Knock knock at my door !
 

( salesman ) hello iam from sky i see you have virgin media services.
( me ) yes
( salesman ) can i tell you about sky and give you a price for skys services )
( me ) ok
( salesman) sky + hd, broadband and telelphone and one multiroom box.
( me ) hang on mate i have 3 multiroom boxes from virgin.
( salesman ) sky give you one free, but you have to pay for the others. £49.95 each.
( me ) i didnt have to pay anyhting to virgin !
( salesman ) yes but our boxes are better !
( me ) ok then mate cut to the chase how much ?
( salesman ) sky + hd, broadband and telephone 3 multiroom boxes £ 85.00,per month. one off payment £49.95 x2 = £ 99.90, for two extra multiroom boxes !
( me ) your taking the **** !
( salesman ) no why you say that ?
( me ) i got tvxl, 30meg broadband, telephone, 3 multiroom boxes £ 71.95 a month ! can you beat that. ?
( salesman ) .................................................. ..................silence.
( me ) think this conversation is over mate dont you byeeeeeeeee.

HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY !

Re: Knock knock at my door !
 

lol you should have carried on and asked about broadband speeds :D

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how did he know you had services form Virginmedia?

Re: Knock knock at my door !
 

Quite easy the salesman can see one of these fitted to your wall, its not exactly rocket science plus you are not a SKY subscriber.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/12/58.jpg

Re: Knock knock at my door !
 

God, what a mess. when are they coming back to tidy it up?

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If it is yours then let us know.:D

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My sons love me winding the Sky man up in the local shopping centre.
I let them get going then ask them about the bb speeds and usage policies.
They usualy give up at that point :D

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doesn't mean you are currently paying for any services from Virgin

and what is that monstrosity pictured?

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If you ain't got a SKY account and they see the omnibox as in the picture then they will assume you have Cable especially in a cabled area, obvious really.

Re: Knock knock at my door !
 

The Sky salesman here tried telling me that Sky offer 30Mb broadband and then tried to pretend he didn't know how ADSL worked when I told him the best I could get is 6Mb.

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This is great fun, my partner swiftly walks off when i start winding up the sky guys at the stand lol

Broadband is always the biggest arguement with them :P

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I thought Sky is truly unlimited? e.g.; http://www.avforums.com/forums/sky-b...broadband.html

And don't people have anything better to do than waste someone's time if you're not interested in the service?! e.g. going up to someone in a shopping centre just to mess them about.

Sky do get killed by multiroom. They need to sort that out. If you want a Sky+HD box it's cheaper to get another account as they give you a free box!

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I have great fun with telesales folk

Rep (really Indian accent, faint line): Hi, my name is <English name>, I'm from .... and we can save you money on your telecoms package.
Me : Bet you can't.
Rep : Who are you with?
Me : Virgin
Rep : We can give you ....... all for £x for the first n months. How does that sound?
Me : I get ..... all for £x a month.
Rep : Err how do you get that.
Me : I work for VM
Rep : <click>

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That omni box looks like it's 'open' and someone's possibly stealing services

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At this point, I tell them I don't have a phone. They really can't cope with that. :)