Cheap freesat install

"Adrian" wrote in message
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Steve Terry wrote:
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Hi,
I notice a well-known highstreet retailer is doing cheap freesat
installs (£78.29 from argos). Does anyone have any knowledge of the
likely quality of workmanship? Is there a catch?


Who cares if the install is crap, re-do it yourself if it is, it's
worth it for the 4 months of up front sky 4 pack.

Just remember to cancel at 4 months

Steve Terry

Mark is talking about Freesat not the pay once and watch forever which
costs less from Argos than a Freesat install which is for the dish
installation only.

I know people who have Sky and have had no problem with the work.

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Regards,
David

FREESAT HD as it is now it is a joke.

I notice a well-known highstreet retailer is doing cheap freesat
installs (£78.29 from argros). Does anyone have any knowledge of the
likely quality of workmanship? Is there a catch?


How can it be anything but pure luck?

Peter Crosland

Mark wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:23:17 +0100, "Adrian" wrote:

David wrote:
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Mark wrote:
Hi,

I notice a well-known highstreet retailer is doing cheap freesat
installs (£78.29 from argros). Does anyone have any knowledge of
the likely quality of workmanship? Is there a catch?

I don't call that cheap, it's the same price they've charged since
the start of Freesat, that is £68.08 + VAT when the VAT rate goes
back to 17.5% it will be back to £80. Don't forget this is for
installation only, on top of the price of the equipment.
--

I think Freesat from SKY better value equipment and installation
http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts

The best value at the moment is the
Sky Pay Once Watch Forever Pack, £73.40 from Argos.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...text%3ESKY.htm

It's not much cheaper and I wouldn't want the hassle of connecting up
a phone line for the sky box.

Not much cheaper than what? It is about the cheapest installation you can
get. Have you actually read through what you quoted?
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"Adrian" wrote in message
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Mark wrote:
Hi,

I notice a well-known highstreet retailer is doing cheap freesat
installs (£78.29 from argros). Does anyone have any knowledge of
the likely quality of workmanship? Is there a catch?

I don't call that cheap, it's the same price they've charged since
the start of Freesat, that is £68.08 + VAT when the VAT rate goes
back to 17.5% it will be back to £80. Don't forget this is for
installation
only, on top of the price of the equipment.
--

I think Freesat from SKY better value equipment and installation
http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts

Can't use Sky+ functionality with 'Freesat from Sky', you need a paid
subscription. So if you want PVR functionality, you'd need a
(non-Sky) Freesat PVR box - so why not just go with Freesat from the
start.
D

That would cost more than the cheap Freesat install which started this
thread. Personally I intend to get the Panasonic DMR-XS350 and install it
myself.
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The best value at the moment is the
Sky Pay Once Watch Forever Pack, £73.40 from Argos.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...text%3ESKY.htm

It's not much cheaper and I wouldn't want the hassle of connecting up
a phone line for the sky box.

You can safely unplug the phone line as soon as the installer has
left. Sky will not contact you about it.

You can also do that with a normal subscription package.

In fact the only situation where SKY do enforce the phone line
requirement is where you have a subsidised Multiroom subscription,
for reasons which should be obvious.

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Graham.

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On 9 July, 15:16, "David" wrote:
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Mark wrote:
Hi,

I notice a well-known highstreet retailer is doing cheap freesat
installs (£78.29 from argros). Does anyone have any knowledge of
the likely quality of workmanship? Is there a catch?

I don't call that cheap, it's the same price they've charged since
the start of Freesat, that is £68.08 + VAT when the VAT rate goes
back to 17.5% it will be back to £80. Don't forget this is for
installation only, on top of the price of the equipment.
--

I think Freesat from SKY better value equipment and installation
http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts

The best value at the moment is the
Sky Pay Once Watch Forever Pack, £73.40 from Argos.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...2/Trail/search...

Freesat might be worth considering if 4HD goes on the EPG.
--

wow

"Exclusive to new Sky TV customers who have not taken up our free dish and
box offer in the past. For £75 this pack gives you access to over 200 free
digital TV channels - AND 4 months of the 4 most popular Sky Entertainment
Mixes (normally £20 a month). After 4 months you will continue to receive
Sky TV for £20 a month. Let Sky know before then if you no longer want to
receive Sky TV and you can continue watching the free channels."

So Argos charge less for the whole set up IE equipment included as well as
installation than just installing a Freesat dish?

--
Regards,
David

FREESAT HD as it is now it is a joke.

In a word; yes.

A satellite installation will take me from an hour to about 5 hours,
depending where the tv is situated, where the dish must go to get a
signal, where the dish could go to make it a discrete installation, if
it goes on a chimney, if the cables go through the loft, underground
across the lawn(!), under the floor. They can be diplexed into the
existing downleads (if the cable is good enough), combined as two down
one cable with a stacker/destacker arrangement for Sky+/Freesat+. Wall
outlet plates used, or not etc etc.

In short, any company which offers a flat rate is likely to the
absolute bare minimum. I have seen vertical runs of cable, roof to
ground with 2 cable clips, cables run all round the house in the
gutters, huge holes burst through the walls, black cables down white
walls, white cables down dark walls, cables strung loosely round door
frames and hundreds of other atrocities and almost never see an F plug
tightened up properly at the LNB or the receiver.

If you want it done properly, rather than giing the usual British
route of cheapest will do, why not get someone who cares about what
they do and how they do it.

Not that I am biased, of course!! its just that I get so frustrated
at the way the public is ripped off and the slap-happy attitude of
many of the faceless install companies. Would it be the same in
Germany, Holland, Swizerland, Austria etc, I wonder ??

Just a personal view, of course!

Just incase you were wondering, it certainly is possible to do a
perfectly good job for around £60 to £70 if all is straightforward,
its just that I would never trust anyone who works on a flat rate
system.

I'd love to know the definition of forever as used by marketing folk
though.. grin.

Brian

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"Adrian" wrote in message
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David wrote:
"Adrian" wrote in message
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Mark wrote:
Hi,

I notice a well-known highstreet retailer is doing cheap freesat
installs (£78.29 from argros). Does anyone have any knowledge of
the likely quality of workmanship? Is there a catch?

I don't call that cheap, it's the same price they've charged since
the start of Freesat, that is £68.08 + VAT when the VAT rate goes
back to 17.5% it will be back to £80. Don't forget this is for
installation only, on top of the price of the equipment.
--

I think Freesat from SKY better value equipment and installation
http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts

The best value at the moment is the
Sky Pay Once Watch Forever Pack, £73.40 from Argos.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...text%3ESKY.htm

Freesat might be worth considering if 4HD goes on the EPG.
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Mark wrote:
Hi,

I notice a well-known highstreet retailer is doing cheap freesat
installs (£78.29 from argros). *Does anyone have any knowledge of
the likely quality of workmanship? *Is there a catch?

I don't call that cheap, it's the same price they've charged since
the start of Freesat, that is £68.08 + VAT when the VAT rate goes
back to 17.5% it will be back to £80. Don't forget this is for
installation only, on top of the price of the equipment.
--

I think Freesat from SKY better value equipment and installation
http://mysky.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/skyproducts

The best value at the moment is the
Sky Pay Once Watch Forever Pack, £73.40 from Argos.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...2/Trail/search....

Freesat might be worth considering if 4HD goes on the EPG.
--

wow

"Exclusive to new Sky TV customers who have not taken up our free dish and
box offer in the past. For £75 this pack gives you access to over 200 free
digital TV channels - AND 4 months of the 4 most popular Sky Entertainment
Mixes (normally £20 a month). After 4 months you will continue to receive
Sky TV for £20 a month. Let Sky know before then if you no longer want to
receive Sky TV and you can continue watching the free channels."

So Argos charge less for the whole set *up IE equipment included as well as
installation than just installing a Freesat dish?

--
Regards,
David

FREESAT HD *as it is now it is a joke.

In a word; yes.- Hide quoted text -

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Although the Sky deal maybe only gets you a single LNB not quad.