SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Has anyone ever used a SKY friends and family code, giving them cheap services for 12 months, from a SKY employee?

I've noticed SKY employees giving the codes out on various forums. I've even seen them being sold on Ebay. I assume SKY won't be happy with this however as I am considering moving to SKY it's something that has got me intrigued.

Like everyone I like a good deal. It's just when something seems too good to be true, it often is.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Trust me mate , loads are using them in fact on the moneysavingexpert website they were giving them out in batches , I believe vouchercodes website also did the same one day.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

It's incredible. Some of the prices, with the codes, are simply too good to turn down.

I knew someone who worked at SKY in Livingston but he moved to another job a few months ago :( There is a guy up the road who drives a SKY van. Maybe I'll follow him to the pub on Saturday and will give him a bit of chat :D

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I dont think Sky will be too fussed about it as it gives them more customers and more customers equals more money. I got my code from a mate i used to work with and he puts it all over Facebook that he has codes available

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Muppetman was saying about Money Saving Expert. Look at the below link:

http://www.sky.com/shop/offers/money-saving-expert

Offer only available to the first 2000 customers!

Some of the prices on that page are crazy.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

WOW them prices are well cheap

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Well turns out my wife's cousin works for SKY! He sorted us out with a code no problem.

Here is the deal:

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]
[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

£71.37 for everything including ESPN and multi-room. If I add Boxnation and Premier Sports I'll still be much cheaper than I pay to Virgin now.

Need to speak to Virgin about leaving before ordering with SKY.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

can you not get Sky fibre?

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Is your multiroom box the SkyHD (non PVR) ?

Looks a good deal

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

It's SKY HD without PVR. I can go and play with the options available as I'm not booking until I've cancelled my Virgin package. My promo code is valid until 19th December however I'd like to get this nailed down ASAP.

---------- Post added at 22:19 ---------- Previous post was at 22:18 ----------

Not yet. I don't think it's coming to my area until March.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

The standard Sky+HD box will offer you 60hrs HD recording , you will also be able to watch your recordings off the Sky+HD box on your non PVR in a future update.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Sounds great.

Do SKY offer 3D on demand?

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

At the minute only occasionally via the Showcase section.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Perfect.

I'm calling Virgin tomorrow to cancel. I'm then going to book with SKY. My promo code ends on 19th December. Hopefully I can book now, and pay my deposit of £10.00 requesting an install date around the 09th of January. Hopefully that shouldn't effect my promo code.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

All seems a great deal Chad. Thats what got me to Sky the half price offer. If its all cheaper than VM the surely its a no brainer. LEts us know what VM say

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Exclude Sky movies and Sports and VM appears cheaper.
With Tivo and V+HD boxes in two rooms, Weekend phone, and XL TV which includes ESPN, and 60Mbps broadband -I only pay £58 per month

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Crazy how the prices work. VM were charging me £49 for M+, 20Mbps broadband and the inclusive phone line, which a year ago they were only charging me £32.

Going through the options with them the only way I could get a good deal was to spend even more money with them.

Have a feeling some will switch every year to get the best deals, unless they are really happy where they are.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I checked my current offering with the new packages and it worked out cheaper. So I started a new contract and saved £11 per month. Last time I changed the broadband speed from 30-60 and the price went down.

I'm almost sure that Sky simply make the price of Sky movies and Sky Sports artificially high to the competition, or make it considerably lower on their own package to attract customers.

Still - it's whatever suits you - I'm not a sports fan, but the cabled internet speed is much more of an attraction to me.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

The new 12 month contract must be part of what makes the deals cheaper.

The VM fibre connection I have has been bad for jitter and packet loss for so long that I wasn't going to tie myself to them for another year. Not so interested in the TV side of things so much but did want a decent internet connection.

Switching to sky gave me double the speed 40mb (74-80mb if I pay £5 more), more/better tv channels (Sky entertainment extra vs VM M+), downgraded phone from anytime calls to just line rental/weekends, for less money.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

It's pretty much SKY Sports and SKY Movies plus the HD package i'm after in order to enjoy SKY 3D.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I phoned to cancel my Sky a few weeks ago. They offered little so I cancelled. They phoned me a few weeks later and offered me 25% off the stay and then, after I said I wasn't interested, offered me 50% off without HD. That was ok! £52 down to £21 or so.

Then last week I took the Money Saving Expert HD upgrade code getting me HD for 12 months at 50% too!

So Sky Sports, Sky, and Sky HD all for £27ish. Nice.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

It's a great deal. If you love TV, and you love HD, £27.00 per month is incredible.

SKY should get some reps on this site. I'm sure there are a few virgin fanboys who could be turned with a nice little offer code :D I don't care how good TiVo is, I'm going to be saving almost £600 over the next 12 months!

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Well that's me all signed up and ready to go. TV installation date is the 20th December with my phone and broadband being installed on the 15th January.

SKY confirmed I will have SKY fibre in my area by April. Once it's rolled out I can upgrade and get it for half price for the remaining 8 months of my contract! Until then I'll have speeds between 11mb and 18mb. Even if it's less than this then I'm not too bothered. I'm only paying £3.75 per month for my unlimited broadband anyway.

I'm really looking forward to having a wide selection of channels, a wide selection of HD channels and SKY's dedicated 3D channel. I am also looking forward to having almost all new channels from launch instead of waiting years and years for them.

Whilst TiVo is a great little box all it really does is makes the best of what you've got. TiVo did unearth some gems but in the end I wanted better. The value I'm getting from SKY, and the behaviour of the person from Virgin the other night has put any doubt I had about this move right out of my head.

As a boxing fan I'll finally be able to catch everything I want to see. I'm finally be able to get Premier Sports, I'll now be able to watch the live free shows from Goodwin Promotions on Primetime and just announced today I will be able to watch the 6 live shows Frank Maloney is televising via Loaded TV on SKY channel 200. Not only that I can enjoy more boxing in HD and finally I'll be able to watch my favourite sport in 3D too.

Oh and the wife is over the moon about finally getting access to SKY Atlantic. I know it sounds cheesy however I have genuinely been excitied about the prospect of SKY being installed for about the past 24 hours.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Glad you are getting it in time for Christmas - a good result for your family, and your wallet....

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Thanks Hugh. The crazy thing is I had no intention of moving. We recently bought a 3D TV and have watched all the 3D content on Virgin. I was a little down when the ITV HD channels didn't arrive on Virgin, and it all turned out to be false information. The final straw was the 3rd price increase within 10 months and my wife remembering out the blue her cousin works for SKY.

Whilst the deal only lasts for 12 months, I've been assured that if I play the leaving to go to Virgin card this time next year I should be able to re-contract for another 12 months with the first 6 remaining at around half price.

I'm currently getting my Mum and Dad onto this deal too. Told my colleagues at work, one of them bought a code from EBay last night for £20.00 and used it today during his lunch break. The price increases from Virgin have been a real blessing in disguise.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Welcome to Sky Chad. This is where we 'Believe In Better.' Im sure you will like Sky

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

It's not as dark over on this side as others have suggested :D

I've pretty much always enjoyed having Virgin services however the lack of new quality channels and content over the past 12 months, coupled with prices rises every 4 months or so, made it clear that Virgin can't deliver on my high expectations for TV entertainment and value for money.

I could have just stayed with Virgin however I don't have the same faith or resolve as others who frequent the Coming Soon thread. I went out, got what i wanted at the price I wanted and I'm chuffed to bits. It's likely I won't have to pay full price for my services until around June 2014. That's worth sacrificing some bandwidth and TiVo for everyday of the week.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Its a very good side this side :D

I agree VM's price rise is defo not good and Sky at the moment i think are alot better

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

How many HD channels are there on SKY at the moment? Isn't there a couple of others coming soon too i.e. Film 4HD?

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

At moment its upto 65 HD channels. Film4 HD is due in spring 2013

---------- Post added at 22:41 ---------- Previous post was at 22:29 ----------

It seems i missed off More4 HD coming soon as well. Thanks MM for advising me

See link below Chad

http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/...-more4-hd.html

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Thanks for the info

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I made the move from TiVo to Sky around 10 months ago and haven't missed it one bit! I think you'll be surprised just how fast and responsive the Sky+HD box is and with all the HD channels your TV will have never looked so good! :)

Sky 3D is also an incredible channel with a lot of Movies, Sports and Documentaries airing over the Xmas period.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I agree. I dont actually miss Tivo and i manage just fine without 3 tuners with Catchup and On Demand. Dont think ill ever go back to VM if i can help it

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

With the Sky + app for iPad I'm using the EPG on the TV less and less.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I really wish someone would buy me an iPad for xmas :(

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

This can't be said enough, Sky really have a fantastic suite of iPad and iPhone apps that complement their TV package!

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Couldn't agree more , I love the latest update allowing you to view the OD/Catchup library.

This was interesting in the article on DS

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/new...g-feature.html

It seems in the future you'll be able to use the app when away from your home to start OD downloads.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

That would be a good feature. They need to make it on Android as well, feeling left out :(

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

yes not everyone got a bloody ipad it like VM anytime too only availably on ipad at moment people with Android cant use it unless use it on a comp

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Its because iOS is easier to code for but i think they should develop quicker for Android and release both versions together. Android is becoming a bigger market than iOS

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Already in development :)

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Just a shame the android version doesn't let you change channels manually. Obviously its easy for them to add as Zeebox does it.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Woohoo. Nice one MM. Lets hope its released for Galaxy S3

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

No l am not for turning as someone famously said.:nono::nono:

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

We'll wear you down eventually Den :D

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

They said that to Rocky Marciano but he remained undefeated.:D

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

It would be funny if we did

Who?

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Perhaps your newest servant could educate you about one of the true greats of that fine pugilist sport.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

:D

Marciano is one of the greatest heavyweight fighters of all times. He won all 49 of his fights and retired as the undefeated heavyweight champion, the only undefeated heavyweight champion ever. Our own Joe Calzaghe is also one of literally a few fighters fighters who retired as world champion without a blemished record.

I never thought Denphone, Joe Calzaghe and Rocky Marciano would ever feature in the same post :D

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I get it now

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

That's now 2 work colleagues, my brother and a family friend moved over to SKY on friends and family 50% deal from SKY. I told them about it and they managed to find codes very easily online.

Forget trawling the internet, seems Facebook and Twitter are the place to go for codes!

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Yes 'Hugo' is available in the Showcase section today in 3D. :)

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Nice!

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

In the showcase for me too but unable to watch it. Entertainment extra + HD pack isn't enough to get the 3D channel or content....I need to add a sports and movie package, even to watch a wildlife program in 3D :mad:

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

BBC are showing a 3D programme about dinosaurs on Christmas Day on BBC HD.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I know you said you've just bought a 3DTV Chad , be sure to record Galapagos 3D , I've just watched the first episode and its superb in 3D well worth a look.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I watched that. Its awesome. Sir David Attenborough, what a man.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

I agree , it was a great production and excellent in 3D easily one of Sky's best.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Yes indeed David Attenborough is certainly the greatest.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Not as good as Steve Irwin, god rest his soul.

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Steve Irwin good as he was is not in David Attenborough's class and thats a fact.:nono:

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

David's stuff isnt my sort of thing but i loved all the stuff Steve did

Re: SKY employees friends and family codes
 

Steve and David were not comparable. They both had their good and daft points and aimed at different markets.