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Hi all,

Is there any way I can upgrade to Sky+ cheaper than the calculation below:

Sky+ box: £199 (existing subscriber)
Installation: £60
Monthly subscription: £10 (I dont subscribe to any premier channels)

It`s a bit galling that new customers get the box for £89.

Cheers.

Say you`re leaving..

Ste

Without Premium channels you will have to pay the £10.
However,because of that,if you take either movies or sports it only works out about £5 more than what you currently pay,so you may aswell go for one lot.
The only way to get installation free is go for multiroom.
You will find that brand new customers getting Sky+ cheap will also be tied to premium subs or multiroom deals for 12 months

I`m not sure what the multi-room pacakage deal is now, but i know a colleague of mine took it because it was cheaper... He had no intention of using the multiroom and told the sky bloke who turned up on the day he didn`t want it. The guy seemed a bit perplexed but left without fitting the 2nd box.
One word of caution though... (the sky bloke did tell him it would happen) Sky will contact you a month or two down the road and ask why the 2nd box doesn`t seem to be fitted to a telephone line. (they must run semi-regular checks to see if u are connected) As it happened he had sold it because as i say, he didn`t want it. They said oh ok then and let him off the 9 months or so that were remaining on his multi-room subs. (normally an extra £10/month) Bit risky though.

The other way to do it is ;
wait a week or three, and buy a 2nd hand box after us lot (me incl) have had Hi-Def fitted. Pay £60 to get it fitted (requires 2nd feed from dish) and then u just need to do as the previous guy wrote : instead of paying an extra £10/mnth for the service, subscribe to a package that gives u free Sky+ subs and have the extra channels.
It`s a pain in the ar*e, but the only (inferior) alternative is to spend £150 or whatever on a stand alone PVR/HD recorder. It does a `similar` job but does not integrate fully with the sky program menus which is what makes sky+ so good.
Be warned also that sky+ does have it strange days, freezing and failed recordings for apparantly no logical reason. My answer to this kind of behaviour is obvious when u think about it = sky+ is Female !

get it though, however u do it, get it, i know nobody who has ever wished they hadn`t bothered. We had a saying at work which is wearing a bit thin now, but it was that "sky+ is the future" Bit like garlic bread - fantastic.

Thanks everyone,

After the first year, are Sky subscriptions rolling monthly? As ste says, could I not threaten to leave unless I got the box for the new subscriber price? Has anyone had any success with this tactic?

I will upgrade to the movie channels in order to avoid the £10 monthly charge.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 23rd May 2006, 09:31

Apparently, the technique is to ring Sky cancellations. Give any excuse (eg. want a PVR but Sky+ too expensive, especially as existing customers get a worse deal) and bluff that you wish to cancel your subscription. The current `offer` after the operator `has a word with their manager` is £49 with free installation.

I will give it a go tonight.