Hi
I have had a Sky subscription for the last 5 years and just recently I am experiencing some signal issues on certain channels. The picture just glitches. When checking the signal strength and signal quality in my sky settings, the bar is virtually at zero.
I have contacted Sky about this and they have notified me that I will need to pay £30 (was £65 initially) for an engineer to come out because my box is out of warranty. I advised the customer services that it has nothing to do with the box and it is clearly a satellite signal issue. (I went through all the troubleshooting, replaced every single cable etc) So I wanted the engineer visit to be complementary as I am effectively paying a subscription for something that doesn't work properly.
Unfortunately the Sky advisors I spoke to just responded like robots with generic responses that didn't help and the bottom line was that I had to pay.
I am now looking at my options and would be grateful if anyone could provide any help regarding this area. The two options I am considering are:
1. Part of me now wants to cancel as I think it is poor that I am paying a hefty monthly subscription whereby half the channels don't even work but the only way they can attempt to resolve the signal problems is for me to pay for an engineer. Surely they are in breach of the contract. I think I have about 3 months left of my subscription. Would I have the right to cancel this without being charged a cancellation fee based on the circumstances?
2. Write a formal complaint to sky demanding that the engineer fixes the issue free of charge?
I would be interested if anybody has had any experience in a similar scenario. I completely agree that if for example my box was damaged then it would be the responsibility of the customer, but when the signal sky are providing is of poor quality, surely the onus is on them to fix this as per the service I pay?
Thanks in advance.
I have had a Sky subscription for the last 5 years and just recently I am experiencing some signal issues on certain channels. The picture just glitches. When checking the signal strength and signal quality in my sky settings, the bar is virtually at zero.
I have contacted Sky about this and they have notified me that I will need to pay £30 (was £65 initially) for an engineer to come out because my box is out of warranty. I advised the customer services that it has nothing to do with the box and it is clearly a satellite signal issue. (I went through all the troubleshooting, replaced every single cable etc) So I wanted the engineer visit to be complementary as I am effectively paying a subscription for something that doesn't work properly.
Unfortunately the Sky advisors I spoke to just responded like robots with generic responses that didn't help and the bottom line was that I had to pay.
I am now looking at my options and would be grateful if anyone could provide any help regarding this area. The two options I am considering are:
1. Part of me now wants to cancel as I think it is poor that I am paying a hefty monthly subscription whereby half the channels don't even work but the only way they can attempt to resolve the signal problems is for me to pay for an engineer. Surely they are in breach of the contract. I think I have about 3 months left of my subscription. Would I have the right to cancel this without being charged a cancellation fee based on the circumstances?
2. Write a formal complaint to sky demanding that the engineer fixes the issue free of charge?
I would be interested if anybody has had any experience in a similar scenario. I completely agree that if for example my box was damaged then it would be the responsibility of the customer, but when the signal sky are providing is of poor quality, surely the onus is on them to fix this as per the service I pay?
Thanks in advance.