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I have a normal virgin media box for my tv. I saw a v+ box for sale and wondered how this would work in another room. Does this box work like a normal box or is it just for recording stuff??

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No it will not as the box has to be supplied by VM. The person who is selling the box is selling property that is not theirs to sell as all equipment is owned by VM.

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It will not work as VM will not reconnect any box that has not be issued by them on your account.That box can be classified as stolen property.

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Contrary to what VM staff on here have told you, if you buy it VM will activate it on your account, it's a fact.

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No its not. You will not get it connected

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Yes it will be connected, as will VMNG300's.

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You don't think Virgin keep records of when equipment is sent out to customers.

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They don't...

Also it's worth noting that by buying a box, you could well be handling stolen goods.

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You are incorrect and just trolling as is the norm for you. If the op does as you say he will waste his money, but that's what you are hoping will happen isn't it.

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I will remind everyone here that VM staff are more likely to have current info on what VM policy is so I suggest that following their advice will be in your own best interests in this situation..

Following other advice will leave you out of pocket..Only boxes supplied by VM directly will be activated.

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You have shown your true colours and are giving mis-information. Time, perhaps, for the mods to take action to remove you from this forum?

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Its sad when someone goes to those extremes just to try and get one over.

Imagine if the op had done what he said, he would not be happy when he found out he had wasted money because of false information given to him by someone who is possibly a Sky employee :shocked:

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No, that would be you being a liar not a fact.
To the OP, please for your sake ignore the poster I've quoted.

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If we removed people from the forum for lying then a lot of people would be gone en masse.

Whilst it is not against the forum's T&Cs to deliberately post untruths, we will correct people who we believe are intentionally posting misleading information.

The team is aware of this issue so please now keep the matter on-topic.

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Even if Virgin would connect a box purchased from a third party, their own model means you never own the box and your monthly sub includes rental. Why would you buy a box you'll never own and pay a rental charge on top? Point being, even if it was legal I still don't understand why you'd bother.

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Because there are people in this world who have more money then sense.

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I would phone VM and ask them. They will say yes or no. They might want to know where you're buying it from, but when you see the amount of VM kit on ebay I doubt they would care.

This thread made me smile - reminded me of the Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch poking fun at That's Life where they would ring the electricity board to complain about anything. Anyway that shows how old I am and how my mind works!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2QZprRgxDc

Cheers

Grim

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VM will NOT add equipment purchased off eBay to your account. Selling VM equipment on easy is also illegal and it is monitored I believe.

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I know someone who bought a VMNG300 off eBay and VM activated it. So it has happened.

I believe they even told VM after trying to get one they would source their own.These days they're removed from eBay but you still see the odd few in cash converters. Just like this site will tell ya VMNG300 are all gone or a CS rep could be sacked for adding one. VM would rather keep the customer so do add customer sourced CPE on occasion .

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Thats not true at all.

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This would not happen, you are telling lies!

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I had My Sisters, Brother, Cousin, Uncle And Auntie tell me that they were all related:D:D:D

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It amazes me the lengths some will go to in there endeavor to tell lies, i hope you are not doing this for your assumed employer

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Will benMCR 100% state this has never happened? Because if he does he is telling a porkie pie, not me I'm afraid , although I don't know of a TiVo being activated this way I know for a FACT a VMNG300 modem has.

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I take it you have never worked in a customer advisor role (in charge of a team) as you never know what is going on in the other teams. So how would Ben know what is going on 100% throughout the other teams and also the other call centres (unless he was monitering all the calls)?

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The only way you could "know for a fact" is if you did it yourself in order to get the service without paying and the only time you could have done it was prior to VM BB security being beefed up as VM will not activate any hardware that they have not supplied directly to the customer.

Any one telling you that they are currently connected by any VM set top box or VM BB hardware obtained from anywhere but VM is winding you up and you are being as gullible as you think we are to believe you.

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This thread seems to becoming the "People of Cable Forum Unite"

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Very true. Most members on CF try to help people rather than let them waste money on equipment that will never work. Seems like a normal reaction from the ever helpful CF regulars to me. :)

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I understood what I meant, but maybe I didn't make it as clear as I could of. I meant that VM might ask where the box was being bought from, but as VM don't seem to do much about the stuff for sale on ebay they probably wouldn't ask or be bothered that someone was selling equipment that belongs to VM (however, VM may be doing more than I realise to stop this kind of thing and I apologise if that's the case).

I didn't mean to imply that equipment sourced from 'other' suppliers would work - in fact I thought my advice about contacting VM to ask was sensible advice.

The comment about and link to Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch was a lighthearted way of asking if this forum was the correct place to ask such a question.

Anyway, I hope this clears up any confusion.

Cheers

Grim

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Do not worry Grim us Yorkshire folk always get mis-understood:erm:

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I don't have an issue with having to clarify my comments. I do find it upsetting when I get negative reputation without any attempt to find out if my post has been misconstrued by those who are very quick on the 'scales of reputation'.

Cheers

Grim

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That is just wrong mate:(

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You're wrong, it was done by a paying customer with a super hub bought a VMNG300 an got it activated on their account. Call me all the names you want do the bad rep thing , write to your MP, but it has been done.

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So this is a third party that has told you that this has happened? Were you there at the time?

We already have had one poster complaining about this and can it stop and can people please try and act grown up?

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