We have gotten a couple of dishes free from people who were moving. DirectTv doesn't move the dishes so all you have to do is just take them down from the house's. In our area, we have an electronic store that sell just the receivers for under $100 buck (I think the last one we got was just $79 and it was much littler that the standard unit. Then all we did was call to activate the card. Remember tho that we are already DT customer so all they did was activate the receiver and added the $6 to our account for the additional unit.