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

Morning,

Why cant virgin get close to this offer?

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

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

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

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

So I can save £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 £36.75 I get 50 voucher & 3 months at £20. Yes virgin is £32.40 & yes its an option to keep virgin BB.

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

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How does that compare to the VM Premiere collection, which is £58.90.

60Mb BB
XL TV
TiVo & additional V+ box
Phone rental & Talk Weekends

What will the Sky price be after the discount ends?

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

He`s also including Sky movies & Sport in his pricing..

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Ah - didn't realise that.

Thanks.

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Yes but the boxes cost a fortune.

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Still sounds like one helluva deal - he needs to check the post-discount price, though, and when it would kick in.

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One could say that Sky must be desperate for customers/worried about VM if they are prepared to give a 75% discount. Either that or their prices are way over-inflated in the first place :devsmoke::D

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£65.75 & after 12 months...

Yes sports/films/HD pack.

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Either that or they know as they wholesale the channels to Virgin Media they know eventually Virgin couldn`t reduce their package by as much as 75%.

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i want to know when virgin media gonna expand their coverage..
they should get more customers..

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if virgin media did thet-they be broke!!! u know how poor virgin media is..lol.. sorry virgin..virgin media vshould expand their coverage to get new customers..

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To the op,

How long is the Sky contract term for, surely its got to be 18 months or so. It seems to good to be true. I also pressume you don't get HD for that price, not that you need it but it is free with VM.

It seems like a very good deal if you don't mind the upheaval of moving, and I can vouch for the broadband, it be reet good :).

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This offer is an old offer given to people after they leave Sky.

It's just Sky playing games with their subscriber numbers. They must be a little down on where they want to be at this point approaching the end of the first quarter next weekend so this offer rolls out for a few weeks to stop all those Virgin switchers leaving.

It is a cynical marketing ploy from Sky but unfortunately existing customers end up reading threads like this one (although that is less likely on a cable forum!) and decide they should cancel themselves seeking such offers.

Apparently these type of offers are to be phased out over the next few quarters but we'll see what happens with overall customer numbers.

This is not on a contract as the people are leaving Sky so can reinstate without a contract unless they need new equipment.
Another point with this offer is that you must take HD pack to get it so the prices will include HD.

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It's an offer for subscribers who've left Sky the majority will have a box already , most new subscribers get a free box so I fail to see how you come to that conclusion. The offer makes perfect sense get them back onboard with a view to upselling them other products over time it's no different from VM I've had numerous offers off them to come back since leaving.

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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, £10 i think this is on Sky.

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

what on earth?

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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.

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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!

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Good luck - hope it works out for you.

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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...

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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?

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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!

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

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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 £13.25 for TV extra £7.50 for BB £3 per month line rental with evening and weekend calls that's £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

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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.

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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..

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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..

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

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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

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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:

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

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

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What are you doing after you record them..wait..don't answer :D

I have always said, don't be loyal to virgin or sky. Choose what is best, and don't be frightened to switch. I have done that often.

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hahahahahaha....i wont answer..lol
they are intresting to watch..lol
'girl girl' my fav channel..lol

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wat do u watch on sky?

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sky atlantic, sports :)

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espn america my self..
american football and baseball..
to be honest i like watching them,but i dont have a clue about the games..