Any Sky Multiroom customers want to upgrade to Sky+ cheap?

[Boss Hogg]

We've had Sky multiroom for years and for ages I have wanted to upgrade to Sky+, but the cost has always put me off. If you are an existing Sky customer (without Multiroom), you could upgrade to Sky+ with Multiroom for £89, but if you were existing Sky Multiroom customer, you had to pay £199 to upgrade to Sky+.

Despite numerous conversations with Sky, they would not agree to let me have for £89 in recognition of the years I have had multiroom.

Suddenly a wat around it dawned on me, I arranged to have Sky+ with multiroom on the internet for £89, and then they day before the installation I cancelled my existing multiroom subscription over the phone. As it was not my main subscription it was cancelled immediately.

The quote from the person at Sky when I cancelled was - "whilst we don't want to advertise that you can do this, there is nothing we can do to stop you".

So there you go, a way of saving yourself £100 plus on the deal.

Only a couple of things to watch, you need to have had your existing multiroom subscription for 12 months or more (to allow you to cancel) and you are then tied into a fresh 12 month contract from Sky+ Multiroom.

I've just tried looking on the Sky website to see if the prices are still the same, but cannot find anything about upgrading for existing customers - just keeps going round in circles, so it may be that they've spotted the loophole, but don't see how it will help them. I went through my contract paperwork a number of times before doing it, and there is nothing in any of the small print which states that you can't do it.

Just thought I'd share this.
Matt

 

[Lisash]

You could also try this .... call Sky and tell them that you are thinking of cancelling your package altogether my DBIL told them his overtime had been cut at work so he couldn't afford it (complete lie) and they offered him half price for 6 months. DH called them yesterday with a similar excuse and guess what we also have half price for 6 months

 

[Tron[ADS]]

You could also try this .... call Sky and tell them that you are thinking of cancelling your package altogether my DBIL told them his overtime had been cut at work so he couldn't afford it (complete lie) and they offered him half price for 6 months. DH called them yesterday with a similar excuse and guess what we also have half price for 6 months

Its a common thing to do that, but as I understand it, they don't buy it for Sky+ customers, as the churn rate for those is incredibly low, they know people dont really want to lose it once they have had it.

 

[stevechase]

similar thing happened to us, we were going to cancel our telewest broad band (17.99 per month) just for 6 months or so, we dont really use it that much. Jacqui cals to cancel it and they say if we drop it to 10.00 per month will you keep it, so yep we did.

Cheers

Steve

 

[stevechase]

Just called sky and said I was thinking about cancelling, didnt want to say I definately was in case it went pear shaped and I had to.

Anyway, they have dropped it from 43.50 per month to 32.60 (25% off) for 6 months.

In fact the 10.00 I have saved I could have multi room, how bizarre would that be

Cheers

Steve