mido1k 1:26 Mon Jun 12
Sky or No Sky
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Evening fellow hammers. Absolutely sick of paying the crippling cost of having sky throughout the house. Any tech people can help me out on this matter to save me a few bob. whomail me. cheers
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Dr Moose
5:01 Mon Jun 12
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Sky have said they are going to clamp down big time on the illegal Kodi's. If you're that pissed off get a recordable freeview\\freesat box (search ebay for a deal) and a now box you then pay 9.99 for movies, 6.99 for entertainment package (it includes Sky Atlantic, so you can perv the new series), 2.99 if you have kids for the kids package. Sports is still pricey at 33.00 but its all monthly and you can cancel it at anytime.
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happygilmore
4:09 Mon Jun 12
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how likely is sportsnation being around in a few months time? Sky seem to be clamping down big time
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penners28
3:53 Mon Jun 12
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Id be pissed off if a sky advisor gave me a detention.
Dont care if they get bonuses for it
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mallard
2:48 Mon Jun 12
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Sniper, I'm pretty sure the Call advisors hands are tied when it comes to free upgrade to fibre.
You may be able to upgrade for £5 per month, but ADSL to Fibre is a huge difference in speed and performance and well worth doing
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Sniper
2:24 Mon Jun 12
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Download the sky services app hen call them to leave
Within about half an hour you'll have an offer on the app for 50% off!
Also when you sign back up, ask them to a credit on your account for the hassle they've caused you - the operators are targeted on detentions and sign ups, and they have a budget each on discounts they can offer and then credits they can give.
Though if anyone can tell me how to successfulkybhaggle free fibre broadband I'd be very grateful - my broadband is slow as fuck and they just don't care
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Northern Sold
11:37 Mon Jun 12
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IF you want to keep all the packages you currently get threaten to leave… ask to be put through to their cancellations department… even go as far as cancelling if you are not happy at their newly proposed price… you’ll find them giving you a call in a couple of days time with a half price/60% off… etc
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Trevor B
11:31 Mon Jun 12
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Sy have a package sale on at the moment, all you need to do is get through to the right person. ive had a few issues with my broadband recently so i speak directly to the executive team in scotland, they are excellent and don't have to go to anyone above them to get authorisation for any discounts. try calling them.
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ooooh Morley Morley
11:28 Mon Jun 12
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We have SKY unlimited broadband, SKY telephone and full SKY Q package with 2 additional boxes this lot has cost about £100 for last 12 months or so. Which isn't bad considering how much BT were fleecing us for when we were with them for internet and phone. Just phoned SKY to say we will be leaving them completely when contract runs out and they have gone away to look at what deals they can offer me to stay and will call back later today.
We also have KODI box but it can be a pain sometimes to use plus some addons are now not working.
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Coffee
11:18 Mon Jun 12
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God help me if I ever go back and want to watch TV.
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madeeasy
11:02 Mon Jun 12
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Download mobdro. get rid of sky and dont be sucked in to thinking you have to pay.
i had sky for about 20 years and now do not miss it at all.
get downloaded what i want to watch and it helps you not just sit there trying to find some crap to watch to kill time
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Northern Sold
10:46 Mon Jun 12
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Pay £22 a month basic SKY HD package that has box sets and all the docs (Discovery/History/Sky Atlantic etc)... sport I get £1 a week with Sportsmania.... films I get free through Android (Kodi)... so in all I suppose it works out to £26 for what was a £100 a month package
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Trevor B
10:41 Mon Jun 12
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just got Q recently, got a good deal on movies and sports too. all in pay about 75 per month with two extra mini boxes. just a shame there isnt as much UHD content as i would like at the moment, that should improve soon.
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penners28
10:39 Mon Jun 12
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sky is great value for money, especially if you can negotiate. we pay roughly £70 for the lot, but dont have sky Q though tbf. 1 multi room box though.
what thats, just over £2 a day?
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tiddingtoniron
10:22 Mon Jun 12
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Got Plex through the firestick - 6 months and not a single problem
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GreenStreetPlayer
10:20 Mon Jun 12
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Get a freesat box. Stream the other stuff.
Life will go on without Sky.
Do your bit to stop all this money going to players.
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zico
10:14 Mon Jun 12
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Alfs 3:27 Mon Jun 12
Being a deaf bastard it's the subtitles that are a big pull for me with Sky compared with streaming.
To the OP I agree with Marston. I was just coming up to the ends of a 12 month 40% off deal for everything. That's £50.40 for Sky, Movies, Sports and HD. Did their Live Chat to cancel and after a bit of haggling they offered me an 18 month deal at 40% off again, so the same deal. Maybe if I had quit they may have offered 50 off in a month via post but to be honest £50 a month for the whole lot I can live with that.
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munkyfunk
9:36 Mon Jun 12
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Google zgemma boxes or youtube It.
Or iptv as sky are on a purge encrypting their channels again.
If you have Virgin fibre Internet a zgemma h2h will do the trick.
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Marston Hammer
8:51 Mon Jun 12
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If you want to keep sky the first thing you should do is get the price reduced. Ring up, ask to go straight through to cancellations, start the 30 day period, they'll either give you a big reduction there and then or ring you back in a week or two to try and entice you back.
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Trevor B
8:32 Mon Jun 12
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You buy a box that records.
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Willtell
7:41 Mon Jun 12
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Alfs 3:27
How do you record them though?
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Coffee
6:45 Mon Jun 12
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No sky for China Eastern Airlines flight MU736 yesterday, which returned to Sydney soon after take off when a massive hole appeared in one engine. The pilot's mayday call: "Engine number one fucked."
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