Virgin box. Self upgrade

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There are many Virgin boxes available on eBay. What's stopping you buy one o replace my crappy Vbox HD pvr that doesn't record?

I know that the boxes are officially virgins but I guess they never collect them ?
 
Not sure how correct the person my father spoke to but his box died, bought one off eBay and they wouldn't activate it for him. Was an identical box. He was out of contract anyhow so left for sky but still... Might mean that you can't unless he happened upon an unhelpful virgin employee.
 
I'm pretty sure if yours has a fault you can get a replacement sent out!

Ive always wondered about those boxes for sale on certain websites but cant see how people are able to sell them as they are still property of the providers!
 
Virgin replace it, only problem is they insist on sending an engineer to replace it.

It's ok if he has a brain, if not he could end up kicking up a fuss over nowt, my old plasma has vga and component so I use hd fury to hook it up and the plonker thought it was an illegal device
 
Tell them you're leaving to go with Sky and they will install it for free :p

But as said, they will never activate a second hand/third party box so you're just throwing money away and, technically at least, handling stolen goods.
 
All equipment on Virgin's network has to be activated on your account, via MAC address I believe. You're throwing money away buying the equipment on eBay :).

i think its a lot more complicated than the mac address now.

people used to clone them to get free tv packages/internet
 
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