sky are scum

albertsteptoe · 12-03-2007, 15:17

left me flat yesterday to do a bit of shoping & for some reason i looked up at my dish. i couldnt beleive what i saw, there was a quad lnb instead of standard one & a new cable runing from my dish to flat under me, my lnb was left on the grass. so i rang sky said what the **** is going on & told them that i was climbing out of my window to cut the cable that was runing from my dish as i paid for the dish, man at sky said i was within my rights to do it. got a phone call today from my sister in law as i was on my way home from work there was a man from sky trying to connect another cable to my dish. i asked him what he thought he was doing he said connecting a new cable. i told him some ass hole had all ready done it & that it wasnt going to happen again, he said he did it b4 & he was trying to do it again, he said he thought that my dish wasnt in use thats why he used it, he didnt say sorry for takeing my lnb off or for connecting a cable to my dish. sky you suck big time. im off to virgin you can stick your service where the sun dosnt shine.

Halcyon · 12-03-2007, 15:28

LOL
Not heard people against Sky for a while.... Virgin Media power +1

Nugget · 12-03-2007, 15:31

Hadn't you already arranged to have V+ installed at the end of the month anway?

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/34241662-post39.html

EDIT: More to the point, how the hell did they manage to get an engineer round the next day? Normally takes a week at least...

AndyCambs · 12-03-2007, 15:40

Well - to be fair, it's not Sky are scum, it's some of it's customers..
Having said that. it would be hard to tap into someone's cable television on Virgin Media..

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EDIT: More to the point, how the hell did they manage to get an engineer round the next day? Normally takes a week at least...

I don't think he actually says that it's a Sky engineer - I assumed it was the neighbour?

Nugget · 12-03-2007, 15:41

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I don't think he actually says that it's a Sky engineer - I assumed it was the neighbour?

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Originally Posted by albertsteptoe

...there was a man from sky trying to connect another cable to my dish.

AndyCambs · 12-03-2007, 15:42

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Originally Posted by Nugget

Sorry - I'll put the specs on!

albertsteptoe · 12-03-2007, 16:38

i am but sky dont know i am going with virgin yet. i wrote a letter to sky today as well ill be droping Sky engineer in the crap b4 i leave them.

Nugget · 12-03-2007, 16:58

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Originally Posted by albertsteptoe

i am but sky dont know i am going with virgin yet. i wrote a letter to sky today as well ill be droping Sky engineer in the crap b4 i leave them.

Personally I don't see the point if you're going with Virgin, but each to their own, I suppose

AndyCambs · 12-03-2007, 17:01

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Originally Posted by albertsteptoe

i am but sky dont know i am going with virgin yet. i wrote a letter to sky today as well ill be droping Sky engineer in the crap b4 i leave them.

You did say in your other post that you were having a V+ box installed on 24th March?

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Originally Posted by albertsteptoe

hello all im new to forum & would like to ask a question. is there anyone in forum from south east london that has had v+ box installed with out haveing any problems, as i am due to get installed on march 24th & have been reading your posts & im not to confident that i wont get same problems as everyone else. thanks for any help.

**Rob** · 12-03-2007, 17:12

Not quite sure why this was posted as a VM installation issue

albertsteptoe · 12-03-2007, 17:19

yes i did but i dont want my v+ box playing up when i cancel sky, thats why i have to stay with sky a bit longer to make sure box works right after install.sorry if ive posted in wrong forum, new to here.

awibble · 12-03-2007, 18:39

from what you say it doesnt matter if your leaving sky or not. its your dish, not theirs.

the excuse "he thought that my dish wasnt in use thats why he used it" is a load of crap... if he didnt know it was in use, why leave the old cable connected? and why was he touching equptment that is owned by you?

Im not sure, but there is something seriously wrong with that, seriously wrong!!!

albertsteptoe · 12-03-2007, 21:18

from what you say it doesnt matter if your leaving sky or not. its your dish, not theirs.

the excuse "he thought that my dish wasnt in use thats why he used it" is a load of crap... if he didnt know it was in use, why leave the old cable connected? and why was he touching equptment that is owned by you?

Im not sure, but there is something seriously wrong with that, seriously wrong!!!

thats why im writeing to sky see what they do about it.

RealDiamond · 12-03-2007, 21:24

Sounds like the installer isn't working for SKY but as a freelance install for the other Flat (yellow pages scum). Sky would have sent a dish as well as the box for the install, Check the area and rubbish for another dish

, have you be talking out loud to any neighbour lately about leaving sky.

In this house were I live, the flat below had Sky installed and Now there are FOUR dishes on the one wall of this house.

albertsteptoe · 12-03-2007, 21:31

no havnt talked to anyone about leaveing sky, & theres always plenty of rubbish in my area.