jake14mw said:
As far as the commitment goes, commitments are tied to having DirecTV service, not to a particular receiver.
Also, yes, I do realize that I can call DirecTV and ask them what the policy is. We all know the problem with that though. Many times they will give different answers.
That is what we are trying to tell you now, that is what you will get here, you will get different answers, so it would be no better than the CSRs, as, again, we cannot tell you what WILL happen, we can only say, sometimes you'll get it marked as leased and sometimes you won't, it's roulette, we aren't trying to play games with you, or be dicks.
jake14mw said:
I figured that someone who reads this board would have had experience with this. If two people posted that they have done this recently, then I would feel confident in playing CSR roulette in getting it done.
You would be correct, in which case the Search function would be far more efficient since, by your own guessing, this question has been asked and replied to 100 times over, the fact is, nothing we, or even the search results say will have any effect on CSR roulette whatsoever, it will only increase data points, which will be statistically meaningless, since the CSRs are too inconsistent, therefore, the only meaningful data you may get, is something you already know, if you bought it, and they make it leased, you have to call them and bitch until they put it as owned, this may or may not work (it would likely depend on your account standing and heart level, neither of which we are privy to), see, no help there. :\
jake14mw said:
This is no different than many other questions asked here like:
Do I have to buy a new access card for a used receiver?
Do I have to have a phone line attached to my receiver?
This is different, as we know the criteria for those 2 issues, it is black or white, while for this one, we do not, only D* does, there is too much inconsistency wrt the lease/own question, but right now I am just wondering what you are insinuating here, perhaps that we just don't want to help you? do you think that we all got together and decided to snub you?