Extortionate price for freesat

[sintv]

www.freeviewgigitaltvaerial.co.uk charged an old couple in Fife £504 for a zone 1 dish and simple installation. One of those 0845 cowboys. Even had the cheek to breakdown the price as follows

Dish £185
Long arm £40
Heavy duty bracket £65
Quad LNB £130.

plus VAT

Just a standard dish with no frills
Invoice says aerial & security as the heading

[Woody]

Its freeviewdigitaltvaerial - a typo above - and they are a Manchester
based and show an 0161 number.
What is more if they are selling freeview why are we talking satellite?
IF the couple live in Fife they should have a good signal from a couple
of transmitters.

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[charles]

In article <9d17e5c6-0e2a-4ab0...@googlegroups.com>,

I came across an aerial rigger just outside Glasgow whose by line was
"Specialist in Poor Signal Reception". He'd succeeded with installation
that I saw. Picture was so poor you could hardly make it out.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

[R. Mark Clayton]

Name and shame please.

[Andy Burns]

R. Mark Clayton wrote:

> sintv wrote:
>
>> www.freeviewgigitaltvaerial.co.uk charged an old couple in Fife
>> £504 for a zone 1 dish and simple installation.
>

> Name and shame please.

As (almost) above ...

<http://www.freeviewdigitaltvaerial.co.uk>

[Brian Gaff]

I'd want either gold plated or a banksy Mural on the dish for that.
Brian

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[Brian Gaff]

Yes well he probably pre fills the coax with water to save time.
Actually if somebody made a talking Freesat box I'd go for it over
Freeview.

Brian

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[Graham.]

Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk> Wrote in message:

Even the cookie warning banner has a typo.
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[brightside]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 20:43:17 +0100 (GMT+01:00), "Graham."
<graham...@email.com> wrote:


>> As (almost) above ...
>>
>> <http://www.freeviewdigitaltvaerial.co.uk>
>>
>
>Even the cookie warning banner has a typo.

It looks like someone has hacked the site.

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[R. Mark Clayton]

Doh.

No name, company number, nor any useful identifying information, oh and the phone number's a dud - should tell you what you need to know!

[ne...@address.invalid]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:24:07 +0100, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

" For a one-off charge, our experts can erect a new aerial which we
guarantee will offer you 100% reliable TV viewing from Freeview, BT
Vision and any terrestrial TV service on the market."

BT Vision ?

[Andy Burns]

ne...@address.invalid wrote:

> BT Vision ?

STB that can receive/record freeview, or stream BT programmes over the
internet ... probably killed off by newer BT TV boxes

[ne...@address.invalid]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:51:54 +0100, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

But they were promising it over their aerial.

[R. Mark Clayton]

Yes and BT TV boxes take Freeview over the aerial and / or their programs over the internet.

[Andy Burns]

ne...@address.invalid wrote:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> ne...@address.invalid wrote:
>>
>>> BT Vision ?
>>
>> STB that can receive/record freeview, or stream BT programmes over the
>> internet ... probably killed off by newer BT TV boxes
>
> But they were promising it over their aerial.

Yes, it can receive via an aerial, or stream over broadband.

[Roderick Stewart]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:18:34 +0100, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

It's a Freeview PVR and an internet streaming device all in one box,
presumably with the intention of making it less confusing than two
separate boxes, but having said that, the only person I know who's got
one is thoroughly confused by it, and I find it confusing too when I
try to help. The menu system is not very intuitive, and the Freeview
and internet sections respond at vastly different speeds.

My Panasonic Freeview PVR does include some internet services too, but
they take so long to respond that it isn't worth the bother. Some of
them are presented in the form of higher numbers that appear in the
same list as the Freeview channels, and are selected in the same way,
but clearly derive their material from internet sources, after a long
wait, when they work at all. The Panasonic PVR works very well with
Freeview, and the Amazon box works very well with internet sources,
which suggests to me that the use of separate boxes for these services
is better than trying to be too clever by combining them.

Rod.

[ne...@address.invalid]

On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 19:18:34 +0100, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

The advert you posted, and to which I replied, was *only* for Freeview
aerial fitting.

"For a one-off charge, our experts can erect a new aerial which we
guarantee will offer you 100% reliable TV viewing from Freeview, BT
Vision and any terrestrial TV service on the market."

I've no idea why a PVR or broadband came into the discussion. It
wasn't in the advert.

<http://www.freeviewdigitaltvaerial.co.uk>

[Andy Burns]

ne...@address.invalid wrote:

> The advert you posted

sintv posted it, I merely corrected a typo.

> and to which I replied, was *only* for Freeview aerial fitting

> I've no idea why a PVR or broadband came into the discussion. It
> wasn't in the advert.

it was *you* who first asked about BT Vision (having quoted it from the
advert) which is a freeview PVR (and also a broadband TV streaming device)

[Unsteadyken]

In article <1ng4me1jdc9clp261...@4ax.com>,

Roderick Stewart says...

> It's a Freeview PVR and an internet streaming device all in one box,
> presumably with the intention of making it less confusing than two
> separate boxes, but having said that, the only person I know who's got
> one is thoroughly confused by it, and I find it confusing too when I
> try to help. The menu system is not very intuitive, and the Freeview
> and internet sections respond at vastly different speeds.
>

I've had BT Youview for several years; and find that it is a doddle to
operate with clear and simple menus. Far better than the Tonka toy multi
colored confused mess served up by Sky and Virgin.

Beauty is in the eye etc.

--
Ken

[ne...@address.invalid]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2019 16:52:26 +0100, Andy Burns <use...@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

>

My point was that the advert promised BT Vision *through their
aerial*. It did not say that another device was needed.