After recently missing out on the previous TCB cashback BT fibre deal, I discovered this next one lined up was even better.
BT are currently running a "no activation fee" promo which takes 59.99 upfront costs away.
TCB offering £110 cashback on infinity/calls package.
And because TCB mention the '£100 mastercard' in the promotion on their own page, then they must honour that too.
9.99 delivery charge on the router. 28.99 a month if you use the link from TCB (I think BT's own links routes you to a higher price).
28.99x12 = 347.88 +9.99 = 357.87
357.88 - £110 (tcb) - £100 (mstrcrd) = 147.87.
General concensus is to allow TCB to track and confirm before applying for mastercard from BT.
Latest comments (101)
squidworth
1 Jun 17#101
Gutted cabinet not yet infinity enabled (in a local town) so have to pay a lot more eacj with far less cashback for a much slower service :disappointed:
Meathotukdeals
31 May 17#100
Just took up a BT offer we had through the post. Basically BT infinity 1 for a tenner a month. No need to be new customer, hope cash back tracks, apply for card, use card, change number blah.
JoeSpur
31 May 171#99
As long as you complete the 12month contract, it's yours.
cahir
31 May 17#98
Same here.
rbz5416
31 May 17#97
It's yours so you can give it away if you wish. When my contract ended in January & I moved ISP, BT sent me mailing bags to "recycle" my router. I didn't return it & heard no more.
Incywincy
31 May 17#96
Do you own the router with BT or are you just renting it? I'm not using mine and want to know whether I can give it to a friend or whether I have to keep it for a year when I will likely cancel and move elsewhere - will they want it back?
Olo_85
29 May 17#88
Ok, Last chance - now should be all Right
mattspatch to Olo_85
30 May 17#91
Hoping someone can help me out here.
Looking at the Quidco cashback offers, there's a £120 one for New Customer Infinity, Calls and TV.
There's also the £70 for New Customer Infinity and Calls (no TV).
They both link to the same BT offers page.
Am I right in thinking I can pick the £120 offer, then pick the BT product and add Starter +BT Sport on the TV page to qualify?
JoeSpur to Olo_85
31 May 17#95
Will you definitely receive the cash back and reward card?
I can imagine how messy and confusing your next bill will be, they just bung every service you have old and new onto it, despite the due dates and you have to work out whether they are cheating you or not because they make mistakes all the time - so much so, it actually looks like it's on purpose sometimes!
tammyy
31 May 17#94
Unlimited BT Infinity 1 + Calls Find out more
This package includes:
Unlimited BT Infinity 1 with up to 52Mb download and 9.5Mb upload speeds
Unlimited Weekend Calls to UK landlines
100GB BT Cloud online storage and BT Virus Protect online security
Free line connection (which is usually £130)
Monthly prices (including £18.99 Line Rental) and one off payments:
£28.99 a month, then £47.49 from month 13
£0 activation
12 month contract
Broadband & Calls with Standard Line Rental
Pay your bill by monthly or quarterly Direct Debit
rbz5416
30 May 17#93
I can't vouch for Quidco but that's what I did with Topcashback & it's tracked at the higher amount (£125).
Tonk3h
30 May 17#92
I doubt the BT sport only thing will qualify for the £120 cashback to be honest - But you can try! It's all tracked behind the scenes so it's worth a shot :smiley:
seanmorris100
30 May 17#89
These free install deals are not always on.
If you switch to someone who uses BT lines then u wont have to pay, but BT offer the best speeds on their lines as they own them, so ull end up with a crap service if u switch from them.
Virgin are the best around but if u switch to them they use their own lines so u have to pay BT.
Either way BT always win, if youre happy to sit on crappy internet for a year then u could be fine but i need decent speeds.
rbz5416 to seanmorris100
30 May 17#90
This particular deal no, but there are always deals involving cash back & Mastercard. But you said in posts #77 & #79 that you'd had to pay a setup charge for this deal.
Sorry but this simply isn't true as a general statement. It may be your particular experience but there are numerous folk that have moved to another provider & achieved the same or better speeds. I can vouch for that as I switched away from BT in January.
otterboxer
29 May 17#84
yes! teach all of us!
cahir to otterboxer
29 May 17#87
Ok decided to give it a go, went through TCB and surprisingly it tracked few minutes after completing BT order.
Olo_85
29 May 17#86
Dammn...try now please :smile:
Mark43
29 May 17#85
So there is always a setup fee, but there isn't with this deal. So not quite 'always'.
Looking at the page you've linked it says you'll be charged if you "Switch to another Broadband provider without following the standard transfer process". I imagine most people will just switch to another provider to get a better deal after 12 months (I know I will), but I'd follow the standard process so presumably will be fine.
rbz5416
29 May 17#83
Ah so it's a cessation fee rather than a leaving fee. I understand now.
Of Course there is a setup charge, they always charge £60 setup but its free with this deal and £32 when you leave, unless you leave to use a company who will pay that for you, such as plusnet as they use BT lines.
If you leave BT for Virgin, youll have to pay it, and in my case i left BT to rejoin them to get it cheaper as their customer service is so bad to sort a decent deal out for me...
I would avoid BT at all costs but they are the only decent provider to my house.
PS. Dunno why i was charged £32 as it says £31 on that link lul...
rbz5416
29 May 17#80
Then I'm confused who your post was aimed at?
There is no setup charge on this deal.
I've just checked the T&Cs & if you were out of contract, then you would only have had to pay to pay to leave if you didn't give them 30 days notice.
No Im saying i paid £92 to leave BT to rejoin them to get a better price, my contract is over BT still charge you to leave them even if you contract is over, its in their terms and conditions...
rbz5416
29 May 171#78
If you're saying you've paid £92 to leave Sky following a price increase, you've been had. You have 30 days from when they notify you of a price increase to terminate the contract without penalty. That's exactly what I've just done four months into a Plusnet contract.
seanmorris100
29 May 17#77
Remember there is a £60 setup charge and £32 leaving charge.
Ive just had to pay both and rejoin BT to get a cheaper deal as they put my current plan up to £45 from £32, im now on £28 but had to pay the £92 as it works out cheaper still...
Worst customer support ever but Virgin dont supply over the road to me but they do the other side lol... wtf :\
otterboxer
29 May 17#76
Need a broadband deal, nothing super quick or fancy. Gutted after missing the mse/sky deal by a few days.
Chat person said they would honour the deal even though it technically ended on friday but i dont have a code. Cest la vie.
mugma
29 May 17#75
Thanks, I'll do that :smiley:
rbz5416
29 May 171#74
I'd be tempted to cancel the order & start again given how much is at stake.
Tonk3h
29 May 17#73
Agreed, Straight ethernet cable is of course better (taking away complications with anything usually gives better results). But the losses from using powerline is negligible, especially with how convenient and flexible they are! Want to move the PC to a different room? No problem :wink:
Lemmin83
29 May 17#72
Is this referral deal still about?
JoeSpur
29 May 17#71
I have very recently cancelled my BT broadband. What are the chances of me getting the cash back and reward card if I sign up again?
mugma
29 May 17#70
Thanks, how strange mine didn't track. I was very careful, opened Firefox (which I don't use normally) and started from scratch. Have filed a TCB claim - what a pain.
Jazzerd
29 May 17#69
Worst internet provider I've used. Though BT TV is ok.
Tonk3h
29 May 171#68
My TCB tracked immediately (well as fast as I looked - Within 15 mins). Not confirmed/paid yet but tracked!
rbz5416
29 May 172#67
I ordered yesterday afternoon. Topcashback emailed confirmation 6 minutes after BT.
mugma
29 May 17#66
Can anyone say from experience how long TCB took to track?
tascheman
29 May 17#65
£70 for Fibre and phone with Quidco - £130 if you take TV as well. TCB deal is £110 for fibre and phone.
I went with Quidco as I switched to BT with them before and got the cashback and the Mastercard. Then switched back to PlusNet with them when BT upped their prices and got the cashback.
So I've gone for £70 which I've got a pretty good chance of getting, rather than £110 which I may or my not get.
cahir
29 May 17#64
Just informed Plusnet that I'll be leaving due to their price hikes.
Now not sure what to do-go through Quidico? through TCB? or wait to see if better offer will show up as both cashback sites 'expire' rates tomorrow
Sawb
29 May 17#63
Not sure why I'm trying to help to be honest giving the way you've come across but if you was getting 72mb and it's dropped to 45mb you clearly have a line fault, you must live next to your street cabinet, an isp tried to get away with my speed degradation before as I was still inside the range they quoted when I signed up but I just had to be persistent, with you however I guess they quoted the 72mb ish when you signed up? Or you can look at bt wholesale website I think and will show what you should expect on a fault free line.
Jo444
28 May 17#62
I just give some advice to new costumers.
Mark43
28 May 17#61
Not really sure I understand what you're on about now. I was trying to help, but as you're being rude I'll just wish you good luck and be on my way.
Jo444
28 May 17#60
Look smartass I measured few times that speed was 72mb but it drop in time in 45mb, bt blame government and government blame bt so...
Mark43
28 May 17#59
You're saying they actually told you that you would get 72mb or that you assumed with the 72mb product you would get 72mb? You simply enter your address details and it estimates what you can actually get. Or are you saying you placed the order and are not getting the minimum speed you were promised? If that's the case I believe they have to try to sort it and let you cancel the contract if they can't.
amoten84
28 May 17#58
Quidco doing the same deal. I just ordered today and it tracked £130 for me. Let's see how it goes
Jo444
28 May 17#57
Yes if its not problem of third party
Tonk3h
28 May 17#56
Easy tiger. Complaining has been tried I assume?
Weren't our rights changed not long ago so that we could nullify contracts if they weren't meeting their end?
Jo444
28 May 17#55
Smartass it was 72mb on start
Tonk3h
28 May 17#54
Research first. You can easily find out what your line will get before buying anything.
rbz5416
28 May 17#53
No, £3.50 pm from 1st August or no charge on the Total Entertainment package.
I thought I had a cunning plan by taking Total Entertainment for extra channels & HD Sports & selling the PVR to offset the costs. But their line speed estimate rejected the order as too low.
y_am_I_buying_this
28 May 17#52
Yeah 28.99 a month for 3 month then 38.50 for £9. £100 MasterCard. £130 tcb
Mark43
28 May 17#51
Thanks, went with the current deal and included total entertainment. So basically the same as you but with 52Mb rather than 76Mb, and a £100 card rather than £125. Still happy with that, I'm on 10Mb at my current house and I've never had more than that, so 52Mb should still blow my mind. :smiley:
Mark43
28 May 17#50
No point in going with 2 then, stick with 1 (or I guess Virgin if its in your area)
cahir
28 May 17#49
Don't you need to pay £5/month(after first 3 months) for bt sports ?
y_am_I_buying_this
28 May 17#48
I work for sky and even I just changed my bb to get this. For me I added bt sports so works out £17 a month after all the cashback etc.
Jo444
28 May 17#47
infinity 2 with 45mb max.Sorry bt but go and f*** ysf.
GlennTheBaker
28 May 17#46
Quidco also mentions the £100 Reward Card
2minutenoodles
28 May 17#45
Yeah it is really annoying. The lady on the phone at BT said they don't even get told what offers are available as they change all of the time and it was a good job I took a screenshot. Good luck with getting a good deal and your move.
manutdfan88
28 May 17#44
I did this a few months ago, cash back was paid no problems after around 45 days and MasterCard also came through after 2 months. Great deal
Tonk3h
28 May 17#43
For all those opting for quidco instead - Someone appearing as a Quidco representative on here stated themselves that they would not also get the Mastercard cashback unless it was stated on their own site. TCB does state it. Not sure about quidco.
Disco.Dave
28 May 17#42
Can take up to 60 days to get TCB from BT
Mark43
28 May 171#41
That's a great deal. Its annoying how frequently they change their offers, I've been waiting to exchange on a house purchase before ordering and I've been looking at the deals for a while, I've seen a couple I would have liked to have gone for but just wasn't quite the right time.
psychdee
28 May 17#40
says £50 activation fee when I choose the package
2minutenoodles
28 May 17#39
On 25th there was a 1 day special. I got the total entertainment TV package including BT sport in UHD, 76Mbs for price of 52Mbs, newest TV box and router, weekend calls and caller display. No activation fee. £130 tcb & £125 MasterCard. 12month contract £41.99 a month. However I had to call to confirm 76Mb offer and luckily took a screenshot of the deal on their page as it went through checkout as 52. Works out £21.50 a month after tcb and mastercard. Bargain. Only been with plusnet for 2 months and they upped their line rental so grabbed the deal and will move again when BT do the same.
dougledog396
28 May 171#38
Cloud cuckoo land? :confused:
jeffjack
28 May 17#37
ethernet >>> power line.
+ cat6A!
dunno
28 May 17#36
Does the no activation fee promo include existing customers upgrading to infinity?
adamnsu
28 May 171#35
I would rather go with Quidco even if they offer less than Topcashback who refuses to even pay
ssjinzo
28 May 17#34
Went for this deal thanks cash back is tracked at the moment.
tascheman
28 May 17#33
£70 with Quidco - I've signed up through them rather than TCB, you get the same deal from BT with both
happymanuk
27 May 172#2
Great deal if you can't get Virgin Media in your area. Otherwise Virgin Media for 100Mbps Broadband, Phone Line with weekend calls and line rental, and Player TV bundle with TiVo box for around under £16 per month cannot be beaten. I'm very satisfied indeed with their service and speeds.
randomandy to happymanuk
27 May 17#10
How did you get that?
uk3g to happymanuk
27 May 17#12
Be careful
m1chaels to happymanuk
27 May 17#13
I went for the referral 10.82 per month virgin deal, have to say i was shocked when the installer guy turned up and asked me where he should run the coax to for the tv box. I couldn't beleive that haven't moved to ip technology yet. So I now have a 6 tuner tivo box sitting next to the front door miles from any tv.
irishbeta to happymanuk
27 May 17#15
interested too on how you got this as just started the process of leaving sky and want to move to virgin
tavalin to happymanuk
28 May 17#21
Where is this £16 Virgin deal? As I can't seem to find it.
chigger1 to happymanuk
28 May 17#32
Where can I find a link to this virginity deal please.
Mark43
28 May 17#31
About the the same cashback at quidco if people trust them more, though I've had large cashback payouts from TCB fine.
Edit - oh, read it wrong, a fair bit less.
asl9791
28 May 17#30
price listed shouldnt include cashback and credit card. misleasing as cashback is not guaranteed. Cold for that reason alone.
rbz5416
28 May 17#29
Couple of comments as I'm tempted & can get out of my Plusnet contract due to their price increases.
If you take the "free" TV starter pack it appears that you are committing to paying for BT Sport from 1st August.
I can't find anywhere in the order customisation to select line rental saver.
As for TCB, I've had very few problems. Last time I took a BT offer through them it actually paid out higher than advertised & the Mastercard arrived promptly too.
rsboden
27 May 17#14
AVOID TCB
I got the last deal with BT and TCB refused to pay out saying they weren't the last referral- even though I went through their site and no other site.
seriously AVOID
linhang90 to rsboden
28 May 17#27
i bought a £1300 gas fryer from nisbets using TCB,they refused to pay stated £30+ cashback.. gave me excuse of "nisbets declined the cashback". More like TCB declined the cashback themselves. I suspect TCB does pay small amounts of cashback but comes up with excuses for any large amount
AndyPr to rsboden
28 May 17#28
I got this for my dad back in January and TCB paid out with no problem plus the £150 prepaid card arrived promptly. I've never had an issue with TCB myself (much better than other cashback sites).
Meathotukdeals
28 May 17#26
So its not obvious - what is a new customer? We have BT as our phone supplier in one of our names already.
taker920
28 May 172#25
It's BT, absolutely freezing. I will never ever go back
Meathotukdeals
28 May 17#24
Yeah thanks. Wasn't keen on having my borders attacked and then going wireless upstairs. Now I know better :smiley:
Tonk3h
28 May 171#23
BT uses FTTC (Fibre to the cabinet) at the moment. From the main telephone exhange in your town, to the green cabinet near your house, is fibre cable. At this stage it's MUCH faster than copper.
However, from the cabinet to your house it's your old normal copper cables. Same you've utilised for ADSL, and even Dial up.
With this in mind, the connection still enters your house at the BT master socket, as it always has done.
Routing ethernet to your computer (15m away) I'd recommend using a 'powerline adapter', which have always been brilliant for me, or just run a long cat6e cable to where you need it.
Hope this answers your queries !
Meathotukdeals
28 May 17#22
So how do BT get the cable to your house (dig up garden? How deep wide the trench?). Then will they leave the router at the point it enters the house? You see I like wired Ethernet to my PCs and they are 15m away from where current BT phone line enters house.
Sheepsdeviant
28 May 17#20
Cold for the mention of No cash back.
Mark43
28 May 17#19
Seems like a decent deal to me, I never have problems with TCB tracking but yeah not a bad deal even without that. Think I'm gonna add total entertainment though as I need a PVR and seems worth it for the YouView+ Ultra HD box.
Tonk3h
28 May 17#18
In fairness, even without the TCB reward, the removal of the 59.99 upfront charge and £100 mastercard cashback makes it a very good deal!
foxyuk
28 May 17#17
Would be interested in this
xx_stud_xx
28 May 17#16
I'm interested too :smiley:
happymanuk
27 May 17#11
A referral only deal (You can't post asking for referrals on the forum by the way).
Pixam
27 May 17#9
Just gone for it :smiley:
jiall
27 May 17#8
Sky up for renewal so this looks good- can you use the Mastercard to credit your account and reduce/delay direct debits?
DarrylJohn
27 May 17#7
Heat from me. TCB state you'd get both...
Sedgefield
27 May 17#5
They will wriggle out of paying cashback!
geeadamg to Sedgefield
27 May 17#6
Mine is currently pending. Connection due mid June. How do they wriggle out? I must admit I avoid TCB because of the feedback on here but my only other payout worked no problems.
m1chaels
27 May 17#1
TCB and BT? This is gonna go cold....
Tonk3h to m1chaels
27 May 171#4
It's worked fine for me in the past! Although the last offer I got through moneysavingexpert took a LOT of emails to retentions for them to actually send it. Was a PITA for sure.
PhoenixRising
27 May 172#3
The Starter TV package works out even cheaper as there is no extra monthly cost to add it.
28.99 x 12 = 347.88
+ 19.99 = 367.87
367.87 - £125 (TCB) - £100 (Reward) = £142.87
Plus, you'll get BT's standard YouView box along with the extra TV channels.
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Opening post
BT are currently running a "no activation fee" promo which takes 59.99 upfront costs away.
TCB offering £110 cashback on infinity/calls package.
And because TCB mention the '£100 mastercard' in the promotion on their own page, then they must honour that too.
9.99 delivery charge on the router. 28.99 a month if you use the link from TCB (I think BT's own links routes you to a higher price).
28.99x12 = 347.88
+9.99 = 357.87
357.88 - £110 (tcb) - £100 (mstrcrd) = 147.87.
General concensus is to allow TCB to track and confirm before applying for mastercard from BT.
Latest comments (101)
Looking at the Quidco cashback offers, there's a £120 one for New Customer Infinity, Calls and TV.
There's also the £70 for New Customer Infinity and Calls (no TV).
They both link to the same BT offers page.
Am I right in thinking I can pick the £120 offer, then pick the BT product and add Starter +BT Sport on the TV page to qualify?
I can imagine how messy and confusing your next bill will be, they just bung every service you have old and new onto it, despite the due dates and you have to work out whether they are cheating you or not because they make mistakes all the time - so much so, it actually looks like it's on purpose sometimes!
This package includes:
Unlimited BT Infinity 1 with up to 52Mb download and 9.5Mb upload speeds
Unlimited Weekend Calls to UK landlines
100GB BT Cloud online storage and BT Virus Protect online security
Free line connection (which is usually £130)
Monthly prices (including £18.99 Line Rental) and one off payments:
£28.99 a month, then £47.49 from month 13
£0 activation
12 month contract
Broadband & Calls with Standard Line Rental
Pay your bill by monthly or quarterly Direct Debit
If you switch to someone who uses BT lines then u wont have to pay, but BT offer the best speeds on their lines as they own them, so ull end up with a crap service if u switch from them.
Virgin are the best around but if u switch to them they use their own lines so u have to pay BT.
Either way BT always win, if youre happy to sit on crappy internet for a year then u could be fine but i need decent speeds.
Sorry but this simply isn't true as a general statement. It may be your particular experience but there are numerous folk that have moved to another provider & achieved the same or better speeds. I can vouch for that as I switched away from BT in January.
Looking at the page you've linked it says you'll be charged if you "Switch to another Broadband provider without following the standard transfer process". I imagine most people will just switch to another provider to get a better deal after 12 months (I know I will), but I'd follow the standard process so presumably will be fine.
Of Course there is a setup charge, they always charge £60 setup but its free with this deal and £32 when you leave, unless you leave to use a company who will pay that for you, such as plusnet as they use BT lines.
If you leave BT for Virgin, youll have to pay it, and in my case i left BT to rejoin them to get it cheaper as their customer service is so bad to sort a decent deal out for me...
I would avoid BT at all costs but they are the only decent provider to my house.
PS. Dunno why i was charged £32 as it says £31 on that link lul...
There is no setup charge on this deal.
I've just checked the T&Cs & if you were out of contract, then you would only have had to pay to pay to leave if you didn't give them 30 days notice.
BT T&Cs
Ive just had to pay both and rejoin BT to get a cheaper deal as they put my current plan up to £45 from £32, im now on £28 but had to pay the £92 as it works out cheaper still...
Worst customer support ever but Virgin dont supply over the road to me but they do the other side lol... wtf :\
Chat person said they would honour the deal even though it technically ended on friday but i dont have a code. Cest la vie.
I went with Quidco as I switched to BT with them before and got the cashback and the Mastercard. Then switched back to PlusNet with them when BT upped their prices and got the cashback.
So I've gone for £70 which I've got a pretty good chance of getting, rather than £110 which I may or my not get.
Now not sure what to do-go through Quidico? through TCB? or wait to see if better offer will show up as both cashback sites 'expire' rates tomorrow
Weren't our rights changed not long ago so that we could nullify contracts if they weren't meeting their end?
I thought I had a cunning plan by taking Total Entertainment for extra channels & HD Sports & selling the PVR to offset the costs. But their line speed estimate rejected the order as too low.
+ cat6A!
Edit - oh, read it wrong, a fair bit less.
If you take the "free" TV starter pack it appears that you are committing to paying for BT Sport from 1st August.
I can't find anywhere in the order customisation to select line rental saver.
As for TCB, I've had very few problems. Last time I took a BT offer through them it actually paid out higher than advertised & the Mastercard arrived promptly too.
I got the last deal with BT and TCB refused to pay out saying they weren't the last referral- even though I went through their site and no other site.
seriously AVOID
However, from the cabinet to your house it's your old normal copper cables. Same you've utilised for ADSL, and even Dial up.
With this in mind, the connection still enters your house at the BT master socket, as it always has done.
Routing ethernet to your computer (15m away) I'd recommend using a 'powerline adapter', which have always been brilliant for me, or just run a long cat6e cable to where you need it.
Hope this answers your queries !
28.99 x 12 = 347.88
+ 19.99 = 367.87
367.87 - £125 (TCB) - £100 (Reward) = £142.87
Plus, you'll get BT's standard YouView box along with the extra TV channels.