madman1178
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This doesnt happen every day, but I'm getting free sky and have been since Januray!!!
OK, its only the £21 a month subscription, but i'm not getting charged for it.
This is what happened.
In January i moved house and rang to cancel sky as i was going to get a new subscription once i moved house so i got a new box etc.
The guy on the phone said if you stay with us we will install your current sky for you free of charge at your new house.
So i agreed.
A week or so after moving in, sky came and installed my sky for me free of charge.
I turned my box on and i am getting all the channels i did before i moved. bingo!
So far i was under the impression i was still paying by direct debit to sky...
i have been watching sky every day since January.
A few days ago I decided i wanted to get sky hd on this half price employee offer they are doing as my sister works for one of the companies connected to it. So we rang up to upgrade to sky hd.
Everything was going well and an installation date was set....then the guy on the phone said.......
"it appears this account is no longer active, it will need to be re-activated before i can proceed"
Despite us telling him it was activated, he assured us that it wasn't.... ...so
He then attempted to reactivate the account. Then he said he was getting an error when trying to reactivate and would have to send an email to I.T. and we should call back in a couple of days.
SO....my account was no longer active....but i am still getting sky.
I rang my bank and sure enough, sky havent taken a penny since january.
NOW, many of you may think i was silly to do this, but i have watched too many eppisodes of 'My name is Earl' not to believe in karma and to always do the right thing.
So i rang up sky to enquire. After being past from one call center to the other, i finally spoke to this guy who confirmed the account was no longer active and according to the system my sky should not be working and giving me subscription channels.....even though it is.
So i asked him, if you dont make a record of this, and i keep my mouth shut, will i continue to keep receiving sky free of charge.
HE SAID YES.
I then asked if there was a chance of me recieving a massive bill at some point back dated to january.
HE SAID NOT A CHANCE!! He said my account is inactive and nothing is being recorded against it so i will never receive a bill. He said the only thing that may happen is i may at some point stop receiving sky, but for now im getting it for free.
Has anyone experienced this?
Shall i upgrade to HD or keep getting free sky....i really only wanted hd for the free sky plus....but i can use my media center to record stuff on..... so really dont need it that badly
Advice please!!
cheers!
This doesnt happen every day, but I'm getting free sky and have been since Januray!!!
OK, its only the £21 a month subscription, but i'm not getting charged for it.
This is what happened.
In January i moved house and rang to cancel sky as i was going to get a new subscription once i moved house so i got a new box etc.
The guy on the phone said if you stay with us we will install your current sky for you free of charge at your new house.
So i agreed.
A week or so after moving in, sky came and installed my sky for me free of charge.
I turned my box on and i am getting all the channels i did before i moved. bingo!
So far i was under the impression i was still paying by direct debit to sky...
i have been watching sky every day since January.
A few days ago I decided i wanted to get sky hd on this half price employee offer they are doing as my sister works for one of the companies connected to it. So we rang up to upgrade to sky hd.
Everything was going well and an installation date was set....then the guy on the phone said.......
"it appears this account is no longer active, it will need to be re-activated before i can proceed"
Despite us telling him it was activated, he assured us that it wasn't....
...soHe then attempted to reactivate the account. Then he said he was getting an error when trying to reactivate and would have to send an email to I.T. and we should call back in a couple of days.
SO....my account was no longer active....but i am still getting sky.
I rang my bank and sure enough, sky havent taken a penny since january.
NOW, many of you may think i was silly to do this, but i have watched too many eppisodes of 'My name is Earl' not to believe in karma and to always do the right thing.
So i rang up sky to enquire. After being past from one call center to the other, i finally spoke to this guy who confirmed the account was no longer active and according to the system my sky should not be working and giving me subscription channels.....even though it is.
So i asked him, if you dont make a record of this, and i keep my mouth shut, will i continue to keep receiving sky free of charge.
HE SAID YES.
I then asked if there was a chance of me recieving a massive bill at some point back dated to january.
HE SAID NOT A CHANCE!!
He said my account is inactive and nothing is being recorded against it so i will never receive a bill. He said the only thing that may happen is i may at some point stop receiving sky, but for now im getting it for free.Has anyone experienced this?
Shall i upgrade to HD or keep getting free sky....i really only wanted hd for the free sky plus....but i can use my media center to record stuff on..... so really dont need it that badly
Advice please!!
cheers!
