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boragthung · 14-11-2013, 13:06

Well today I rang VM up as I was now in a position to be able to prepay my phone line rental again and had to do so by the 16 Nov. But I was only going to do that if I could negotiate a new contract. I was also interested in upgrading to 120 BB for better upload.

They basically would not offer me any discount whatsoever. If I upgraded to 120 it would be something like 53 -odd and would rise even more in February to 58 -something. I had not heard of any price rises until then! (I've noticed on the forum it's mentioned now that I logged in today). I was looking at paying 48.50 at most (My VM tells me to upgrade to 120 for 7.50) as I consider 41 a fairish price for what I currently have.

Bear in mind I am comparing the cost of Premiere 48 to mine at 47 (at full whack). So they are essentially trying to make out that changing from one V+ box to a TIVO plus spare box adds £1 to the cost.

I am working backwards by saying the cost of £48 less the cost of an 'extra' box and the 'tivo service' should be my cost. After all a tivo is essentially a pvr (v+) plus the 'extra service'. My discount of £6 was going to run out next may and wouldn't be renewed.

The crux of it is I have now told them to disconnect all my services on 4 Jan when my prepaid rental is up and I will be moving to either Talk Talk or PlusNet. I can get 69/19 from both for 17.50/19.99 respectively plus line rental (which will be prepaid). So cheaper and better broadband and 'no buffering'. My Parents have a basic Talk Talk connection of about 6 Mb and it has seemed better than my 60 Mb (until very recently whereby my connection has seemed to improve).

I really wanted to stay with VM after the 12 Years+ I have been with them. But no dice. Their loss. I'll miss the cable telly but I have the fallback of Freeview, Free(multi)Sat, Lovefilm (maybe I'll actually use the streaming function with fttc) and even some BR and DVD's I have bought years ago and not even opened/watched yet. Comparing what I would have potentially been paying next year I will be saving a much as £40 month (equivalent monthly 68 v 28) but losing the cable telly. And that cable telly is not worth that £40 difference.

14-11-2013, 13:06	#8
boragthung Inactive Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 47	Re: Bundle Pricing Well today I rang VM up as I was now in a position to be able to prepay my phone line rental again and had to do so by the 16 Nov. But I was only going to do that if I could negotiate a new contract. I was also interested in upgrading to 120 BB for better upload. They basically would not offer me any discount whatsoever. If I upgraded to 120 it would be something like 53 -odd and would rise even more in February to 58 -something. I had not heard of any price rises until then! (I've noticed on the forum it's mentioned now that I logged in today). I was looking at paying 48.50 at most (My VM tells me to upgrade to 120 for 7.50) as I consider 41 a fairish price for what I currently have. Bear in mind I am comparing the cost of Premiere 48 to mine at 47 (at full whack). So they are essentially trying to make out that changing from one V+ box to a TIVO plus spare box adds £1 to the cost. I am working backwards by saying the cost of £48 less the cost of an 'extra' box and the 'tivo service' should be my cost. After all a tivo is essentially a pvr (v+) plus the 'extra service'. My discount of £6 was going to run out next may and wouldn't be renewed. The crux of it is I have now told them to disconnect all my services on 4 Jan when my prepaid rental is up and I will be moving to either Talk Talk or PlusNet. I can get 69/19 from both for 17.50/19.99 respectively plus line rental (which will be prepaid). So cheaper and better broadband and 'no buffering'. My Parents have a basic Talk Talk connection of about 6 Mb and it has seemed better than my 60 Mb (until very recently whereby my connection has seemed to improve). I really wanted to stay with VM after the 12 Years+ I have been with them. But no dice. Their loss. I'll miss the cable telly but I have the fallback of Freeview, Free(multi)Sat, Lovefilm (maybe I'll actually use the streaming function with fttc) and even some BR and DVD's I have bought years ago and not even opened/watched yet. Comparing what I would have potentially been paying next year I will be saving a much as £40 month (equivalent monthly 68 v 28) but losing the cable telly. And that cable telly is not worth that £40 difference.