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Originally Posted by Alan Peach
Name me a company that gives you a LOYALTY BONUS !!.
Touche my friend 
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You seem to be missing the point because your either employed by them in some way i would think.
There making that type of thing happen where you expect something back for years of service.
By the very FACT there calling it a LOYALTY BONUS !!
Dont you get it ggrrrrrrrr.
Its not us expecting anything or at least i dont.But when you get a daft company calling it a loyalty bonus and your actually when you examine it are getting nothing its nothing but a CON !!.
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No, I'm not employed by them.
Loyalty discounts, as have been mentioned, are different to bundle pricing because they price match competitors. That by definition is a loyalty discount, it's a discount to encourage loyalty by price matching an offer that they could have got elsewhere, essentially they're not rewarding your loyalty, they are buying it by price matching so the incentive to switch providers is no longer there.
Now currently that doesn't mean much, as VM's standard pricing is on par with their competitors (and in some cases below) so any loyalty price matching deals will essentially be the same as new customer deals, because VM have oddly enough worked out that to get new customers they have to at least match their competitors pricing.
That you expect a loyalty discount to be them giving you cut price services doesn't change the fact that the loyalty discounts ARE there to encourage loyalty.
I'm also not missing the point at all, your point was quite clear:
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if there was another alternative without having to have an ugly dish on the side of my house i would be gone as Virgin,ntl etc etc have not given me anything for being with them for years.
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You'd switch providers because they haven't given you any special discounts, that has nothing to do with them calling something a loyalty discount that you don't think is, and everything to do with you thinking they should somehow reward you for long service by discounting your bills.
Have you seen anyone try to get a discount from Sky? It's a case of pay the advertised price or do one, they won't even price match competitors.