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You've added Entertainment Extra with Sports and Movies on 01/02/13

You have two charges for Entertainment Extra with Sports and Movies: one for your first billing period from the date that you added Entertainment Extra with Sports and Movies, and one for your ongoing monthly charge billed one month in advance.
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Entertainment Extra with Sports and Movies 28/02/13 - 27/03/13 £55.50

Sky+ Subscription 01/02/13 - 27/03/13 FREE

Entertainment Extra with Sports and Movies 01/02/13 - 27/02/13 £48.34
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WiFi Hotspots from The Cloud 28/02/13 - 27/03/13 FREE
Sky Broadband Unlimited 28/02/13 - 27/03/13 £7.50
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You have two charges for Sky Talk Line Rental: one for your first billing period from the date that you added Sky Talk Line Rental, and one for your ongoing monthly charge billed one month in advance.
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Sky Talk Line Rental 28/02/13 - 27/03/13 £14.50
Sky Talk Line Rental 02/02/13 - 27/02/13 £12.16
1571 - Voicemail 02/02/13 - 27/03/13 FREE
Caller Display 02/02/13 - 27/03/13 FREE
Sky Talk Freetime 02/02/13 - 27/03/13 FREE

Sky Talk total: £26.66

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I understand that they are charging me twice with in the same 30 days that is all I am seeing, on live chat with a guy named Johny now and he says that because the bill is over 25 quid service will be suspended on tv and broadband/homephone services. I explained that I would like to pay the internet and he says that I would need to clear 112 quid of the balance for my service to stay online. Why can you not pay them seperately!!!

I personally find that Sky do the most complicated bills I have ever encountered. Only once did I find that I was being charged in error.

Where it gets complicated is that for instance if you join or alter the package mid month you will get billed the half a month that you will be using and also a month in advance, so in fact you are paying for six weeks service.

I can only suggest you calculate from the day you received the services to the next billing period and see if the total for each item makes sense.

I have a job understand my own when I make any alteration to my package so that is the best I can suggest.

What looks to have happened is that you have upgraded services a few days after your last bill date.

When you do that as has been already said they want payment for the upgrade month AND the month after.

So upgrading services on the 1 Feb means that they want payment all the way to the 27 Match which looks to be your next part of their billing cycle.

As the reason why you can't pick and choose what you pay I suspect that the Sky billing system cannot put money aside for one or the other, you have to pay the whole lot or get everything cut off.

This is why I am not in favour of the so called Triple or Quad play services because if you do go into dispute with a company they will have you over a barrel.

Having only recently moving to Sky I await with bated breath this little treasure to wrestle with.
Thanks for the heads up

I left 'Sky' last year (December).Received letter yesterday that they had put money owed to me in to my bank.

The amount looks correct to cover nearly 2 months (at £55.50 per month for TV that pretty much accounts plus phone @ £26 for 2 months and broadband). The actual bill looks to be correct from the detail that is there.

And as Sky are a single company if you are in debt to them they will cut off all services. Most companies would do the same. Maybe you can agree with Sky to do the payment over a longer period if you are in financial difficulty. They should have explained when you upgraded that you would pay for the remainder of current month plus a second month in the same bill.

In reply to a post by ian72:

And as Sky are a single company if you are in debt to them they will cut off all services.

They cut the TV serivice off first. Usually a week after the payment was due, unlike Virgin that do cut off all services at once, so they at least give you a chance to contact them wihout it costing you anything.