Sky up the bill AGAIN!!!

[HibbyAndy]

Now to start with i have mates on here who work with Sky so please guys it's not personal


Got a letter through the door Saturday from Sky ( Totally out the blue and with no prior warning) telling me my current bill will jump an extra £4.50 per month..Now my bill as it stands is in excess off over £105 per month as i have all the packages pretty much ,So quick check of the maths tells me i'l be paying an extra £50 or over..on top of my monthly bill per year ..And BTW i'm almost 100% certain it's not even been a year since they bumped it up £4.50 last time!!

Letter goes on to say i'l be able to watch more 'Ashes and every race weekend' This a piss take ?!! Horse racing ? Wtf!! Cricket?? Eh naw!!.

Though it does say they are bringing over 300 more box sets but i watch to much tv as it is.


Sky is on the slide as it is and i want out, So my question is who on here uses anyone BUT Sky and what do you get for your monthly payments ?


That letter telling me i will be paying an extra £4.50 a month absolute sickened me! Never ever later for a payment and have pretty much all channels you can run and ****ing jump!

[Viva_Palmeiras]

Netflix £5.99 and Amazon Prime £79 per year Allied with bt sports as part of BT infinity package gives me all I need. You become a slave to sky. do you really need all you can eat Television? Reclaim your life and money and go and do something less boring instead as kids of the 70s will tell you ;)

At £4.50 you've almost paid for netflix itself...

take out Amazon Prime Video (films, series, exclusives) or Netflix (similar) for a months free trial and see what you think. Amazon prime in addition gives you access to free deliveries, free unlimited photos in the cloud and upto 5gb video and some free kindle titles if you have a kindle device.

pick co and choose your odd game or film if you must (Now TV) you're paying over £1000 a year that's nuts isn't it? You'll knock a big dent out of that bill in the process. according to money saving expert Sky are one of the better companies to haggle with it you wAnt to batter them down. How long have you been with them? I'd say look I've been a loyal customer for x years. Don't take the proverbial - inflation is zero. It's the ones that sit back and take it I feel sorry for as they pay to your haggling but loyalty means NOTHING but exploitation of the lazy.

[HibbyAndy]

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Netflix and Amazon Prime. Allied with bt sports as part of BT infinity package gives me all I need. You become a slave to sky. do you really need all you can eat Television? Reclaim your life and money and go and do something less boring instead as kids of the 70s will tell you ;)

At £4.50 you've almost paid for netflix itself...

pick co and choose your odd game or film if you must you're paying over £1000 a year that's nuts isn't it?

That's the clincher


Was always gonna look elsewhere as guys in the pub are forever telling me to ditch Sky and get a Now tv box etc...I even had a random walk into my garden in the summer telling me to pay for a one off box and he could get me pretty much all the channels at less than half the price but i never ever had a problem with Sky so stayed loyal but that letter pissed me right off..If your gonna write to me tell me it's because im' a loyal customer and you have a deal for me.. Not to enhance my monthly bill with no advance warning!!

[Viva_Palmeiras]

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That's the clincher


Was always gonna look elsewhere as guys in the pub are forever telling me to ditch Sky and get a Now tv box etc...I even had a random walk into my garden in the summer telling me to pay for a one off box and he could get me pretty much all the channels at less than half the price but i never ever had a problem with Sky so stayed loyal but that letter pissed me right off..If your gonna write to me tell me it's because im' a loyal customer and you have a deal for me.. Not to enhance my monthly bill with no advance warning!!

What we pay for "entertainment" is nuts. We first bought Sky in 2007 before my son was born as we figured (rightly!) we wouldn't be getting out much. Got the full monty package at the time iirc it was £75 - that was nuts then. But you get used to it and complacent - hell we didn't even get full use of the sky+ box functionality as we only had one feed through a communal feed (long story)

tot up phone/mobile, Internet, tv and after council tax it's probably the largest of your outgoings I'd imagine.

But it how much of that do you actually need ? That's the questio are you paying over the odds for all you can eat broadband/mobile phone, tv? Do you really need to watch the latest or can you wait for series to become available on the likes of Netflix? Dare I say do you or your good lady (if you have one) really need a weekend of wall-to-wall football?

[patch1875]

Mines is up £4 phoning tomorrow to strip the package down, sports etc would ditch it completely if it wasn't for Atlantic and the F1.

[Sir David Gray]

How glad am I that I left my job at Sky back in January!?

These sorts of discussions were all too familiar!

If you're not in any minimum contract, just phone up and say you want to cancel. They'll likely offer you a deal to stay.

[Haymaker]

Well they have just forked out £5 billion to bring you the best football league in the whole wide world...

In all honesty, I don't think SKY is worth it. A top end Internet connection, Netflix etc and a few choice websites for all the sport I want to watch.

[lord bunberry]

I switched to Virgin a while back and it's a bit cheaper. You get BT Sports free and the Disney channels are included in the package, there's a couple of channels you don't get though. Having said that I still pay about £100 a month and I don't get the movie channels.

[hibbymick]

My mate gets me a code that gives us half price sky for 12 months. We use my name the first year and my better halfs name the following year and so on, weve never had any problems.

[Moulin Yarns]

When Sky stole £65 from me for a non existent engineer call out a couple of years ago was the final straw. Get rid. I went for freesat and don't miss Sky at all. Football? Pub. Series? Box set.

[snooky]

I'm going to get rid of my TV altogether. It's a waste of space, time & money.
Never had Sky (or anything like it). All I do is think 'Rupert Murdoch' and my mind's made up.

[Hibrandenburg]

Just informed sky of my location. They very kindly agreed to sever my contract there and then. Now got German Sky at less than half the price and almost everything is available in dual language.

[bobbyhibs1983]

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Now to start with i have mates on here who work with Sky so please guys it's not personal


Got a letter through the door Saturday from Sky ( Totally out the blue and with no prior warning) telling me my current bill will jump an extra £4.50 per month..Now my bill as it stands is in excess off over £105 per month as i have all the packages pretty much ,So quick check of the maths tells me i'l be paying an extra £50 or over..on top of my monthly bill per year ..And BTW i'm almost 100% certain it's not even been a year since they bumped it up £4.50 last time!!

Letter goes on to say i'l be able to watch more 'Ashes and every race weekend' This a piss take ?!! Horse racing ? Wtf!! Cricket?? Eh naw!!.

Though it does say they are bringing over 300 more box sets but i watch to much tv as it is.


Sky is on the slide as it is and i want out, So my question is who on here uses anyone BUT Sky and what do you get for your monthly payments ?


That letter telling me i will be paying an extra £4.50 a month absolute sickened me! Never ever later for a payment and have pretty much all channels you can run and ****ing jump!

we have virgin here and have prehaps the*top package* so to speak ,we have 2 boxes, the top internet speed thing(152mb?) and the phone /line rental thing and the tv package(for the 2 rooms) for prob in and around what you have.
But in thinking in regards, half the bl**dy channels we dont use! for example the kids channels wf?(we are all over 20 in the household).thoguh i dont think we can ditch those channels and save money there i think its a whole package thing.
As someone has said phone and threaten to cancel and hopefully you wiull get a better deal(if you our the contract thing!)

It all depends what you need really,If your not fussed about internet speed there are loads of companies that offer lowish cost(imo) internet .
Do you need a landline phone in your house?(this has been a thing my dad and i have talked about we are both unsure if the phone is need for the internet?)

Hope this helps
good luck

[Sir David Gray]

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we have virgin here and have prehaps the*top package* so to speak ,we have 2 boxes, the top internet speed thing(152mb?) and the phone /line rental thing and the tv package(for the 2 rooms) for prob in and around what you have.
But in thinking in regards, half the bl**dy channels we dont use! for example the kids channels wf?(we are all over 20 in the household).thoguh i dont think we can ditch those channels and save money there i think its a whole package thing.
As someone has said phone and threaten to cancel and hopefully you wiull get a better deal(if you our the contract thing!)

It all depends what you need really,If your not fussed about internet speed there are loads of companies that offer lowish cost(imo) internet .
Do you need a landline phone in your house?(this has been a thing my dad and i have talked about we are both unsure if the phone is need for the internet?)

Hope this helps
good luck

You can still have broadband with Virgin without having a landline package.

Most companies don't offer this though and if you take broadband, at the very least you also need to take line rental.

You don't need to have an actual landline phone plugged in though.

[Golden Bear]

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Mines is up £4 phoning tomorrow to strip the package down, sports etc would ditch it completely if it wasn't for Atlantic and the F1.

Do that - it's worth the call. I removed the Movie Channels by myself online then phoned up Sky asking how I could reduce my bill further as quite frankly I'd reached my limit. I ended up with the same package (including the Movies) but at a price which was £12 per month cheaper than I had originally.

Go for it.

[Hibby Bairn]

They have you by the hee haws if you are a sport lover/addict. As I am.

They know you find it hard to give up immediate access to pretty much the most comprehensive suite of sport available on tv.

Football galore; Golf galore; Cricket galore including all the big games (champs league; Prem; La Liga; Golf's majors; all the test matches etc). Go in admit it their coverage and product is very, very good.

I guess the day might come when you can just buy the sports package and nothing else but not any time soon. So I'm sticking with Jeff et al.

[David_D]

I phoned Sky today as I was getting fed up of the high bills. By the end of the phone call they had reduced my bill by £25 a month plus I got free upgrade to Fibre optic high speed Broadband. Worth giving them a call see what they say.

[Beefster]

I've had it with Sky. Basically, unless you phone them up every few months, they treat you like a mug. It's the folk who never phone up to haggle with them that subsidise those of us that do.

Time to be looking at Freesat. Given we have Netflix and Amazon, it shouldn't be that much of a sacrifice.

[Danderhall Hibs]

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I've had it with Sky. Basically, unless you phone them up every few months, they treat you like a mug. It's the folk who never phone up to haggle with them that subsidise those of us that do.

Time to be looking at Freesat. Given we have Netflix and Amazon, it shouldn't be that much of a sacrifice.

they're not interested in loyal customers just want to keep churning new customers.

There was a friends and family available last year - £25 for 25 months. Only available to new customers obviously. They wouldn't want to celebrate their 25 years with the customers that had spent some/most of that 25 years with them would they?

[bobbyhibs1983]

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You can still have broadband with Virgin without having a landline package.

Most companies don't offer this though and if you take broadband, at the very least you also need to take line rental.

You don't need to have an actual landline phone plugged in though.

ok thanx for the advice,My mum and dad both have commented on how many phones calls we make via our house phone (a couple per month?)
and we dont recieve that many either prehaps 1-2 that we want in the sense rather than the other 10 a week from sales people type calls.

[Hibs Class]

I called Sky today - with the increases my annual cost would have been up to £1,044, all they offered was a reduction of £7.50 a month (as I've got a £4.50 increase it would be £3 less than I'm currently paying). I said that increasing prices now was unreasonable, given zero inflation, the justification was that Sky have just paid £6bn for English football - I guess he didn't get my accent!

So have cancelled sports and movies - I'll still get BT Sport separately - and will be almost £40 a month better off. It'll drag me away from watching too much football and get me doing something better with my time.

(We also spoke about Scottish football - he said their research shows people would rather watch Spanish and lower English leagues than Scottish football. Also said that Sky make quite specific demands about how games should be televised, what cameras have access to etc. and that Scotland is less accommodating than other countries - no idea what truth there is in that.)

[stoneyburn hibs]

I'm going against the grain and saying that I'm quite happy with my Sky deal just now.

After stamping my feet I have managed to get a fixed one year deal of all the channels (excluding movies), broadband and telephone for £75 a month.

[Sylar]

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I called Sky today - with the increases my annual cost would have been up to £1,044, all they offered was a reduction of £7.50 a month (as I've got a £4.50 increase it would be £3 less than I'm currently paying). I said that increasing prices now was unreasonable, given zero inflation, the justification was that Sky have just paid £6bn for English football - I guess he didn't get my accent!

So have cancelled sports and movies - I'll still get BT Sport separately - and will be almost £40 a month better off. It'll drag me away from watching too much football and get me doing something better with my time.

(We also spoke about Scottish football - he said their research shows people would rather watch Spanish and lower English leagues than Scottish football. Also said that Sky make quite specific demands about how games should be televised, what cameras have access to etc. and that Scotland is less accommodating than other countries - no idea what truth there is in that.)

I can't say I'm at all surprised - it was always inevitable that costs were going to go up when they spent a ludicrous sum of money to enhance and sustain the lives of all the Prima Donna footballers in the Premiership who in turn demand ludicrous sums of money and declare themselves as 'tired' after a few games.

Sky and the Premiership are the personification of an unholy alliance and if you're a Sky customer who isn't interested in sport, it must suck to know the increase in your subscription will go toward Raheem Sterling's next Bentley (as an example, given his high-profile wage demands at present).

I don't have the time or inclination to sit down and watch much live TV anymore and services like Netflix, Flixanity or Amazon Prime are more than adequate alternatives with BBC iPlayer enabling me to catch up on some of the non-live programming on their platform that I might be interested in (also, not watching live gets rid of the BBC license fee to boot).

[Hibee87]

I got a good deal with virgin through my work, as its a house builders I think they have some new tie in.

Any way, I get all channels except sports (BT Sports I do get), 2 boxes (one tivo, one hd+) and up to 158mb broadband. All this costs 69 quid a month.

However, like most, I don't watch even half the channels on it. I will browse and see whats on, maybe record a few things now and again. For sport, the internet is an easy place to find what you want.

I think the way the internet is going and with all these bmdc boxes or whatever they are called, sky, virgin, bt et all are on the decline. I wouldn't be surprised that in the next 5-10 years these boxes are going to be refined HD quality and take over the market. How legal they are? I dont know.

As someone said netflix and amazon prime are 2 very good ways to watch a lot of what you want. anything else google is your friend. I have watched a lot of boxsets online without paying a penny, HD cable from laptop to TV and bobs yer auntie.

Yes I guess its conveinient to have sky and all the sports etc at your fingertips, but a little bit of patience and know how and you can save a hellava lotta money from streaming

[blackpoolhibs]

Zgemma, cloud ibox or Vu+ are all terrific alternatives to sky these days at a fraction of their exorbitant prices.

[Hibernia&Alba]

We cancelled our Sky about 18 months ago now. At the time we left I think we were paying around £90 per month for TV and broadband, didn't have phone line with them. I was basically paying it to watch the football and use the internet, because I don't watch much TV at all. There were dozens of channels I'd never looked at in ten years. It just wasn't worth what I was getting from it. The huge new EPL right will obviously push up prices again, and haven't Sky lost the Champions League rights?

I must be honest though, my brother did set me up with a wee cheat ;-)

[lord bunberry]

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Zgemma, cloud ibox or Vu+ are all terrific alternatives to sky these days at a fraction of their exorbitant prices.

How do these things work? I notice the box comes loaded with the channels for 12 months, what happens after that has ended?

[speedy_gonzales]

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How do these things work? I notice the box comes loaded with the channels for 12 months, what happens after that has ended?

You go on Amazon (or wherever) and buy another 12month 'gift'??
I've been running droid box to get pay per views (boxing primarily) but thinking of upgrading to VU+,,,, anyone know if you get PPV's with those also?

[Haymaker]

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We cancelled our Sky about 18 months ago now. At the time we left I think we were paying around £90 per month for TV and broadband, didn't have phone line with them. I was basically paying it to watch the football and use the internet, because I don't watch much TV at all. There were dozens of channels I'd never looked at in ten years. It just wasn't worth what I was getting from it. The huge new EPL right will obviously push up prices again, and haven't Sky lost the Champions League rights?

I must be honest though, my brother did set me up with a wee cheat ;-)

Yes, lost all European football iirc.

[Aldo]

I have Virgin XL package with Netflix.

My niece was kind enough to put me down for one of her options (not sure how many she gets- possibly 5) so I get sky go which is pretty much the full Sky package.

Couldn't believe it when she told me she had sorted that. Well pleased.