12 Months half price, £75 off bill, Free installation

Originally Posted by Qtx

Should really split that over 18 months due to the contract length.

You got a lot for your money there.

For the last 6 months I will drop it down the absolute minimum.

[jb66]

Originally Posted by Qtx

Should really split that over 18 months due to the contract length.

You got a lot for your money there.

you can leave after 12months when virgin put prices up

[Dave42]

well I phoned retentions and they could only give me £6 of bill so just took the rise off

Why does everyone of these threads end up as a childish ner,ner Sky V VM thread..It's becoming very depressing to moderate them.

Nature of the fanboy Maggy.

I have never been one I have always gone for the best value/performance option with pretty much everything I buy. With both Sky and VM doing 50% off you are going to get the fanboys out in force

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Why does everyone of these threads end up as a childish ner,ner Sky V VM thread..It's becoming very depressing to moderate them.

Meh, who cares... The information provided will get Virginmedia a few new customers and a few new customers will get an amazing deal. The bit in the middle...well no one gives a toss about that do they.

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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

Nature of the fanboy Maggy.

I have never been one I have always gone for the best value/performance option with pretty much everything I buy. With both Sky and VM doing 50% off you are going to get the fanboys out in force

Sky are not doing 50% off, the friends an family deal some get from Sky is the same as the friends and family deal Virginmedia do. The difference here is Virgnmedia are doing a nationally advertised 50% off deal for any new customers.

[dilli-theclaw]

I just wish I could get vm here.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Gary L

I am always right

Sky and Virgin are actually a luxury to many. and Sky and Virgin know that.
the luxury game was going quite well for quite some time. with this and that being improved and bettered in the competition between the two to get the paying customers who wanted it.

then. BOOM.... Dave and reality sort of kicked in. bills have to be paid. people have to eat and keep warm. and they need to pay the council and bedroom tax. and their money has been reduced anyway. so the luxury game is slowly coming to an end.

now they need to either raise their prices to make up the losses. or reduce their prices by way of offers and incentives galore.

more to follow. watch in awe

You'll be able to go into Halfords soon and they'll throw in a bike if you buy a socket set.

I actually think customer numbers will go up due to the economic situation, pay TV seems the cheaper monthly alternative to going out.

I can't see this offer being beaten for a long time, I mean the HD pack is £10 on sky, 2 Tv boxes a TiVo and VHD, so one would have a £10.25 charge with sky, 60mb bb is comparable to Sky fibre pro which is £20 on sky, an a phoneline so that's £14 on sky an the tv pack is £25 on sky so on normal rates that's around £80. Add in ESPN although no one knows its future would be £92.

I'm getting it all plus ESPN for £38 even if the service is a bit iffy it's worth it, not to mention 2 separate landline numbers an 2 separate broadband lines.

[spankysmagicpian]

Originally Posted by nn012

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I'm always getting offers from Sky for 50% off every month, with 3 coming in the post just last month.

I got one through the post from Sky today for the first time in ages - half price for 6 months (Entertainment extra pack and HD only). I totted it all up and on full price after the 6 months Sky worked out about £17 a month more and I'm on the VIP pack.

The Sky booklet was quite glossy but after thumbing through it, I realised I wasn't missing anything they were promoting as not being on Virgin. Each to their own though as I am sure that to others, it would be worth it.

Originally Posted by Bogof

Meh, who cares... The information provided will get Virginmedia a few new customers and a few new customers will get an amazing deal. The bit in the middle...well no one gives a toss about that do they.

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Sky are not doing 50% off, the friends an family deal some get from Sky is the same as the friends and family deal Virginmedia do. The difference here is Virgnmedia are doing a nationally advertised 50% off deal for any new customers.

They are if you know where to look in fact they have done it twice recently

[Gavin78]

I've got the XL tv pack with VM can't say I watch the 300+ channels or whatever it amounts to.

Some I just fly past but I need to get the XL pack for some of the stuff VM don't inc on the M package. so for me I just float around the same 20 channels or so the rest go to waste as I might only ever flick them on once in a while...so while people brag about sky it means nothing to me because again I would simply be watching the same channels they have to offer that VM do.

I Much prefer VM BB and with news groups going down the pan in the last few months and indexing sites like NZB matrix I don't often go over the cap anyway that VM have in force.

So to me SKY dont offer anything better than what I have now I did look and found that getting the same package I have now on SKY is more or less the same only I get less BB speed for it.

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

They are if you know where to look in fact they have done it twice recently

Yes but its not nationally advertised and you have to be referred via a code, this is different from Virginmedia. This is open to everyone and nationally advertised. Although it is only open for 1 week.

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Originally Posted by Gavin78

So to me SKY dont offer anything better than what I have now I did look and found that getting the same package I have now on SKY is more or less the same only I get less BB speed for it.

Ace, Amazing Fantastic...But this thread is about a half price offer

[Gavin78]

I know that I was referencing to others that started talking about channel packages for the price VM are offering at the moment compared to Sky deals. I'm stating that the packages they both offer don't differ much

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

I actually think customer numbers will go up due to the economic situation, pay TV seems the cheaper monthly alternative to going out.

I don't know.
I can't see people spending more money really.

I've never understood why people want 500 TV channels to watch anyway.