Jul 23 2009
Why I hate Sky
I have Sky, I have My Sky…I sublet my house so I even have multi room…. And I hate those bastards!
Let me see I think I pay them over $150 bucks a month at the moment and I’m late in paying because it hurts my soul everytime I give them money…There are so many ways to hate them, let me count the ways.
1. I keep paying more for channels I don’t watch. It seems every two months they send me a letter telling me that due to inflationary pressure they are putting up my sky basic by another 2 dollars. That would be fine if I watch half, quarter, fifth, eighth of the channels they offered. I hate paying more for services I don’t use
2. Service. Quite simply thier customer service sucks. Try rining them sometime and find out. They close at 9pm which is great for a 24 hour service. Your Sky that you pay for breaks at 3am? tough. I once had a fault with our second decoder that customer service just could not fix, that is untill the tech came over and said the right words to somebody down the phone and it was fixed in five minutes. Too bad it took a week to roll the tech.
3. Speaking of which, ever tried to get anything insallted through Sky? It’s great to offer promotions but if it takes two weeks to fullfill that promise I’m going to be pissed
4. My Sky. $600 bucks to ‘buy’ the service and you don’t even own the box…WTF? They have realised how crappy this is and now offer a $15 dollar a month service instead…but it costs $50 bucks to install! Oh and by install I mean wait two weeks for the guy to drop off a box and plug it in. Just send the bloody thing if its going to cost that much.
5. It dosen’t work when it rains… I mean heavn forbid I want to use the telly when its crap weather outside. Every time there is enough wind for an Americas Cup race the reception craps out. Remember I am paying through the nose for this ’service’. If you are kind enough to place a warning on my screen about ‘atmospheric conditions’ then you should be so kind as the credit my account for the footage lost. Oh and that footage always seems to be a critical part to any show. Did you enjoy Brook Freeman getting shot on Shortland Steet? Good because I never got to see it! And don’t get me started on show ‘overruns’ how come when a show ends on time sky pretend it finished five minutes earlier and cut half my show off??
6. Prime. Oh now we could put freeview on sky basic (now I’m paying for freeview) but heaven forbid we put Prime on freeview. Why? Well sky are obligated to provide delayed coverage of sport for free but they don’t want to put it on freeview because then you might buy a freeview box instead of thier box. Bastards.
Oh that felt good. I can’t wait for an alternative to come along so I can give them the boot.
