| [DVR] buying from ebay I want to purchase a motorola DVR off ebay due to the fact that I have cisco boxes and verizon won't let me set up my account for motorola boxes so if I buy one online from ebay would I be able to activate it? |
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| No, it will never work,its a brick! |
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 JackarinoPremium
join:2006-12-28
Allendale, NJ
kudos:1
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No, you cannot buy Verizon boxes off of eBay and activate them. |
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 birdfeedrPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-11
Warwick, RI
kudos:8 | said by Jackarino:No, you cannot buy Verizon boxes off of eBay.
No, that's not true. You meant to say that Verizon boxes bought off eBay will not be activated by Verizon. |
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JackarinoPremium
join:2006-12-28
Allendale, NJ
kudos:1 | Yes, post edited |
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Also, you can't mix Cisco and Moto platforms on an account |
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About all you can buy that work are remotes. |
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Someone once posted somewhere that they "got" either their cable co or Fios installer ( I forget), to "call in & add" a ser # from a box bought off ebay.
The only thing was, that once the box was on their account, they were billed the monthly box fee for it being active, & there was no way around that...
So, perhaps someone "could" possibly get an ebay box to "work", but there would be no economic sense to try .... |
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Mac973
join:2009-05-18
West Orange, NJ | reply to sillyshydq
Aren't all boxes owned by Verizon? So anything being sold on Ebay would be considered stolen, wouldn't it? |
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said by MeatChicken: Someone once posted somewhere that they "got" either their cable co or Fios installer ( I forget), to "call in & add" a ser # from a box bought off ebay.
The only thing was, that once the box was on their account, they were billed the monthly box fee for it being active, & there was no way around that...
So, perhaps someone "could" possibly get an ebay box to "work", but there would be no economic sense to try ....
Correct, although I think Verizon refuses to activate them. I think that was another cable co. maybe Comcast. But you still have to pay the full amount, it's 100% pointless to buy them from Ebay. I was at a local park last year and saw a FIOS STB discarded there, and laughed and just left it there. |
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said by Mac973:Aren't all boxes owned by Verizon? So anything being sold on Ebay would be considered stolen, wouldn't it?
Not nessesarily ...
If, for example, you remove service & don't return a box, and you are billed for it on your final bill, then per "the courts" it's yours...
( If you bill "Jim" for losing your I-pad, & he pays, you don't also own the I-pad when he shows up holding it 8 months later .. It's one or the other ..)
If a few boxes were UPS-ed to your address & got lost in shipping, VZ is paid by UPS insurance, & if UPS ever finds the boxes, they own them, & they're legally actioned off in unclaimed freight sales...
Likewise they could also be "grey market" 7216's originally bought by "El Presidente Cable Service-o" of South America, & then legally re-sold to an ebay seller by El Presidente Cable.... |
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