Cancelling contract to take advantage of new offers

I've been a Sky customer since 1998 on their top package. By virtue of a
friend moving in, I now have 2 Sky digiboxes and I want to get the second
installed so I can take advantage of the 'have a second box' offer.

Now I've called up Sky about this and they won't install it unless I buy a
box off them for about £100. I already have a box so unnecessary really. I
moved house about 6 months ago and had to pay for the re-installation back
then which I wasn't too happy about. At the time, I popped into a local Sky
dealer and was told that if I cancelled my contract and started a new one
with them, then I could get free installation and a new box and could
probably persuade the installation people to install the existing box as
well. Then I could just get a second card @ £10 a month (as don't need box
or installation) and everyone's a winner. I'd have been tied down for
another 12 months but I'm not going anywhere.

When I called up Sky, I was told that this wasn't the case and I really
couldn't be bothered to argue but after sharing the remote for a month, I
now am! Is there any reason why I couldn't just cancel and take out a new
contract? They say it's one per household but when I signed up I was at
another address. They also say that the guy in the shop was lying because he
was just after a commission and that if I did do that, then I'd be billed
£300(?). I'm happy to let my brother sign up for it in his name as he has
never had Sky before. What do you think?

james wrote:
|| I've been a Sky customer since 1998 on their top package. By virtue of a
|| friend moving in, I now have 2 Sky digiboxes and I want to get the second
|| installed so I can take advantage of the 'have a second box' offer.
||
|| Now I've called up Sky about this and they won't install it unless I buy
a
|| box off them for about £100. I already have a box so unnecessary really.
I
|| moved house about 6 months ago and had to pay for the re-installation
back
|| then which I wasn't too happy about. At the time, I popped into a local
Sky
|| dealer and was told that if I cancelled my contract and started a new one
|| with them, then I could get free installation and a new box and could
|| probably persuade the installation people to install the existing box as
|| well. Then I could just get a second card @ £10 a month (as don't need
box
|| or installation) and everyone's a winner. I'd have been tied down for
|| another 12 months but I'm not going anywhere.
||
|| When I called up Sky, I was told that this wasn't the case and I really
|| couldn't be bothered to argue but after sharing the remote for a month, I
|| now am! Is there any reason why I couldn't just cancel and take out a new
|| contract? They say it's one per household but when I signed up I was at
|| another address. They also say that the guy in the shop was lying because
he
|| was just after a commission and that if I did do that, then I'd be billed
|| £300(?). I'm happy to let my brother sign up for it in his name as he has
|| never had Sky before. What do you think?

no

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james wrote:

What do you think?

As you already pay the full sub why not just get a Sky+ installed? Sky
will connect an old box for a small fee at the same time and you can
still have your £10 mirror (aka multiroom) card.

You can cancel and have your brother subscribe to Sky+ as a new
subscriber, thus saving about £100. Your old card will give you the
FTV channels in the old box.

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nope its one per household 'fraid



install aint that dificulut to do yourself for a second box then just fone
us up for another card @ a tenner a month robbers that we are
they'd be suss if your brother foned up for a contract after you cancelling
yours as sales staff will query the surnames being the same although this
could be got round with some serious blagging.

can you not get a friend to put it in their name for you? that way the names
would be different ????????

alas thou if you were to fone c/s you would prolly get you second box
installed for 60 notes which although not cheap aint too bad

or even attempt it yourself just give the lnb a quick check first

"Jomtien" wrote in message
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james wrote:

What do you think?

As you already pay the full sub why not just get a Sky+ installed? Sky
will connect an old box for a small fee at the same time and you can
still have your £10 mirror (aka multiroom) card.

As far as I know they'd charge £149 for the Sky+ box with free installation.
They'll move the digibox to another room and connect it up free as well, as
long as you take out a mirror subscription (+£10pm).