2nd STB - can these be purchased outright?

[spike7451]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

With my original digiboxes still going strong after five years and never needing an engineer visit I will rely on the £65 call out and repair or replace (usually replace I am told but few people seem to have problems).

That Sky repair plan is a b**** waste of time & money!!!Took me 18 b***** months,4 b***** missed visits,8 b***** tech calls & a lot of money wasted for nothing!In the end,i got a second Sky box from a friend to resolve it! MYSELF!!!!!!
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[jonifen]

Originally Posted by ian@huth

I have had calls on a number of occasions from a company who appeared to claim that they were part of Sky and offering extended warranties on my Sky+ box.

I received a letter aimed at the same thing. As I dont actually HAVE Sky, I think it ended up in the bin... it may be in a drawer somewhere though so I can mail it off to the Mailing Preference Service to complain and get the offenders fined :p

Originally Posted by Chris T

To answer your question ... no you can't. NTL won't allow you to connect any equipment to their network that they don't own.

What you say is true but take a look at Ebay were did all these NTL boxes come
from? they don't seem tobe worried about these boxes going missing do they!

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by PK1916

What you say is true but take a look at Ebay were did all these NTL boxes come
from? they don't seem tobe worried about these boxes going missing do they!

maybe they are , maybe they are not , one thing i do know is if you get caught with one then you could be done for handling stolen goods

[sweaty]

On EBAys terms and conditions it lists NTL and Telewest boxes as prohibited items, yet they are still for sale!

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by sweaty

On EBAys terms and conditions it lists NTL and Telewest boxes as prohibited items, yet they are still for sale!

Yep, and if and when eBay find an auction that is selling these boxes, they do remove it.

The problem is that so many items are auctioned on eBay that is actually almost impossible for them to catch all those that are against the T&Cs (I suspect a lot are caught by automatic systems, but these are not perfect so will miss a few).