$25 Tivo

angelaira

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I got a 40 hour Tivo today from Best Buy. I don't know if it is possible to get the same deal, but here is how I did it:
I bought an open box Tivo for $140
They gave me a $25 gift card (some special offer going on this week)
They also gave me a $100 rebate to mail in
The total, providing they actually honor the rebate on the open box Tivo came to about $25 by the time taxes were included.
Good luck!
 

SimMike2

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There should be no problem honoring the open box part of the rebate, provided you still have the UPC stuff on the box.
 

oogabooga

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put YMMV in the title, as not every bestbuy will have an open box tivo, and not everyone might get the GC , but sounds like a sweet deal IMO. Now pay the 300 for lifetime subscription ;)
 

SemperFi

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Nice deal.

Although I am not going to complain about the deal I got a couple of weeks ago at CC. $99-$50 mir

I just got the thing hacked over the weekend. I tried to put a 120 and a 160 gig drive in it but both turned out to be bad. So I bought a 60Gig at staples. Now if I can just find a usb lan adapter. Every store has wireless usb but they seem to have quit stocking wired at the B&M stores.
 

yougotdeals

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Originally posted by: SemperFi
Nice deal.

Although I am not going to complain about the deal I got a couple of weeks ago at CC. $99-$50 mir

I just got the thing hacked over the weekend. I tried to put a 120 and a 160 gig drive in it but both turned out to be bad. So I bought a 60Gig at staples. Now if I can just find a usb lan adapter. Every store has wireless usb but they seem to have quit stocking wired at the B&M stores.

What brand were the hard drives that were bad?

I
 

steelio

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TiVo will honor your rebate they are very easy to deal with on the rebate.
I bought a refurbished Toshiba DVD with Tivo on ebay for $150 and sent in my paypal reciept with the upc code and my rebate has been approved and is waiting to be mail as we speak. $50 for a PS dvd player that has tivo function. I would not recommend this unit as your 1st or only tivo, but it works great as a transfer spot from my other tivo and I needed a DVD player ;)
I had a problem with it but email the info they needed and they got it back on track.

I would suggest going to www.tivo.com and pre-qualify your rebate. They will give you a sheet to print out. Basically all you info will be put in for them for a fast turnaround on your rebate.