5xxx new unactivated help

[nightowlgo]

i' m a newie
both to this forum and replay tv.
i found 2 new unactivated replays in my storage i forgot i got last year. they were a gift and was told free activation. I don't know how to tell if that is true. I did call replay when i got them but did not activate. (I moved out of town and they went in storage)
this may sound like a dumb question

but if i call and they don't give me free activation how do i prove it is true (they were gift...card said they came with included activation)
If they say i have to pay....why pay 250-500 to activate if they are not going to be in business for replaytv stand alone not on pc's?
no...never had replay or tivo...just a couple of vcr's

advice..suggestions....help would really be appricated.

[cliffcor]

Replay will be around. You would be able to activate the first at normal price but would be able to activate the second with a discounted rate.

[blacknoi]

[QUOTE=cliffcor]Replay will be around. You would be able to activate the first at normal price but would be able to activate the second with a discounted rate.[/QUOTE]


Yea, I have a 5040 in "storage" for spare parts, but I'm thinking of getting it out and putting it on a monthly plan. I'd love to swap my lifetime from my 5516 to my 5040 (CA, IVS etc) but those days seem to be over from what I've been reading here over the past 6 months or so.

[corgi1]

How did you determine that they do not have lifetime activation? Did you hook them up and let them net connect via ethernet or phone line? If they are lifetime activiated it may not show until after a net connect.

Can you contact the person that gave them to you and ask how they know they have lifetime activation? If the person paid for the activation, then there should be a record or reciept that could prove so. It is possible that the person may have purchased them during the "pricing fiasco" a couple years ago where Replay changed their pricing strategy from including lifetime to selling the units without activation at a lower price in order to compete with Tivo. But much of existing inventory on store shelves actually had lifetime activation once connected even though they were sold without activation.

[nded]

The OP hasn't even tried them yet. Sort of a worst case scenario what if kind of thread.

The best suggestion we can give at this time is "Plug them in and try them". No sense pondering options till they are actually needed.....