09 Dec 2008 7:49 PM:

Thanks very much for your reponses :O)

Thread: Are they now charging £100 a year for your card.. basically blackmail!!!!..

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09 Dec 2008 4:57 PM:

Thanks again for the reply.... i feel like your a lifeline at the min :)

As far as we were aware the agents used a uk address we supplied. After speaking to them again today we have found that they never used the UK hence were we are getting the charge!!!

They have since said that the agents that they used to supply the cards are the ones doing the charging. They have now stopped using that agent (due to the sudden charging) however we must now pay them for a new card!!

I questioned the timing considering we have had the card nearly 2 years and considing its an anual charge beg in feb 07 wouldnt they take the money on the anual feb when we began the service. there reply was along the lines of the agents are working through the list of card holders starting from a year old and working there way back (extremley coincidental being just before christmas and as the credit crunch hits big time in the UK).

Basically our satellite agents have said that we must either pay the 100 pound or buy a new card for 80 euro!!!

Any suggestions???

Ps i did mention that other companies do not seem to be having this problem and thus they have started to blame the supplier of the cards!!!!!!!!!

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09 Dec 2008 3:00 PM:

Thanks Sat and TV guy. We are using a UK address and its actually a house we own so no problems there.

We pay monthly for our sky however we did notice a £1 increase in January and after checking Sky website i noticed that the price had increased by 31 so no prob there.

We paid for our reciever and card in Jan 2007 and have had no problems. Then yesterday we recieved this message on the channels that we subscribe to (discovery, certain entertainment channels) but we recieve 5, fiver, music channels, and various others that i assume are free anyway.

Message we are reciveing on tv

'Sky tv subscribers can get this and more for £1 extra per month. to upgrade press red button or call........'

We rang our sky man who installed it and he said that the company in the Uk who he gets the cards off have started charging an annual fee of £100 for handling the card.

We cannot understand how these people would have access to our sky card and subscription???

Any advice is muchly appreciated

Thanks in advance

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09 Dec 2008 12:00 AM:

Ok, Weve had our sat tv for nearly 2 years. Yesterday we received the message that we need to pay £1 a month more to receive any channels were already receiving. IE we can still recieve channel 5 and fiver etc also we are still recieving music channles.

It seems like the channles that we now cannot get are the ones we pay for.

our satellite man seems to be of the opnion that the people who we got the card from are now going to blackmail us £100 per year to keep the card running. This is extra to what we pay for our satelite channels!!

 

Anyone else having this problem or are we being conned!?!?!

(costa blanca area)

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