainment channels we had with sky. I pay £59 a month.
The way we watch has changed, I can pause some programmes but can't record like I did with sky, I thought I would miss it but I don't and even if I did that feature wouldn't be worth £50 a month.

I pay just under 90 a month for tv and Internet. But thats without sports, cinema and kids tv

Why are you paying for Netflix, sky includes Netflix and Disney amongst other things now.

Do not recommend Virgin! Have just left them and gone to YouFibre for double the amount of broadband speed at £30 p/m.

I wanted to cancel the TV and phone line (latter I haven't used in the entire 14 years of Virgin) and they made it so bloody difficult (again!!!), I had enough and switched. My last Virgin bill was £102! The "best" they could do was same broadband speed I had for £45. New customers get it for £28. I have had so many years of this shit with them and I snapped this week.

If you want TV, other PP have recommended plenty re Smart TV and apps etc., which I have used exclusively for the last 18 months. Don't miss or live TV at all.

In short, VM are total shits on pricing and do not value customer loyalty one bloody bit. They will play a game of chicken with you at every single contract renewal. Best avoided!

He's not trying hard enough 😂