Sky Offer

[Reacher]

 

This is my thought just now. Oh' date=' it would be so much easier if I could just ring them up. He's been working all weekend so I've just been biding my time[/quote']

 

I'd pretty much guarantee they've ignored your other half first time round.

 

I've had; MBNA, Natwest, Lovefilm, BT,

Talk Talk and 3 in the past few years who have been great at talking money but as soon as you want to cancel a service or move savings/

Or an ISA I've had to ring up between two and four times to sort it. Hope you get a good deal.

[Champ]

If its over 31 days since your 'better half' cancelled then I suspect he didn't actually cancel.

 

Vlad wins. Aaarrggghhh!

[VladimirIlyich]

 

Vlad wins. Aaarrggghhh!

 

Told you.

 

I've never had Sky not phone back after cancelling and they always turned the telly off after the required amount of days.

 

Give your hubby a slap.

[The Golden Eel]

All that time I'm checking this thread eagerly to see what will happen and it turns out the dude had never rang.... Classic.

[Guest San Don]

I've worked with 'retention teams' in the past and, I find it difficult to accept that regular, repeated threats to quit will get you any regular special offers.

 

OK, once or twice will work, after all, its easier to retain customers than get new ones on board but lots of these companies arent stupid. They know when someone is playing the system hence the 'new customers only' phrase that gets repeated but more importantly, their terms and conditions.

 

Good luck to those that try it but I find it hard to believe you're going to get a discounted deal (and the same one at that) for threatening to quit every 6 months or so.

[Sweeney287]

We've had our bill discounted twice previously for 6 months, then when they refused for the third we went through and cancelled.

 

A few days prior to the 31 days running out, they called up and offered 12 month half price so they will do it.

 

That 12 months is due to expire in a few months and I don't think we'll get it again.

[Champ]

All that time I'm checking this thread eagerly to see what will happen and it turns out the dude had never rang.... Classic.

 

I should change my username to Chump :wallbutt:

[bri]

just cancelled, will sweat them out and report back

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I've got her on to this, because she's a woman I don't trust her to make the call if I say she's a cabbage can I talk on her behalf ??

[Champ]

I've got her on to this, because she's a woman I don't trust her to make the call if I say she's a cabbage can I talk on her behalf ??

 

Her? Who is this her, Zeke? What have I missed?

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Her? Who is this her, Zeke? What have I missed?

 

The bird I've been knocking about with, she's a bit of an emotional wreck but aside from that she's alright.

[bri]

Couldnt be arsed waiting the month got £25 off the bill

[Champ]

The bird I've been knocking about with, she's a bit of an emotional wreck but aside from that she's alright.

 

The nurse?

 

About your question, if the account's in her name she would have to make the initial call, confess to being a cabbage and give her permission for you to speak to them on her behalf. Game on

[Ezekiel 25:17]

The nurse?

 

About your question, if the account's in her name she would have to make the initial call, confess to being a cabbage and give her permission for you to speak to them on her behalf. Game on

 

Yeah, She's been with sky for years but never had any discount, anything, worth a try, cheers Champ.

[VladimirIlyich]

I've worked with 'retention teams' in the past and' date=' I find it difficult to accept that regular, repeated threats to quit will get you any regular special offers.

 

OK, once or twice will work, after all, its easier to retain customers than get new ones on board but lots of these companies arent stupid. They know when someone is playing the system hence the 'new customers only' phrase that gets repeated but more importantly, their terms and conditions.

 

Good luck to those that try it but I find it hard to believe you're going to get a discounted deal (and the same one at that) for threatening to quit every 6 months or so.[/quote']

 

I think you are wrong but its usually 12 months that sky offer me and i get frequent discounts when i quit. This seems to work with others too,judging by this thread.

[Champ]

Couldnt be arsed waiting the month got £25 off the bill

 

Lightweight!

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I think as a general rule of thumb to only really get offered the good discounts you have to be on a big package to start with i.e sports, multi room etc. You're wasting your time if you try and get discounts on basic packages, they'll give you the discounts but only if you retain premium services. We cancelled about two weeks ago after I spent an hour on the phone to some absolutely fucking mongtard who had no clue what to do. Now I keep telling her to wait but she's impatient (IMAGINE THAT), so I'm going to phone them tonight and say I had a missed call from the retentions team and hopefully coherse them into a deal. I've looked on Virgin media and got an idea of pretending what I've been offered elsewhere. Will report back tomorrow.

[VladimirIlyich]

I think as a general rule of thumb to only really get offered the good discounts you have to be on a big package to start with i.e sports' date=' multi room etc. You're wasting your time if you try and get discounts on basic packages, they'll give you the discounts but only if you retain premium services. We cancelled about two weeks ago after I spent an hour on the phone to some absolutely fucking mongtard who had no clue what to do. Now I keep telling her to wait but she's impatient (IMAGINE THAT), so I'm going to phone them tonight and say I had a missed call from the retentions team and hopefully coherse them into a deal. I've looked on Virgin media and got an idea of pretending what I've been offered elsewhere. Will report back tomorrow.[/quote']

 

I reckon you will get something from them.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I hope so, the Virgin media package is pretty good so I'm not going to settle for anything mediocre.

[VladimirIlyich]

Any luck Zeke?

[Captain Turdseye]

I should come onto the TNF more often, haven't seen this thread before.

 

Gonna get my bird to get on this, she loves ringing/e-mailing people to complain anyway. We've got all channels except movies and ESPN, plus phone and broadband. Also we've got my name to fall back on as a new customer if it doesn't happen. When you think of saving £300 a year it makes sense with a little 'un on the way, I could spend that wedge on beer to drink so I don't wake up when it's crying in the night.

[Brownie]

I binned my Sky off about 3 or 4 months ago and it saves me over £90 a month - makes a big difference.

[Champ]

Champ tries to get her man to wangle a better deal out of Sky Season 2

The Sky box in the living room/lounge/front room delete as applicable packed up the other day so I left him this afternoon trying to get through to them to replace it.

It wasnt going to work to ask them to fix it and then cancel in the same call so that may have to wait until the repair/replace is complete

[VladimirIlyich]

Champ tries to get her man to wangle a better deal out of Sky Season 2

The Sky box in the living room/lounge/front room delete as applicable packed up the other day so I left him this afternoon trying to get through to them to replace it.

It wasnt going to work to ask them to fix it and then cancel in the same call so that may have to wait until the repair/replace is complete

 

Our sky box was knackered for ages, couldnt get a decent picture on most channels, so we waited until they made us an offer of a new box and a cut price deal. Took a while but we got this deal a few months ago.

[VladimirIlyich]

I hope so, the Virgin media package is pretty good so I'm not going to settle for anything mediocre.

 

Glad the Virgin deal worked out for you mate. They were too expensive for us so we had to stick with Sky regardless.