Sky Sports refuses darts refund

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Sports fans who paid nearly £10 each to watch Sky's first pay-per-view darts match will not be refunded even though one of the players retired because of heat exhaustion.
Sky Sports' much hyped "showdown" between rival world champions Phil Taylor and Andy Fordham came to a premature conclusion when Fordham suffered a suspected asthma attack.

Hundreds of thousands of viewers are thought to have paid £9.95 each to watch last night's event.

Taylor was 5-2 up and needed two more sets for victory when Fordham threw in the towel. Taylor said he was "absolutely devastated" the match had been cut short.

But Sky Sports said today there was no chance of viewers being offered a refund. A spokesman said the Taylor-Fordham clash was the climax to four hours' of coverage.

"The transmission went on for nearly four hours and in fact it overran by 90 minutes," he said. "We saw three great games of darts, especially the Taylor-Fordham match, in which every set apart from the first and the last went to [the maximum] five legs."

It was the first time Sky had broadcast a pay-per-view sports event, which it usually restricts to more mainstream sports such as football and boxing. But the response to last night's match - a reported 1 million viewers signed up - suggests there will be more darts events to come.

hicham82

please i want the key code for sky sports

Lancelot

There isn't one, sorry.

and you've posted this in the wrong place I'm afraid !!


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Striker10

Sky are greedy sky are sh*t ran by money grabbing dipsticks.......... . It seems nothing is sacred from pay per view these days

frankbutcher1878

Hi Im new to this forum. Just to let you all know that I have already been on the phone to Sky and they have agreed to refund it for me. It wasnt straight forward though, I acted on advice from trading standards on the grounds that they advertised the event as a first to 7 set game and they failed to meet that criteria. Will keep you all posted when next months Sky bill comes in.

Either way I will not be paying, I believe the viewers hold all the aces in this dispute . Sky would look very very foolish if this got to the courts, they have got no case. There were no Terms and Conditions listed when people purchased this PPV event and even if there were I very much doubt there would have been a condition which states that viewers are not entitled to a full refund if some fat **** has had too much ale and can't continue.

BGonaSTICK

LOL, very funny, and good luck to you.

...and welcome to the forum .

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