Signing up to Sky without having to take installation?

[COF]

I am considering signing up to Sky again, and I already have a Sky Box and nice dish set up. Installation around my house is not a straight forward install, and I do not want a Sky dish on my house, hell, I don't want a Sky dish at all, I've got a perfectly adiquate dish, thank you very much.

Basically, all I want is the card, I don't want to deal with any Sky installers. Is this possible, or to get Sky is it mandatory it is installed by them?

Thanks

 

[Analoguesat]

Ring them up and ask for a "second hand box contract"

Sky will send you a card and their ladder monkeys will never darken your doorstep.

 

[COF]

Ring them up and ask for a "second hand box contract"

Sky will send you a card and their ladder monkeys will never darken your doorstep.

Cheers. Also, is there any minimum term when it comes to these "second hand box contracts", and I'm assuming the pricing follows the standard Sky tariff as advertised on their website?

 

[satelliteman]

Same pricing & minimum term also no phone line needed

 

[A nonymous]

You may find they will try to charge you the £30 for non phoneline connection :-Nooo

I had ordered the full package & I told them to stuff it. They soon relented and waived the fee

 

[Analoguesat]

Same pricing & minimum term also no phone line needed

Lets just clarify this - no phone line is required UNLESS multiroom is wanted - in that case the usual multiroom rules apply

 

[ghinzani]

You may find they will try to charge you the £30 for non phoneline connection :-Nooo

I had ordered the full package & I told them to stuff it. They soon relented and waived the fee

Can you not just lie and say you have a phoneline?

 

[A nonymous]

It doesn't work like that. Your box constantly talks back to Sky, letting them know your viewing habits etc etc.

If the box doesn't talk to them they will soon start asking questions )(-red

 

[ghinzani]

It doesn't work like that. Your box constantly talks back to Sky, letting them know your viewing habits etc etc.

If the box doesn't talk to them they will soon start asking questions )(-red

Yep but those questions are after the installation fee would/should have been paid ;)

 

[Channel Hopper]

Yep but those questions are after the installation fee would/should have been paid ;)

Irrelevant, the installation is already in place. If this a single stb box in the house (and I suppose a non-recording box contract required) there is no need for a phone line on the second hand box.

Minimum 12 month conditions will apply though, which includes a full fee penalty plus costs to be debited should you fail to adhere to them.

 

[ghinzani]

Irrelevant, the installation is already in place. If this a single stb box in the house (and I suppose a non-recording box contract required) there is no need for a phone line on the second hand box.

Minimum 12 month conditions will apply though, which includes a full fee penalty plus costs to be debited should you fail to adhere to them.

Whatever it doesnt matter theres no phone line, Sky would only find that out when its been activated anyway.

 

[shane77]

Whatever it doesnt matter theres no phone line, Sky would only find that out when its been activated anyway.

Yes and then charge you

 

[dvmedia]

Yes and then charge you

They only actually care if it's multiroom.. otherwise they don't bother. I unplugged my phone line the day it was installed and never heard anything.

In another house, I even tricked Sky into installing into a property that had NO phone line.. I just fitted a phone point facia plate, and attached a 9v battery which made it look engaged. I told the Sky Engineer that BT were coming Monday

And even if you have multiroom, they send out warning letters first rather than charging.

 

[aileen]

I threw the 'phone line (10M extension) away and heard nothing.
I don't accept 'Unfair exclusions' clauses in contracts. They can pursue it if they wish. I know where I stand.

 

[Tembo11]

Does the "second hand box contract" extend to any of the Sky + arrangements please?

 

[PaulR]

I believe so but I also believe that it is even more difficult to convince them that you don't want - or need! - the telephone connection.

 

[Tembo11]

I could cope with that. It was the £60 plus for the installation for existing customers that I baulked at paying

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

I threw the 'phone line (10M extension) away and heard nothing.
I don't accept 'Unfair exclusions' clauses in contracts. They can pursue it if they wish. I know where I stand.

The subsidy on the Sky boxes comes from the interactive service providers (including BSKY. In exchange for their subsidy they expect the box to be "intercative capable" (i.e. connected to a phone line) for 12 months. This is not an "unfair exclusion", if you don't like it then pay full price for your Sky box.

 

[joni_elrockie]

I have a question about signing with sky... is about the payment options:
can I pay with my credit card and does it have to be a UK credit card or cant it be from outside uk?

 

[PaulR]

The problem with a non-UK card is convincing $ly that you are resident in the UK - not the country where the card is registered.

Given the fact that $ly has been cracking down on non-UK based cards I think you will have a really, REALLY hard job!