Virgin V+ HD

[anonymous-user]

I am moving house at the end of the month

I am pretty fed up with Sky and my new place is in a cabled area

The thought of 20 or 50Mb broadband does appeal and having created my own bundle online I am seriously thinking about moving to Virgin

The only thing is I want their V+ HD box, but I don't fancy paying £75 for it, especially as I could get a free HD box from Sky if I did stay with them

Anyone know if you can haggle with Virgin or anyway of convincing them to give me the box for free?

[cjs]

I did, but that was a couple of years ago, I was also upgrading so not a new customer. Managed to get the HD Box free and also no install costs and a reduced package rate.

All you can do is give it a go, tell them you area Sky customer coming across and see what happens.

Virgin Cable is a very good service, BB is excellent and the On demand stuff on the V+ is very good, just lacking a good selection of HD channels.

[anonymous-user]

cjs said:

I did, but that was a couple of years ago, I was also upgrading so not a new customer. Managed to get the HD Box free and also no install costs and a reduced package rate.

All you can do is give it a go, tell them you area Sky customer coming across and see what happens.

Virgin Cable is a very good service, BB is excellent and the On demand stuff on the V+ is very good, just lacking a good selection of HD channels.

Ah ok cheers, yeah I think I'll run with that

Yeah its a bit of a mixed bag, I'll miss my Sky Sports but it's too expensive too put on the Virgin bundle, I think more HD channels will appear in time but the thought of continuing to give Sky £66 pounds a month for a service which started well and has got consistently worse just gets my goat

Cheers for the info

[aclivity]

Do you know anyone who works for Virgin? Ask them about "Mates Rates" if you do.

[anonymous-user]

aclivity said:

Do you know anyone who works for Virgin? Ask them about "Mates Rates" if you do.

Unfortunately not, I will double check with my mates though I know one of them used to work for sky, he may have jumped ship....

[bananaman1]

Just got our first bill from virgin having paid the £75 for the hd + box.and they have credited our account with £75....so the box was free after all