Sky piggyback exchange limit

[JackJ1]

Sky advertise their piggyback feature as being able to use the rolled over data to put towards a new phone upgrade. My question is, is there a limit with how much I can use to exchange? I have 0.75 terabytes of unused data, but when trying to get an upgrade the most I can get off is £10 for 5gb or something like that. That's pretty pointless. 

Does it not stack?

[Daniel0210]

@JackJ1 

I think the maximum amount you can redeem is 50GB for a total of £10 off the full price. 

[JackJ1]

Thanks for the reply mate. Seems a bit of a scam that tbh. Pretty pointless feature. 

[Daniel0210]

@JackJ1 

Having 750GB in your Piggybank suggests you're on a much higher data package than you need. Perhaps consider reducing your Sky Mix (and therefore monthly bill) and adding some of that unused data from the Piggybank each month. 

[PandJ2020]

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@JackJ1 wrote:

Seems a bit of a scam that tbh. Pretty pointless feature. 

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Money off is a 'scam'?

[TimmyBGood]

@JackJ1 

Unused data has essentially zero monetary value: it's not like a physical stock item.  Sky cannot count anything 'traded-in' as balancing the reduction in their profit margin on handset retail when they discount the hardware price: even the £10-off is a loss to them.

[JackJ1]

No of course not. But it's the marketing of "save data and put it towards a new phone upgrade!" ... £10 over a 2 year deal. Thats 1.3p a day. I can literally find that on the street.

[JackJ1]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah fair enough, I understand that. I was just annoyed about the whole marketing of it. It looks like the more you save the more you can get off, to then find out £10 max is a bit annoying but oh well. Not going to lose sleep over it. 

[PandJ2020]

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@JackJ1 wrote:

No of course not. But it's the marketing of "save data and put it towards a new phone upgrade!" ... £10 over a 2 year deal. Thats 1.3p a day. I can literally find that on the street.

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To be fair the amount you can trade in has reduced over the years.  But if you are buying a phone from Sky and have excess data then it's better than nothing (just).

As noted above, building up a large piggybank indicates you could be a lower dataplan (and use the piggybank).  It now expires after a year...

[mormegil]

Normally they increase the amount of data you can trade in and and amount you get off when new phones are released