Do Sky provide free replacement cards?
 

Just persuaded my father-in-law to get digital satellite (he lives in
the middle of rural Perthshire and the signal he gets on terrestrial
is almost unwatchable). He only wants the FTA/FTV channels.

I currently subscribe to the full Sky package.

Could I simply call Sky and tell them my 2-year-old has fed my card to
the dog, get a replacement from them and give it to my father-in-law
for his system to get the FTV stuff? He lives in a different BBC and
ITV area from me, does that matter?

Or should he just do the Pout/ebay/car boot sale thing?

Gibbers wrote:
Could I simply call Sky and tell them my 2-year-old has fed my card to
the dog, get a replacement from them and give it to my father-in-law
for his system to get the FTV stuff?

You could. Sky would charge you a Tenner, but more importantly disable your
current card.

Or should he just do the Pout/ebay/car boot sale thing?

Pout is a possibility as a 'new subscriber', or wait a few weeks until
the Sky FTV card scheme is up and running (for £23:50per card)
See the other threads in this newsgroup on the subject.

"Gibbers" wrote in message
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Just persuaded my father-in-law to get digital satellite (he lives in
the middle of rural Perthshire and the signal he gets on terrestrial
is almost unwatchable). He only wants the FTA/FTV channels.

I currently subscribe to the full Sky package.

Could I simply call Sky and tell them my 2-year-old has fed my card to
the dog, get a replacement from them and give it to my father-in-law
for his system to get the FTV stuff? He lives in a different BBC and
ITV area from me, does that matter?

Or should he just do the Pout/ebay/car boot sale thing?

Not sure if it has gone up, but I was charged £10 last year for a
replacement card.

Gibbers wrote:
|| Just persuaded my father-in-law to get digital satellite (he lives in
|| the middle of rural Perthshire and the signal he gets on terrestrial
|| is almost unwatchable). He only wants the FTA/FTV channels.
||
|| I currently subscribe to the full Sky package.
||
|| Could I simply call Sky and tell them my 2-year-old has fed my card to
|| the dog, get a replacement from them and give it to my father-in-law
|| for his system to get the FTV stuff?

If you do that, they will immediatly switch off the card that the dog "ate".
Thus meaning you then need a new card for yourself!

Mark Carver wrote:

Pout is a possibility as a 'new subscriber', or wait a few weeks until
the Sky FTV card scheme is up and running (for £23:50per card)

Hmm. Pay £9 or £23.50? A hard decision to make.

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Jomtien wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:

Pout is a possibility as a 'new subscriber', or wait a few weeks
until the Sky FTV card scheme is up and running (for £23:50per card)

Hmm. Pay £9 or £23.50? A hard decision to make.

Neither for you nor I, but I know a couple of people reluctant to go
the Pout route, because of it's 'seedy' nature :-)

Jomtien wrote:
Mark Carver wrote:

Pout is a possibility as a 'new subscriber', or wait a few weeks
until the Sky FTV card scheme is up and running (for £23:50per card)

Hmm. Pay £9 or £23.50? A hard decision to make.

Neither for you nor I, but I know a couple of people reluctant to go
the Pout route, because of its 'seedy' nature

Does that mean something like this -
http://www.richersounds.com/index.ph...l.php&p=301541 - is out of
the question (no card req.)?

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:20:57 -0700, Gibbers wrote:

Just persuaded my father-in-law to get digital satellite (he lives in the
middle of rural Perthshire and the signal he gets on terrestrial is almost
unwatchable). He only wants the FTA/FTV channels.

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Vigil wrote:
Does that mean something like this -
http://www.richersounds.com/index.ph...l.php&p=301541 - is
out of the question (no card req.)?

If his analogue signal is poor its more than likely that Digital Terrestrial
TV, which is what this box is for, will also be useless.

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:20:57 -0700, Gibbers wrote:

Just persuaded my father-in-law to get digital satellite (he lives
in the middle of rural Perthshire and the signal he gets on
terrestrial is almost unwatchable). He only wants the FTA/FTV
channels.

Mark Carver wrote:

Hmm. Pay £9 or £23.50? A hard decision to make.

Neither for you nor I, but I know a couple of people reluctant to go
the Pout route, because of it's 'seedy' nature :-)

I'll willingly appear seedy if it will save me £14.50
Just as long as the card comes in a plain brown envelope. :-)

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/guiv
How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/
BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)