16-01-2017, 19:27
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#31
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cf.addict
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 114
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
I just received the email this evening but it is still greyed out even in SD, I will switch off and reboot and see if this does the trick.
I wonder if the powers that be can see from my Tivo box that I watch Sky Sports News a lot. Also about a year ago I had SS for 30 days over Christmas and New Year.
Anyway Thanks, I just hope this is a free lunch full stop.
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16-01-2017, 19:33
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#32
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 8,920
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by gus0898uk
I just received the email this evening but it is still greyed out even in SD,
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Give Faults a call.
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16-01-2017, 21:18
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#33
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cf.member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 5
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
Received the email today, Sky sports free for six weeks. Only in SD.
Won't be subscribing through.
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16-01-2017, 22:09
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#34
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Guest
Location: Luton
Services: Big Kahuna, Phone XL, Boxnation
Posts: n/a
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
Got the email today and Watching SKY sports, quick questions what was the criteria of choosing certain customers for this promotion?
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16-01-2017, 22:14
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#35
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MVP
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Newark, Nottingham, UK
Age: 37
Posts: 85
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
Any official word from Virgin yet? No Sky here on the HD XL package and been a customer since the old NTL days.
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16-01-2017, 23:19
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#36
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cf.addict
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 114
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
spider
Thanks for the heads up, I am still greyed out, if no SS in the morning I will ring faults.
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17-01-2017, 00:19
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#37
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 4,098
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
I'm gobsmacked by this offer from Virgin, really am, so in effect people like me and thousands of others who pay through the nose for the sports pack, are basically subsidising others who don't have it, and Virgin are dressing this up as a sweetener to entice new customers into taking the Sky sports pack, unbelievable!
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17-01-2017, 07:34
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#38
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cf.addict
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Coventry
Services: TiVO, V+, XL TV, L Broadband and Superhub, M Phone
Posts: 160
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by Mad Max
I'm gobsmacked by this offer from Virgin, really am, so in effect people like me and thousands of others who pay through the nose for the sports pack, are basically subsidising others who don't have it, and Virgin are dressing this up as a sweetener to entice new customers into taking the Sky sports pack, unbelievable!
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How do you know it's not a Sky offer?
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17-01-2017, 08:33
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#39
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Guest
Location: Luton
Services: Big Kahuna, Phone XL, Boxnation
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by Mad Max
I'm gobsmacked by this offer from Virgin, really am, so in effect people like me and thousands of others who pay through the nose for the sports pack, are basically subsidising others who don't have it, and Virgin are dressing this up as a sweetener to entice new customers into taking the Sky sports pack, unbelievable!
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For the record I had SKY for years with VM before I dropped it because of cost. I recently had multiple offers from Now TV for their sports pack so I think it is completely a marketing drive from SKY themselves through VM!
I suppose they are giving this offer to customers who are on the highest bundle that does not include SKY Sports!
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17-01-2017, 08:37
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#40
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Inactive
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Scotland
Age: 42
Posts: 308
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by Mad Max
I'm gobsmacked by this offer from Virgin, really am, so in effect people like me and thousands of others who pay through the nose for the sports pack, are basically subsidising others who don't have it, and Virgin are dressing this up as a sweetener to entice new customers into taking the Sky sports pack, unbelievable!
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If it's any consolation, I'm unlikely to make use of this offer. For example me and my boys will be taking in some delightful Scottish Cup action this weekend, watching Stenhousemuir get pumped at McDiarmid.
But whoever has been the brains behind this offer (let's be honest it'll be Sky) really should have thought about their existing customers as well. They are maybe relying a bit too much on people retaining Sky Sports without stopping to think about it.
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Originally Posted by mhatter67
I suppose they are giving this offer to customers who are on the highest bundle that does not include SKY Sports!
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Not sure it's that, I'm only on the Mix bundle. But I have subscribed to Sky Sports in the past (we're talking about maybe 4 years or so ago) so perhaps this is a drive to win back previous subscribers.
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17-01-2017, 11:41
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#41
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cf.lurker
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Sutton-In-Ashfield
Services: Tivo (1Tb), blah, blah, blah...
Posts: 42
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by gus0898uk
I just received the email this evening but it is still greyed out even in SD, I will switch off and reboot and see if this does the trick.
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Mine was greyed out too, so I did this (from VM Help site: Missing Channels)...
Press Home on your remote
Select Help & Settings
Select Help
Select TV Care from the top bar
Select Missing channels
Select Refresh my channel list to check for missing channels, and to get your TiVo box automatically updated if they are missing.
...and they showed up.
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17-01-2017, 11:57
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#42
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 12,313
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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18-01-2017, 14:27
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#43
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Media Boy UK HQ
Posts: 14,784
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by Mad Max
I'm gobsmacked by this offer from Virgin, really am, so in effect people like me and thousands of others who pay through the nose for the sports pack, are basically subsidising others who don't have it, and Virgin are dressing this up as a sweetener to entice new customers into taking the Sky sports pack, unbelievable!
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18-01-2017, 16:27
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#44
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Guest
Location: Essex
Services: vm broadband tvxl TiVo, v+ sky sports and phone.
Posts: n/a
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
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Indeed it is, if anybody thinks I am going to pay thirty odd quid a month plus the HD charge for sky sports they are barking, sky sports is simply pricing itself out of the market on VM at around £450 a year just for the sport including HD.
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18-01-2017, 17:18
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#45
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 12,313
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Re: Sky Sports for free?
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Originally Posted by richard1960
Indeed it is, if anybody thinks I am going to pay thirty odd quid a month plus the HD charge for sky sports they are barking, sky sports is simply pricing itself out of the market on VM at around £450 a year just for the sport including HD.
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According to Denphone its got plenty of scope to increase.
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