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Sky are now offering all of the Sky Sports channels for £8 with an 18 month contract. This isn't far off the price of £5.99 for one SD channel when Sky Sports started to charge in the early 90's!

I imagine they must have had a surge of customers cancelling to push them to do this:

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I've taken a look to see if Virgin Media are matching this, but can't see anything online. Has anyone had a similar offer when ringing to cancel because of the suspension of some sports due to the effects of the Coronavirus?

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Is that uniform or to one person?

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Still £20p/m here.

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Thanks for that, this confirms that it must be customer specific, it does show how low they are prepared to go though.

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The greedy buggers should be reducing everyone's subs if they have the sports package!

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Most unlikely MM at this present time.

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Knowing VM they'll raise prices instead.

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Wouldn't describe them as greedy, in reality it takes something like this to show the price is high but not unreasonable.

However with virtually all sport cancelled for the foreseeable future they do need to reduce all sports subs to reflect lack of content.

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Next Thursday we should know more when the Premier League will hold an emergency meeting to establish plans for the remainder of the season.

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In business, it's always better to give a complimentary product as opposed to a discount because it costs the business less than what it's worth to the customer.

Perhaps, whilst many are stuck at home and there's no football, Sky/VM etc could temporarily be given permission to unlock the movie channels to Sky Sports subscribers.

I imagine that this might appease a lot of unhappy sports subscribers. Who knows, they might carry on subscribing when the football returns. I had them essentially for free for a year and only found a handful of decent films, but that's down to my personal taste.

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There will be no refunds for Sky Sports customers.

https://advanced-television.com/2020...no-live-sport/

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A short term holding statement but its a stance that will be untenable before long.

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A free movie sub does nothing for me - had one for 12 months, never found time to watch anything - no real interest.

As the only sport left is Rugby League, I believe Sky/Virgin are skating on thin ice as they aren't supplying the advertised sports (they were still accepting new subscribers of yesterday - Really??)

I think they should do the decent thing and reduce subs to a nominal £1pm until normal service is resumed.

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Anyway i'm calling bs on this £8p/m deal i think it's photoshopped, i've asked several people in the office today who have a connection with SKY and all have said no such deal exist the cheapest is £15p/m.

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I doubt that Virgin would reduce or refund unless Sky did the same for Virgin. I can’t see Virgin taking on such a huge loss when it’s Sky’s product.

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That's because the games may still be played, the situation will change if the PL call time on this season.

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Think Sky are morally wrong not to reduce the price of sky sports for existing customers given that there is pretty much no live sport. Simple solution though is to cancel it.

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Unless the T&C's state otherwise which l doubt that it does they will expect subscribers to adhere to their contracts.

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Done today, although you have to give 30 days notice, so it wont take effect until mid April.

Fortunately, my last 18 month contract ran out last week (what about that for timing).

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Unfortunately our new contract started in early January.

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Did they try to tempt you to stay with a discounted deal or did they just accept your request to cancel without any hassle?

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Of course they tried, they would not be very good at their job if they didnt.
I simply didnt take up (all) their offer. They reduced my standard package, which I was happy to do.

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Didn't you have to take something that you didn't want (Boxsets I think you said it was called) in order to get Sky Sports? They might find that those cancelling Sky Sports also cancel the other stuff that they didn't really want.

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Nope, no idea why you think that.

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Well you could blow me down with a feather - just read that Sky have announced monthly increases averaging £3pm.

Do they live in a different world to the rest of us? Unbelievable?

I wonder how many will cancel their sports subs (and possibly sky tv in total) when they realise they haven't missed the football that much?

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Just ?

I got a letter about them weeks ago.

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Sky have now confirmed:

Whilst we expect that many of the recently postponed sports events will go ahead, if you wish to pause your Sky Sports subscription in the meantime you will not be charged a fee to do so or be held to any notice period. Meanwhile we continue to provide high quality content across all of our 11 Sky Sports channels.

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Three months minimum and possibly much longer OB.

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HQ Repeats ...

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A word of warning though, it's transpired that, even though Sky Sports can be paused, if it is, then people are losing discounts eg one person found that they were then paying full price for movies.

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Hopefully, this is explained to customers who request the pause.

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I have the rolling 30 day Sky Sports package with VM, I will probably wait until the PL decide their way forward before I cancel my package.

I have got Amazon prime now after the Boxing Day games, I am actually getting my money's worth and there are some good sports programmes such as Man City All or Nothing.

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I'm not surprised and this is the nub. I'd not contemplated losing Sky Cinema discounts by chopping Sports, but was painfully aware that chopping the sports channels could throw any bundle discounts/offers into the mix and end up worse off in the long run.

I suppose if VM have discounted subs based on a 12month contract, then it's the usual argument rehashed. Just that these are somewhat unprecedented times.

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VM I believe are allowing you to just cancel it till sports are back to normal .

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...and would thus allow VM to disingenuously say that they had offered you an option to pause Sky Sports.

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One woman said that neither her or the CS had thought about this. When this was realised (after the CS woman had input the pause request), she said to forget about it, but the system wouldn't allow her to change it back!

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We tried to cancels the sports nash but was told our bill would go up by a pound.

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Have VM done the same as Sky now?

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Yes, go here:
https://www.virginmedia.com/pauseskysports

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Given that if you pause your subscriptions, you still get these channels, why do they ask you if you want to pause your subscriptions? Why not just credit everyone with the subscription for these channels? Seems a bit bureaucratic to me.

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... because Martin Lewis talks about forbearance in these difficult times.
There are some who feel it appropriate to continue to pay for what, after all, they are continuing to receive - the Sky Sports channels.

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How does this work for those that receive packages with Sky Sports in the price like the ultimate oomph bundle?

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Given my experience on the dog and bone you won't be any better off.

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Are vm feeling ok?

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And this is my worry - our bundle includes sports & movies, and yeah, I'm a little concerned about messing up the movies discount by chopping the sports.

It's great that VM are now doing this, but I'd have liked a little bit of reassurance in the holding statement to cover these scenarios. I can't imagine we're the only ones.

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Exactly.

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Quite a few l would imagine as all l know when l phoned up the other day and stated clearly that l won't be needing Sky Sports they said fine but your bill will go up by a £1 though and my reply was very politely l am not very happy with this and nor will many others be either.

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Just found this link to reduce sky sports on virgin media

https://www.virginmedia.com/help/thi...ing/talk-to-us

UPDATE I HAVE NOW PAUSED MY SKY SPORTS AND GET THIS MESSAGE
What happens next?
We will go ahead and make this change as soon as we can. There’s no need to contact us further and we’ll be in touch to let you know when your payments for Sky Sports will begin again.

Just so you know, you can still watch your Sky Sports channels during the pause.

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This is most welcome, however before taking the plunge there needs to be clarification that discounts will still happen

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As far as I understand it the option is available for all customers, whether Sky Sports is in a bundle or not or whether you've got existing discounts or not.

It is on top of your current bundle deal, not instead of.

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l finally got through althought the wait to get through was most considerable although understandable given the Coronavirus crisis.

We are now on the Maxit bigger bundle with Sky Cinema but no Sky Sports on there.

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How much did they take off your bill?

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Around £18.

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Thanks. It's worth a call then.

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Most definitely but patience is a virtue as we put the phone on speaker mode and just waited for them to answer.

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You shouldn't call them - just fill in the form

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No good filling in the form as we get loyalty discounts on ours package so how does one know by filling a form what new amount we would actually pay on our new package as when l phoned them up originally we were told our bill would go up by a pound rather then down even by not having Sky Sports.

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Are the Sky Sports channels still viewable after pausing the payment for them (this is the case with Sky). If so, and discounts aren't affected, I can't see why anybody wouldn't do it.

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Yes Richard, they are still viewable.

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To be honest virgin should automatically reduce all bills for sky sports subscribers currently as a matter of course.

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Same - we've got sports & cinema bundled together this is an unknown.

I've done the webform, seems much better to do it than not, on balance.

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I quite agree, but I'm not holding my breath

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just checked my account

Did the form the other day
I now have 27 credit on my account for sky sports thats on top of a £40 discount I already have

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Same here. I can see a £27 credit although don’t know what’s for until the bill arrives. Maybe £20 for sports and £7 for HD?

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Well spotted - my account is showing in a similar manner.

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After I completed the form to pause sky sports I have now been given a £27 credit a month till the live action starts

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Good, I am pleased for you. The link of mine that you quoted was published before Sky relented, by the way.

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Looks like you can pause BT Sport now as well?

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Wasn't going to pause as already getting package discounted but if it's on top of the discounts already then why not! Thanks folks.

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On virgin media surely that will affect people that sub to BT sport and not getting it free by being on the top TV Package

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Let’s get this clear - those on the top package do not get it free. In fact, the large majority never watch the channels and are subsidising all those that do watch.

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Hmmm. Who subsidises who is always the big question in pay TV. Some users pay the thick end of £80 a month to Sky/Virgin for TV packages and rarely watch any non-premium content. Sport etc brings millions of subscribers to the table that other content does not.

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Agreed. I think that those on the top package should receive a discount as they too aren't receiving the sports that they are paying for.

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I'm on the Ult Oomph package - I was going to pause it but I know how the packages work - you pause one and it ends up costing more!

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You’ll be missing out, given how the pause discounts are being added.

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Hi all, its me again.
I firmly believe that VM and BT and Sky should reduce all there prices in view of what's happening with the covid 19 virus.

I am lucky to have a job, and pay bills. That there is some subs that are at home. And cannot afford to pay bills.

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Yes Im sure we'd all like everything to be free because of "covid 19".

Funny how whatever people get, they want more, if they think they can find an excuse. ;)

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Don't like the prices don't subscribe simple really.

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Where do you suppose the money would come from, Arthur? All companies have to make a profit.

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In fact, Sky are about apply their yearly general price increase of around £6 per month for some.