F1 Pro legally

Dorwyn

Dorwyn

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Discovered our son has F1 Pro, watched the last race and will be watching this weekend's here in SW France. Very good, not too keen on some of the presenters but the main presenter for the race was very good. And the cost is very reasonable, especially considering what I have to pay for Sky+F1 back home. It's plainly wrong that there's such a difference.
 
Sky had an excellent product, well, until some head honcho commissioned Sky Glass at least but their pricing structure was ridiculous.

If they'd been less greedy with their prices I and many others would still have been with them. They were greedy though and that's why everyone bypasses them completely and pays for IPTV. I'd never go back to Sky.
 
Dorwyn said:
Discovered our son has F1 Pro, watched the last race and will be watching this weekend's here in SW France. Very good, not too keen on some of the presenters but the main presenter for the race was very good. And the cost is very reasonable, especially considering what I have to pay for Sky+F1 back home. It's plainly wrong that there's such a difference.
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Totally agree. We were quoted well over £100 per month to renew your contract with Virgin media. £40 increase on the previous 18 month contract that we thought was just about acceptable for internet and Sky sports only.

But if I was new to them £50 pm for 18 months :mad:

I questioned the logic and why can't I have the same deal to stay.
Computer says no

Ok I'll finish my contract so you lose a customer when you could get £50
Computer says no

Contract ends

IPTV is the way now. Their greed will cost them eventually.
 
Thank you for this, I've subscribed, I just watched the F1 fp2 highlights on the firestick, it appears to be the Sky feed and as it's on the play store it must be legal and a great price.
 
ChrisL said:
Thank you for this, I've subscribed, I just watched the F1 fp2 highlights on the firestick, it appears to be the Sky feed and as it's on the play store it must be legal and a great price.
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So I've just looked and you subscribe from your country of residence and in the UK live coverage is not an option.

Change to France or USA you get live tv option to pay. So I'd say probably not legal in the UK.

Sky have it wrapped up but doesn't mean it's right.

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Dorwyn said:
But that, Mr QC, wouldn't be legal in the UK. It works though, which is what I wanted to know. Thanks
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That was my point. Non of it is legal unless you pay sky
 
I do not readily break the law. But sky F1 are taking liberties. And that post of mine was tongue in cheek. I do have a Sky F1 contact.
 
Dorwyn said:
But that, Mr QC, wouldn't be legal in the UK. It works though, which is what I wanted to know. Thanks
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I’ve no idea if you would need to register the French subscription against a French address though.
 
Fragle said:
Totally agree. We were quoted well over £100 per month to renew your contract with Virgin media. £40 increase on the previous 18 month contract that we thought was just about acceptable for internet and Sky sports only.

But if I was new to them £50 pm for 18 months :mad:

I questioned the logic and why can't I have the same deal to stay.
Computer says no

Ok I'll finish my contract so you lose a customer when you could get £50
Computer says no

Contract ends

IPTV is the way now. Their greed will cost them eventually.
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I did something similar and waited a week. Sure enough a proper English speaker (Irish as it happens) called me to see if there was any way to keep me as a customer.
By then I had signed to SKY for the first time in my life.
SKY lasted one week before I told them the broadband speed was shocking and did not match contract. Full refund and back on the phone to my Irish Virgin Media contact.
Maybe they will relearn "customer loyalty" is a good practice to encourage.
 
Over the years I've joined sky for good deals and left if not good enough, a right pantomime. The previous deal was 25£ month, they wouldn't renew, but told me hold off to the start of the season, renew and then add F1 at an additional £18 pm, then close F1 till the next season. Which I did. It still tots up, and I do not want sky in the first place, happy with Humax Freesat.

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Jev88 said:
I did something similar and waited a week. Sure enough a proper English speaker (Irish as it happens) called me to see if there was any way to keep me as a customer.
By then I had signed to SKY for the first time in my life.
SKY lasted one week before I told them the broadband speed was shocking and did not match contract. Full refund and back on the phone to my Irish Virgin Media contact.
Maybe they will relearn "customer loyalty" is a good practice to encourage.
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They have become very cleaver at not giving you exactly what you want by saying you can only have this with that or if you just want internet for example its only fractionally cheaper if any than adding other services.
Same price with or without landline for example.
As my main E mail is virginmedia you also loose this if you leave. So before next contract I will make sure everything is changed over before hand.
The trouble is I have to say virginmedia internet service is excellent here and nobody can match the speeds even though we only pay for 100 mbps nobody gets near it.
As the saying goes "Do you chop your nose off to spite your face"
 
>> As my main E mail is virginmedia you also loose this if you leave.

I moved to a non-Virgin Media location in 2014. I still have access to my ntlworld email address (ntlworld became virgin media around 2006, and my email address goes back to before then - probably to 1998).

Though I work on the assumption that it could cease at any time.
 

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