Sky v BT

Huyton Layne · September 30, 2013

If Sky and BT are both available in your area. Would you consider paying for two providers or would that be overly expensive? Come to think of it i'm not sure what the costs would be, so, how much for the pair?

bluejock · September 30, 2013

Yeah, so I called up Sky and threatened to cancel, thinking they would offer me some amazing deal to stay on.

She put through the cancellation. Ballsy bitch. Going to give them a week to try and get us back or we'll swap to BT.

Little Ralphy · September 30, 2013

bluejock said:
Yeah, so I called up Sky and threatened to cancel, thinking they would offer me some amazing deal to stay on.

She put through the cancellation. Ballsy bitch. Going to give them a week to try and get us back or we'll swap to BT.

When we tried to cancel last year, they offered us some ****e deal to stay so we just told them to cancel it. The days before it was due to be switched off they offered us half price for a year. So maybe they'll come back and offer you something if you wait it out.

It depends what you want from the tv. Sky is great if you watch it, but we rarely watch any tv these days so it just wasn't worth it in our house.

Huyton Layne · September 30, 2013

bluejock said:
Yeah, so I called up Sky and threatened to cancel, thinking they would offer me some amazing deal to stay on.

She put through the cancellation. Ballsy bitch. Going to give them a week to try and get us back or we'll swap to BT.

AOL we're great back in the day. I used to phone to cancel every couple of months and they'd slot me a free month. Seems weird that they didn't have a spiel to go through to get you to stay.

Foot Long Hot Dog · September 30, 2013

bluejock said:
Yeah, so I called up Sky and threatened to cancel, thinking they would offer me some amazing deal to stay on.

She put through the cancellation. Ballsy bitch. Going to give them a week to try and get us back or we'll swap to BT.

The cancellation team will try & talk you out of it, they're VERY persistent & will try every angle to try & persuade you to stay on.

I fell out with them over a new HD box, as they wrote & offered me one (& mine was about goosed), but I was on holiday, got back & the offer had expired the day before, so I rang them & explained & asked if I could have the new box. They said no, so I went to customer services (try findng their contact details btw....) & they came back to me & said I could have one. So I rang the number they told me to & they said the 'computer says no' & it'll be £299. So I got back onto customer services & they eventually admitted they'd made a mistake & I couldn't have one - so I told them to poke it right up their arse.

Cancellations did their best to offer me a deal to stay, but I was royally ****ed off by this point & I went to BT.

They kept writing to me & in the end I took them up on their offer of a new box, new dish installation FOC (as I was moving house) & 70% off my full package for 12 months. So there's your yardstick mate - 70% is their limit.

neil999 · September 30, 2013

tivo and broadband from virgin are fantastic BUT dont have sky atlantic..which is only downside as far as i can see

noharmdone · September 30, 2013

Bt are gash.

lmurkder · September 30, 2013

Foot Long Hot Dog said:
The cancellation team will try & talk you out of it, they're VERY persistent & will try every angle to try & persuade you to stay on.

I fell out with them over a new HD box, as they wrote & offered me one (& mine was about goosed), but I was on holiday, got back & the offer had expired the day before, so I rang them & explained & asked if I could have the new box. They said no, so I went to customer services (try findng their contact details btw....) & they came back to me & said I could have one. So I rang the number they told me to & they said the 'computer says no' & it'll be £299. So I got back onto customer services & they eventually admitted they'd made a mistake & I couldn't have one - so I told them to poke it right up their arse.

Cancellations did their best to offer me a deal to stay, but I was royally ****ed off by this point & I went to BT.

They kept writing to me & in the end I took them up on their offer of a new box, new dish installation FOC (as I was moving house) & 70% off my full package for 12 months. So there's your yardstick mate - 70% is their limit.

loled at this.

Bt is the best broadband

Baines' left foot · November 9, 2013

So, BT are apparently close to announcing a £900m (more than doubling the current deal) deal to share rights to show Champions League games with Sky from 2015, meaning that after 20 years CL football will no longer be on terrestrial TV.

[Poor language removed] off football.

Eggs · November 9, 2013

Baines' left foot said:
So, BT are apparently close to announcing a £900m (more than doubling the current deal) deal to share rights to show Champions League games with Sky from 2015, meaning that after 20 years CL football will no longer be on terrestrial TV.

[Poor language removed] off football.

...done deal according to Sky News.

fozzy · November 9, 2013

Eggs said:
...done deal according to Sky News.

watching the sports panel on btsports and they said its done.

steken1 · November 9, 2013

bluejock said:
Yeah, so I called up Sky and threatened to cancel, thinking they would offer me some amazing deal to stay on.

She put through the cancellation. Ballsy bitch. Going to give them a week to try and get us back or we'll swap to BT.

Theres a deal on Groupon atm for half price sky for a year. Dunno if it's for new customers though.

Might have to put it in yer birds name.