More price rises

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by TAZMANUK

With this sky q offer how much is install says £99 but with multiroon says £10

Thats how much it is.

Take multi room, it will save you money over the install cost.

[TAZMANUK]

Looked too good to be true. Pack we looked at works out £50 plus £10 install.

How much do vm charge for just talk weekends and 200 bb. Depending on retentions deal ive a few options

Downgrade from xl tv to l
Downgrade from talk anytime to talk weekends
Get rid of one tivo box
Downgrade 200 vivid to 100 vivid

Or

End vm tv xl and 2 tivo boxes and get the sky q offer witg multiroom pack we want works out £50 per month or opt for sky plus on the mse offer for £26.40

Then see how much for just bb and end the landline as nothing but sales calls, ppi and survey calls.

As not getting rid of vm bb.

Love to end landline as cannot justify £27 on the pack we have when hardly used when myself and wife have mobiles. Plue use facebook messanger or whats app for calls to others so not using talk time or data allowances.

[greeninferno]

In Virgin's defence a recent advert I saw I think quoted Big Kahuna Sports £49 plus 18? for line rental

£67 for 100Mbit BB, ALL the Sky Sports AND BT Sport

That seemed way lower than when I was forced to leave for a Sky 50% off offer and BT BB deal

[Gavin78]

I can see VM in the future only having BB I think they should drop tv altogether and invest in the BB route instead seen as a lot of things are streaming these days

[wildfruit]

Using the code GET50 seems to work out cheaper than the MSE deal.
Ive basketed the box sets tv tier, unlimited fibre, sky cinema and talk anytime extra for £45.40 a month. Not bad

[lonespeaker]

Originally Posted by wildfruit

Using the code GET50 seems to work out cheaper than the MSE deal.
Ive basketed the box sets tv tier, unlimited fibre, sky cinema and talk anytime extra for £45.40 a month. Not bad

That is an ok deal, is it for sky Q?

[wildfruit]

Originally Posted by lonespeaker

That is an ok deal, is it for sky Q?

No, it's for one sky + box. I tried adding multi room but that isn't discounted. I priced up sky q, was similar to what I'm paying now (£58) but I don't think I'd use any of it's features tbh. Retention have said there's nothing they can offer me right now, my deal ends in a month and will revert to ~£90, but apparently there will be better offers in September. They also said that uploads will be increased in September, I presume this will already have been discussed on site but I haven't looked around.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

I can see VM in the future only having BB I think they should drop tv altogether and invest in the BB route instead seen as a lot of things are streaming these days

Some of us don't want Sky TV or the other options such as BT TV, Gavin. Virgin should stay in the game and give us the widest choice of streaming services possible. That is the future for TV.

[Pia]

I saw the Big Kahuna deal on VM's site for £49.99 which I'm paying £72.48 for. Soon to be over £75 when the new price hike kicks in.

Rang them today and was offered a £7 pm "loyalty" discount and a new 18 month contract (?!). I offered to downgrade my BB to the 100MB and that would have been a total £9 pm discount inc. the loyalty. So I told them to go ahead and cancel.

Not sure where to go from here, need to weigh up the costs of my partner joining VM as a newbie or risking Sky's rubbish BB offering with the MSE deal.

I would have accepted the £7 discount but an 18 month contract is an absolute joke, especially when new customer contracts are only 12 months now.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Pia

I would have accepted the £7 discount but an 18 month contract is an absolute joke, especially when new customer contracts are only 12 months now.

Thing is, the contract lengths don't really mean much as the price rises come so often giving you a 'get out'. When was the last time prices didn't rise for 18 months?

[tucker61]

Really getting to the point of wanting to leave vm now, but my wife still uses the ntlworld email address as her main email. Need to look at this before I jump.

[TAZMANUK]

I haven't had letter yet but when i do ill be asking

How much for just bb and phone
How much to downgrade phone and cancel a box

If rubbish price review price on sky tv total cost from vm bb and phone and sky tv snd compare price.

[Pia]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Thing is, the contract lengths don't really mean much as the price rises come so often giving you a 'get out'. When was the last time prices didn't rise for 18 months?

Good point

[pengedragon]

This may finally be my “out” with vm

Renegotiated my package/contract a couple of months ago to something I was happy with

I got my first bill last month and line rental had been added so it was 18 quid more than I expected

Last year vm paid my line rental saver for me – my new contract states that line rental is included

What wasn’t made clear to me during the phone call was that it was running out and wouldn’t be renewed

I was absolutely furious when I found this out and called to cancel, I was told that as I had just started a new contract there would be huge cancellation fees to pay. I think this is a dreadful way to treat a loyal xl customer of over 10 years

I ended up reducing bb and phone package to save a couple of quid and reluctantly paid the bill

Am I right in thinking this price rise means I’d be able to cancel without penalty?

Honestly I’d be happy to get rid of the lot apart from broadband and use the streaming services or see what sky want to offer me – some of the links people have posted here look very interesting

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by pengedragon

This may finally be my “out” with vm

Renegotiated my package/contract a couple of months ago to something I was happy with

I got my first bill last month and line rental had been added so it was 18 quid more than I expected

Last year vm paid my line rental saver for me – my new contract states that line rental is included

What wasn’t made clear to me during the phone call was that it was running out and wouldn’t be renewed

I was absolutely furious when I found this out and called to cancel, I was told that as I had just started a new contract there would be huge cancellation fees to pay. I think this is a dreadful way to treat a loyal xl customer of over 10 years

I ended up reducing bb and phone package to save a couple of quid and reluctantly paid the bill

Am I right in thinking this price rise means I’d be able to cancel without penalty?

Honestly I’d be happy to get rid of the lot apart from broadband and use the streaming services or see what sky want to offer me – some of the links people have posted here look very interesting

tbf, if they paid your line rental for a year you got a very good deal. That's a bigger discount that I've heard anywhere else.

Yes, you can cancel and rip the contract because of this rise. Don't think you can do much until they officially send you a letter though. My usual tactic is to wait a bit, as they will play hard ball at first, by the time November comes round and loads have cancelled/subscribers plummeting they might be a be a bit more accommodating (and realising too late they've miscalculated, again).