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Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

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Originally Posted by otguk (Post 35477409)

Morning,

Why cant virgin get close to this offer?

Am paying Â£110, no sports, tivo +2 HD boxes, BB 50 meg, phone.

So with Sky's offer, it works out like this....(Â£50 credit to start with +75% off)

Â£24.12 for everything package....the rest are not subject to offer, so are full price,
Â£10.25 multiroom
Â£20.00 Fibre optic BB up to 40MB (Â£50 install cost)
Â£14.50 Phone
Â£68.87 in total.

Yes am using my old sky box's but they work.

So I can save Â£42 a month

Phoned 150 to see if virgin can come close to that offer.

Not a chance, lady I spoke to even laughed when I said about the 75% offer, its not a new offer. Took me 5 minutes to google to find out its at least 6 mouths old. So why does virgin not have a strategy for this offer? With BT Infinity now in my area I have a choice of fast BB. So I can't even say "no one can match virgins BB speeds, lets stay." Even if I goto BT Infinity at Â£36.75 I get 50 voucher & 3 months at Â£20. Yes virgin is Â£32.40 & yes its an option to keep virgin BB.

So can any one offer me something close to Â£70 a month to stay with virgin? There's being loyal & then there's being stupid, Â£42 stupid.

PS
I would have to lose a virgin HD box to match sky's offer but am very close to doing that any way.

PPS
No one on virgin forum has answered yet :-)

Its a great deal from Sky but you would have to factor in call costs and the ESPN you get in the XL TV package from Virgin, Â£10 i think this is on Sky.

Just noticed you say Â£110 a month WITHOUT Sky Sports and presumably their HD variants?

what on earth?

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

If I could get that deal I would be off like a shot. Never mind no ESPN or for that matter HD. I would jump at it.

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

Ok I would like to say I made a mistake.

It was not a 12 month contract I was offered, it turns out to be a 1 month rolling contract :-D

Still going to keep virgin BB & phone for now, less hassles....

So as of today I have both virgin & sky...but virgin will go in November... for once it looks like am getting a good deal!

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

Good luck - hope it works out for you.

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

For me BB has always been the biggy. That's why I suppose I have had virgin BB since forever :-) not always the cheapest but the perks make it worth while.

So thanks I will endeavor to make it work, like making TiVo work... a lot of it is down to me the user to get the most out of the service...

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

I pay 92 pounds per month to Virgin and get tv xl phone with free calls Sky Sports 123 and 100meg broadband, soon to be 120 meg. So why are you paying 110 pounds for a smaller package?

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

I pay Sky half price for everything (full packages) HD Pack & ESPN & Multiroom because Sky had offer me by letter after I left them 6 months ago. So, i took the offer and it was only 1 month rolling contract. Hat off to Sky. Virgin Media offer me nothing!

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

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Originally Posted by telfordcable (Post 35479775)

Why am I not suprised Sky offered you a deal and that VM offered you nothing.

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

All the best i left virgin fed-up with all the price rises and they give you nothing to try to keep you im paying Â£13.25 for TV extra Â£7.50 for BB Â£3 per month line rental with evening and weekend calls that's Â£23.75 pm and if i want i get half price sports and films virgin are happy for you to leave they will loose even more customers in these hard times you have to save money were you can sky do 12 month contracts not 18 like virgin im on a 1 month contract except the BB is 12 month

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

Yeah i agree. Virgin Media is going downhills! I just annoying and fed up of virgin media special deal postage every week! What a load of rubbish postage as I put in the bin.

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

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Originally Posted by telfordcable (Post 35479908)

Yeah i agree. Virgin Media is going downhills! I just annoying and fed up of virgin media special deal postage every week! What a load of rubbish postage as I put in the bin.

with sky and virgin..
i have learnt this..
with virgin media it is good for the broadband and for the landline packages,but rubbish for the tv..
with sky,its good for the tv,but rubbish for the broadband and phone..

---------- Post added at 16:56 ---------- Previous post was at 16:03 ----------

i know is shouldnt be in this section..
i think bt should have its own cable tv,forget bt vision,it only freeview plus extras..
the whole country has bt in their roads,they should have their own cable tv service..
it be much better than virgin cos it be in every road in england..
bt will rule out virgin any day..
i think bt should buy out bbc channels,itv channels,chan4 channels,chan5 channels,
s4c,utv,stv.. and other channels to..

---------- Post added at 16:58 ---------- Previous post was at 16:56 ----------

infact if bt had its own cable tv system it should have its own channels which sky and virgin dont have and shouldnt have..

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

With VM if the boxes fail they fix them and any fault for free. You keep the boxes if you leave Sky. Also Sky charges for call outs

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

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Originally Posted by 27monksbury (Post 35479991)

With VM if the boxes fail they fix them and any fault for free. You keep the boxes if you leave Sky. Also Sky charges for call outs

The common trick with Sky is to threaten to cancel because your box is knackered and they usually come up with an offer that includes a new box for zilch. :dozey:

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

i get the top package with sky sports and movies and hd on virgin with 3 boxes for Â£111 a month sky cannot beat that believe me i seen sky rep local best they can do is Â£120 quid a month

Re: Sky's 75% off for 12 months offer would save me

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Originally Posted by Harryn9000 (Post 35480873)

i get the top package with sky sports and movies and hd on virgin with 3 boxes for Â£111 a month sky cannot beat that believe me i seen sky rep local best they can do is Â£120 quid a month

on sky u cant record the adult channels.. virgin u can..