John
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Moved house a few months ago and go sky installed, 3 normal sky boxes/multiroom.
Didn't want movies and sports and didn't want to pay a tenner extra a month at the time for sky+.
Literally the next week they announced that sky+ would now be free.
Got a couple of courtesy calls in which I voiced my annoyance at this, they weren't interested.
Got a phone call from somebody offering me half price movies and sports, I said i'll take them if you give me a free sky+ box, she said sorry I can't but phone customer services and they may be able to.
Phoned customer services who were as usefull as a chocolate teapot, nothing we can do bla bla, pay 130 quid and you can have it.
While phoning them I googled a bit and found a few email addresses at sky, sent an email off explaining the situation expecting nothing at all back.
Come in from work today saying that further to the email I had sent James Murdoch I would be getting sky+ fitted free on saturday   
Summary, sent a random email, got free sky+
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ed
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Maybe he's a relation of Rupert
I wonder if it'll work for me. I'm not a Sky customer yet though 
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John
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My dad said that as well, was Rupert I sent the mail to but the reply says James.
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ed
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You e-mailed Rupert Murdoch asking for a free Sky+ box. I like your style
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Bart
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ooh, so sky HD is also a tenner cheaper now then? previously you had to have £10 for sky+ then £10 for HD
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Bart
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w00t! £37 per month for EVERYTHING, HD, all channels. just need to save £300 for box now.
would i have to buy the box from them? cos they are £170 brand new on ebay (3rd gen).
Also, can you use the SCART for HD if you have a HD ready tV?
[Edited on 17-07-2007 by Bart]
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John
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£10 for sky+ was only if you didn't have the movies or sports.
Do you not need one of them to get sky HD anyway?
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ed
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I don't get why they were charging people for Sky+ thought. It's just hardware isn't it? Scam 
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John
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They charge you 99 quid for the box, then if you didn't have movies or sports you were charged 10 quid a month for the sky+ features.
Paying a tenner a month for sky+ instead of the extra couple of quid for movies would just have been stupid, making people take out movies and sports I suppose.
I'm not exactly sure what other features you get either, can you not set it to record from your phone and the net etc?
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ed
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Apparently, my parents have it and I can safely say I don't use it at all. Though i'm debating getting it when I get Sky in my flat as it seems like a good idea
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Richie
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Hate the new scam though.
Parents have been with Sky since the start and have always had the full package.
They have Sky+ and the new on demand service is coming soon.... and Sky sent my parents a letter saying that their sky+ box is too old to use the new on demand service, and if they wanted to take advantage of it, it would cost £100 for a new box.
Bunch o wankers they are.
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ed
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Do you need a Sky+ box for On Demand? I guess that would make it a bit more worth while for me if that was the case.
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Richie
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You do indeed.
Anyone who manages to blag free Sky+ wont get on demand either... because when you blag it they send you an old reconditioned box.
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Arnie
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
Hate the new scam though.
Parents have been with Sky since the start and have always had the full package.
They have Sky+ and the new on demand service is coming soon.... and Sky sent my parents a letter saying that their sky+ box is too old to use the new on demand service, and if they wanted to take advantage of it, it would cost £100 for a new box.
Bunch o wankers they are.
We're in exactly the same situation. We've been with Sky for years and always had the full package, we have Sky+ and Sky Multi-room. I rang up the other day looking to get HD as well and asked if they would upgrade our old Sky+ box as we couldn't get on demand on it and they said no!
So I'm not paying the full price for every channel, Sky+, Sky Multi room, Sky HD and then not getting every service 
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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you can get the sky HD boxes for £170 on ebay Link Is it worth risking it? they are quite expensive from sky! also would sky mind if i already had my own box and just signed up to the service?
[Edited on 17-07-2007 by Bart]
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ed
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Just realised one thing actually. I on;y have one Satalite plug in the flat as far as i'm aware. Don't you need two for Sky+?
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John
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Could probably use one, but then you will only be able to watch/record one channel.
Not everybody who blags sky+ is getting recons btw, i'll see what I get when it comes at the weekend.
I didn't even know anything about the on demand service, I don't care if its a recon box either if its free.
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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your dish needs to have a dual feed from it
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Ally
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Just realised one thing actually. I on;y have one Satalite plug in the flat as far as i'm aware. Don't you need two for Sky+?
Thats fine Ed, the sky guy will fit another one for you
We had one, when they installed our sky+ he just added another one!
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John
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Flats can be very different.
May not be as easy as running another cable.
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Steve
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do you have your own dish for your own flat?
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ed
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It's a communal dish on the roof and I don't think i'll be too popular if I get him to bring another cable down from the roof of the 18th floor into my flat, especially when they don't do cavity work
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koolkorsa
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I'm also wondering this - anybody know?
quote:
Originally posted by Bart
you can get the sky HD boxes for £170 on ebay Link Is it worth risking it? they are quite expensive from sky! also would sky mind if i already had my own box and just signed up to the service?
[Edited on 17-07-2007 by Bart]
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Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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i was thinking of ringing them up and asking. Just say something like i came back from Uni, canceled my sky account and brought the box home with me.
The only thing i can see them saying is yes thats fine, but we're gonna charge you for installation or something
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John
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I can't see there being a problem.
All you need to do is ring up to associate the card with the box.
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