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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 19990" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>I think easysat is talking about an installation outside the UK/ROI, in which case phoning Sky (from abroad) to ask for and authorize a subscription card might be risky. I know people who say they have never had any problems doing this, but on the other hand many people have stated that Sky can see at their switchboard that the incoming call is from abroad. One creative solution I heard of was this: get a person in the UK to initiate a call to Sky and then to conference-in the subscriber abroad. The subscriber can then do all the talking and give the correct responses while looking at his/her actual digibox abroad, while Sky simply see it as a UK call.</p><p></p><p>On the credit-card thing:</p><p>not sure I understood your question, but it may help you to know that I have two Sky subs on a UK bank account that is in a different name to the subscriber. The standard contract does not require that the account payer and the subscriber are the same person.</p><p></p><p>On the address thing:</p><p>there's no reason you can't have multiple subscriptions at a single address. If that worries you (i.e. if you're not simply prepared to say "mind your own business" when Sky inevitably asks why) then you can also register them at subscripted addresses, as if your house were subdivided into bedsits/flats (many are). So if you already have one at 999 Letsby Avenue then you could also register one at 999b Letsby Avenue. Or you simply register them all on different names at the same address. Many bedsits do not assign different addresses (a, b, c etc) to the individual rooms. It's quite normal for several different and unrelated people to be living in different rooms at the same house, and they might all very easily want separate Sky subscriptions. If you don't want to (or can't) take advantage of the special offers for multiple subscriptions, and Sky want to know why, you can either tell them to mind their own bleedin business or else you can point out that you barely know the others in your bedsit and would certainly not want to enter into some sort of cooperative scheme with them to share the pathetic discount that the so-called special offer brings.</p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 19990, member: 174998"] I think easysat is talking about an installation outside the UK/ROI, in which case phoning Sky (from abroad) to ask for and authorize a subscription card might be risky. I know people who say they have never had any problems doing this, but on the other hand many people have stated that Sky can see at their switchboard that the incoming call is from abroad. One creative solution I heard of was this: get a person in the UK to initiate a call to Sky and then to conference-in the subscriber abroad. The subscriber can then do all the talking and give the correct responses while looking at his/her actual digibox abroad, while Sky simply see it as a UK call. On the credit-card thing: not sure I understood your question, but it may help you to know that I have two Sky subs on a UK bank account that is in a different name to the subscriber. The standard contract does not require that the account payer and the subscriber are the same person. On the address thing: there's no reason you can't have multiple subscriptions at a single address. If that worries you (i.e. if you're not simply prepared to say "mind your own business" when Sky inevitably asks why) then you can also register them at subscripted addresses, as if your house were subdivided into bedsits/flats (many are). So if you already have one at 999 Letsby Avenue then you could also register one at 999b Letsby Avenue. Or you simply register them all on different names at the same address. Many bedsits do not assign different addresses (a, b, c etc) to the individual rooms. It's quite normal for several different and unrelated people to be living in different rooms at the same house, and they might all very easily want separate Sky subscriptions. If you don't want to (or can't) take advantage of the special offers for multiple subscriptions, and Sky want to know why, you can either tell them to mind their own bleedin business or else you can point out that you barely know the others in your bedsit and would certainly not want to enter into some sort of cooperative scheme with them to share the pathetic discount that the so-called special offer brings. 2old [/QUOTE]
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