Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 25, 2022 12:48:15 GMT
The main reason I binned virgin was that the bill felt like death by a thousand cuts. You start with a decent deal and then get a letter increasing your bill what feels like weekly.
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 25, 2022 12:49:03 GMT
Oh, and they wouldn’t let me bin the land line. When I asked to have it removed from the package, the bill actually went up.
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dogbot
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Post by dogbot on Jan 25, 2022 12:55:08 GMT
The main reason I binned Virgin was that they gave me a router which had LAN ports which randomly switched off after several minutes and told me I'd need to use WiFi.
Errr. Bye then. Tbh, I really haven't missed them.
Openreach are currently doing full fibre to the home upgrades in this area, so we're about to go from 80Mb to 1000+Mb in Feb, I'm told. Woo hoo.
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Post by spacein_vader on Jan 25, 2022 12:57:28 GMT
HBO stuff tho. CBA pirating these days HBO Max is 8 dollars a month, that and a VPN will be under £15 a month. Much cheaper than sky and no piracy involved. |
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Post by imamazed on Jan 25, 2022 12:57:33 GMT
Yeh I've generally had good service from Virgin Media, they haven't increased prices until end of contract where I've easily haggled downwards anyway, but that router is shite. You definitely have to factor in the cost of a replacement router and/or mesh network into the cost of a Virgin contract.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 25, 2022 12:58:28 GMT
Currently on hold for the bin it off department, a recorded message is offering me 5. Pounds. And. 17. Pence. Discount with no contract and no change to service. Why don’t you just do it automatically then, why did my bill go up in the first place you slags
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Post by imamazed on Jan 25, 2022 13:00:42 GMT
Currently on hold for the bin it off department, a recorded message is offering me 5. Pounds. And. 17. Pence. Discount with no contract and no change to service. Why don’t you just do it automatically then, why did my bill go up in the first place you slags Yeh that happened to me the other day. Part of their game. They offered me £6 automatically on hold....then £30 off once I'd got through to someone about 2 minutes later. I really wish the whole cycle would go away, but hey, that's how they operate. |
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mrpon
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Post by mrpon on Jan 25, 2022 13:04:35 GMT
Do mine as well plz els ta.
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Psiloc
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Post by Psiloc on Jan 25, 2022 13:14:48 GMT
The set top box is about as useful to us as the landline. It’s literally a free view box for us. No interest in sports nor paying for an extortionate movie package. Makes for great discounts when they do the annual price doubling though because I ain’t bluffing when I threaten to cancel. We pay pennies.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 25, 2022 13:49:20 GMT
Think I upset the first lad with my haggling, he put me on hold and never came back. Back in the queue I go, got the price pretty low though before pushing my luck
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KD
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Post by KD on Jan 25, 2022 14:04:28 GMT
If you do ditch it they have the best offer a week or 2 later when you've already signed up elsewhere.
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Post by elstoof on Jan 25, 2022 14:43:53 GMT
That was hard graft. The first guy went down to £41 per month then hung up, the second one was a tough cookie, she wouldn’t budge below £47. Couldn’t be arsed after 2 hours of that, still a 40 quid saving per month
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2022 14:49:55 GMT
My reason for being unable to leave is 4k football. Once you see it some shitty nowtv stream just won't cut it.
Even MotD on BBC 1 HD makes my eyes hurt now.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Jan 25, 2022 15:03:43 GMT
I genuinely cannot understand why someone would have Sky, in this day and age. There's only so much content you can have Two reasons: 1) They are a good content provider in and of themselves. They get HBO shows and whatnot. 2) Sometimes you just want to watch passively and have something on in the background I often flick through Disney, Prime and Netflix and find very little and end up watching Sky or Terrestrial. Outside of the "big" shows I'm not a fan of streaming. I spend ages looking and often find what I've chosen isn't satisfying. I need to be force-fed content like a foie gras goose. Plus it's often the best place for all the sports. Finding a decent stream of NZ domestic rugby/cricket is tricksy. |
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Post by elstoof on Jan 25, 2022 15:10:49 GMT
My kids can’t even comprehend needing to remember a time and day that your program is on and if you miss it that’s final, just totally alien. The main thing the TiVo was used for was loading up Netflix, since getting the new TV with its own apps the writings been on the wall
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Post by jeepers on Jan 25, 2022 15:19:18 GMT
My kids can’t even comprehend needing to remember a time and day that your program is on and if you miss it that’s final, just totally alien. The main thing the TiVo was used for was loading up Netflix, since getting the new TV with its own apps the writings been on the wall Heh. My daughter looked at me with a mix of confusion and disgust when I talked about having three channels, no ability to pause or record telly and everything turning off during the day time. I’m sure she thought I was making it up. |
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Post by elstoof on Jan 25, 2022 15:38:25 GMT
3 channels, that is old. Wasn’t much on4 growing up tbf, all I remember is endless laurel and hardy films. Shame in a way, they’ll never know the thrill of waking up on Saturday morning and rushing to watch the kids programming
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dogbot
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Post by dogbot on Jan 25, 2022 15:40:40 GMT
Part of me misses the simpler times, before the "On Demand, Life on Subscription" world we have now. Bloody kids.  |
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Post by Blackmarsh63 on Jan 25, 2022 15:43:23 GMT
Well worth haggling in my experience.
Virgin BB from £60 to £32 and $ky from £75 to £19 albeit binning the sport which I get from "elsewhere".
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Post by rawshark on Jan 25, 2022 15:48:27 GMT
It's crazy isn't it? We only got about two and a half hours of Kids TV after school, and you were shit out of luck if there was a clash between Children's BBC and CITV. And a fair bit of those two and a half hours was wasted on abolute bobbins... Either pre-school filler like Poddington Peas, interminably boring shows like Newsround, Grange Hill, Blue Peter or Byker Grove, or worst of all Andi fucking Peters dicking around in the broom cupboard being crushingly unfunny. And then it was Neighbours and you might as well just go to bed at that point.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 25, 2022 15:49:11 GMT
3 channels, that is old. Wasn’t much on4 growing up tbf, all I remember is endless laurel and hardy films. Shame in a way, they’ll never know the thrill of waking up on Saturday morning and rushing to watch the kids programming A couple of hours after school, and Sat morning. That's it. I might be able to access my living room between the hours of 8am and 8pm if that was still the case. |
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Post by Reviewer on Jan 25, 2022 15:54:59 GMT
All the HBO stuff is on nowtv. Just sub to that for a couple of months a year and binge some stuff.
£141 is insane.
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スコットランド
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Post by スコットランド on Jan 25, 2022 15:56:30 GMT
HBO stuff tho. CBA pirating these days I pirate the HBO stuff often still, the only way here in Switzerland (if not on terrestrial TV) is with Sky online but the quality and interface is really shit. Shame as I'd rather the convenience so torrents to NAS it is. |
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Post by robthehermit on Jan 25, 2022 16:08:46 GMT
rawshark Oi. Don't you dare diss the Poddington Peas. You'll be having a pop at the Raggy Dolls next. What's the world coming to?
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Post by paulyboy81 on Jan 25, 2022 16:14:48 GMT
We ditched Sky a couple of years back, we weren't even spending as much as some of you, but it was still grinding my gears.
We took an honest look at our usage and basically realised we were paying £50 a month to watch Game of Thrones and record the occasional show which we could have seen on catch-up services anyway. Bollocks to that quite frankly.
We still use the dish and cables with the built-in FreeSat tuners in our TV's, beyond that we use catch-up services if we miss something and have Netflix/Prime for most other things.
They did try quite aggressively to keep us subscribed, at one stage offering us some frankly silly deals that I was probably foolish to ignore, but we haven't missed it one bit.
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Post by rawshark on Jan 25, 2022 16:15:07 GMT
Shoe People was shit too.
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robthehermit
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Post by robthehermit on Jan 25, 2022 16:16:48 GMT
Shoe People was shit too. Ban pls. |
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Post by simple on Jan 25, 2022 16:30:51 GMT
We’re down to Freeview, Netflix and Disney+
All we really watch are whatever my latest working from home binge is, Cbeebies and a couple of hours of brain off tv once the lad is in bed. If I had the time for football I’d watch more but can’t really justify paying for anything else at the moment.
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Post by X201 on Jan 25, 2022 16:40:54 GMT
I've been with Virgin far too long. Only get broadband from them.
I've spent the last year changing the email on any account that uses their email address, so that I'm ready to tell them to shove it with minimum hassle to me.
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nazo
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Post by nazo on Jan 25, 2022 16:50:16 GMT
Russian streams and a decent adblocker can cover your sporting needs if you're not concerned about diverting money from Murdoch It's been a while since Murdoch was involved with Sky. |
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