Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

Normally Jan and Feb are full of 'please stay with Sky' offers because
people are broke after Christmas and call to cancel.

But reading the MSE thread on the subject no-one, but no-one at Sky's
turnaround dept. is even entertaining a conversation about an offer,
let alone offering one

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...115125&page=73

Bugger!

Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

uk.media.tv.misc
Ed
17 Jan 2007 05:20:51 -0800
om

Normally Jan and Feb are full of 'please stay with Sky' offers because
people are broke after Christmas and call to cancel.

But reading the MSE thread on the subject no-one, but no-one at Sky's
turnaround dept. is even entertaining a conversation about an offer,
let alone offering one


Do you mean they are doing what you want without the hard sell .


--
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Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

Krustov wrote:
uk.media.tv.misc
Ed
17 Jan 2007 05:20:51 -0800
om

Normally Jan and Feb are full of 'please stay with Sky' offers because
people are broke after Christmas and call to cancel.

But reading the MSE thread on the subject no-one, but no-one at Sky's
turnaround dept. is even entertaining a conversation about an offer,
let alone offering one


Do you mean they are doing what you want without the hard sell .


--
www.phptakeaway.co.uk
(work in progress)

No, normal method for getting a deal is to call and say you want to
cancel. You dont want to cancel, but you have to play their game.

Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

uk.media.tv.misc
Ed
17 Jan 2007 06:20:40 -0800
.com

Do you mean they are doing what you want without the hard sell .



No, normal method for getting a deal is to call and say you want to
cancel. You dont want to cancel, but you have to play their game.


I've canceled sky a couple of times over the years and would prefer a
quick phone call rather than going through all the usual ****e of sky
trying to keep you subscribed .

Perhaps sky should have two phone numbers ......

(1) where you really do want to cancel

(2) you only pretend you want to cancel as you want a half price deal

:-))


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Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

Ed wrote:
Krustov wrote:
uk.media.tv.misc
Ed
17 Jan 2007 05:20:51 -0800
om

Normally Jan and Feb are full of 'please stay with Sky' offers
because people are broke after Christmas and call to cancel.

But reading the MSE thread on the subject no-one, but no-one at
Sky's turnaround dept. is even entertaining a conversation about an
offer, let alone offering one


Do you mean they are doing what you want without the hard sell .


--
www.phptakeaway.co.uk
(work in progress)

No, normal method for getting a deal is to call and say you want to
cancel. You dont want to cancel, but you have to play their game.

I`m on my 30 days notice now (switches off at the weekend) When I phoned up
to give notice they told me they couldn`t offer me another half-price deal.
They did however phone me up yesterday to ask me why I was leaving and was
by box ok. I just told them I wanted rid of it. I haven`t payed full price
for Sky for years and have absolutely no intention of doing so in the future
(it`s waaaaay over priced) so if there are no more deals then there`ll be no
more Sky. Not that I`m fussed.

mick

Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

"mick" wrote in message
...
Ed wrote:
Krustov wrote:
uk.media.tv.misc
Ed
17 Jan 2007 05:20:51 -0800
om

Normally Jan and Feb are full of 'please stay with Sky' offers
because people are broke after Christmas and call to cancel.

But reading the MSE thread on the subject no-one, but no-one at
Sky's turnaround dept. is even entertaining a conversation about an
offer, let alone offering one


Do you mean they are doing what you want without the hard sell .


--
www.phptakeaway.co.uk
(work in progress)

No, normal method for getting a deal is to call and say you want to
cancel. You dont want to cancel, but you have to play their game.

I`m on my 30 days notice now (switches off at the weekend) When I phoned
up
to give notice they told me they couldn`t offer me another half-price
deal.
They did however phone me up yesterday to ask me why I was leaving and was
by box ok. I just told them I wanted rid of it. I haven`t payed full price
for Sky for years and have absolutely no intention of doing so in the
future
(it`s waaaaay over priced) so if there are no more deals then there`ll be
no
more Sky. Not that I`m fussed.


They finally got wise to the tactic so now they are letting people actually
cancel first and offering more "come back" deals to people who cancelled 3
months ago.

Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

mick wrote:
Ed wrote:
Krustov wrote:
uk.media.tv.misc
Ed
17 Jan 2007 05:20:51 -0800
om

Normally Jan and Feb are full of 'please stay with Sky' offers
because people are broke after Christmas and call to cancel.

But reading the MSE thread on the subject no-one, but no-one at
Sky's turnaround dept. is even entertaining a conversation about an
offer, let alone offering one


Do you mean they are doing what you want without the hard sell .


--
www.phptakeaway.co.uk
(work in progress)

No, normal method for getting a deal is to call and say you want to
cancel. You dont want to cancel, but you have to play their game.

I`m on my 30 days notice now (switches off at the weekend) When I phoned
up to give notice they told me they couldn`t offer me another half-price
deal. They did however phone me up yesterday to ask me why I was leaving
and was by box ok. I just told them I wanted rid of it. I haven`t payed
full price for Sky for years and have absolutely no intention of doing so
in the future (it`s waaaaay over priced) so if there are no more deals
then there`ll be no more Sky. Not that I`m fussed.

mick

I think £21 for family pack is pretty reasonable, trouble is if I want my
sky+ to work then I have to pay through the nose.



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Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

Keith wrote:
mick wrote:
Ed wrote:
Krustov wrote:
uk.media.tv.misc


No, normal method for getting a deal is to call and say you want to
cancel. You dont want to cancel, but you have to play their game.

I`m on my 30 days notice now (switches off at the weekend) When I
phoned up to give notice they told me they couldn`t offer me another
half-price deal. They did however phone me up yesterday to ask me
why I was leaving and was by box ok. I just told them I wanted rid
of it. I haven`t payed full price for Sky for years and have
absolutely no intention of doing so in the future (it`s waaaaay over
priced) so if there are no more deals then there`ll be no more Sky.
Not that I`m fussed.


I think £21 for family pack is pretty reasonable, trouble is if I
want my sky+ to work then I have to pay through the nose.

It is of you the channels in that package a lot; I simply don`t. When I
phoned to get rid last summer they practacally begged me to stay. I finally
ended up accepting the Family Pack for 75p (and that`s not a typo) for 4 or
5 months just to get off the phone. I still hardly watched it even at that
price. When I do get Sky it`s mainly for the Sports, the rest is just
junk/stuff I`ve seen many times before/stuff I have no interest in.

mick

Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

Keith wrote:
mick wrote:
Ed wrote:
Krustov wrote:
uk.media.tv.misc
Ed
17 Jan 2007 05:20:51 -0800
om

Normally Jan and Feb are full of 'please stay with Sky' offers
because people are broke after Christmas and call to cancel.

But reading the MSE thread on the subject no-one, but no-one at
Sky's turnaround dept. is even entertaining a conversation about an
offer, let alone offering one


Do you mean they are doing what you want without the hard sell .


--
www.phptakeaway.co.uk
(work in progress)

No, normal method for getting a deal is to call and say you want to
cancel. You dont want to cancel, but you have to play their game.

I`m on my 30 days notice now (switches off at the weekend) When I phoned
up to give notice they told me they couldn`t offer me another half-price
deal. They did however phone me up yesterday to ask me why I was leaving
and was by box ok. I just told them I wanted rid of it. I haven`t payed
full price for Sky for years and have absolutely no intention of doing so
in the future (it`s waaaaay over priced) so if there are no more deals
then there`ll be no more Sky. Not that I`m fussed.

mick

I think £21 for family pack is pretty reasonable, trouble is if I want my
sky+ to work then I have to pay through the nose.

In what way is that reasonable? Which channels that are not available
on freesat or freeview are worth £21. Sky One? Cartoon channels? Given
that you get around 200 channels free over the astra satellite I see no
reason to pay for sky other than the sport, on a personal level

Sky playing hardball, no offers if you threaten to cancel.
 

uk.media.tv.misc
mick
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:38:26 GMT


I haven`t payed full price
for Sky for years and have absolutely no intention of doing so in the future
(it`s waaaaay over priced) so if there are no more deals then there`ll be no
more Sky. Not that I`m fussed.


On the odd occasion its a bit of a bummer if you fancy watching a rerun
of the xfiles or whatever - but it doesnt take long to find out what
freeview channels are worth watching and you soon get used it .

Skys new tactic could well backfire on them as the longer you go without
the subscription channels the less you seem to miss them .


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(work in progress)