SKY tv
I have honestly never had to deal with such a bunch of fly-by-night shisters as I have done with SKY. From the minute they took my money everything went wrong, from rude installers who turned up late, to equipment that didn't work because it turned out to be "Reconditioned" i.e. already broken, to random amounts of money being taken from my bank account.

They have also closed down their Scottish call centres. They were quite good, they would do their best to help you and would give you their full name and ID number, so that when it all went tits up again you could phone back and say "When I spoke to so-and-so". Try phoning a SKY call centre now, you will be on hold for half an hour waiting to be put through to Bangalore. When you do get through you will be asked for your details again and again and again...assuming you can understand each other in the first place. At the end of the call ask for the persons name for your records and try not to laugh when you are told "Dave" or "Rachael".

SKY have truely made my hate list, it goes beyond "pet peeve" because I do actually hate them. It took countless phone calls and two letters of complaint to cancel my account and get a refund of the money they stole from me. Avoid them if you can.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 2 May 2008, 16:17, 3 replies)

True, true, true...
Sky is fine as long as nothing goes wrong for you at any time.
But should a gnat fart somewhere in the vicinity of your 'service' and you need to get it sorted out... You. Are. Fucked.

You'd be better off being a whale in the Thames.

It took 7 months just trying to migrate from Orange. Sky messed up my account by having two payplans on it which causes a massive fail.
Nobody at Sky had any ability to fix this, despite assurances - I have no idea how many phonecalls I had to make to India but the whole experience was genuinely horrific.

I eventually left in dispair and I now have wizzy Fast.co.uk internets... (English based and English speaking, technically able staff)yay! it IS possible to do it!
(Phlash, Fri 2 May 2008, 16:30, closed)

I feel your pain
You summed it up by saying how SKY is fine as long as nothing goes wrong. When it does you're in a world of shit.

Happy B3ta Birthday BTW
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 2 May 2008, 16:34, closed)

I hear you brother
they posted me a broadband router...but then no-one thought it would be a good idea to tell me that they'd tried. so it sat in the post office for TEN FUCKING DAYS. and then the wireless wouldn't work.

and i have to be in front of my computer to get tech help. I'm working 10/11 hour days at the moment, 6 days a week...do you think I want to come home and then phone those retards and get "tech support"??? bah
(Zutroy started without you, Fri 2 May 2008, 17:33, closed)