Thanks mate, am looking for a few to replace my battered ones.
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How do you know it's genuine?

Doesn't actually say it's a genuine sky remote ( clever wording), just it's a genuine replacement.

"The Sky plus HD Revision 9 remote control is a direct replacement for the original that comes with your Sky box

A lot of the neutral and bad reviews are complaining about fake non genuine poor quality items

I guarantee this will be fake!

This will be 100% fake

is anything out there genuine anymore? sad state of affairs we live in.

Fake and probably as useless as all the fake ones

they are fake,honestly do not buy from a seller who puts in their listing "genuine replacement" because your likely to get burnt.

why rev 9 when rev 10 has been out for ages? Seems fishy to me :confused:

Before buying, possibly do it for free by checking to see if an easy DIY repair is an option - here's an example from the official Sky forums:

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Remotes-accessories/Sky-HD-remote-certain-buttons-not-working/td-p/2344776/highlight/false

My problem was also the oily substance leak - took me 10 min to repair (quoted from SkyWise's post in the above thread):

"...I decided to take it apart, as I now had nothing to lose. There are various posts explaining how to do this. I was amazed to find that the circuit board and the rubber pad inside were absolutely soaking wet with an oily substance!

Reading further American forums on faulty remotes, it seems this is most likely silicone oil which comes out of the rubber pads, more coming from the button pads that are used the most. It interferes with correct operation of the buttons.

Carefully cleaning this off the board with cotton buds and alcohol, together with all the other accumulated muck, has fully restored my old remote to working order! According to the American posts, this is likely to recur about every 5-6 years..."

Check their feedback. I bought my sister one a while back for £6.50 and it was perfect and appears to be the real deal. The seller was super-satellite-man

Ive purchased 2 or 3 from eBay in the past (not from this seller though) and they have all been fake even when they say they are genuine. Just don't work as well as sky official ones so ended up ordering direct from sky. Yes I paid more but the sky ones work like a dream. Just thought it worth calling out.

These were under £3 a few weeks ago and are still readily available for under £5 on ebay so not the best deal out there

Hi all, as I said on the last such thread, if your remote breaks, phone up Sky and in my experience they will send you one for free: ultimately the service cannot be properly used without a remote so it is in their interests to provide one.

I bought a "genuine" sky remote for the same price. Had to change the batteries literally every week. The batteries in my real remote lasted a year or two. This cheap remote ended up costing me nearly £60 for the year I had it (before I threw it in the bin). Should have just bought a proper one for £20 and had it for years.

Fair enough. This was 2014 but I may have contacted the seller prior to buying the item to ask if they were genuine. That might be why the one I got for my sister seems to be authentic.

Seems they where trying it on with me then!

When ours broke last year we phoned Sky and got a new one for free, we pay the monthly sky box insurance and its covered in that

No wonder you're not a happy bunny then.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the free special needs sky remotes which got bare heat on hukd a while back

Completely fake! Looks and feels crap.

Joke of a post to put up too OP. Disgusted with the quality.

These are fake and they feel it.