General : Sky Sports & Movies price increases

[nodrogd]

Virgin website now showing Movies & Sports priced at £32.75 a month.

Sky Sports on its own now £25.75 per month

HD supplement remains at £7

http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...ky-sports.html

[devilincarnate]

Been talked about on the "Coming soon thread"

[paultrademark]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

Been talked about on the "Coming soon thread"

And again, it's an important topic and should be deserving of it's own thread.

The Coming Soon thread is 90% drivel.

Thanks OP for pointing this out

[Telly_]

Is the price only the wholesale increase from sky or have VM added a little extra on top? After the April rise that saw some customers bills increase by as much as £8 a month?


VM Customers should be asking....

I thought you would have known the answer to that - or are you just stirring it for your employer?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Telly_

Is the price only the wholesale increase from sky or have VM added a little extra on top? After the April rise that saw some customers bills increase by as much as £8 a month?


VM Customers should be asking....

No one l know has had nowhere near the mythical bill increase you have suddenly invented as most peoples bills went up £2 to £3 pounds at the very most.

[alwaysabear]

Originally Posted by denphone

No one l know has had nowhere near the mythical bill increase you have suddenly invented as most peoples bills went up £2 to £3 pounds at the very most.

Mine will have gone up £5.25 when the new charges kick in If we get extra HD channels rumoured to be in the autumn then may be it is acceptable, but coming soon is a big joke on here. We shall see.

I have just cancelled sky sports collection that is i am afraid a jump too much.

If it is true the increase is such because of the unregulated F1 channel let us opt out of that as i do not really follow F1.

£3.25 a month is a very steep increase indeed.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by richard1960

I have just cancelled sky sports collection that is i am afraid a jump too much.

If it is true the increase is such because of the unregulated F1 channel let us opt out of that as i do not really follow F1.

£3.25 a month is a very steep increase indeed.

Yes there is no doubt that despite some of Skys sports channels being regulated they are still abusing their position in putting up the price of their unregulated channels to get around this and that in my mind is simply unacceptable but whether Ofcom do something about this is another matter..

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by denphone

Yes there is no doubt that despite some of Skys sports channels being regulated they are still abusing their position in putting up the price of their unregulated channels to get around this and that in my mind is simply unacceptable but whether Ofcom do something about this is another matter..

So why has it not increased by this amount on other platforms

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...8&postcount=11

Originally Posted by denphone

Yes there is no doubt that despite some of Skys sports channels being regulated they are still abusing their position in putting up the price of their unregulated channels to get around this and that in my mind is simply unacceptable but whether Ofcom do something about this is another matter..

Yes i totally agree den,£309 a year for sky sports is a no no i do not watch much premiership or other football,but mostly the cricket which i shall now listen to on radio 5 live extra,and the highlights on channel 5 and in HD.!

If i remember correctly sky sports went up by £2 last time for VM customers and half that for sky customers.

Yes den it is unnaceptable i am out as the dragons might say.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

So why has it not increased by this amount on other platforms

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...8&postcount=11

Perhaps because Virgin get Anytime sports content and Sky Sports interactive features that Smallworld does not get and one also suspects Sky itself is probably subsidising its own customers to a certain extent as well.

[Telly_]

Sometimes it seems virgin are happy to constantly increase prices and let their customers blame Sky. Yet VM never mention any price they pay or how much an increase they have had on wholesale prices.

They just sit back and let their customers cry greedy sky greedy sky, an unfortunately the customers fall for it. VM have stuck a stealth tax on this increase aswell as Aprils increase and the autumn phone line increase probably In the pipeline.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Telly_

Sometimes it seems virgin are happy to constantly increase prices and let their customers blame Sky. Yet VM never mention any price they pay or how much an increase they have had on wholesale prices.

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Do you know any retail company that does?

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by Telly_

Sometimes it seems virgin are happy to constantly increase prices and let their customers blame Sky. Yet VM never mention any price they pay or how much an increase they have had on wholesale prices.

They just sit back and let their customers cry greedy sky greedy sky, an unfortunately the customers fall for it. VM have stuck a stealth tax on this increase aswell as Aprils increase and the autumn phone line increase probably In the pipeline.

tell me which company been proved by ofcom on overcharging hmmmmmmmmmmmm oh yes it was SKY