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Selling a DirecTV Receiver

I want to sell a DirecTV receiver but DirecTV told me that I can't sell it with the access card and that the buyer would have to buy a new access card. Has anyone sold a receiver before and worked around this issue. This sounds ridiculous to me and would make the idea of buying a used receiver a bad one especially with new ones selling for next to nothing.
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lindeman507bf
21 posts
 
Sell the whole thing on e-bay (including H card) for $250 350, or ba a sucker.
briweve
123 posts
 
The hacking of H cards, is easy, even if they put an ECM out to zap your BIN #, within a hour a new Bin 1 is posted to the internet and you just go download it, and open the e3 hole and unloop the card and your back up in 20min.
jim
418 posts
 
I believe that DirecTV did a massive zap that totally castrated H cards. When is the last time that you guys checked this out? This happened recently, i.e. within the last month or so.
kthomas
911 posts
 
A close friend bought one from another friend and called DirecTV to get it entitled. DirecTV wanted $80 as a "transfer fee" for the access card. Remarkably, they backed off when my friend mentioned that the local digital cable company was offering to buy out his satellite TV setup as an incentive to switch, so maybe DirecTV shouldn't be boneheaded. I don't know their motivation - quite possibly to encourage turning back in the H cards - but it's not particularly accomodating.
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