SD : TV price rises

[Digital Fanatic]

You've done the right thing, Chad. You've looked at what you need and made the changes.

[gba93]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Countdown has begun... 6 days left at Virgin Media...

Best of luck for the future DF - hope you find something worthwhile soon

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by gba93

Best of luck for the future DF - hope you find something worthwhile soon

Cheers mate

[dodgem22]

Yeah good luck for the future df and thanks for the times your posts have assisted me on here

[MaverickJesus]

Is 10mb definitely going to 30mb not 20mb then? I'm more than happy with my 30mb, might drop it down to 10mb if thats the case as my doubling is schedule for March.

Also, there is some really odd bundle discounts going on in the bundle builder - if I plug in my current package (30mb BB, XL TV & L Phone), its £66. Drop the phone line all together, its £64.50. Start again from scratch and drop from 30mb to 10mb, its £61. THEN drop the phone, its now £51. Eh?

I'd like to think if I dropped the packages in the right order I could get that, its not a bad price really.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by dodgem22

Yeah good luck for the future df and thanks for the times your posts have assisted me on here

And l will second that.

[hansi]

Are they still charging the £49.95 for Tivo activation for long time existing HD Box customers, and yet new customers get it free?

[jb66]

No ten meg is going to 20 not 30

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Originally Posted by hansi

Are they still charging the £49.95 for Tivo activation for long time existing HD Box customers, and yet new customers get it free?

Yes, new customers get a free install

[Chad]

Originally Posted by jb66

No ten meg is going to 20 not 30

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Yes, new customers get a free install

Oh well 20 meg is still plenty for what I use the internet for.

Originally Posted by hansi

Are they still charging the £49.95 for Tivo activation for long time existing HD Box customers, and yet new customers get it free?

I have as an existing customer fairly recently upgraded to TiVo and got free installation and activation.

[mikcoles]

I am certainly cosidering dropping services to cut costs. Can anyone tell I have xl tv with hd sports 20m broadband and xl landline, would I be able to drop landline completely as never use it to warrant it and also have virgin mobile contract. Also drop movies and keep sky sports hopefully this would reduce my costs.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by dodgem22

Yeah good luck for the future df and thanks for the times your posts have assisted me on here

Cheers

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Originally Posted by denphone

And l will second that.

Cheers Den

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by scotmac

@ spanky try this, for new customers but would imagine you can get it through retentions :- http://shop.virginmedia.com/bundles/...tvxl-bbxl.html

Thanks but I have never gone the retentions route as I don't really agree with it. I feel you shouldn't have to ask for a reduction, you should get one for being loyal.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by mikcoles

I am certainly cosidering dropping services to cut costs. Can anyone tell I have xl tv with hd sports 20m broadband and xl landline, would I be able to drop landline completely as never use it to warrant it and also have virgin mobile contract. Also drop movies and keep sky sports hopefully this would reduce my costs.

As long as you are not in an existing contract you should have no problems. What your thinking about doing sounds exactly like what I done earlier today. The land-line was a real biggie. Whilst taking a land-line does reduce the overall cost of your package, It's a bit of a rip off if you step back and look at it. Your paying £13.90 line rental, before you've even made a call. I was spending on average £20.00 per month on phone calls so in reality my home phone was costing me between £30 and £35 each and every month. I cancelled my land-line today and took a contract out with Virgin for a Blackberry mobile with 200 minutes each month plus 3000 minutes to other Virgin mobiles. My wife, brother, mother and father-in-law all have Virgin mobiles so it makes sense.

There certainly is value in double checking your package and accessing whether you really need what you're paying for. I dropped SKY Movies too today as since Christmas I think I've only watched about 6 or 7 films. After cancelling SKY Movies SKY HD at £7.00 per month was no longer value. I wasn't prepared to pay £7.00 for SKY Sports 1 & 2 in HD.

I'm surprised at how many people will pay for services they don't use. How many people have XL TV but the core channels they watch time and time again are equatable to the M+ or L package? My Mum has TV XL but doesn't give a flying fig about HD, ESPN, FX etc... My Mum should really just have M+ in terms of the programmes she likes. Essentially people are paying for channels they don't watch or don't need. It's the same as broadband too. It'll also be amazing how many people will have 50mb or 100mb broadband but don't even need the bandwidth or only use the internet at home for a couple of hours a day. 10mb or 30mb would probably be enough for most households to get bye on.

[Dave42]

good luck DF mate