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😩

I was going to say this. In our local fb group it feels like every other day people are complaining about virgin being down. Also it doesn’t take long for their prices to go up too - my mum’s recently left virgin because over a couple of years her package almost doubled in price.

We left Sky last year too. Just have plusnet internet and then pay for a couple of streaming services. Saved us a fortune.

Me too. Only pay virgin £29 a month now and use apps

I second this. They are a nightmare to leave. I was only able to in the end because I moved somewhere that they didn't cover. It was like being released from prison when I was finally free of them.

I spent the better part of a Saturday adding all our passwords and setting up iPlayer, ITV x, Disney, Netflix, Amazon etc. after we cancelled Sky. I think we were paying nearly £100 with broadband - no movies or sports package. We had been with them nearly 30 years and they couldn’t come up with a deal so we left.
I missed the recording feature mainly, and used Freeview for live TV as you’ve described.
About a week after we left they suddenly offered us a deal that was close to half our previous price, including Netflix so we went back for convenience. Disney is now included too.

Id miss the Sky planner.
What are the alternatives?
I image id need a notebook to write down what I fancy watching!

Phone sky back, you will get an international call center probably. They just want to sell. Ask to speak to cancellations. Youll get Cardiff or Scotland. 24 month contracts is all they do. If not happy, cancel then you will get emails offering you broadband in the 20's. Prob much the same with the sky signature package. Dont get sky glass or stream, if you're not on full fiber. Do remember its not the agents fault they can't get better deals 😄 open 8.45 am to 8pm. Good luck

Phone sky back, you will get an international call center probably. They just want to sell. Ask to speak to cancellations. Youll get Cardiff or Scotland. 24 month contracts is all they do. If not happy, cancel then you will get emails offering you broadband in the 20's. Prob much the same with the sky signature package. Dont get sky glass or stream, if you're not on full fiber. Do remember its not the agents fault they can't get better deals 😄 open 8.45 am to 8pm. Good luckkmI

Virgin were 28 million for hanging up on customers trying to cancel!

mine is £160 a month for tv + broadband (incl all sport, movies, multi room, HD etc. Feel a bit sick reading all of these replies tbh but am contracted in until end of this year.

Current Virgin bill is £30 per month. I have the smallest TV package which includes Netflix (I watch the news, sewing bee, throw down etc but no sport) but nice fast broadband (M500). The broadband is reliable and consistently fast. Admittedly you do have to threaten to leave or complain to get the price to stay low but it has paid off the bill is currently lower than when I first signed up with them in 2007 (when they first came into the area).

This is so useful. I need to sort out my Sky.

I pay £20 superfast broadband from Hyperoptic. Martins Money Saving has loads of good broadband deals at present.
Then I bought a £230 HiSense TV with Freely. As in, totally free for huge content.
I pay one film/streaming service at a time - currently Netflix, but will change to another when I get bored or see a deal. Usually £20 a month.
By the time you see all sorts of free stuff plus Android Home it just works.

We got a Hisense as well
Absolutely brilliant
We keep going on about what on earth were we paying all that money out for, theres no difference

You can record on Virgin.

Anyone that has sports packages, they are really expensive whoever you have them with TNT is about £30, F1 is expensive and Sky Sports so could add at least £50 to a package for just two

Yes that's what I'd miss most too.

You have exactly the same as me and mine is £65. It's criminal that they can seemingly just make up prices. It's going up in November quite a bit, to £110 iirc.
I have
Sky q signature ( includes Disney but not Netflix)
Three multi rooms
HD
Ultrafast BB
Three broadband boosters

Ofcom have just fined Virgin Media £28M "for making it unreasonably difficult for customers to cancel contracts and switch to rivals". It's Ofcoms largest fine under consumer protection rules.

I've no idea how ours is so expensive . No multi rooms, boosters, movies or Netflhx.
The only "extra" we have is Sports.

Sky are rip off merchants

Sports will be costing you a fortune

No, there are 2 plugs on the end of the cable from the dish, you just plug one into the socket on the back of the tv thats marked as 'Satellite In'.

Edit: ours is a smart TV, dont know if that makes a difference? So we have hundreds of channels of rubbish as we did with Sky but at no cost!

We got rid of the TV part and now pay Virgin for internet only. Even that was creeping up, 50 odd pounds a month. I recently flounced and now the contract is in DHs name as a new customer for £23 per month 1Gb broadband.

For TV we use freeview, netflix, disney. Football the teens handle themselves via 'streams'.

I’ve just got broadband which powers my smart tv. Then I buy Netflix and Apple TV on top.

Another one here who uses Now as Sky was just too much. I get my broadband separately and have Now Sports as I love watching the footy. I have Netflix etc too.