USA carriers WILL block/blacklist phones for non-payment. Buyer beware.
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iPhone 6(S)/Plus About to meet with Iphone seller from Craigslist
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Yep, I usually get that email before I even leave the store.
UK carriers definitely will as well. I'm pretty sure EU carriers do the same. Buying a used phone privately will always have the risk of getting blacklisted either for non-payment or the previous owner reporting it stolen to their carrier.
My email address works because they always send me emails whenever I buy something and it gets sent to that email box.
Then why did you say this: "You know, I've asked the person at the Apple store to email me a receipt on every purchase and the receipts have never showed up in my email. I even have a smart box on my email app just for Apple."
Because as I said, only the receipts never show up. The inshore purchase receipts never show up. All other purchase notifications show up.
Is that any clearer now?
Not untrue. I’ve purchased 3 Verizon iPhones that were advertised as not paid off in full. I bought them anyway. Verizon iPhones are sold unlocked and work on any carrier. They’ve always worked fine and continued to do so when I sold them.
It’s a myth that companies will lock. Maybe with THEIR carrier - but I wanted to use the Verizon iPhones on GSM and they worked absolutely fine on multiple providers.
It’s a myth that companies will lock. Maybe with THEIR carrier - but I wanted to use the Verizon iPhones on GSM and they worked absolutely fine on multiple providers.
Buying a not paid in full phone is much different than someone STOPPING paying for a phone that they owe on.
I’m not trying to be insulting, but you genuinely have no idea what you were talking about. Your misinformation is going to get people into serious trouble.
Actually they're the same thing, I have no idea what reality distortion field YOU live in. Unless you believe that person A, who sells phone, will continue making the payments once person B takes posession.
https://www.stolenphonechecker.org/spc/spc/consumer
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He isn't wrong on what he said that you are replying too though. Verizon phones are unlocked, and can be used on another carrier as long as they support that band. But, if the phone that the person sold isn't paid off, or someone stops paying on it, it will get blacklisted. It won't work on the original carrier again it was bought from, but it may work on let's say AT&Ts.
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He isn't wrong on what he said that you are replying too though. Verizon phones are unlocked, and can be used on another carrier as long as they support that band. But, if the phone that the person sold isn't paid off, or someone stops paying on it, it will get blacklisted. It won't work on the original carrier again it was bought from, but it may work on let's say AT&Ts.
Be careful. My cousin, Annie, purchased a used iPhone. She didn't realize the phone had a bad oder until it was too late.
Very true. I’ve bought iPhones advertised as not fully paid off - multiple ones. Verizon sells all of their phones unlocked, paid for or not. So iPhones on V will work for ATT, T Mobile, Cricket, prepaid, anywhere. Even if not paid off.
ATT iPhones are the same. Perhaps you can’t use it *with* ATT, but any gsm network will take it, prepaid or not. I’m proof and hundreds of other Craigslist buyers are. Why do you think they are such a good deal?
The companies ding the credit, not brick the device.
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What I said is absolutely true. I myself switched from Verizon and owed over $500 on an iPhone 6. I continued to use that for phone for 3 years, on T-Mobile, Cricket, Straight Talk until I ultimately sold it. They don’t lock the devices ability on other carriers.
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I did the same thing and took my phone to multiple other carriers. Still was always able to be activated fine on other networks. Companies really don’t care. They’ll just send it to a debt collector and the phone will still work. Maybe not on the original carrier...but others.
The unfortunate thing is that your 1 incident is in direct contradiction to many other firsthand accounts in this forum.
You’re incorrectly assuming that this is true bc you’ve lucked out this far.
I bet 90% of accounts on the forum were trying to activate service on the initially abandoned carrier. I bet if they took it to another carrier and popped in a SIM, they’d happily activate it.
I guess the solution is to only buy phones from scammers on networks other than yours. Got it.
The safest option is this, don’t purchase an iPhone from somebody that owes money on it and assume everything will turn out perfectly fine. UnLess you know the individual and you understand all the details, then that situation is best to be avoided for future problems that can arise.
In Finland it's quite common for someone already short on money and just generally financially in a bad place to buy a flagship phone on installments and then promptly sell the phone off at a little less than full price for a quick buck. Because, at least when bought from carriers, the ownership of the device is immediately transferred to the individual inking the deal, and as such that person will be hounded for the money until it's payed off. The individual buying the phone off of that person is relatively safe.
Naturally this course of action is not exactly advisable for either party, but if I'm not entirely mistaken money wise they will not come after the new owner regarding the monies.
Naturally this course of action is not exactly advisable for either party, but if I'm not entirely mistaken money wise they will not come after the new owner regarding the monies.