Are SKY TV trying it on?
For many years now I've paid my £36/month into the system and 2 things needle me greatly!
Firstly, Sky are always advertising new advances, and I'd dearly love a Sky+ box, but I'm resisting getting one because I can't get one at the promotional price!
It seems that despite the fact that you've paid your monthly subscription for what must be half your life, and are told you are a 'valued and loyal customer', but as you are not 'a new customer', you are denied any discount!! So much for loyalty.
Secondly, I wonder if any Ppruner can comment on this experience. Through most of its life my first Sky box worked with little problem, and, when it did, the £7 a month maintenance that I paid covered the engineer's visit. But, towards the end of its life I was frequently pulling the card out and re-setting the thing. On the last visit the engineer just gave us a new box, I think he'd become bored with our furniture!
So, the cunning plan! I commented to Tinbashette that in view of the fact we were becoming jaded with all the TV repeats, we'd cancel the Sky and the maintenance contract, sell the new box on and put the £43 to other good uses, like additional alcohol for instance, and make do with Freeview! Well, as the new box was covered by a new guarantee for a year, the maintenance contract was cancelled within days. But the box sat there, waiting.......watching.......
The months wore on, and a new offer of maintenance arrived, which we declined. Right, I'm sure you are all ahead of me now! At about it's 1st anniversary, the boxed stopped working, so card out, re-boot etc. Went on for a while, then some days the box would work, but the remote wouldn't work the box. Not a new battery, no, nothing as simple as that, just re-set the box and all is fine, until a couple of days later, and so on.
I'm convinced that "they" send a signal down the wire, despite unplugging my telephone connection after the 1st year of contract, it's funny how history seems to repeat itself.
I said to Tinbashette, 'one of these days I'm going to "wee" that box'....... 'not on it, I hope' was the reply.
No I said, that's the noise it will make when it goes through the window!
Any similar experiences?