Can't transfer lifetime service

I'm guessing there must be more details to the story that you've left out. First question is if you sold it on eBay, why do you believe it would remain under your account? Have you not yet shipped, and are still checking on your end, or have you shipped? If you shipped, I would think the new owner called TiVo to put it under his/her account...are you saying that the buyer is reporting it has no service?

 

And.... is the TiVo showing up on ANY TiVo accounts?

 

I have just the opposite - I can never get rid of a TSN.

 

Was the series 3 used as part of the once in a lifetime transfer offer?

 

Assuming the TiVo was not part of a lifetime transfer to a new unit, I’d keep after TiVo.

Did you, as per proper procedure, tell TiVo that you had sold the unit and got a ticket number to give to the buyer?

 

I’m curious, if TiVo were to offer the $99 transfer deal for users of old units (older than Roamio) BUT you had to turn in the old unit to them rather than sell on eBay, how many would jump at that offer?

TiVo makes nothing off of lifetime sales on eBay. This would get them $99 and continue to make money off of lifetime users.

 

Units used for the transfer deals are supposed to be deactivated by TiVo. Deactivated S2/S3 units cannot be reactivated once they are deactivated, thus they are parts machines or doorstops having little resale value.

On the other hand a Premier can be reactivated, thus an ebayed unit that is reactivated would benefit TiVo more than a returned unit that TiVo would scrap.

 

It really is a shame. People invested in older units and still like them. The software has less bugs and is designed better. Most of these units still work really well, and most of the non-working units need a recapped power supply and a new hard drive and they are as good as new. It's sad. Tivo, I hope you are listening!

 

OP it also looks like you did all of this on a holiday weekend, I'd suggest giving it another shot and escalating on Monday when it's back to a normal business week.
This is assuming the unit is Lifetime and the Lifetime wasn't swapped off it for a Bolt transfer deal previously.

 

This may be part of what I was afraid was going to happen. With those transfer of service deals. Almost NONE got deactivated, at least on the owners acct. Now who knows who sold and bought what and when. Service on S2/S3/S4s purchased by anyone after the promos could disappear at anytime. I would not buy an S2/S3/S4 with supposed lifetime myself at this time, maybe never as the upgrades our family did still show the S2s active with lifetime. I just hope the S2/S3s that were not used for any promo on my personal account do not "disappear" or go inactive, I've owned them a LONG time and still use them. Could have been SO simple, just deactivate the boxes used in promos WHEN THEY SAID THEY WOULD. 10 days, websites that don't work, specific dates that come and go....................

 

Tivo keeps all orders in your account. Look up the old order where you bought lifetime.

My Account>Billing History and select the device.

Or go to order history.

All of that is proof enough. Now something tells me there is still more to this story. Did you buy the box from Tivo? Did you buy from someone else in the past? Did you take advantage of an offer?

 

Did you post a picture in the auction which showed the TSN? Should never do that if you did. Your screen shot, did you do it after a recent connection to the Tivo service, if it has not connected in awhile it might show lifetime that is no longer there. Also have you owned it since before the transfer of service promo, before April of this year? If you owned it before April 2017 and did not use it for the promo you are getting, well, screwed, if you bought it after April 2017 from a private seller, well you may be out of luck as they may have used it for the promo.

 

Create a dummy account and transfer them to the new acct. I had to do that when Tivo put someone else's order on MY account. Promised me this, promised me that, "there is no order", "we took care of it", "will be taken off your account when the actual purchaser gets it" etc etc. The order is STILL on my account, I transferred the box itself to a dummy ID.

 

You know I read your post again, you say the system information screen shows "good standing". I think "good standing" is account status 3, which is NOT lifetime service. Any S2/S3 that shows anything except account status 5, lifetime service, is now unusable (other than for parts or you can watch old recordings). They can move it to inactive devices or maybe even just wipe it out completely, they wiped out an S1 I used in a promo years ago, just gone completely.

 

Oh, well maybe the box can still be used if it has uninterrupted monthly/yearly service. Once service is discontinued the box can no longer be used/reactivated.