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Aug 06, 2016
This is a good little receiver
1 of 1 found this helpful It's hard to beat the price and this item was UNactivated as advertised. Patience will be required with DirecTV as this is not their normal workflow. You'll need to explain that you bought this item online and that they'll need to use the Receiver ID to find the original purchaser (I didn't tell them to do this but that's what they told me once they figured it out). They need to verify that it is not on lease - those cannot be activated which is the risk of buying outside of DirecTV (google search "activate used directv receiver" for details). It took ~30minutes for me working with DirecTV to activate this receiver (no - online activation didn't work) and once the agent figured out what exactly was going on he was able to get it activated.
Since this is an additional receiver on my account it added $7 to my monthly bill, YMMV.
Other than the usual challenges with customer service at a large company this was a pleasant transaction. The item works exactly as advertised (I'm using an 18" round dish, non-SWM). It appeared completely new - remote + batteries, access card and receiver all included.