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By *UNCHBOX OP   Man
over a year ago

folkestone

Just wondering if anyone had any inside knowledge of getting discounts from companies like the AA, Sky,broadband providers etc when your an existing customer. Do you know how flexible they are with discounts if you are considering moving to a different one. Thanks in advance.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

think it all depends on your approach to the subject.

I am crap at things like that and roll over far too easy where as people i know get things for virually nothing because they stand their ground and dont take any crap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I hate asking for price reductions and never do it, I think it's great for those that are gifted and can do it, but I am really crap at it.

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Look for offers they are giving to new customers, go armed with this pointng out that you have been with them for a number of years and have they anything for consistant good customers.

Also look at what their rivals are offering

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I usually tell the company I want a reduction with/freebie etc. what the other competition offers, and say can you beat it or shall I go to them? sometimes works sometimes doesn't but if you are prepared for them to refuse you as I usually am, then go for it! you have nothing to lose except a slice off your bill.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aqua... I got a new sky plus box, multi room, dish and all the wiring after complaining about sky not coming out when I wanted them to do a small repair, could have saved them a lot of hassle if they had lol xxx

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By *ebzStarWoman
over a year ago

Notting

Am very pissed off that my dad didnt pass on that life skill to me!!!

He is GREAT at getting what he wants!!

Brand new phone with all the bells and whistles just cos he said he could get it with Orange and would move......etc

He awlays gets the best deals out of EVERYTHING!

Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

I am pants - and give in to easy - and pay more - just cos i dont wanna rock the boat!!! LOL

IF you got the confidence to do it - then bloody go for it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No matter who they are, what they sell - there is always scope for a reduction in price.

As an example - just last week I had a phone call from Gadiator Insurance telling me that my van was due for renewal, they gave me a price, which to be honest was really good, but I followed up by saying, "if you can do it for 20 quid a month you've got a deal"

The girl asked me to hold for a minute while she 'looked to see what she could do"

Within 30secs, she was back on the phone, "because you've been with us for xx years and have been a good customer bla bla bla, we'll waive our administration fee of £35"

Result ! van insurance now £20.45 per month - ok not exactly 20 quid as I'd asked, but I still saved 30 quid just for the sake of asking.

We'd be very naive to think that we've scored because room is always built into a price to allow for haggling. B

But if you didn't haggle ................

Not rocket science is it ?

It's always good to push a deal as far as you can - to the point of saying, "ok, thanks for your time, but I'll look elsewhere"

Everybody wants your custom and the majority of companies will arrive at some kind of a comprimise if they really want you on their books.

Business is tough and especially now, it's a buyers market.

Don't let them brow beat you and don't be afraid to say, "NO" - It's even better when face to face when the guy has spent so much time 'helping' you then you turn around and tell him "NO"

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By *exygirl SexyboyCouple
over a year ago

newcastle upon tyne

In the past ive got this free:

£800 cash, boquet of flowers, Tom Tom, Inside and Out Diamond Bright, 1st Year free service, full tank of diesel...all for Benfield screwing up my new car order.

£400 leather footstool after my sofas were delaysed by 6 weeks.

£50 from Marks and Spencer for complaining about their Christmas Party food, (initial spend £25)

£20 piece of Silverside Beef and £20 cash back from Morrisons for a turkey that looked like it had been in a boxing ring when defrosted (only buy fresh turkey crowns now!)

3 months free subscription to Sky when we said we were going to leave.

£10 from Mr Kipling for sending them some snaps of my birdy eating their cakes!

The list is endless!!

and im not a complainer just like good service, oh I forgot, I get the boyfriend free 3 times a night....if I want lol

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By *riendlyfunfemWoman
over a year ago

A world of my own

Have been with Virgin since it was Cable and Wireless then NTL, I have phone, broadband, and TV channels, a couple years ago I was struggling financially (not that that's changed much) and it was costing £40 plus the cost of phone calls each month. Sky where then doing much the same for £26 so I rang Virgin and said I wanted to cancel everything. Of course they asked why and I said I could no longer afford to be with them and was going to Sky as they were cheaper. The guy asked me to hold for a few minutes than came back with an offer of TV package, phone line rental, broadband and free calls to UK landlines 24 hours a day up to an hour per call, all for £19.99!

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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" Aqua... I got a new sky plus box, multi room, dish and all the wiring after complaining about sky not coming out when I wanted them to do a small repair, could have saved them a lot of hassle if they had lol xxx"

Good girl Laine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Haggling between Sky & Virgin is simple as both companies freeze when the other is mentioned. I used to switch between them regularly (every 12 months) and without fail the one I switched away from would always ring me and ask what would it take to entice me back.

The best deal I ever got was from Virgin; they offered me:

Free 2mb broadband for a year

Free weekend and local calls for a year

Free line rental for 6 months

All-in TV package, every channel (except Adult and Box Office)

The whole deal worked out to £35/month (which was the cost of the TV Channels) whereas Sky wanted £42/month but without the broadband.

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M & S is another surefire winner. Complain about shoddy goods or services and they almost always offer you a replacement product and another freebie of some description.

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By *leasureDomeMan
over a year ago

all over the place

go to the martin lewis site and on the forums type in sky deals and all the latest info on what is available and how to haggle is there its better if you actually get passed on to the retention team by saying you want to leave ,as they have the budgets to keep existing customers .

good luck

pd

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love haggling.

If you can talk the talk its too easy.

Virgin Media hated me at one point

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By *zMaleMan
over a year ago

penzance

SKY just tell them you want to get rid of their package, they will always come back with an offer to make you stay

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Our son works for sky, and he tells me the best day to ring in for a deal is on wednesdays - their week starts on a friday and they have a limited number of retention deals issued for the week. Obviously they gonna not be keen to give them away till towards end of weekly period. Advice is to always say you are going to cancel cos then you get to speak to retentions and they have more to offer. I rang about 4 months ago and got a fab deal!

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside


"Just wondering if anyone had any inside knowledge of getting discounts from companies like the AA, Sky,broadband providers etc when your an existing customer. Do you know how flexible they are with discounts if you are considering moving to a different one. Thanks in advance."

I know with Sky if you say you have come out of work and need to cancel they SOMETIMES say what if we gave you it half price for 6 months. They would rather lower the charge than lose you. Same for Virgin internet.

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By *he Happy ManMan
over a year ago

Merseyside


"Look for offers they are giving to new customers, go armed with this pointng out that you have been with them for a number of years and have they anything for consistant good customers.

Also look at what their rivals are offering"

I concur

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

i have but i aint telling you lot lol hehehehehehehehehehehehe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has anyone ever read a very well known letter of complaint that was sent to, what was then, NTL? It's a classic and makes me howl everytime I read it.

Mods: I hope I'm not breaking any site rules by posting here, please delete if it does.

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This is a real-life customer complaint letter sent to NTL (to their complaints dept....)

Dear Cretins,

I have been an NTL customer since 9th July 2001, when I signed up for your 3-in-one deal for cable TV, cable modem, and telephone. During this three-month period I have encountered inadequacy of service which I had not previously considered possible, as well as ignorance and stupidity of monolithic proportions. Please allow me to provide specific details, so that you can either pursue your professional perogative, and seek to rectify these difficulties - or more likely (I suspect) so that you can have some entertaining reading material as you while away the working day smoking B&H and drinking vendor-coffee on the bog in your office:

My initial installation was cancelled without warning, resulting in my spending an entire Saturday sitting on my fat arse waiting for your technician to arrive. When he did not arrive, I spent a further 57 minutes listening to your infuriating hold music, and the even more annoying Scottish robot woman telling me to look at your helpful website....HOW?

I alleviated the boredom by playing with my testicles for a few minutes - an activity at which you are no-doubt both familiar and highly adept. The rescheduled installation then took place some two weeks later, although the technician did forget to bring a number of vital tools - such as a drill-bit, and his cerebrum. Two weeks later, my cable modem had still not arrived. After 15 telephone calls over 4 weeks my modem arrived... six weeks after I had requested it, and begun to pay for it. I estimate your internet server's downtime is roughly 35%... hours between about 6pm -midnight, Mon-Fri, and most of the weekend. I am still waiting for my telephone connection. I have made 9 calls on my mobile to your no-help line, and have been unhelpfully transferred to a variety of disinterested individuals, who are, it seems, also highly skilled bollock jugglers. I have been informed:

that a telephone line is available (and someone will call me back);

that no telephone line is available (and someone will call me back);

that I will be transferred to someone who knows whether or not a telephone line is available (and then been cut off);

that I will be transferred to someone (and then been redirected to an answer machine informing me that your office is closed);

that I will be transferred to someone and then been redirected to the irritating Scottish robot woman

...and several other variations on this theme.

Doubtless you are no longer reading this letter, as you have at least a thousand other dissatisfied customers to ignore, and also another one of those crucially important testicle-moments to attend to. Frankly I don't care, it's far more satisfying as a customer to voice my frustrations in print than to shout them at your unending hold music. Forgive me, therefore, if I continue.

I thought BT were shit, that they had attained the holy piss-pot of godawful customer relations, that no-one, anywhere, ever, could be more disinterested, less helpful or more obstructive to delivering service to their customers. That's why I chose NTL, and because, well, there isn't anyone else is there? How surprised I therefore was, when I discovered to my considerable dissatisfaction and disappointment what a useless shower of bastards you truly are. You are sputum-filled pieces of distended rectum incompetents of the highest order. British Telecom - wankers though they are - shine like brilliant beacons

of success in the filthy puss-filled mire of your seemingly limitless inadequacy. Suffice to say that I have now given up on my futile and foolhardy quest to receive any kind of service from you. I suggest that you cease any potential future attempts to extort payment from me for the services which you have so pointedly and catastrophically failed to deliver - any such activity will be greeted initially with hilarity and disbelief quickly be replaced by derision, and even perhaps bemused rage. I enclose two small deposits, selected with great care from my cat's litter tray, as an expression of my utter and complete contempt for both you and your pointless company. I sincerely hope that they have not become desiccated during transit - they were satisfyingly moist at the time of posting, and I would feel considerable disappointment if you did not experience both their rich aroma and delicate texture. Consider them the very embodiment of my feelings towards NTL, and its worthless employees.

Have a nice day - may it be the last in you miserable short life, you irritatingly incompetent and infuriatingly unhelpful bunch of cunts.

~ John

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I am sitting here with tears (of laughter) in my eyes after reading that!

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By *zMaleMan
over a year ago

penzance

Wishy

That is absolutely priceless

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a peach of a letter isn't it. Wish I'd authored it lol.

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