{"id":53591,"date":"2017-05-03T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loyalty-does-pay-for-sky-but-not-for-its-customers\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:03:39","slug":"loyalty-does-pay-for-sky-but-not-for-its-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/loyalty-does-pay-for-sky-but-not-for-its-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty does pay \u2026 for Sky, but not for its customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBroadcaster seems determined to charge me over the odds for basic servicesAfter reading your letter about Sky customers dropping the paid-for service and using Freesat instead, I tried to do this. But when I phoned I was told that \u201coption\u201d was no longer available.I have two Sky boxes and offered to pay a \u00a310 fee for each box. I was told the only way to keep the recording facility for the free-to-air channels that I use was to enter into a new contract at a special rate of \u00a317.50 a month as I am a \u201cloyal customer of over four years\u201d. I did question why, if I was loyal, I had been paying \u00a332 a month for the past 12 months!  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/may\/03\/sky-freesat-costs-contract\" target=\"_blank\">Loyalty does pay \u2026 for Sky, but not for its customers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Broadcaster seems determined to charge me over the odds for basic servicesAfter reading your letter&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-dWn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50738,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/all-we-want-is-to-record-terrestrial-tv-but-costs-are-now-sky-high\/","url_meta":{"origin":53591,"position":0},"title":"All we want is to record terrestrial TV, but costs are now Sky high","date":"April 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We paid a subscription because a Sky box is easy to use but now we are paying \u00a338 a monthMy wife and I are in our late 60s and retired, and have been loyal Sky customers for years. 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