Concern about buying a receiver

[ScottS]

Newbee question/concern. I see 811 receivers for sale here and on Ebay with comments like "no balance due" on them. What exactly does that mean and how does the seller know there's no balance due? If I bought a receiver advertised like this and there really was a balance due on it, what would happen when I tried to use it?

Thanks,
Scott

 

[Neutron]

Welcome to Satelliteguys!!

First off you can contact the seller and obtain the card number and ask DISH if it really indeed does not have a balance on it.

Most of them will be legit though. If you did buy a receiver where the seller says no balance and it does have a balance on it you can always dispute it and if you pay with paypal you can dispute it with them as well.

 

[lapplegate]

If I bought a receiver advertised like this and there really was a balance due on it, what would happen when I tried to use it?

Thanks,
Scott

You would have to pay the balance before Dish would activate the receiver. The "balance" could be anything from not paying the monthly bill to not having paid for a PPV.

As posted above you do have some options, but you will not be using the receiver until it is settled (unless you pay the balance).

 

[cdru]

It's also highly recommended to get the R00 and S00 from the seller to verify that the receiver is not leased. Leased receivers won't be activated period on a different account.

 

[ScottS]

Thanks for the help. I'm guessing that on a new subscription the "free" equipment is really leased until the one year agreement is up and then you own it.

I was looking into buying a receiver in order to avoid a year contract. Maybe I'm overly concerned, but I wonder how folks can come up with "brand new" receivers with no balance on them?

A neighbor of mine said he upgraded a few months ago and a couple of days after the installers left, two receivers showed up from Dish Network. Obviously something got mixed up and now he has four receivers. He says that his bill only shows two receivers (because he never activated the other two??). From what CDRU says, I'm assuming that these receivers are probably assigned to him as leases but will not be billed until he starts using them. And if that's true, he doesn't own them until he's paid a years service on them. Either way, it sounds like he shouldn't be selling them.

I guess the best thing to do is check with Dish on the numbers before I buy one.

 

[OoTLink]

DHA is a continuous lease: When your year is up, your receivers are still under the lease -- at least that's how it applies to the non-contract DHA...

correct me if I'm wrong

Shoot in DHA if you cancel even a year or two out they still try to get your LNBs back and they dun send nobody to do that unless you ask lol.