Recent content by ziggyblue

Phoned again still nothing. Tried a reset, still nothing. Certain now it is the box and have gone and bought a new one now. Thanks for all your help. It also looks like my old Spanish card has been cut off so hopefully no more payments on that one.

Absolutely. It looks as if our old Sky card has now been cut off thank goodness as we have been paying twice for Sky. We had been loaned a sky plus box to activate the "proper" card which we are paying from our UK address. Unfortunately it says System Fault Sky plus playback and recording are...

Is there anyway to check without calling Sky to see if a Sky box has been blacklisted?

Thank you for that Tivu. 24 hrs are up and nothing so will have to phone back.

So how does that work? If she tried whilst I was on the phone, how does it get into a queuing process?

Someone has now loaned me a Sky plus box and our new white card has been linked to it but the recording and playback facilities are not working. Phoned Sky back and they said they would "pair" the card. Nothing happened and was told that it could take up to 24 hours. Is this likely as we still...

No, Ralph it is a UK bank - Lloyds TSB. Original debit card, expired. Account is it was linked to closed at the same time. Sky requested the payment on this card. Lloyds then just switched the payment to another account owned by us.

The old bank card was out of date and I cancelled it and the account it was linked to but the bank just took the money from a different account I hold.

I haven´t a new white card working.... I have a new white card but it cannot be teamed with my box as the old blue card is still working because the bank won´t stop paying Sky. The old Spanish company were taking 150 euros out of my bank for maintenance but as they are no longer in existence...

The really annoying thing is that I had heard of this on a credit card which is why I refused to give them my credit card only my debit card from which I wanted a direct debit mandate from. Without my permission or knowledge exactly the same thing happened on my debit card. The big number on...

Actually that is a good one. But then the sky plus box is useless. Continuous or recurring payment is legal if immoral. Apparently more and more companies are now jumping on the bandwagon to use it. I think it is the fact that the bank treats you as a criminal for trying to stop it when you...

Exactly but you cannot do this with Sky from Spain as the address they are holding for this card is not yours but some unknown persons. Nightmare scenario. On a different note we were getting the insert your new card sign every few minutes. We took the card out of the box and put in our very...

Nope Ralph, it doesn´t work that way. I paid what I thought was a direct debit but in reality it was a "continuous payment" which they can take for ever and a day. I actually closed the account it was coming from and the bank without my say so switched it to another account. I have yelled I...

How do you read your entitlements? We have the full package which we got through a third party here in Spain who was raided by the Guardia and closed down. I then set up a new contract with Sky using a UK address but now cannot get the old one cancelled by the bank as it was a continuous...

At some stage will Sky just cut off all the old Sky cards?