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Re: Sky's London bias

#31 Post by claire » Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:02 pm

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Re: Sky's London bias

#32 Post by brum33 » Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:06 pm

But the good thing is that people ignored the comments to do nothing and emailed sky and look more locations!

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Re: Sky's London bias

#33 Post by asamaic » Fri Jun 28, 2013 6:09 pm

brum33 wrote:But the good thing is that people ignored the comments to do nothing and emailed sky and look more locations!
I doubt it would happen that quickly - more likely that Sky forgot to add the other locations before making this booking live.

But no harm in trying to lobby for more locations for future previews, it's nice when we can all discuss the same films from up and down the country. o/
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Re: Sky's London bias

#34 Post by McG » Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:36 pm

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Re: Sky's London bias

#35 Post by asamaic » Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:50 pm

McG wrote:I have very clean habits and am house trained! :rolleyes:
Now, that's a winning CV if ever I heard one. :p
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Re: Sky's London bias

#36 Post by Tiz » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:05 am

Sorry if I'm going off topic ...

Look at the name of this Forum - "Free" Movies UK.

What's 'free' about having to hold a Sky Movies subscription for screenings? What's 'free' about having to hold a Times+ subscription for screenings? I'm surprised there aren't more objections to the ever increasing number of screenings that have strings (i.e. £ signs) attached.

It also irks me when reference is made to 'Sky Customers'. I p*y a small fortune each month to Sky, but as a so called 'customer' I'm excluded from screenings as 99% of them are for movies subscribers.

I'm seeing a serious decline in the number of no-strings screenings these days.

And I'm guessing it's going to get worse. Any views?

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Re: Sky's London bias

#37 Post by raj101 » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:09 am

I think most people realise they are not free, tbh, all the way down to payment of tv licence. Suckers we aint.

free streaming rules, mind you... £100 million dollar movies for nothing at all ;)
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Re: Sky's London bias

#38 Post by Celini » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:28 am

Tiz wrote:
What's 'free' about having to hold a Sky Movies subscription for screenings? What's 'free' about having to hold a Times+ subscription for screenings? I'm surprised there aren't more objections to the ever increasing number of screenings that have strings (i.e. £ signs) attached.
Actually, concerning Sky, you do not necessary have to be a Sky customer to access a free screening; each Sky Movies customer can create several extra accounts for friends and family so they can enjoy the Sky screenings.
(I am not a Sky customer, nor do I p*y a TV license, so for me those screenings are indeed free)
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Re: Sky's London bias

#39 Post by Sunny Saver » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:29 am

As I said earlier, the point of getting a subscription to Sky or The Times is for Sky or the paper, it's not for the screenings or any perks. If you're p*ying subscriptions for the perks, then you obviously have far too much money 8O. If Sky or The Times didn't do free movies would you stop subscribing?

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Re: Sky's London bias

#40 Post by Sunny Saver » Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:30 am

Celini wrote: nor do I p*y a TV license
8O 8O 8O 8O AUNTY!!! :mrgreen:

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