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Originally Posted by Downloads
I think they could offer a half decent deal, i mean when you think of the cash they are now saving from Sky One and what they were prpared to pay for it, it's not like it's going to cost them, they will prolly still walk away with spare cash even after a movie promotion.
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I understand what you are saying but all i think this does is go to prove further that Virgin did want the channels and it wasn't them who engineered it. They were planning on having the Sky channels and wern't looking to offer any other deals, you could say they should have had a backup plan, but the people they pay at that level aren't cheap and would have been working on this deal and the other numerous ones they have signed recently. I don't really think they have been scratching their behinds!
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I have spent many a time in negotiations and any good negotiator will say to prepare for every possibility. I dd not say they were scratching their behinds but they were caught with their trousers down and their paid big bucks for that not to be the case
I think any reasonable person (Including most posters on this forum) saw where we are today coming yet it appears oblivious to VM management.
VM played a bluff (and maybe sky too) and sky called it. the question now is who has the best hand at showdown. remember poker is usually won by the player with the most chips not the best hands
