TiVo, eBay and the rest

I recently purchased a TiVo from eBay, just a basic one, no subscription or mods done to it, was going to do most things myself. I still haven't recieved the tivo, not the fault of the seller, royal mail appear to have 'lost' it. Anyway, i got the tivo for like £45 plus p&p.

The seller is going to refund me the money next week, problem is I am now wary of buying another TiVo off eBay, I have heard that people can have problems with TiVos that are sold with Lifetime subscriptions, (ie. people have cloned the subscription info to get more for the tivo, when in fact it doesnt have a lifetime sub)

I am not bothered about life time sub at the moment, I will probably be able to afford to pay it within the next 3-4 months anyway.

I really want a TiVo again!!! I already have a turbonet card ready to install, along with a 250gb hard drive ready prepped for installation, all I need now is the TiVo. I reckon I have around £65 to spend including postage. More if I manage to sell my PSP, lol then I would wanna get a cachecard definately.

This will be the 3rd TiVo I have owned, when will I learn, I had to selll the previous 2, st one cos my dad insisted on getting sky plus (aagggh satan!!!) and the 2nd because I am a poor student and went off to Uni (wish i had just left it sitting in a cupbaord).

Anyway if anyone can help with my query (if you can find it in all this blab)

Cheers
Si

 

Well the first tivo i got from Comet when I still worked there, it was an Ex-demo model, that had actually never been demoed lol, and i got it for like £70, cos nobody knew what it was or anything lol

The second i got off ebay, already had a 160gb drive in, i bought a cachecard and installed it,, but i drove all the way to luton to pick it up from manchester as I didnt trust royal mail then, and this proves i was right lol.

I will buy from ebay,b ut jst thought i wud try here for "advice" lol

Cheers

 

tivoland only sell pre-upgraded tivos and i didnt think tivo heaven sold them?


Cheers

 

dont get me wrong, i am a season ebayer, i have bought tons of stuff from ebay, this is the only purchase ive ever had problems with, i had just read some stuffabout people faking lifetime subs tog et more money, but i suppose if ur careful and dont over spend then its fine

will see what i can get, and I will go and pick it up this time rather than trustin royal snail

 

nice, will have to keep my eye out, hope i can get a bargain like that

 

i managed to get hold of a tivo finally, bought it from the guy on DVDforums £55, unsubbed.

I put my turbonet card in.

I also put in the 250gb hard drive that I bought off ebay (was brand new and had been 'set up' for use), it got as far as the final step of guided setup and then rebooted to GSOD, put the old drive back in and its fine, so its obviously the drive, was wondering if the guy has mistakenly put the 2.5.5a software on the drive.

Anyway I have Hooch from tivoheaven so I am going to try that on the drive to see if that helps, then if not, I am gonna get my money back on the drive.