Sky - No Satellite Signal Received
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I think that Sky on occasion may treat their customers badly.  I work for MGT which is a sub company for Sky, and to be honest with all you people who are having this problem, Sky don't care about you once they have your money.

Just a small tip - if you are experiencing “No Satellite Signal” and you are out of warranty, just say to them that you want to cancel and you will be passed through to cancellations turnaround department where they will attempt to keep you as a Sky customer.  They will either offer you a half price service call (decline this) or they will then offer you a free service call.  Let them know that you are highly unhappy and suggest that you could maybe get half price TV for the next 3 months it'll work wonders for yourself.

A satellite dish mounted on a wall

Sky only have a writing department and take 28 days for a reply most of the time.  Sometimes they won’t even bother to reply and if they do it'll be 3 months down the line!  Don't let Sky mess you about, just tell them you'll go to Telewest.  They don't want to lose you as a customer so it will have a profound effect.

You will never get a Team Supervisor/Team Leader even though "we" as agents say that we'll go and ask them.  We just sit there and do nothing because they won't take over the call as they are not really allowed to by orders of BSkyB!

If you do get an engineer out for free, he'll just come out and change your box as that's the easiest thing to do.  Make sure you get confirmation from the cancellations team that they'll check the following (Satellite Dish, LNB, Sky Box and cabling).

Normally all they will do is change the box which automatically means that your Sky will work for 10-15 minutes then they'll get you to sign the piece of paper then clear off. This of course means phone us back later to say that the engineer has not done his job!  You know why?  Sky doesn’t have a clue how to fix YOUR problem.  They can only move the sat dish or replace stuff if that doesn’t work then they'll just keep on trying.

Sky can be unprofessional at times and as contractors we are not allowed to tell customers how much the call-out actually costs.  We're not allowed to mention any deals etc. to the customers.  If I wanted to tell you say... how much a Sky HD box is I would have to transfer you through to Sky Sales, which is probably at least a 15 minute wait on the phone when I could have just told you.

I will try to pop back from time to time and update this site with information on how to do an LNB reset etc. That way you wont need to phone Sky!

By: Anonymous from Fife (Can't say more, otherwise will get sacked!)


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Goog Man,

If everyone had the balls to explain things like this there would be no recession.

Best wishes
*Stinky Minky  26-Feb-2010 15:07

 
You are obviously a brown nose sky employee - say no more
*A real Services Engineer  10-Feb-2010 14:08

 
message to "we love sky"

oh you are such a nob!
*sky rip off's  10-Feb-2010 10:03

 
Well - surprise surprise, just a couple of hours aftr posting the previous blogg, the engineer called to confirm the appointment for tomorrow (Saturday) and when asked to confirm if he was part of a two man specialist height team, he was also surprised to hear it was a height callout as his job instructions only specified a fault callout. He was kind enough to call sky back and point out their total mess up once again. A sky representative call back and has once agian promised to move heaven and earth but could only book an appointment for next week Wednessday. So once again the saga continues, lets see where we end up - it might still end up much quicker actually moving over to Virgin but let's see if sky is actually interested in fixing the problem or stealing from me for another month.....................................
*A real Services Engineer  05-Feb-2010 19:31

 
I have personally experienced this run around. I am awaiting the fifth engineer visit in nearly as many months as the third and fourth visit was supposed to be a two man team. The fourth arrived at the door smiling and stating that they they had arrived to install my new sky installation. The smiles dropped when I stated it was a repair and not a new install......they promptly cut the ends of the cabling and replaced the connectors. The installer then said there would be no further issues, left his mobile number ''just in case'' and left.
A hour later sky dropped and a blue scrren appeared. After four futile attempts at calling the installer back my wife called up sky, who once again could apologised and rescheduled for a ''specialised two man team'' to be sent out in a couple of days, My wife was advised ''not to worry as this was only the day after tomorrow.''
The saga continues, I should have cancelled on day one but let's see where we go from here.......
And by the way - I am a service Engineer who actually takes pride in my work - and no not a sky engineer.
I must add thanks for the real sky Engineers out there doing the good work - just a pity I have not met one yet.
*A real Services Engineer  05-Feb-2010 15:25

 
well done for shopping them
i too am an engineer - my company was service oriented for 25 years - it was then taken over by a pair of poison dwarfs whose sole goal was to line their pockets at the expense of loyal customers - anyone standing up to them had their lives made a misery.
*the till guy  31-Jan-2010 17:38

 
ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING !!!!
Listen, this is a severe breach of contract, not to mention a blatant lie !
I worked for Sky for two years, and never have I ever heard any of my employers tell us 'it is against our policy to let a supervisor/team manager take over a call' or 'never inform the customer of service costs/deals/box prices', this is absolute nonsense .
When I worked there, we were openly advised to inform the customer of all offers and sales options that are available to them .
For God's sake, I remember my calls being monitored week after week, and losing points on feedback for (and I quote) "not informer the customer of the options available" when I unfortunately could not fix the box (subsequently turned out that her husband had severed the cabling in some malicious act of vengeance, crazy I know?) !
So, to 'Anonymous From Fife (Can't say anymore, otherwise I'll be sacked)', stop peddling your s**t against a company who pays your wages, if I were you, I'd be grateful !!
*We Love Sky  26-Jan-2010 01:53

 
I can't wait for some competition to Sky where I live - I would be off like a flash if I could get to watch Rugby elsewhere - that's all I want to watch! it is coming. The HD is OK - but nowhere near as good as a DVD/Blueray. maybe I shouldn't have expected HI definition - just HIGHER than it normally is. Standard service (non HD) should be as good as Freeview?

Hate to moan - but had a new HD box installed recently. that works, but my multi-room set-up doesn't. Guess what - they now try telling me that since SKY didn't install it (was through SKY) although worked before, not theior problem! Hmmm - what a clever business - but competition is coming and I will be off for sure...
*ANON  06-Jan-2010 18:38

 
top man just rang in done the job get thanks top banana
*the dark knight  01-Jan-2010 14:23

 
Just had the exact phone call you described, it worked a treat thank you
*L, Leeds  18-Dec-2009 17:21

 
I've just spoken to cancellations who are giving me an upgrade the sky + for the same amount as a call out charge. Many thanks for your advice.
It all started with the same problem of no signal.
*William H  01-Dec-2009 10:31

 
I have had problems with my sky plus boxs for a month now. I get some channels but not many. Keep getting loads of messages e.g no signal, problem with channel etc. I have phoned up sky so many times, but I keep getting the same thing. "we get someone to come and have a look it" thats good. Then when there get to the bit asking when is it possible to come round. I pick a date great, but then there say something wrong with the computer, can't do it right now, we will call you when we can come out great. Couple days later haven;t heard a thing, so I phoned up again and again and again. Same old same. So at the mo I have one sky box that its not working, a high phone bill. Sky services very poor
*K  29-Nov-2009 20:51


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