SD : TV price rises

[Chad]

Originally Posted by denphone

l had the Sky premiums rise plus a £2 or £3 rise in April and now this as well so it works out at around £13 per month multiplied by 12.

An extra £156.00 per year in less than 10 months is a lot. That's almost exactly the same as a new customer would pay in total for the Essential Collection plus phoneline for their first 6 months. Their getting great value for their £158.00 or so, are you getting such great value for your extra £156.00?

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by Dave42

£6.84 for vip that's robbery with nothing new ...

... yet.

Oh, apart from TVAnywhere. That's kinda new

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chad

An extra £156.00 per year in less than 10 months is a lot. That's almost exactly the same as a new customer would pay in total for the Essential Collection plus phoneline for their first 6 months. Their getting great value for their £158.00 or so, are you getting such great value for your extra £156.00?

Well looking at the last year it seemed a good idea to be on the VIP package to start with but any value in it is being eroded by relentless price rises thus if it keeps going this way then something will to give as theres only so much that many of us can afford each month.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by denphone

Well looking at the last year it seemed a good idea to be on the VIP package to start with but any value in it is being eroded by relentless price rises thus if it keeps going this way then something will to give as theres only so much that many of us can afford each month.

and it will loss more value if bt sports do in it instead of espn Den mate

[geordiechris]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

... yet.

Oh, apart from TVAnywhere. That's kinda new

Of which those of us with an Android phone can't access unless using a computer/laptop. To Android users the TV Anywhere doesn't work anywhere unless they carry a laptop around with them (and how many will do that?)

[Chad]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

... yet.

Oh, apart from TVAnywhere. That's kinda new

Very true. My parents however just ain't buying it. My parents are Virgin customers in their early 60's. They will never, ever use TV Anywhere but they'll get a price increase just like everyone else.

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Originally Posted by denphone

Well looking at the last year it seemed a good idea to be on the VIP package to start with but any value in it is being eroded by relentless price rises thus if it keeps going this way then something will to give as theres only so much that many of us can afford each month.

Prior to any price increases this year, what was the price in VIP in January? Was it around £107.00 per month?

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by denphone

Well looking at the last year it seemed a good idea to be on the VIP package to start with but any value in it is being eroded by relentless price rises thus if it keeps going this way then something will to give as theres only so much that many of us can afford each month.

To be fair Den all companies prices increase , my Sky sub has risen by £5.75 this year , £1.00 to Sky Sports , £1.50 to Entertainment+ , £1.00 to ESPN and £2.25 line rental all platforms non premium packs ie XL , Entertainment + offer good value in my opinion it's the premium sports what's fast becoming a ripoff.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chad

Very true. My parents however just ain't buying it. My parents are Virgin customers in their early 60's. They will never, ever use TV Anywhere but they'll get a price increase just like everyone else.

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Prior to any price increases this year, what was the price in VIP in January? Was it around £107.00 per month?

Was it not around £103 pound Chad if my memory serves me.

[geordiechris]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

To be fair Den all companies prices increase , my Sky sub has risen by £5.75 this year , £1.00 to Sky Sports , £1.50 to Entertainment+ , £1.00 to ESPN and £2.25 line rental

That's still more palatable than the £13 Den's had to endure

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Originally Posted by denphone

Was it not around £103 pound Chad if my memory serves me.

I used to be on the VIP and it used to cost me £103.90

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

To be fair Den all companies prices increase , my Sky sub has risen by £5.75 this year , £1.00 to Sky Sports , £1.50 to Entertainment+ , £1.00 to ESPN and £2.25 line rental

yes it getting beyond a joke now as of the 1st February we will have 3 price rises withing a year 2 vm ones and 1 sky sports sky one cant justify paying it now it only tv at end of day

[denphone]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

To be fair Den all companies prices increase , my Sky sub has risen by £5.75 this year , £1.00 to Sky Sports , £1.50 to Entertainment+ , £1.00 to ESPN and £2.25 line rental

l know prices increase MM but for most of us our monthly financial incomings have not increased at all and in some cases has gone down.

[alwaysabear]

I am afraid the cost of pay TV is being driven by the outrageous amount of money being paid by Sky and BT to the Premier League. Until consumers make a stand and say I am not prepared to pay vast amounts of money to watch these over rated and overpaid prim a donas then nothing will change.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by geordiechris

I used to be on the VIP and it used to cost me £103.90

It's going up to £113.99 so an increase of just over £10.00 in less than a year.

http://mediacentre.virginmedia.com/S...a-VIPs-aa.aspx

When I first got the VIP package in 2007 it was £85.00 per month. So between February 2007 and January 2012 the VIP package only increased by £18.99 over that 5 year period, yet we're seeing an increase of over £10.00 in 10 months.

We can all understand price increases etc... but what has happened this year is excessive.

Originally Posted by muppetman11

To be fair Den all companies prices increase , my Sky sub has risen by £5.75 this year , £1.00 to Sky Sports , £1.50 to Entertainment+ , £1.00 to ESPN and £2.25 line rental all platforms non premium packs ie XL , Entertainment + offer good value in my opinion it's the premium sports what's fast becoming a ripoff.

Agree and thats going to get worse once BT and Sky start passing on the extra cost of football, VM will suffer too as they will have wholesale costs.

The thing that always cheeses me off is that if you move your business you will no doubt get a new customer deal from a competing company, why they do this I will never know as its the existing customers who cover the cost of this?

Its a very odd business model.

The other thing I have noticed , once one puts its charges up the others follow suit. A good example is VM, not long ago they were the most expensive for line rental, after all the price rises from BT, Sky and Talk Talk, they are now the cheapest - so what do they do - they increase their prices to be on a par with the others.

They must all rub their hands with glee one one makes a move!

[hjf288]

I received it and I'm only on Broadband, they lowered the BB price in April and are raising it back on Feb 2013... nice