Sky have just offered me....

via the live chat

All 6 entertainment mixes
Sky Sports (free for 1 month along with Sky Movies)
ESPN

in HD

evening/weekends free calls
line rental
umlimted broadband (free for 3 months), can expect between 8-10mb in my area

installation free
free set up

£82.50 per month

£3 more than what I'm paying at the moment

Sounds interesting

[Paul K]

Who says you can expect that? Speed is dependent on a lot of things so I wouldn't take a sales persons word for it and would check it somewhere else first
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/adslchecker.php

[Marcus125]

Wouldn't VIP-20 offer all that for the same price? With a second box with HD channels excluding sports/movies?(although you would get sports movies on it in SD)

[beeman]

Originally Posted by Marcus125

Wouldn't VIP-20 offer all that for the same price? With a second box with HD channels excluding sports/movies?(although you would get sports movies on it in SD)

no VIP-20 is £92.40

(£80.16 + £12.24 line rental)

According to the OP his £82.50 offer INCLUDES line rental

[roger skillin]

Originally Posted by winkle

via the live chat

All 6 entertainment mixes
Sky Sports (free for 1 month along with Sky Movies)
ESPN

in HD

evening/weekends free calls
line rental
umlimted broadband (free for 3 months), can expect between 8-10mb in my area

installation free
free set up

£82.50 per month

£3 more than what I'm paying at the moment

Sounds interesting

Sounds like a bit of a rip off to me,
Im on V+HD XL TV plus a second V+HD box
Phone with 24/7 free calls
BBXXL 50mb of which i get 50mb
and all this for a lot less than that
so if you forget about the pointless free months trial of movies and sports
sounds like a very overpriced deal

They've just rang my house phone to let me know they can reduce it to £77 with Broadband (£7.50) free for three months (First 3 bills costing £69.50)

In all honesty I am in 2 minds to cancel my Virgin and accept this. Due to Virgin not getting any channels as replacements for the ones Sky have pulled the plug on I am left wondering is it worth paying all that much for the XL package when there are only around 50 channels more than freeview.

p.s. the other half likes the look of Wedding TV

[sniper007]

The deal sounds poor to me.

[jb66]

How many boxes?

Originally Posted by jb66

How many boxes?

Just the 1

my extra v box is hardley ever used tbf and my phone is used at evening/weekends so in that case I don't think I will have missed out on them

Just wish Virgin would add more channels that appeal to me & partner that are on sky

[roger skillin]

Originally Posted by winkle

In all honesty I am in 2 minds to cancel my Virgin and accept this. Due to Virgin not getting any channels as replacements for the ones Sky have pulled the plug on I am left wondering is it worth paying all that much for the XL package when there are only around 50 channels more than freeview.

p.s. the other half likes the look of Wedding TV

Really?lol
Far as i've seen all the free channels you can get on Sky but not Virgin just contain complete and utter rubbish but if you want to go for a rip off deal just for the wedding channel then that's fine ROFL

Spoke to CS this evening and they told me my goodwill of £6 will be scrapped next month meaning I will be paying £86 for

XL TV (HD Box)
Standard Box upstairs
Sky Sports (HD)
10mb broadband
unmlimited calls (inc line)

I feel robbed even more after they did not replace the 7 channels we lost. I know a few are in the pipeline but nothing concrete just yet. I feel very let down as I have been a loyal customer for 5 years.

[Stephen]

What channels?

Originally Posted by Stephen

What channels?

Bravo etc

I know Sky done that but I would have thought Virgin would have had some replacements lined up.

[Stephen]

Why would VM have replacement channels when they don't own any channels now. Sky have also not got the channels either and aren't replacing them.

Most of the shows off the channels are now on Living or somewhere else anyway.

[Marcus125]

You should be able to better that offer if your leaving VM.

I left sky for VM in December and returned to sky yesterday I got...

Sky world+hd half price for 6 months £33 i think.
A free sky+hd box for multiroom if took hd channels on that box for 12months.

so bassically everything on 2 boxes for £55 ish and I kept VM's 50meg and phone line for £37. I'm screwed in 6 months when the offer ends although my original box was not put on a contract and they told me I can cancel that box anytime.

But for now I pay just over £90.