sky + and existing customers

[Dustanyone]

Our sky box is on it's way out but I resent the fact that new sky customers can have a sky+ box for £89 but we customers who have given them our money for years have to pay a £10 a month subscription for the same privilige!

Anyway, has anyone tried to call them and managed to get out of paying the tenner?

I am tempted to try and call their bluff and tell them we want to cancel (currently pay £36 a month) but wondered what my chances are

as far as i know, you don't pay any extra for sky + if you have one of the premium packages i.e films or sports.. I have the full package and don't pay any extra.

as for sky staff, they are given so many discount and free offers but that has to last a week so staff are unlikely to offer any discount at the start of the week and will have none left at the end of week. hth

Wow! Thanks to all this great advice I phoned up today and I am also getting sky+ for £65.

They are coming on bank holiday Monday to install it

Wow! Thanks to all this great advice I phoned up today and I am also getting sky+ for £65.

They are coming on bank holiday Monday to install it

sorry! Got to excited!

if you are an exsisting customer you can up grade to sky plus the only charge will be for the up graded box £65 etc there is no change to your monthly package subscription. un less you choose to have sky in another room then your subscription goes up by £10 a month per extra room ,multi room means you can watch one channel in one room and a differant chanel in another but there is another option for sky in a differant room with out the extra £10 a month you can have what is called a magic eye that will transmit sky to another room from your main sky box but you can only watch what is on the original box, so would be good if you wanted to watch something in bed rather than down stairs, to get that just ask the engineer , most of them carry magic eyes but there is a one off charge payable usually by cash to the engineer.

galaxy7 did you say no monthly subscription? i think you better check that advice,did they ask you what package you wanted, ie sky sport, movies etc? i think you will find you do have to pay a monthly subscription for what ever package you chose. it maybe reduced for the 1st six months but it won't be free, thats how they make there money.

By subsciption I meant the multiroom one. We already have sky upstairs, didn't need a magic eye, dp connected it up himself.

perfumelady, I meant the multiroom charge aswell. We wouldn't use it. We have sky sports, pay about £35 a month and wouldn't have paid anymore on top.

We have ours connected upstairs too, watching the same channel as downstairs. Didn't pay anyone but wouldn't know how it was done either.