Can
SADOUN or anyone here explain this new DirecTV lease thing?
I've been a DirecTV subscriber, but one of my receivers died, and it seems that you can no longer "BUY" a DirecTV receiver, you can only "LEASE" it. The bad thing about that, is that apparently if you ever cancel your subscription, or if the receiver breaks, you apparently have to return it to them (which I assume will involve costly shipping to them, even if it was purchased locally). From what I understand, even a unit that was bought before this program started can't be activated without turning it over to
DTV so that they can lease it back to you ????? I'm not sure how this can be??
I looked at the
DIRECTV® H20 HDTV at the Sadoun site, and there seems to be no mention of a lease being involved, so I'd assume that I was actually purchasing the equipment, however according to some things I've read, it doesn't matter if you purchased the equipment, you can't use it unless you give it back to DirecTV to lease to you????
Can anyone shed light on this? How does it work, particularly with respect to a unit purchased used and or the units for sale at Sadoun which make no mention of a lease?
Thanks.