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HELP for new Now TV BOX/Stick that wont Activate with your current Now TV account.

This is to help YOU when you cannot activate a new Now TV BOX (eg 4k voice activated) or Stick against a current Now TV account. Basically when the Box or Stick asks you to enter the 6 digit code shown on the the screen eg 4jc567 at this Address www.NowTV.com/TV. Then every time you do whether from a phone, tablet or PC you get get WHOOPS SOMETHING WENT WRONG and your stuck with a box or stick to use as a paper weight.

I strongly suggest you don't waste anytime like I did, 6 days talking to online help and waiting for technical to contact me with every excuse under the sun, try logging in from a different PC, phone, tablet resetting the box 25 times etc etc. Then telling me to return a perfectly working box to the supplier. The problem appears to be at their end; poor software affecting a very large number of accounts. In order to get your box to activate for the first time you will have to set it up with a totally new account new payment details etc. Then once the box is working change to your original account and cancel the new one. It sounds long winded; but its the only way to avoid weeks of disappointing support. I had to loose the free passes that came with the new TV Box they did not activate but it is now working with my original account. I hope this helps someone not to waste all the time I did, in hoping that, someone ,anyone at Now TV could solve the issue for me. They could and did not.

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Simon-J
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hi @Anonymous User ,

 

We are aware of an issue for some customers when activating a new NOW TV Stick. 

 

As you might see from other threads ( eg: https://community.nowtv.com/t5/Everything-Sports/Sport-on-NOW-TV-this-July/m-p/534737#M2328) we've asked that people contact us via live chat, where the agent will troubleshoot the issue and escalate the issue to be fixed.

 

We're sorry if customer services took extra time troubleshooting - we do ask them to troubleshoot first before escalating as a rule as the error is not always related to the same issue.

 

I'd strongly advise against making another account, just because duplicate accounts can be a real issue especially if customers have an active subscription on the two accounts.

 

Thanks

 

Simon

Community Manager