Love me some Tivo

Photo courtesy of Dansays

We have been Tivo subscribers since 2003. I wanted a Tivo for many years before we bought one. I posted about this somewhere years back, so I won’t rehash the story. In short, we picked up a 2nd Tivo at a garage sale for $10. I set it up to discover that the owner had purchased the unit in 2002 and bought a lifetime service for the unit. The translates to no monthly fees for that unit.

I got the unit up and running with the latest service upgrade, I was able to see the deleted recordings. The last deleted recordings were 75 soap operas recorded in 2004. I assumed with this information that the owner used the unit for a year or more, then stopped recording 4 years ago. I picked it up with all of the accessories. The guy I bought it from was a guy about 23 years old. He and his girlfriend were moving from their apartment. The guy said it was his father’s Tivo who had moved to dish TV leaving the Tivo unused. This was of course before I discovered that not only did the unit work, it was a lifetime unit. We paid a few hundred dollars for the Series 2 – 40 hour unit we bought in 2003. This 2002 Series 2 – 60 hour unit with a lifetime service was probably $500 or $600 in the day.

I contacted Tivo this morning to add this Tivo to my account. The Tivo rep was very nice. I told her the basic story of where I bought the 60 hour unit. She added the unit to my account. The point here is this. I qualified for a multi-unit discount. So rather than $12.95 a month for a one-year commitment on the 80 hour dual-tuner, I recommitted to a one-year Tivo service for $9.95 month. So to the dude who sold this $10 Tivo to me, thanks.