£5 a month off if you agree to extend your contract.
 

Apparently, VM are in the process of contacting customers offering a discount to people who agree to be locked into another one year contract.

Has anybody here received an offer yet?

If not, would you participate in such an offer from them?

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Surely if your willing to re-sign to virgin for an extended period of time your better off going through retentions to get a better deal than that.

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Good point, might be useful for those who don't like negotiating though.

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Depends how much your service is? £5 off a £25 bill is a good deal but £5 off £130 may not be

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Virgin are running scared over the new Sky set top box launch:

http://www.techradar.com/news/televi...it-be--1307880

Presumably Virgin plan to keep flogging the slow, old, knackered Tivo for the time being.

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Why are they running scared?.

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I have found that when I call them up to do a package change - or virtually anything - they seem to recheck and often offer some form of discount.

My mother called them to get her V box upgraded to a VHD box - and they offered her TiVo instead at 26p less per month.

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Virgin's Tivo is slow and knackered. Hence Virgin are scared of Sky, who are going to the next generation (and lets face it, knowing Sky, their new box will be amazing).

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VM are not running scared at all, no where in that article does it mention VM.

Its also not clear what exactly it is Sky are launching, could be a new box or another new streaming service.

TiVo is a great product and I for one could not managed without it and would never switch to Sky. Mine is most certainly not slow or knackered at all.

Yes the hardware could do with a refresh perhaps with a bigger HDD but the software is great and costantly being improved.

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+1

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Sorry to state the bleeding obvious but they already have a streaming service it's called Now TV. They also stream content via Sky Go for Sky customers.

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My Tivo works just fine the only thing it could do with is faster menus

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Sorry to state but I did say 'another' new streaming service or new stb.

Pay attention :dunce:

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Being that it's a Sky invitation I'm pretty sure it'll be a Sky product , the streaming service (Now TV) is a completely separate service. The video mentions Sky+ so I'd say it's safe to say its either some kind of new STB software with more advanced functionality or a new STB. I'd imagine it will include the ability to view PVR recordings on mobile/tablet devices.

Sky (Satellite) and Now TV are aimed at completely different types of customers.

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Hopefully they bring a new hub out too, that thing is awful

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Agreed a replacement is now needed , all its main competitors offer routers with the latest features.

The Sky hub doesn't offer dual band.

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We've been out of contract for a while but it would need a better discount than that to get us shackled back in. Free line rental for example.

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If you think you are going to get free line rental old boy then you are living on Planet Zarg.

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If you keep the package that you are happy with £5 0ff is a good deal to me , You know you are staying anyway ;)

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Or you phoneup after you're out of contract and get £30-40 knocked off your monthly bill, atleast that is what i have been lead to believe, will try it soon.

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some people are getting deals worth way more then free line rental.

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To me and many others that's pretty unfair on the loyal customer IMO.

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It's the world we live in today Den; bartering! I'm not really keen on it myself.

But as a long term customer, I feel I have the right to point that out, and ask if there is any discount available because of it; and I usually get some discount (not in the line rental price region, but then I don't have pay TV) I never threaten to leave or use any such tactics.

Do you not get any loyalty discount at all Den?

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When i recently moved to standalone broadband i got offered a free phone line with weeknd calls and £1.75 a mnth as well off my standalone broadband price if i took the phone as well as the broadband.. i declined as i was adamant that i only wanted bb from vm ..

But they do offer free phones lines/rental and give you a couple of quid as well when you tell them you dont want/need phone from them anymore .

i do agree with you though the system seams to be very unfair . there should be set prices for each package and a loyality discount applied after 4 years as an example

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We get a small loyalty discount but nothing like some.

We are not jealous as such but we do think the strategy is unfair to the more loyal customer in our book but we certainly won't be moving as we have always had bar one or two faults over the years a very good service.

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Probably Sky's version of the Foxtel IQ3, with 4k support, coming soon. They share a lot of hardware.

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In my experience, it's more costly to reduce VM services. I wanted to remove TV but VM said it would cost me more because I would lose my loyalty discount. I suspect that's a lie but you get a different answer from each VM CSA. They want you on a bundle because they can rake in more on costly calls and that the minimum TV package has less channels than Freeview, so to get a decent selection you have to pay more. :td:

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I suspect it's also to make the TV subscription figures look better. And they probably hope that you will spot a show on the EPG that will tempt you to up your subscription.

Personally, I don't care what the reason is; the free M TV deal works well for me.

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Can I ask how you managed to get onto the M package? If I decide to take a TiVo i'd want to downgrade to M. After looking on the VM website, the lowest option is M+ and, IIRC, the M pack is no longer advertised and now mainly used as a retention tool.

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I have Freesat as my main TV, but I have Virgin Medium M. in the bedroom, .

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SKY have a similar offer on the go at the moment. The offer as far as I'm aware is available to all SKY customers via the SKY customer home page.

"Get 25% off your Sky TV subscription for the next 10 months when you sign up for another 12 months."

It's not a bad deal if your currently paying full price for SKY. The Family Bundle plus SKY Sports and SKY Movies costs £70.50 per month. If you agree to a new contract your monthly instalment for 10 months will go down to £52.87, a saving of £17.63 each month.

The TV subscription market is great at the moment for consumers.

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Which would you say gives you the better choice of channels?

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Has anyone actually received a letter about this offer?

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I think the best route is via retentions if your happy to continue/extend with virgin if you have sky and your out of contract with sky i would recommended giving them 30 days notice you may well get a 50% off for 12 months on your mysky account

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I know of only one person so far, which prompted me to start this thread. It's interesting that nobody has thus far said that they have received this offer. Perhaps it's only a limited trial at the moment??

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Yeah that's pretty much my intention. Not paid full price ever to SKY. Joined SKY on a 50% off deal. After 12 months I cancelled and got an offer to come back on another 50% off deal. Cancelled that after 12 months too and got 60% off for a year. Deal runs out in 2 months time. Must have saved over £1200 over the past 36 months.