PVR3 for £65 (Existing Sky Customer upgrade from Sky to Sky+)

[jamieone]

Here is roughly how the conversation went:

Phoned 08705488485
ME: Could you please tell me how much it is to upgrade to sky+
SKY CS: Do you realise this is the cancellations number?
ME: I was told by a friend that he upgraded to sky+ for £49 on this number.
SKY CS: really?
ME: he got a refurbished sky+ digi box.
SKY CS: I’ll have a work with my supervisor and see if this offer is still available.
…. [on hold]….
SKY SC: I’m afraid this offer is only available if you are wanting to cancel.
ME: oh.
SKY CS: Are you wanting to cancel?
ME: errr…..yes.
SKY CS: [laughs] I’ll have another word with my supervisor.
…..[on hold]……
SKY CS: OK, we can give you a refurbished box for £49 or you can have a new box for £65, both have free installation.
ME I’ll take the new box please.


I ordered on Friday and they said they could do the installation the following Monday. The engineer turned up on the Monday with a shiny new PVR3 box (I didn’t even know they existed)

Who said Sky are all bad!?!

Jamie

 

[dalvin]

lucky!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pwood]

Id go for this as well, if only they didn't force me into paying an extra £10 per month subsciption as I dont have the premium channels.

 

[magnatom]

I had a very similar conversation with the cancellation section on Friday and I am waiting for my PVR3 to be delivered tomorrow!

I do like saving £203

 

[davebrear]

I went for the £49 deal myself a few months ago, however i rang up on friday to try and get it for my grandad. After haggling with X3 people, and being assured by all 3 that the £49 deal ended on the 1st of Sept i told them to cancel his account unless they could come up with a better offer. THey eventually offered a New box for £65, but did not specify whether it would be a PVR2 or 3. I assumed they would be getting rid of stocks of V2 boxes / amstrad boxes at this price. He is getting installed on tuesday, so i will update as to which box he recieves.

Dave

 

[magnatom]

Yikes! I would not be happy if I got a PVR2 as it is the PVR3 that is listed on their web site now! I was told it would be a new system, and as new systems are now advertised as having 80Gb (i.e. PVR3) then I will accept nothing less. I will let you know what happens tomorrow......

 

[magnatom]

I can confirm I have taken delivery of a nice new PVR3 (at least thats what the wife tells me!). Not bad for £65!

 

[ad47uk]

I don't know why people are surprised that Sky is trying to more or less give away Sky+ boxes. I am a little surprised that sky doid not not ask for multiroom to be taken out, but I suppose since you was going to cancel, then you would not really want a extra box. did Sky take your old box or did you keep it?

The main reason sky wants people to have SKy+ is because sky+ users are less likely to cancel. I have got no iterest in Sky+, even if Sky gave it away, I do not see why I should pay an extra £10 a month, just so I can record.
I got myself a harddrive/DVD unit, with which I can record with, so I can not record one channel while watching another, but these days the chance of anything good being on two channels at the same time is almost zero, also it would be repeated and repeated and repeated.

Tomorrow I am going to phone Sky up and ask them to downgrade me, I am getting rid of the Music and the Childrens mix, that will save me money. If Sky puts up the prices again next year, then I will drop another 2 mixes. I am not going to pay more than £20. a month, for T.V

 

[a_nicholson]

Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether Sky require a BT line for this deal?
I have been a Sky customer for a number of years now and the BT line required for the first 12 months of the contract has long since been cancelled.

thanks

 

[davebrear]

Can anyone tell me whether Sky require a BT line for this deal?

Yeah you are taking out another 12 month min sub with them so need a line again. I know this because the day the engineer called to install mine my phone line had "developed a fault" (code for living on a new housing estate and builders cutting through cable!!!) The engineer could not / would not install. He ended up coming back a week later when the problem was solved.

Dave

 

[magnatom]

Damn! I went home last night and yes I did have a PVR 3. The Amstrad. The problem is the noise! Click, click, click...... . After a little checking it would seem that this is an issue with the Amstrads, so I phoned customer care (apparently better than customer services?!?) and have asked for the syetm to be replaced with the Pace. I got the usual line of 'we can't guarantee which box you will get...' but at least my account is marked that I want the Pace.

I will let you know how I get on.....

 

[Jules1975]

Damn! I went home last night and yes I did have a PVR 3. The Amstrad. The problem is the noise! Click, click, click...... . After a little checking it would seem that this is an issue with the Amstrads, so I phoned customer care (apparently better than customer services?!?) and have asked for the syetm to be replaced with the Pace. I got the usual line of 'we can't guarantee which box you will get...' but at least my account is marked that I want the Pace.

I will let you know how I get on.....

We had this problem, just turned off the instant rewind feature, which we would never use anyway, improved things drastically.

 

[magnatom]

Yes that would solve the problem, but we we would probably use this feature (new baby in the house) and the clicking happens during any recording. No point i having sky+ if I can't use the +

 

[Jules1975]

Yes that would solve the problem, but we we would probably use this feature (new baby in the house) and the clicking happens during any recording. No point i having sky+ if I can't use the +

Yeah it does come back on if you are recording but I don't even notice it anymore - after 4 weeks!

 

[harpal]

Hi,

just tried the same and got told sky + is £199 all I got offered was 3 months of half price subscription got a good mind to call em and cancel for good.

 

[harpal]

Hi,

just tried the same and got told sky + is £199 all I got offered was 3 months of half price subscription got a good mind to call em and cancel for good.

 

[harpal]

Hi,

just tried the same and got told sky + is £199 all I got offered was 3 months of half price subscription got a good mind to call em and cancel for good.

 

[davebrear]

Hi Harpal

got a good mind to call em and cancel for good.

Do that - at least they will take you seriously, and most probably offer you a better deal for sky+ just to keep your business.


Oh and Magnatom, my grandad's sky+ was installled yesterday and his was a Amstrad PVR3 also. He has no complaints about noise though as he is deaf as a post (bless him) I haven't been round to check it out yet but he seems really happy with it!

Good luck getting your Pace replacement

Dave

 

[bobfol]

It did not work for me! I went to the ultimate bluff of actually cancelling and they stil would not quote me better than £199

 

[magnatom]

Oh and Magnatom, my grandad's sky+ was installled yesterday and his was a Amstrad PVR3 also. He has no complaints about noise though as he is deaf as a post (bless him) I haven't been round to check it out yet but he seems really happy with it!

Good luck getting your Pace replacement

Dave

Thanks Dave. My wife doesn't usually notice this type of problem, but it was the first thing she mentioned to me yesterday. Must be bad .

The engineer is coming tomorrow so I will keep you informed...

 

[harpal]

Hi,

just tried the same and got told sky + is £199 all I got offered was 3 months of half price subscription got a good mind to call em and cancel for good.

 

[magnatom]

So my replacement PVR3 arrived and yes it was an Amstrad and yes it still clicks (and its loud!)

So I have been on to 'customer care' again and had a nice wee chat with one of the call operators there. Apparently a memo has been sent to them saying that they are not to replace boxes due to hard disk noise, and that all boxes are equally affected (Reading the forums it is obvious this isn't the case ).

Anyway after offering to pay for a courier to post one up to me (for the engineer to fix in) which they weren't willing to do, the operator has now emailed distribution to see if they can get a Pace box to me for an instalation next Tuesday. She has said she will phone me back to confirm if this possible. We'll see.....

I will keep you informed........

 

[cR4cKF0x 5TevE]

My Amstrad Sky+ box has just developed a couple of faults, the grand time of two weeks after the warranty expired. Having seen this thread, I thought that rather than shell out £65 on an engineer's visit and get a refurbished box with 3 months warranty, I would try this.

So I rang up, and after going through the usual account identification routine, the conversation was....

ME Can I order a Sky+ PVR3 for £65 please
Operator Oh, where did you hear about that
ME A number of my friends have rung this number and purchased one of your new PVR3 Sky+ boxes for £65.
Operator I see you have Sky+ already, why would you want this box
ME My current (Amstrad) box is faulty, and since it is out of warranty it would cost £65 for an engineer's visit
Operator Right, well you will be pleased to hear that the box is £65, installation is free, there is a twelve month warranty, and no 12 month contract requirement
ME Excellent, when can you book the installation
Operator (after going through the payment and booking process) Tuesday 20th

So, seems like an easy way to get an additional 12 months warranty whilst I wait for the new hi-definition service to get a foothold.

Try it!!

 

[magnatom]

Good luck gravygrange hope you get a good one .

One thing I just remembered about my chat with the sky operator. She said that the pace boxes are being sent out to certain areas. So how do they chose these areas? Maybe they aren't sending them to Scotland. Is this institutional racism at sky!?!?

Seriously though, has anyone North of the border got a new Pace PVR3?

 

[magnatom]

Hi folks,

Just to confirm that sky did get back to me and I was told that 'I would get a pace PVR3'. Apparently the operator confirmed this with the box distributer. Sounds promising, but who knows with sky!

Lets see what Tuesday brings......