Try customer services and asked to be transferred.

Hi  we have had no end of trouble getting a satisfactory reply from Sky had to use the expensive number. Just read through all the listings since 2005!!! thanks for yours for 01506 677000 will give this a try.   Normill

I've done some housekeeping with the Sky entries. All are now tagged with BSkyB, so a search of that will return only entries for Sky.

Numbers I've removed are as follows (all are "no longer available"):

01506 421884 Went directly into a queue to speak to someone
01506 831006 Requested telephone number
01506 421726 Was main customer service alternative

Just rang 01506677000 got told to ring the 08442411411 but got put through to the right person first they was not to happy me ringing the 01506 number

I've just contacted Sky on the 01506 677 000 number and once I'd gone through all the "select" permutations, got to speak to a man in Livingston who was very helpful.

excellent help (again)
the number works well
I got an indian chap, who was very helpfull and sorted my issue with no hassle at all

Just called 01506 677 000 and got through to customer services in India from the standard menu options and the fact I had called on the geographic number was not challenged at all.

However these cretins gave me the most unbelievable runaround about my wanting to come back to Sky and give them some of my hard earned money.  First I was told three times that this was a sales department activity and transferred to sales line in the UK who closed at 10pm.

Finally I rang back on 01506 677000 yet again and got a more helpful and intelligent Indian call centre worker (sounded as though he might actually have spent time in the UK or watch the odd English film and did not act like an emotionless robot as most Indian call centre workers tend to do) and when I told him how absurd it was that I could not resubscribe through my online account and that the program I wanted to watch was just about to start he decided he could after all manage to reactivate me, even though procedure was for me to have to speak to sales who were closed.

The only reason they want you to speak to sales is to try and sign you up for Sky talk and Sky broadband but as I live on a non LLU exchange they can only offer Sky Connect at £17 per month so I am not interested.  I am also not interested because I only ever to subscribe to Sky once a year for one month for the Dakar rally or sometimes in June for the Le Mans 24 hours.  And if you discontinue Sky tv and are a Sky broadband customer they then disconnect your broadband.................

NGMsGhost wrote on Dec 30^th, 2008 at 11:44pm:

020 7979 9500 has a male Scottish voice but 01506 677000 is the same lady as is on the 0844 numbers. So it would seem that 01506 is a more suitable alternative.

Having said that, numbers like 020 7979 9540 go straight to a Sky operator.