03-03-2010, 11:14 PM
Yup, that was the way to go. You paid $500 instead of $540. In my case, since I plan to go with a Premiere XL, I'll save a whopping $10 on tax (since they charge tax on the hardware, but not the service) by upgrading a monthly unit that I don't need to keep active, as opposed to getting lifetime at $199 using one of my lifetime units.