Originally Posted by Jenny_Sawyer:
“I've been a Sky TV customer since the mid 90s, every year the US Open has been on Sky Sports, every year at the end of August I phone up Sky & order Sky Sports & cancel it at the same time (you have to have it for a minimum of one month & give one month's notice to cancel) so that I can watch it (I can't afford it all year round & frankly I'm not enough of a sports enthusiast to warrant it); this year I did exactly the same & the call handler asked me why I was getting Sky Sports for only a month & I told him (this was his cue to tell me that Sky Sports is not showing the US Open this year but he didn't), come Monday when the tournament started I switched on Sky Sports only to find that it wasn't on, I flicked through the sport channels & found it on Eurosport, now Eurosport comes free with the TV package I subscribe to, as far as I'm concerned I can be forgiven for assuming it would be on Sky Sports as usual, I phoned Sky & asked for a refund, I was given a partial refund (£15 out of the £27 I paid).”
“I've been a Sky TV customer since the mid 90s, every year the US Open has been on Sky Sports, every year at the end of August I phone up Sky & order Sky Sports & cancel it at the same time (you have to have it for a minimum of one month & give one month's notice to cancel) so that I can watch it (I can't afford it all year round & frankly I'm not enough of a sports enthusiast to warrant it); this year I did exactly the same & the call handler asked me why I was getting Sky Sports for only a month & I told him (this was his cue to tell me that Sky Sports is not showing the US Open this year but he didn't), come Monday when the tournament started I switched on Sky Sports only to find that it wasn't on, I flicked through the sport channels & found it on Eurosport, now Eurosport comes free with the TV package I subscribe to, as far as I'm concerned I can be forgiven for assuming it would be on Sky Sports as usual, I phoned Sky & asked for a refund, I was given a partial refund (£15 out of the £27 I paid).”
Well two things really:
- You cant expect someone there to be aware of every single thing that Sky shows
- Its been discussed on these boards that Sky Sports wont be showing the US Open, so next time look/ask on here first before assuming its on there again.




Also Jaccobabe, you've been here long enough, please learn to multi-quote 
guy probably didn't care though as it would count as an all important sale. If he'd told you then you wouldnt've signed up....definitely not right though!
