BE half their prices - Plusnet to follow ????

[#1]

Just doing my normal trawl of rubbish on the web and noticed that BE have halved their VALUE package price.
Its now £7.50 for 8mb and 40GB downloads.

Are Plusnet planning on following suit, they have always provided value for money in the past so wondered where their plans may take us?

Cheers.

[#2]

Welcome to the Forums
Well I am on PN value at £5.99 per month fot 10G and I dont use that , but could get another 2g for £2

[#3]

Quote from: BRABUS

Just doing my normal trawl of rubbish on the web and noticed that BE have halved their VALUE package price. Its now £7.50 for 8mb and 40GB downloads.

A small note – they've not really halved the price, as the previous Value product used to offer unlimited downloads. Bit of a pain actually as I've been eying Be for some time, but 40GB (considering there's no free overnight usage) isn't enough and I don't think there's much chance of me paying their prices for their more expensive products.

[#4]

Quote from: pierre_pierre

Welcome to the Forums Well I am on PN value at £5.99 per month fot 10G and I dont use that , but could get another 2g for £2

Thanks for the welcome.  I am a returning PN customer (screwed by SKY - its a long story), just signed up and seen these other prices 
How do you get PN VAlue for £5.99, its costing me £11.99.

[#5]

Move to a Market 3 exchange. 

[#6]

you should get 3 months at £5.99 then if you are in a Market 3 it stays that, if not its £11.99 - you can find out your exchange details here http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/adslchecker.php

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* - Plusnet Value broadband starts at £5.99 a month for the first 3 months. If you live in one of our low cost areas you'll then pay this price every month. If you live outside of one of these areas you'll then pay £11.99 a month thereafter.

[#7]

Thanks for that.  I am in a Market 2 exchange - stuck with £11.99 then  
Corrected to Market 2 as I cant type

[#8]

Hmm? As pierre_pierre said, it's those who are in a market 3 exchange that get the cheap pricing.

[#9]

The emails are screwed - it's a known problem. As you are market 3 you will pay £5.99 for Value.

[#10]

Typo on my part, I am Market 2. 

[#11]

I'd have thought you should get the first 3 months at the lower rate before it rises to the price for Market 2 (again I don't think the emails make that very clear).

[#12]

Yep done some digging and get 3 months at £5.99 and 9 at £11.99.

So does anyone know if PN have any plans to drop their prices.  Would be just my luck after I have joined 

[#13]

BE don't appear to offer free overnight download though - I start all my OS upgrades and telly downloads just after midnight then go to bed.

[#14]

You are quite right, they don't.  If you dont download things and just use the web for browsing then things like price are more important.
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[#15]

I would like to add to this. There NOTHING more offensive than a price quoted as "from"
when it is impossible to get it.  Im still on BBYW2 but O2 pricing certainly looks
attractive in my area.