Selling a Mini on Ebay

Usually just wait for the auction to be won, get their info and then call tivo. They can start the process, and then the new owner calls to finish it off.

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Forget if it was an email adr or phone number. Can't hurt to ask for both. Whatever one's they have associated with their tivo account.

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Why wouldn't you just sell/offer it here!!! Eliminate the eBay fees and nonsense! An eBay sale of anything can get quite involved. It's often NOT a pleasant experience for a seller.

 

From my experience, people here aren't willing to pay as much as what we'd get on ebay. At least from past experience. Not to mention more and more here are becoming disenchanted with tivo, see the writing on the cable card wall and know the days are numbered, thus less willing to pay what can be gotten on ebay.

And having sold quite a bit of tivo gear on eBay, I haven't ran into one single issue. People buying Tivo's typically aren't the scammer type. They're a specific audience.

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You can call TiVo (before it's sold) and tell them it's changing hands and they will write up a ticket and give you a reference number. Simply pass the reference number to the new own and have them call TiVo when they install it.

 

Keeping information about whether a device had all-in service on it requires them to keep the records somewhere. So they keep the information with the original owner until a transfer of ownership is done.

In your case, as noted by others, you are going to be telling TiVo that you are selling the device. You can start the transfer of ownership process, getting a ticket started for that to happen, then when you complete the sale you provide the ticket number to the buyer. You can also, hopefully, get the buyer's name and e-mail address, also their phone number if possible, and give that information to TiVo so they would only need to confirm with the buyer that information when they call to complete the transfer.

It isn't that painful. A little time consuming, but not really that bad. Just remember "transfer of ownership" and from there it goes smoothly.

 

I've sold a couple of Minis before and I never notified Tivo in advance nor did I have to contact them after the sale. As long as the new buyer has the TSN, Tivo will do the transfer.

 

how much?

 

He said he'd sell it for $50 shipped.

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Sorry.. totally zoned out.. I skimmed the thread, didn't see that..

 

ok, just re-skimmed the thread and this part isn't answered either AFAIK..

which exact mini is it? Can I do skip mode and QuickPlay (including the backdoor to increase the speed) through it? (just edited one part -- actually I currently can do quick mode when streaming shows FROM P4.. so I would hope I could with mini -> P4 too)

My weird use case is to hopefully have basically 'roamio pro' UI on both TVs when I add a living room TV (and yeah I know I've been saying this for a while). Currently my two in use Tivos are stacked, and I 'drive' the P4 via streaming from the Roamio (or with the iOS app for some other things). So I don't want to have to 'use' the P4 without quick mode etc as the main UI on one TV.

that's worth buying a used mini for.

 

That's why you call tivo beforehand and start the process to release it. Then wipe it before you pack it up.

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If you had them set up on there. But you can always reset your password and have all devices logged out so they have to sign back in.

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