thats a great deal.
I bought a sealed 16GB 5s on craigslist for $300. Went into ATT store to get a sim, guy ran the IMEI, and told me it was reported stolen...
I went home and popped in my wife's sim, and it worked.
Not sure what is going on. I am afraid ATT will find out the shut down my account.
Not sure how they were able to steal a sealed iphone...
You can mark a device as stolen, e.g. either with the IEMI or using the SIM (phone number) on the phone. Not sure why another SIM would work as all carriers should use the same database.
That's what troubles me too. I ran the IMEI thru SWAPPA, and it says it is clean, but I ran it thru another site, it says it is blacklisted by "US Blacklist blah blah blah".
Can I ask what carrier your wife is with? I know AT&T and Verizon share databases not 100% certain about the rest.