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😩

Sky is a total rip-off. They wanted £45 just for a basic part fibre broadband and phone package (we need the land line due to very dodgy mobile signal where we live). We defected to EE (BT), and got the same thing for £29. Our area is being upgraded to full fibre within the next couple of months but the price we pay will remain the same.

Haggle! I pay £47 I think to sky for movies, box sets and entertainment. My broadband is with another provider. If you threaten to cancel and then agree to sign up for 18 months they’ll give you a better deal.

Check your bank account, some offer deals like free Disney

I get free Apple TV with my bank.

I ditched Sky and signed on for Now TV instead. At the monent I have Sky Entertainment, HBO and Sky cinema, with Booster, for £9.98 pm. If i want Sky Sports they are offering it to me for £27.99 pm (usually £34.99 pm) so total would only be £37.97.

Check out MSE site for deals. I've made quite a bit by switching phone, broadband and TV via Topcashback too

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/broadband-and-tv/

Sounds a bargain compared to ours but we have landline, broadband and sky Q plus multi room and Netflix .

We’ve just moved to virgin for the same reason. Sky wouldn’t drop so they lost.

We ditched Sky TV, ( kept broadband as it's very stable locally) and just plugged the dish into the back of the TV, so have freesat. I can't say we've missed anything. We have Now and Netflix too, did have Apple briefly.

Netflix shouldn't be free with sky. I kept virgin to go to sky after they made me cry twice with their customer service and shockingly horrendous bill. Sky paid £300 to get me out of the virgin contract.

We got rid of Sky about 10 years ago and don't mist at all! There's so much on streaming you don't Sky or Virgin TV.

Our Sky is £120 per month for TV, broadband and landline which we never use.
That includes the Sports channels which I never watch but OH does.

I've tried to get it down but according to them, that's the best they can do.

How does the £114 breakdown , what does it cover? TV, broadband, mobile phone, sports, cinema etc?

Our Sky package was due to renew this July. The bill had got crazy, tv plus a second box for daughter upstairs, broadband and Netflix. Plus we have a landline as hubby is disabled and needs the line as he has problems with a mobile. They sent us a bill for June (£119) saying the next bill due in July was estimated to be £147.
I rang to cancel and the person I spoke to said she could reduce the bill going forward by £4!!!!! Took her ages to get that much off and she said she could do no better.

During the call I got cut off and had to call back. This time I got a different person who was able to renew our contract for 24 months and without changing any of our package she got the bill down to £77. She said all future bills will be that amount unless hubby makes silly long calls on the landline.

Itrs all a case of getting to the right person.

Sky's customer service used to be really good when it was based in Scotland. Recently I've had to contact them about something not working properly and I got such a rude guy. When I repeated that his instructions weren't working, he sighed loudly then almost shouted, "My God, this is what I'm telling you to do"

Shit service.

I also get NowTv for a month twice a year and watch all the series I am interested in, then get rid.

We have Virgin Media broadband and a smart TV. We pay for Netflix and prime and that does us nicely.

I'm 180 pounds. I have the full package including the sports though

How does that work? Don't you need a Freesat box?

Mine is £140 pm. Includes Broadband, movies, sky sports, TNT sports, Netflix etc. Basically everything. Not looking to change.

£114 is

£42.50 sky signature tv package
£15 multi room

£49 broadband ultra fast
£7.50 broadband boost

No sky cinema or sports

Anyone tried BT for broadband?

I'm sure it's decent. Most companies, such as sky, are just reselling BT broadband.

We're with Community Fibre. It's symmetrical 1 Gbps (1 Gbps download and 1 Gbps upload) and we pay £25.

Have a look on here to see what's available in your area.

https://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/

Ask to be put through to disconnections and you’ll likely get a much better deal. I have to do this every time our contract is up for renewal and always end up
with a decent deal at the end of it

Do you have an old Sky+ HD Box or Sky Q?

My parents have the former and I'm currently in the process of playing the cancellation game with "retentions".

The best deal you are likely to get should come after you actually walk away... but it might not. And if you're using the old, unsupported Sky+ system, you won't get back onto that.

They're clearly trying to move normal people off the satellite based systems. Sky Q isn't seemingly available for new customers either, but they kept trying to offer it to me for my parents, even though I'd explained previously that we tried to do that 6 years ago and found that their apartment block's supply was not suitable for it.

You'd get much better offers going to Sky Stream (or elsewhere) although both would obviously require you to learn a new system.

My sky is £46 a month for the WiFi, basic tv package and evening & weekend phone calls. That’s on a renewed new contract with discounts when my inital
contract ended. I moved from virgin which was nearly twice as much. Dropped my broadband speed when I did but haven’t noticed any difference and I WFH.