Has anyone ever had a freebie of them? I have cancelled after 10 year and i got a letter but no free offers.You hear about people getting freebies and this has pissed me off immensly as i have been offered nowt!Phoned them and had a right go about it but i dont think i will get owt.Just as well i am getting another system 'through a source' soon!And no it is not stolen!Just not strictly errrrr legal.

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2001

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My uncle used to get most months free when he had Sky.

He'd ring them up saying how he didn't want to pay £30 a month just to watch wrestling on Sky Sports and that he wanted to cancel. They would ring him up a few days later and give him a month's free trial to try to tempt him back.

I think he got about 5 or 6 free months before the trick stopped working.

They have such a domination of the market now that they have no need to tempt people back. I think they have something like 8:1 customers compared to ITV Digital (formerly ON)

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2001

I got 3 months free, after a period of having 10 engineers out to solve a quality problem, I had 3 new boxes the problem eventually was traced to the dish. I threatened to cancell and got freebies.

PS. Anyone wants to know how to get free pay per view mail me direct.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

I cancelled once and they tempted me back with the full package for £11 a month for 6 months.... which was nice

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

I cancelled my subscription and then moved in with my girlfriend. Set up Sky again and all my channels were still on.

That was 13 months ago!

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001

I'm wondering how long it will be before Sky crush ITV Digital for their ill-advised Nick Hancock adverts as to how they offer more football than Sky. You keep poking that hornets' nest with that twig and you'll be sorry...

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2001