How many tv subscriptions or similar do you ring up to cancel just to get special deals?

it hasnt been £25 ...

I'm surprised it still works tbh. Does it work with Sky? You'd have thought by now the companies will have collected enough data over the years to be able to distinguish between people who really are skint, and those who are just trying it on.

18 X £11 is better for them, than nothing at all !

18 X £11 is better for them, than nothing at all !

Yes it is, but full price is better, which is why it is in their interest to separate out customers who are genuinely skint from the ones who will, when push comes to shove, carry on paying.

Racing UK  £24.98 is what im paying

some restaurants have so many 2 for 1 offers that their menus are priced up
with 100% extra mark up so they can do 2 for 1


i wonder what the correct price for tv subscriptions would be if there was not
a mugs price and a savvy customers price

ditto mobile phones, there are some horrendous offers out there with fancy
names that attract people

sky cant know who can afford what, they may do a credit rating when you
sign up but that will show on your record and is easily checked, after that
if they re check it will show up again

always tell them you are skint, then you have more control over their rip off prices

It seems odd to me that people with a betting habit, which is ultimately giving money away.
Should barter over the cost of entertainment for their addiction.
For will not any money saved, surely end up in the same place as the rest of the money they are dedicated to giving away?

sky cant know who can afford what, they may do a credit rating when you
sign up but that will show on your record and is easily checked, after that
if they re check it will show up again

True but Sky by now will have decades' worth of data on who cancels and who doesn't, and also who cancels and then resubscribes when the next football season starts. The point is not to identify the individuals who do these things but rather the *types* of customer. Then when you phone and say it costs too much, their computer can instantly classify you into one big group or another.

Or at least, it would if I ran Sky but I don't.

If the television companies go out of business through lack of revenue.
Then the addicted gambler will have to do without his visual entertainment when he bets.
And he won't be any richer because he'll have bet it away.

So why not simply give the racing channels the money they ask, to provide us with the entertainment we want?

Dr Crippen    07 Mar 17 10:56 
It seems odd to me that people with a betting habit, which is ultimately giving money away.
Should barter over the cost of entertainment for their addiction.
For will not any money saved, surely end up in the same place as the rest of the money they are dedicated to giving away?


Don't you think some make a profit ?

No I don't.

"It seems odd to me that people with a betting habit, which is ultimately giving money away.
Should barter over the cost of entertainment for their addiction."

Spot on, Dr C.

I'll go to great lengths to avoid paying or overpaying for TV to save a few quid, but I don't lose any sleep if I lose a few hundred quid in a bet

I am not convinced that Sky's customer knowledge base is that great.

If they did, they would know they could get £35 a month from me instead of £10.

ruk will def half price if you say your leaving