Buying used FIOS hardware from Ebay

[PhoneGate]

I was just told by your Verizon chat agent that if I buy a used Verizon tuner from ebay, you will activate it on my account and I would not have to pay a monthly hardware rental fee to use it. Is this correct?

I saved the chat session where he says that since my experience is that each person you talk to at Verizon to gives a totally different answer.

[SinCara]

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@PhoneGate wrote:

I was just told by your Verizon chat agent that if I buy a used Verizon tuner from ebay, you will activate it on my account and I would not have to pay a monthly hardware rental fee to use it. Is this correct?

I saved the chat session where he says that since my experience is that each person you talk to at Verizon to gives a totally different answer.

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I'm not sure about tuners, but Verizon never used to acitvate equipment such as DVR's/STB's purchased on ebay at all. I do know some who have been able to, but a monthly fee still applied.

I don't know if the rules changed since I last knew about them.

I also can't say for sure about just tuners. Hopefully someone else on here can confirm if you'll still get charged a monthly fee or not.

[Telcoguru]

Verizon only leases STBs if you bought a STB from Ebay I do not think they would activate it and if they did I;m sure they would charge you a monthly fee and want the STB back when you cancel service. I would not take the chance.

[CRobGauth]

Any Verizon STBs you buy off eBay they consider stolen.

Verizon never sells them to anyone.

So the only way you can have one is if it was never returned.

I know some people claim to ahve gotten them when a tenant moves out for example.
They still belong to Verizon.