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Discussion in 'TiVo Series 1 - UK' started by Philnic, Jun 30, 2011.

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  1. Jun 30, 2011 #1 of 24
    Philnic

    Philnic New Member

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    It's time to go: I've lived without TiVo for a couple of months now, and not missed it as much as I thought I would. As a final act, I hooked it up to AltEPG via dialup, just for fun...

    ...and then put it on eBay!

    Anyone looking for a 250GB Tivo, start your bidding!
     
  2. Jun 30, 2011 #2 of 24
    johnscott99

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    Bid
     
  3. Jun 30, 2011 #3 of 24
    LarryDavid

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    Mine is probably going soon, I will follow this with interest ;)
     
  4. Jun 30, 2011 #4 of 24
    Fred Smith

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    This you would be better following it on Ebay as it appears to all ready on there.
     
  5. Jul 8, 2011 #5 of 24
    Philnic

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    29 people following with interest, apparently :D; but only one bid so far :(!
     
  6. Jul 8, 2011 #6 of 24
    johnscott99

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    Did you see the two going for £15 each with £19 postage? - noone bid
     
  7. Jul 8, 2011 #7 of 24
    Philnic

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    :eek:
     
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    SolidTechie

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    The last one I bought for £17.47 plus P&P of £12.50 - the previous one was p&p of £6.95.

    I wouldn't bid on them with a p&p figure clearly OTT
     
  9. Jul 12, 2011 #9 of 24
    Philnic

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    Well, it went for £38, with delivery set at £10.:)

    Delivery is a bit of a problem, since the Tivo is quite heavy (packaged, mine weighed in at 6.6kg, and the cheapest tracked delivery I could get at the post office was about £14. I could have got a lower price from a courier, but I wanted to minimise the hassle.)
     
  10. Jul 12, 2011 #10 of 24
    Richard Loxley

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    Have a look at http://www.parcel2go.com/ - very easy to book online, they pick up from your door, and you should be able to send a Tivo for under a tenner. They just re-sell service from all the major couriers without you needing an account with the actual courier.

    I've used them a couple of times and was very happy with the service.
     
  11. Jul 12, 2011 #11 of 24
    LarryDavid

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    +1 for parcel2go. Use it myself all the time now for anything too large/valuable for second class packet.
     
  12. Jul 12, 2011 #12 of 24
    sjp

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    and they're also handy for getting holiday luggage home when a ryanair/easyjet type flight is your daughters last leg home - given her luggage weighed nearly as much as she does :)
     
  13. Jul 20, 2011 #13 of 24
    Philnic

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    ...and after all that palaver of putting it on eBay and watching the bids slowly trickle in, boxing the thing up, schlepping it to the post office, paying £14 to ship it...

    Parcel Force somehow manage to lose it:eek::eek::eek:.

    One Tivo, lovingly boxed, is on the loose somewhere in the Acton region. It will probably end its life in a skip (as the a*** of a postal worker who stole it discovers it ISN'T a DVD player, and can't figure out quite WHAT it is...:mad:)
     
  14. Jul 21, 2011 #14 of 24
    johnscott99

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    I bought one from eBay for £11.50 and postage was only £6.95 for 48hour signed for.
    Get me!
     
  15. Jul 21, 2011 #15 of 24
    Philnic

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    In that case, you're doubly lucky you didn't win the one I was selling. You would never have received it!
     
  16. Jul 21, 2011 #16 of 24
    mikerr

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    I was sent tracked wasn't it ?

    Always send ebay items with a tracked service requiring a signature,
    they often don't "arrive" otherwise and the buyers get a free item. :rolleyes:

    [edit] Ah now read the thread fully, and see you did send it tracked !
     
  17. Jul 22, 2011 #17 of 24
    Philnic

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    The purchaser asked Parcel Force about the missing parcel, and they said something like "the seller can claim for the lost item, and they will then be able to send you a replacement".

    Ha! If only life were so simple!
     
  18. Jul 31, 2011 #18 of 24
    ...coolstream

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    So how much is a tivo 'worth' for insurance purposes?
     
  19. Aug 1, 2011 #19 of 24
    Nimbus

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    how much it is worth, and how much he will get, will be two very different things I suspect..

    Given that ebay seems full of people 'working' the system, I suspect it wasnt lost at all, and Philnic has been 'done'....

    Did they pay by paypal by any chance ?
     
  20. Aug 1, 2011 #20 of 24
    davesh

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    If it was a lifetime subbed machine perhaps you could consider legal action against Tivo :D

    Dave
     
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