Unfortunately, its not hard to reseal with a heat gun. I'm sure people do it with other products. That's why you hear people complain that amazon products they receive are sealed but obviously used.
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Sealed Original iPhone Sells for Over $63,000 at Auction
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I wonder how much an Apple Polishing Cloth will be worth 15 years from today. Imagine if Apple decides to discontinue it.
The incident with a youtuber and faked box of pokemon cards is what has put me off the idea of 'factory sealed' collectors items. From what I remember the youtuber bought what he thought was a rare box of pokemon cards, meant to be factory sealed and planned to do a revel on his youtube channel but when he opened the factory sealed box it contained other cards that should never have been in the box. He had been scammed. Turns out someone found a pokemon retail box, filled it with individual packs of pokemon cards so it would retain it's proper weight and then used a factory sealer to seal the box up to make it look like it was 'factory fresh'.
Even with this iphone auction I would still be skeptical that there is an original iphone in there. Just because someone tells you a story does not mean that story is true.
Even with this iphone auction I would still be skeptical that there is an original iphone in there. Just because someone tells you a story does not mean that story is true.
I never bothered using an iPhone until they came to Verizon.
AT&T was, and always will be pure ass in my hometown. I feel this person’s pain.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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Also, you can’t run it on a 2G or 3G cellular networks either. So basically ur stuck with Wi-Fi.
Yes. everythingapplepro purchased a a supposedly new never opened iPhone on ebay and found out it was a scam by x-raying the contents..
No - the plastic wrap is not easy to re-apply in the same method/materials as was used by Apple factories when the iPhone was launched.
People literally authenticate the plastic wrap on sealed items like this.
You also need an active AT&T 2G Network just to activate the device....else it will never show the home screen. Seems like this is only good in a glass display in a museum.
A lot of money, yes, but people like origin stories.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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I wish new iPhones would come in a plastic wrap sealed. I hate the paper tabs. It looks tacky in my opinion.
It's also pretty useless on wifi, since the browser cannot work with any sites now, apps cannot be downloaded because they require MUCH MUCH newer OS as minimum.
It's basically an obsolete paper weight.
For something at this price there should be an x-ray and certificate done by a third-party.
Of all the things that don’t matter in the world, this doesn’t matter the most.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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Should worth more if it contains a sales receipt. 🧾
All it would take is to get a nonfunctional phone and carefully repackage. Xray would pass flying colors. Heck, certain groups/people/consortiums would counterfeit the packaging as closely as possible and wrapping as well if it was worth their while. May not fool a very dedicated connoisseur or researcher but for most people it would. Same as how many fake "antique" coins and stamps fly out of certain locations and end up being resold as originals to unsuspecting people.
Did you have to pay $599 and AT&T line rental contract to get an original iPhone, or was that only in the UK?
And you think there's a lot of people who remember the exact way the boxes were wrapped? If it's close they fool people who are willing to buy something like this. As I stated, everythingapplepro got scammed in the same way and an x-ray was how he found out that the contents weren't as stated in the listing. He posted a video on his YouTube channel a couple of years ago when it happened
I agree, in his case the accessories were not coiled/placed/packaged properly and you could tell
Dammit, still got one of these somewhere. If only I'd kept it sealed!!