Bypassing lease fee?

[jtonkin]

Anyone notice that you can buy receivers for the same price as leasing?
Pay $99 plus $5 lease fee or buy one from Newegg.com for the same price. But when you buy a receiver do you still have to pay the additional receiver fee?

[planetes]

Directv switched to a leasing system a few months back (I believe in april) and they will charge you the fee whenever you activate the box regardless of how you got it. Anyone who owned a box prior to this date is grandfathered in though as long as it was already activated.

I don't know of any exceptions to this.

[llurkin]

When you activate a receiver, it is incumbent on you to notify the CSR that the unit is an owned receiver, not a lease.

If it is a second receiver on your subscription, the $4.99 charge is NOT a lease payment, but rather is a mirror charge.