Old sky plus box and satellite dish

lonestarfan

Am I able to sell my old sky plus box and old satellite dish? I had a new sky hd box installed about 4 months ago and the engineer put up a new satellite dish. Don't know why as it was fine but he said its part of the deal. I'm now left with the old ones and wasn't sure if anyone could use them if I sold them, how much should I ask for them and why would anyone buy them anyway?
Thanks a lot.

spike7451

Yup,you can sell them on E-Bay.You'd get about £20 for the box & remote and around a tenner for the dish,if you sell the Quad LNB separatly,you'd get another tenner for that.
People would buy the box as sometimes they need a replacement & don't want to pay Sky £65 for a service call,as for the dish,they may want one for a caravan.

davemurgatroyd

spike7451 wrote: »

Yup,you can sell them on E-Bay.You'd get about £20 for the box & remote and around a tenner for the dish,if you sell the Quad LNB separatly,you'd get another tenner for that.

Your prices are way to high £10 to £15 for the Sky box depending on which model, £10 max for dish and lnb - new ones are around £20 inc cable and new lnbs on their own are on sale for £6.

lonestarfan

Thanks for the reply
What's a Quad LNB?

Moneymaker

He means "quad-output" LNB. Google it!
It's the signal collector at the end of the dish arm. It has (you probably guessed) four output connectors.

spike7451

davemurgatroyd wrote: »

Your prices are way to high £10 to £15 for the Sky box depending on which model, £10 max for dish and lnb - new ones are around £20 inc cable and new lnbs on their own are on sale for £6.

I was just going on what I'd seen on Evil bay in the past.Just checked & you're right,the prices are a lot lower now.

LNB is the boxey thing you see on the end of the dish arm that the cables connect into.

lonestarfan

Saver0811 wrote: »

It's worth keeping the older SKY box as backup, I have mine working in the bedroom.

I'd be interested in doing that. How would I achieve that? I'd need a tv obviously which I haven't got but can get so how do I connect everything? Thanks a lot.

lonestarfan

Ah I see, so I'd have to pay sky for multi room. Not sure how much that is and if it's worth it. I'll make enquiries thanks.

lonestarfan

I really would like to pursue this idea of sky plus in my bedroom! I have a sky dish as you know. It's on the wall outside my bedroom so how do I get a feed from it and who does that kind of thing for me as I'm not fit and able. It'll involve a hole drilled in the wall I guess like when they installed downstairs and some type of lead to extend the feed across the bedroom to the box? Do non sky engineers do this type of thing or is it a find a friend jobby which I haven't got.

spike7451

lonestarfan wrote: »

I really would like to pursue this idea of sky plus in my bedroom! I have a sky dish as you know. It's on the wall outside my bedroom so how do I get a feed from it and who does that kind of thing for me as I'm not fit and able. It'll involve a hole drilled in the wall I guess like when they installed downstairs and some type of lead to extend the feed across the bedroom to the box? Do non sky engineers do this type of thing or is it a find a friend jobby which I haven't got.

Any competant DIY'er can do it,all you really need is a roll of CT-100 (or equivelent) cable & 2 'F' connectors.
A lot of Sparks will do it as will aerial fitters but they'll charge around £50 ish,if you have a neigbour who's any good at DIY,ask him if he'd do it & bung him £20-30 for doing it.You'll need it hooking up to the phoneline if you want to subscribe to Sky tho,which is usually £10.50 but are offering it for £2.50 at the mo.

Moneymaker

CT100 hasn't been manufactured since 2005. No point in suggesting it. Modern replacement is Webro WF100 or Triax TX100. (There are cheaper makes but I haven't tried them. Cheaper means less copper, which is usually bad news.)