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I heard somewhere that if somebody reccomends you then you get free installation and free box.

This is bollocks surely?

i had something through the post a week or two ago and it had some kind of offer.cannot remeber the details but i reckon you could be right

Let me have your email address and I'll send you the 'introduce a friend' email.

no i do not trust you

Just sent it, it's free Sky+ box and £30 installation for new customers.

Send it to me Sam?

Sent.

freesat will be ace once its fully developed.with freebie footy readily available i might ditch the sky soon

Cheers sam, whats this free sat then arriba

Can i introduce one of you as i will get a free sky box+ as well as you if you're a new customer! I dont have one, i enquired only last week but they wanted to rape me up the arse!

if you have a sky input just plug that lead into a freesat box £150 to buy.freesat gives you freeview plus a few free hd channels.it's fairly new and humax are developing a recordable box that will be out soon.no monthly payment but sky does have more choice of course

Enduring image............

They wanted me to pay £100 for the box and £60  for setup, but if i took thier talk n net package i could have it all for £75. How bloody rude! I think they are discriminating against people with no friends.

Just recommended my dad to get sky+ and they fell over themselves, £50 voucher for M&S for me for recomending him, plus £50 on for my dad, free sky+ box but had to pay £50 installation.

I wouldnt be without Sky+ now.

Sky customer service has imprived but still leaves a lot to be desired, I phoned up to cancel sports and films and they asked why...I said I just cant afford the extra £15 or so a month on top of the normal package...so they said....you have been a customer for 7 years with us....have it for free...so we have Sky+, multiroom with all sky sports and al film channels for £31 a month....sweet.

The bastards. The only thing that's stopping me getting Sky at the momement is the fact I've not got a BT line. I'd have to change phoneline providers which would mean I might not be able to access the internet!

?? Why do you need a BT line?

The latest recommend  a friend ended yesterday (the new customer free box + £30 install and £50 M&S to recommender mailshot)

And with freesat HD at £150 you cannot go wrong.

Freesat HD = BBC HD, C4 HD (hardly any HD content) and ITV HD (part time). Waste of time for HD at the moment really.

Hopefully it'll improve though, and with freesat PVRs coming it might scare Sky into dropping their £10 HD fee (ripoff).

It's extended until 25th apparently

Oooh, thanks. Anyone need a referral I have 1 left, PM me. I'll give you £30 M&S vouchers if/when they come too.

But with Freesat HD you still get the non hd channels right?

Skyplus is ace.

I was thinking about phoning up to cancel in a bid to get some free channels. think it would work?

Absolutely.



Depends on the current climate. If you use words like credit crunch and cancel they may offer you something like cheaper Movies (if you have them).

But there is a risk they may offer you f'all and cancel you!

when i rang up to cancel few years ago they offered me a cheaper price, (not by much) so i sorted a deal where i would get 8 of the next sky box office boxing matches of my choice for free just to stay with sky

if sky scrap the £10 a month fee for hd and give me a box for fuck all i'd be happy.
freesat getting better over time will force them to do something eventually i reckon

or it might have been 6, used them all up anyway

i just want movies for free not to much to ask for!

but once you get Sky+ you wonder how you ever lived without it

Miss angry they wanted the same thing from me but managed to recommend a friend - ring up and threaten to disconnect and they will normally sort you out

On all the Sky literature it states you need a BT line.

You are correct Mr Hertha, Sky insist you have a BT line....heaven knows why though.

You dont. only uses the bt line for ordering things on box office i think (??)

My sky + works fine with no phone line at all plugged in

If I unplug my sky box from the phone line within 5 days I get a letter from Sky saying its not connected and to plug it back in ASAP or they will turn me off!

Mine's been unplugged for around 7-8 months now and I've never had a letter!

Really?

Mines not been plugged in for months, in fact I physically cant anymore .

I've had heard nothing from sky and its not affected the service / reception / anything at all

You defo do not need BT line for Sky or Sky+.  I believe you do need it for mulitroom though.  This is fact btw.  You do get an extra charge for a "manual" installation (the geezer has to phone up Sky and kind of switch it on from their end instead of through the phone line) and you can still order box office films without a phone line, you just have to call them up.

Yeah as we have multiroom we have to keep both plugged in to the BT, I think it may be summut to do with that, I have only just chucked the letter away or I would scan it and put it on here, the wording was very strict that I had to have it plugged into a BT landline at all times.

Technically you do need it plugged in to a land line for 12 months to satisfy the interactive discount part of the contract, even for singlebox installs. However as Jan says they don't normally chase you on a single room install - however they may refuse to install I suppose.

But I thought (and am probably wrong) that this was plugged in to ANY land line/provider, not just restricted BT.  So you'd be OK with Virgin or whoever. It may be a pain for VOIP providers though.

You dO need a "BT" line for their ADSL broadband though.

I'll have a dig anyway, but you are probably right Herthab.

It's the multiroom issue that Sky are worried about with JJ, that's why they would disconnect if he doesn't plug it back in.

As long at installation you tell them you don't have a phone line, they will charge you £25 extra for installation and not bother you once up and running. 


And aren't all landlines technically BT lines, the other companies just rent the line from BT as it were, the actual link to your house is provided by BT?  So that's why they say you have to have a BT landline.  Not 100% sure on that though.

I wasnt 100% sure but it probably is the multiroom issue as you say, as its easy to run a cable to next door then they get all the channels for only £10 a month.....mmmm interesting idea...mmmmm if I charge him £30 a month he will get all my channels for half the price he would normally and I get my whole package paid for!

legal disclaimer....nice Idea but I aint got the balls to do it!

OK it was changed in 2007!!!!! Thanks Jan, useful to know.

Of no interest now:

Anyway,as long as you have any FIXED line (not VOIP) you should be OK.

http://packages.sky.com/see/EquipmentSkyPlus.aspx?CMP=KNC-UKesalesSearch

So if you have mutiroom why do the boxes need to be plugged into a phone line?

What difference does it make?

I think JJ's explained this CT. 

Re-read it , i understand now!

My multiroom boxes have never been plugged in since the first day of having it. The sky bloke made a mess with the phone line.
cunt.

Or disconnect and reconnect in a different name and get it all free - I've got the full package and am sorely tempted to phone and cancel sports & movies, but I'd miss the sports so I may cancel the movies and make the mrs go without  - unless they offer it me free

Anyone know if Sky Broadband is reliable ?

I read some really bad stuff about sky broadband - their customer service and the ammount of time it was taking to connect new customers, that was probably over a year ago now though. 

I honestly do not believe this Sky+ "but once you get Sky+ you wonder how you ever lived without it " bs.

I don't watch enough or have enough interest in TV for it to be that much of a difference.  Replaying tv would be a nice to have but not a need really.

I think I'll stick to my Freeview and DTR.............

on a midly related note, has anyone else ever experienced freeweb. its a free tv service through your computer, though not available everywere.

http://www.freewiretv.com/ is the link, i just wondered if anyone knew how reliable it was

Ease of recording, series link, remote record  and the ability to fast forward through adverts is what does it for me!

The advert skipping alone can save 15 minutes on an hour long program.

I guess the ability to record TV has been around for 25 years in the mass consumer market, but comparing a VCR with a PVR is like comparing chalk and cheese.

shut up Jan its lush!   ;) you can record any old random shit!

and live pause is ace!

Yeah it is good, but life altering is a little ott isn't it?

kinda!!  :-[

Enily used to say the same thing to me and I used to think - yeah whatever!

This is what africa needs. Sod the the wells and all the food aid, give them a sky+ box and their set to go

ethniopians would love it Dave thats a great Idea

I can see the charity ad's now

...just £15 per person will give every child in Africa access to Sky+ for one whole year.  £40 per month will give them complete access to Sky Sports.  Together they could freeze live sporting events to go get water from the well 8km's away.  They would have series link recording, should they need to go away from their home and take part in a civil war.

They could be HIV + and Sky+ and be happy.

:D