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The last new phones that my wife and I purchased were HTC Touch Pro IIs in late 2009. Every phone since has been a used phone... most from highly rated sellers on eBay. All of them have been a fraction of the price of an equivalent new phone. They have all looked basically new. We have never had a problem with any of them.
Seems like there should be a blockchain solution to establish clear title to devices with unique serial numbers.
Daughter’s boyfriend works at Apple. ‘Nuff said.
Never buy a used phone.
Never sell a used phone.
If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
I’ve bought and sold many iPhones on eBay - never had a problem.
I bought a used cable modem on Craigslist that they wouldn’t activate as belonging to someone else or something. Well, after I left a message the guy changed his number! Hilarious since he came to the meet in his work truck. After I contacted his main office he decided to return the money.
I have a rotary dial phone that is pulled around on a little 2-wheeled cart which also has a hand-crank generator for power. Don’t have to activate anything and hateful teenage hackers in the malls give me dirty looks for the sign on the back of the cart which reads, “Hack this!”.
I had an LG phone from Sprint that stopped work a day after the warranty expired. I could make and receive calls and I could hear the other person but they couldn’t hear me. I tried to get them to fix it and we went back and forth a couple of times and they agreed, not once but twice to ship me a refurbished phone for a small fee, but never did. As I had dumped my land line and my cell was and is my only phone, while I was waiting for a replacement that never came, I bought a used phone on eBay from a seller who had a good rating and good reviews.
But when I went to activated it turned up to be lost or stolen and couldn’t be activated.
Fortunately, I contacted the eBay seller and he apologized and returned my money in full a day later.
I wouldn’t do this again. I ended up cancelling my Sprint contract (their customer service was horrible), and went with ATT and got a new Samsung phone, and yes, I ponied up and got the insurance and a one year extended warranty.
If the buyer gets a really good deal on the stolen phone, they may be guilty of theft by receiving stolen property.
I sell phones on Ebay. They are all legitimately obtained, but some have bad ESN/IMEI, and others are Google Locked or Icloud locked.
They should be listed in condition “FOR PARTS NOT WORKING”, and disclose the problem. I sold a Samsung the other day, had the words “GOOGLE LOCKED” in title, thumbnail, and description. Guy messages me the next day wanting the password!!! If I knew that, I would have gotten more money!
Read the Ebay listings carefully. If you get it, and it is not-as-described, you can send it back. Most of my listings end up sold out-of-country, I think they have workarounds there.
Sounds like a commercial for new phones.
Sounds like a commercial for new phones.
If you sleep with dogs you get fleas, I know it is just a saying and my two dogs were welcome in my bed, no wife any more so they kept me warm :)
Don’t buy stuff from people you don’t even have an address for, most likely they are about to rip you off.
I’m trying to buy a decent used way-back, landline, plug-into-the-wall phone with a speaker. With frequent long-lasting power outages where we live, it’s a good thing to have for backup. Also, when we need tech support for our cell phones, the landline is handy for speaking with Verizon while making changes to the cell.
I have an Android now and would give it up in a heartbeat and go back to a basic device if it weren’t for Google Maps GPS.