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Old 31-05-2016, 10:26
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Managed to get 50% off and a £50 credit earlier this month on Family plus sport (no HD). Yesterday got movies for £4.50 and HD for £3 with no contract. Movie deal is for 12 months HD for 6 but was told to call and re-negotiate. No deal on multi-room but my son pays me for that so no gain anyway.

Separately manage broadband for free, just line rental.
You won't need the separate HD add-on for 6 months, I think it's being axed in June/July...
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Old 31-05-2016, 10:46
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Only for movies not sport.
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Old 31-05-2016, 13:01
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Offer of 35% discount on my interactive account but 50% discount offered on my Sky services app on my iphone
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Old 31-05-2016, 14:00
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A Livehelp option dedicated to try to keep you

https://secure.sky.com/mysky-extras/...ecure-Pipeline

got a bit better offer, but not an acceptable one , I will keep trying
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Old 31-05-2016, 15:35
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Update - did a live chat with a representative today - was offered the full package, multiroom, sky talk and an upgrade to Fibre Unlimited for £84.40. I asked if they could go lower on that to below £80 and they wouldn't budge. So, I declined and will try again. Hopefully I can get it down yet.
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Old 31-05-2016, 18:52
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Or do it via Live chat if you don't want to ring.
I've emailed the woman in the Executive Team I've dealt with over the last few months. Its now being cancelled at the end of June. Will log onto Sky and see if there's any offers. I'm a little concerned about not being able to sign up straight away now, the fella on the stall said I only have to have 1 day of being without service.
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Old 31-05-2016, 19:43
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Did another live chat and got the deal I want. 50% off everything for 12 months (full package, multiroom, Sky Talk) and an upgrade to Sky Fibre Unlimited with that also being 50% off. New monthly bill is £76 basically, which I'd imagine I could have got down a bit more, but I'm happy with that considering I've just upgraded from Sky Broadband Unlimited to Fibre Unlimited and my bill has gone down. Earlier on today the offer was at £84, am happy to just have it sorted now.
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Old 01-06-2016, 10:19
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I phoned and cancelled my Sky package (original + sports) eleven days ago - I'd had a 10 months' half price offer that was just about to run out. Since making that call, the interactive offer on my Sky box has only been offering 35% off my current package for another 12 months, which I wasn't too fussed about. But today a letter came from Sky offering 50% off any package for the next 12 months. Good enough for me.
Further to the above, have just done an online chat with Sky and was offered the 50% off any package for the next 12 months (on a rolling contract) plus £50 credit on my account. So that's Original + Sports for £20.84 per month. Even better than I was expecting!
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Old 01-06-2016, 20:44
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Further to the above, have just done an online chat with Sky and was offered the 50% off any package for the next 12 months (on a rolling contract) plus £50 credit on my account. So that's Original + Sports for £20.84 per month. Even better than I was expecting!
Aren't both the family pack and sports pack around £36 each or something? How did you manager to get that down to just over £20 on a 50% deal? Well done though, great amount for that bundle.
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Old 01-06-2016, 20:46
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Ignore that above - I thought the original bundle was the family bundle or whatever it's called. My mistake.
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Old 02-06-2016, 12:24
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Advice please... Everybody seems to mention better offers on Sky Service app? Where exactly as all it does is direct me to the Sky Service website.
Following the recent price hikes we downgraded our Sky to the basic bundle plus line rental. Got a very small discount on that. However we are now paying broadband charges (so discount gone) as apparently way back when we got Sky Sports there was a clause that says free broadband contingent on Sky Sports sub. Not made clear when we downgraded.
Added complication is that we have a houseguest for next month who is sports mad. So now we want to re-add Sky Sports for a month or so. On my Sky Offers there is a deal for Sky Sports 25% off with no contract period. Do you think we can get better?
Had 2 calls with Sky - have been really unhelpful & arrogant and won't give us any offers! (Have not mentioned the offer above)!
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Old 02-06-2016, 12:37
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If you have a resubscription offer on the Sky Services app, it'll be the first thing you see after you enter your pin.

Funnily enough, I 'cancelled' on Monday and the app offer was lower than the offer on the Sky website (35% against 50%)
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Old 02-06-2016, 12:45
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I have the Sky service app on my Iphone 6s , when I log in,it simply takes me to a landing page that offers 50% off
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Old 03-06-2016, 07:54
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Been almost a week since I cancelled and I've not had any offers at all.
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Old 03-06-2016, 08:04
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Advice please... Everybody seems to mention better offers on Sky Service app? Where exactly as all it does is direct me to the Sky Service website.
Following the recent price hikes we downgraded our Sky to the basic bundle plus line rental. Got a very small discount on that. However we are now paying broadband charges (so discount gone) as apparently way back when we got Sky Sports there was a clause that says free broadband contingent on Sky Sports sub. Not made clear when we downgraded.
Added complication is that we have a houseguest for next month who is sports mad. So now we want to re-add Sky Sports for a month or so. On my Sky Offers there is a deal for Sky Sports 25% off with no contract period. Do you think we can get better?
Had 2 calls with Sky - have been really unhelpful & arrogant and won't give us any offers! (Have not mentioned the offer above)!
The only way you are going to get the good deals is to cancel.
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Old 03-06-2016, 08:05
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Been almost a week since I cancelled and I've not had any offers at all.
I assume you have checked your My Sky, Sky Interactive and the Sky Service App?
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Old 03-06-2016, 08:16
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Been almost a week since I cancelled and I've not had any offers at all.
Have you opted out of marketing emails etc?
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Old 03-06-2016, 09:17
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My Sky TV turned off overnight, the best offer I had to stay was 35% on the app (now gone), on the website under offers it always said Unable to Proceed.
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Old 03-06-2016, 09:22
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My Sky TV turned off overnight, the best offer I had to stay was 35% on the app (now gone), on the website under offers it always said Unable to Proceed.
Same for me, mine switched off last Monday (30th) and, yes, I was opted in to marketing emails/post etc. (SKY Interactive now comes back with an unfixable error, 35% has disappeared from the Service App and website offers always said 'Unable to Proceed')

To be fair, out of the past 3 years I had 12 months free and then 24 months at 50% so I wasn't expecting anything amazing - the main thing is that I've now got half price Fibre Unlimited and that's miles more important to me than the TV, which was always just a nice added bonus.

We'll see what happens...
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Old 03-06-2016, 10:26
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I assume you have checked your My Sky, Sky Interactive and the Sky Service App?
Under my sky on the web do you check my offers section all I can see is sports, movies and multiscreen all half price. On interactive I have a 35% offer and on the app 50% offer but nothing on the web. Am I right to simply click on my offers on the Sky website?
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Old 03-06-2016, 10:35
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Under my sky on the web do you check my offers section all I can see is sports, movies and multiscreen all half price. On interactive I have a 35% offer and on the app 50% offer but nothing on the web. Am I right to simply click on my offers on the Sky website?
Usually comes up on the first page of My Sky telling you what offers you have...it varies where the best offers are, which is why you look at all 3 options.

I saw the 50% offer on my app, which I was happy about and just did Live Chat with the win back team and the applied the offer.
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Old 03-06-2016, 10:41
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Many thanks - my service ends on the 26th so plenty of time still
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Old 03-06-2016, 10:44
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Many thanks - my service ends on the 26th so plenty of time still
The offers can disappear at anytime as well, you might get better offers hanging on, they might go or stay the same, it's a gamble. I had a 50% offer on Sky Interactive, a few days later it changed to 35%, thankfully the service app still had 50%.
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Old 03-06-2016, 10:45
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When people are ending their subscriptions, is Sky killing the box (Sky+ recording) or leaving it active?

I ask because I heard some people get told they're getting 6 months of access to the free channels (Inc recording and playback).

Personally I think they should keep giving free recording access at no cost, as people could then keep the box and become tempted to re-subscribe. As against having a dead box that goes in a cupboard and replaced with a Freeview/Freesat recorder.
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Old 03-06-2016, 11:48
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There is certainly no broad policy to let people keep Sky+ recording capabilities without a subscription.
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