Sky Tv Contracts

[tony_mc]

I have an 18 month contract with SKY. I want to switch providers, but they will not release me from the contract. Can they really do this or am i stick with for the next 6 months?

[rockyracoon]

Of course they can do it. I presume you hooked up to the contract willingly. They may, with a bit of arm twisting, release you, but don't expect them to.

[gingejbee]

You don't know the meaning of "contract", do you?

[Hopkirk]

6 months will be gone in no time.

When times up tell Sky you are off, and then see the offers they throw at you.

[Togo]

I posted this a couple of days ago and got no takers. I will however be keeping an eye on it.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1590861.html

[mikey4444]

Yes they can...its at the heart of every contract.

[Peter Pedant]

you are stuck wiv da contract
people are not being very kind to you....

when my tenants express a wish to leave I geddem out as soon as they can er walk. I am allowed to demand rent for the rest of the contract ( which is the norm for commercial contracts and they enforce it ) but I consider possession much more important

sky doesnt - which means their return rate is lower than it might be - but that is their commercial decision

you can get out of it by mistake, misrepresentation or fraud....

I was assisting a deaf fella changing his SKY contract and he said "I was assured that I could change at anytime" and I said - "yes you did - I was in the room at the time Dec 2016" - and they caved in - perhaps because their screens had indeed showed a telephone call in Dec 16
or not.....

[mikey4444]

Tony....why don't you try doing without Sky altogether, when your 6 months is up ?

You will find that your Sky Dish will still work, although the "Red Button" feature won't. You will still have access to loads of channels completely free, with the good picture quality that a dish gives you......and it will all be 100% free !

You have nothing to lose but your chains !

[Togo]

//You have nothing to lose but your chains ! //

Haha perhaps you can also avoid the compulsory "licence" fee, Which you are condemned to pay without any verbal or agreed contract?

[mikey4444]

Togo....I know this isn't a popular view, here on AB, but I think the license fee presents tremendous value for money. All those TV and radio channels.

And what TV program was everybody talking about last year ? Wasn't it Blue Planet ?

[goodgoalie]

I've just had to pay my TV licence - £147. Think that's not bad value at less than £3 a week - I'd almost pay that for the great programmes on BBC4 alone, particularly art programmes, Spiral, and music programmes like last night's excellent 'Hits, Hype and Hustle', presented by my old promoter, John Giddings.

[mikey4444]

GG....I would gladly pay that for The Archers and John Humphrys alone !

[Togo]

Choice boys.....choice.....we are not given one.

[goodgoalie]

I've never had Sky, and would never bother, even if I could afford it. Do sometimes watch Sky News (now on Freeview 233), but always switch channels when the adverts come on.

No wonder Sky is awash with money: you have to pay a subscription AND endure adverts. Does anyone actually sit through the ads? I either switch channels or fast-forward if I'm watching something recorded.

[mikey4444]

What annoyed me about my 3 years with SKY, was all those dreadful channels that I never watched. And that they kept putting the price up, every now and then.

And when you wanted to see some important sports event, they had their hand out for even more money !

Like GG, I rarely watch anything with adverts, with perhaps the exception of some CH4 programs, like the nightly news.

[Bazile]

Mikey why do you always tell folk to give up sky ?

[mikey4444]

Bazile....look up above !

[Togo]

Usual reason Bazile? If I can't have, or don't want it.....no one should have it.......There is a word for it somewhere......Let me think. :))

[Hopkirk]

I'm with Mikey.

I don't know why anyone pays for TV, unless they want sports channels.

[Denton]

Do you not pay the TV Licence,Hopkirk.?

[Hopkirk]

Fair point. I do.