TiVo : TiVO Cost

[chunkymonkey]

I'm looking at getting a TiVo 500GB box, saw this on the VM website . . .

Existing customers: Irrespective of the number of TV boxes you already have, for every new sale, if you take a 500GB TiVo box as your first box, the activation fee will be waived; if you take a 1TB TiVo box as your first box, we will reduce the activation fee to £49.95.

I already have a VHD and V+ box. Does this mean I will be able to swap the V+ for a TiVo 500 at no install/activation cost?

[johnathome]

Good question and i eagerly await the answer.

As per usual VM it's about as clear as mud!

Link please BTW?

[Superblade7]

Here you go - http://my.virginmedia.com/my-offers/index (click on the TiVo tab)

Free 'activation fee' for the 500GB TiVo box but you'll probably have to pay £49.95 for installation although you could always try and barter.

Alternatively, dependant on how much you currently pay for your services, you could be better off switching to the Premiere Collection which includes TiVo (details here - https://my.virginmedia.com/customer-...llections.html) for £62.99 a month.

Whichever way you go, TiVo is definitely a good service so hope you enjoy it if you go for it.

[johnathome]

Thanks, your first link says

And there's free 500GB TiVo box activation worth £49 (installation costs £49.95)

OP is this the page you saw?

---------- Post added at 20:01 ---------- Previous post was at 19:57 ----------

Found it it's the small print right down the bottom of here

http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...xes/index.html

[chunkymonkey]

An update on this . . .

I went from having 30MB BB, VHD, V+ and Talk Weekends for £69.00 to . . .
60MB BB, TiVo, VHD and Talk Weekends for £62.99 - which is essentially the Premier Collection.

I didn't get the installation fee waived but got it reduced to £15.00 - overall quite happy.