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Rising Costs

StewM — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:46:48 GMT

Just an observation.

I know times have changed from the heavily discounted days before the launch of BT TV including the full suite of programmes offered through Now TV, but I have just received an email of the price increase for my TV Plan - The Full Works - which will now be £91.33 per month! (When I originally signed up the VIP plan was £65 in Nov 22).

I am sure BT will be able to justify this increase but perhaps the days of just accepting, without looking elsewhere are over?

Stew

Re: Rising Costs

StewM — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:20:19 GMT

Keith, you have moved my post. Why? I chose to post this in the lounge, as I said as an observation not as a discussion on charges.

Stew

Re: Rising Costs

Keith_Beddoe — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:33:46 GMT

I will move it back if that is what you want.

Re: Rising Costs

StewM — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:49:51 GMT

Keith, perhaps I am getting too long in the tooth for this? Place it where ever you wish.

Mods, I think my days on the forum have come to an end. Please can you delete my profile.

Stew

Re: Rising Costs

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 20:09:50 GMT

@StewM

£91.33 for what you get is a disgrace, I would highly recommend making a move, all the best 👍🏻

Re: Rising Costs

Keith_Beddoe — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 20:47:28 GMT

@StewM

No need to go, I think you still have a place on the forum, but I am wondering that with the move of TV services over to EE, you may find discussions there of interest as well.

Re: Rising Costs

c64z86 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:03:19 GMT

I wish you the best of luck. I was originally on Sky TV before switching over and I was paying £90+, for Sky TV and movie channels (no sports channels), so it seems that no matter where you go the costs seem to increase dramatically after a little while 😕

Sky, for as long as I can remember, has never been truly cheap. You always end up paying more for it later on sadly.

Re: Rising Costs

StewM — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:15:17 GMT

I welcome input to a discussion, but the point I was making, was the price BT are now charging relative to what was being charged prior to the joining of BT with Now TV.

I suppose this exemplifies my point. Time to call it a day.

Mods.

Stew

Re: Rising Costs

grahamb-uk — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:29:40 GMT

I sympathise. I went full works and Gigabit 2 years ago for about £100. With April increases, it went over £200. Why? Two teenage kids into only gaming and 2 parents with high working from home demands. Just switched to Sky to only find out £120 worth of phones are now e-waste scrap. The market is going badly backwards.

Re: Rising Costs

lickmelickme — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:36:30 GMT

i posted increase £-bt one myself and saw many more like it

i guess bt if you don't lower the costs , we'd all just leave find another provider and no £££££££bt bonus for you? i couldn't imagine working (retired i am) for company and taking bonus while everyone else is getting a raw-provider-deal package for pack of electronics

Re: Rising Costs

StewM — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:18:12 GMT

Not sure why this has been marked as just resolved. Perhaps someone is picking up points for tiding up loose ends?

Stew

Re: Rising Costs

Keith_Beddoe — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:33:29 GMT

@StewM

You said you were leaving the discussion, and as you originated this thread, I assumed you had gone. Its just tidying up, no other reason.

@lickmelickme has already started a new thread on this issue.

https://community.bt.com/t5/Bills-Packages/excessive-bill-increase/m-p/2361502#M167434

Re: Rising Cost

StewM — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 20:49:47 GMT

Keith, I posted as I received an email saying the post had been resolved?

Have you enough time on your hands to be looking for items posted over a month ago?

Stew

Re: Rising Cost

Keith_Beddoe — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:15:12 GMT

@StewM

I do not need to manually look at posts, they are picked up by the RSS feed and automatically sorted by date descending order. So your last post appeared near the top of the lounge list, which brought it to my attention, especially as the thread was re- activated by @lickmelickme

I am retired, so I do have plenty of time to check on what is posted on the forum. My impression was that you were no longer participating in this forum.

As you started the thread, you can mark your post as not the solution, assuming you wish to continue posting on that thread.

Re: Rising Costs

edbostan — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:44:04 GMT

I have the same dilemma. I am halfway through a 24 month deal and face being ripped off until May 2025. When I signed up to Halo 3 in 2021 I was paying around £34.99 for broadband and £10.99 for BT TV. What with following price rises it is currently £51 for broadband and £22 for BT TV totalling £73 per month. The rise of full fibre competitors have lowered prices and I can get fibre for a lot less including BT or is it EE?

Re: Rising Cost

StewM — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:46:45 GMT

@Keith_Beddoe

I replied having received an email that the thread had been marked as resolved. I too am retired, but I am also retiring myself from the BT Community Forum.

Good luck

Stew

Re: Rising Cost

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:03:53 GMT

@edbostan

Whilst in no way endorsing BT's price rises, why on earth did you recontract in May, following the largest rise of all?

@StewM

A little ironic that you're implying @Keith_Beddoe has too much time on his hands, while making your third announcement that you're leaving. It's obviously entirely your decision but if you're going to leave, then just leave. Don't keep coming back to tell us you're leaving & have a snide dig at a CL. Either request your account be closed or turn of email notifications & just don't log in. For avoidance of doubt, you really don't need to respond.

Re: Rising Costs

Keith_Beddoe — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:16:01 GMT

@edbostan

If you would like to post here https://community.bt.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/Billqueries

Then I am sure you will get some suggestions on what to do to reduce your bill in future. BT Retail and EE, as separate companies, do have their own pricing, but also different features. They also have their own user forum https://community.ee.co.uk/