Free SKY Sports

Nice one omega.

want some1 to wipe your bum as well, read what his wrote and do your research, lazy tike

Get it free to your computer if you are already a sky sports customer?

Good spot omega. Last time I used the account was 2006 - can still only back to win £10, you would think they would have increased it due to inflation !!

Feck I thought you were a sky broadband customer. I already get sky sports free online from sky as a sky sports subscriber with multi room (or sky broadband unlimited).

hazel, I don't subscribe to sky sports. They have only a few games a year I'd be interested in.

Ian, I emailed them myself on Thursday and they told me they had contacted the relevant dept but nothing since then. The offer did say we'd be contacted within 4 days.

I emailed them again this morning but no reply.

Joe, looking at that I'm pretty sure they've changed the wording from "If you are a Sky Bet and Sky customer" to "If you are a Sky Bet and Sky Sports customer" as I'm sure I looked closely at the details beforehand. As hazel says, if you're a sky sports subscriber you can get sky sports online for free anyway so the "promotion" is useless going by their new wording.

I'm beginning to suspect they've been snowed under by people realising they can cancel their sky sports subscription and get it for nothing through this promotion. I'll bet that's what this delay is about. In a few days time we'll get an email telling us we aren't eligible.

SCAMMING B@STARDS IMO

How to access free Sky Sports online:

1. Simply log in to your Sky Bet account, click 'my account' and in the free bet section enter promo code SPORTS

2. Place any bet.

3. Check in 'My Preferences' that your account is marked as contactable and that we have your correct email details as we'll need to send you log in details via email.

4. After 5 days you will receive an email containing a Username and Password that will give you free online access to Sky Sports.

5. As long as your account remains active, you will continue to have access to the streaming.

Lifetime free sky sports for placing a fiver bet. They must be absolutely bricking it. I wonder what genius thought that one up. :-)

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Show Terms & Conditions

You must have a Sky Sports TV subscription package to be eligible for this offer. Nb BSkyB only, subscriptions with other providers who show Sky Sports do not count. To receive your log in details you must be contactable, have a valid email address and enter the promotional code SPORTS. Your streaming access will cease if you do not bet within 3 months. Over 18's only. All Sky Bet rules apply.

HTH

So is hazel wrong? If you subscribe to the sky sports package you don't automatically get the online free?

I received this email from them this evening

Thanks for your email.

Terms and conditions for promotions are regularly updated by our marketing department.

Customers who pay for the sky sport package can now view sky sports when they are not at home, via their pc?s. The new wording now emphasises that they have to be paying for Sky sports channel to be eligible for this promotion

I'm surprised they've admitted to having changed the terms and conditions. When I looked at the offer last week I specifically checked that I qualified and then placed my bets in good faith. If I don't get the offer then I'll be following the example of those 3 guys who reported bet 365 to the advertising authority.

I've now had an email saying that the marketing dept. will look at it tomorrow. I've no doubt I wouldn't have heard anything from them if I hadn't followed it up. Very poor. They asked in the email to confirm that I do subscribe to Sky Sports but, as Feck says, it didn't say that originally.

Recceived this reply

I am sorry to hear that you feel that the SPORTS promotion is mis-leading.

However, I can confirm that the terms of the offer have been that you need to have a Sky Sports subscription to benefit from the offer for some considerable time. Clearly it would not be in our interests to make the sports package available to non-subscribers as then custoimers would not need to subscribe at all.

It may be that this information was missed as it was part of the terms and conditions of the offer, but it has always been part of this offer.

Clearly if you wish to escalate the matter further then that is a matter for yourself.

Kind Regards,

Simon
Customer Care Team
Sky Bet l Sky Poker l Sky Vegas l Sky Bingo
T: 08000 724 777

To which I replied

Hi Simon,

Take a look at one of the replies to me in the history below. There's an email from skybet that states

"Terms and conditions for promotions are regularly updated by our marketing department. Customers who pay for the sky sport package can now view sky sports when they are not at home, via their pc's. The new wording now emphasises that they have to be paying for Sky sports channel to be eligible for this promotion".

To me that confirms that changes have been made and I can assure you I checked I was eligible (i.e. you needed only to be a sky subscriber) before placing £100 of bets last Saturday.

I totally agree that the promotion was ill thought out on your part but it's equally ridiculous that you would set up a promotion whereby people who have sky sports on their tv can get a password to get it on their pc when most of them will be eligible for such a password in any case. What next? A promotion where betting a winner will result in being paid out at the correct odds?

Be assured I will be taking it further.

When I looked it stipulated "If you are a Sky Bet and Sky Sports customer" , I guess they could have amended it since it was posted but I've looked at the previous versions in googles cache and they also had the sky sports customer stipulation.

Good luck with it feck but I think it was misread when originally posted.

If it helps, I understood it to be for sky sports subscribers thats why I posted earlier that you could already get it free if you had multi room or sky broadband unlimited.

Also an early poster on this thread said,

GoodLife 20 Feb 15:05
Get it free to your computer if you are already a sky sports customer?

hazel, you posted that a week after we applied by which time I'm assuming they had changed it. When I looked at the offer the previous Saturday I specifically looked to make sure you didn't have to be a sky sports subscriber.

Joe, are you looking at the actual promotions page in the google cache?

The current offer reads

Watch Sky Sports online for FREE
If you are a Sky Bet and Sky Sports customer, we are thrilled to announce a new service that will make you the envy of all your friends and colleagues. You can now watch Sky Sports action via your PC!

I'm sure when I read that the Sports word wasn't present (I think their "new wording" mail confirms that) but to be honest I didn't see the link to the terms and conditions below the offer so it may have already have stated sports in there.

Does no one else think the offer as it now stands is ridiculous in any case? I mean it should read

Watch Sky Sports online for FREE
If you are a Sky Bet and Sky Sports customer and you don't have multiroom and you don't subscribe to our unlimited broadband service, we are thrilled to announce a new service that will make you the envy of all your friends and colleagues. You can now watch Sky Sports action via your PC!

Either they've made a balls up or the promotion is designed to deceive.

Yep was the promotions page feck, just looked again and found a cache showing 20 Feb 2010 01:53:57 GMT which was before you posted

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:2AuB2TjI56AJ:www.skybet.com/skybet%3Faction%3DGoStatic%26name%3D20freematchedbet365%26play_temp%3D1%26title%3DPromotions%26aff%3D749%26BZ_Nav+%22If+you+are+a+Sky+Bet+and+Sky+customer,+we+are+thrilled+to+announce%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

No idea how reliable googles cache is but looks like it was always stating sky sports customers

Afraid not Feck, I tried searching to see if I could find a cached version where they'd omitted sports but didn't find any

The actual google cache of the promotions page was from 20 Feb 2010 22:20:52 GMT

I'm not sure I understand your latest post Joe. 22:20:52 was at least 10 hours after I'd applied.