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Someone sold me a stolen Sprint iPhone

hockeyman94 said:
Here is What you could do. If there is anything wrong with the phone at all like camera blurry or bad battery life or like a bad pixel (you can check by saving a black picture on your phone turing the brightness up all the way and go to that black picture) you can trade it in and they will give you another iPhone 5 from white box and it will have a clean esn.
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And Apple isn't going to noticed that it is not activated?
There is no way that this would ever work.
 
hockeyman94 said:
Here is What you could do. If there is anything wrong with the phone at all like camera blurry or bad battery life or like a bad pixel (you can check by saving a black picture on your phone turing the brightness up all the way and go to that black picture) you can trade it in and they will give you another iPhone 5 from white box and it will have a clean esn.
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Well, this is near the top as one of the dumbest suggestions ever made on this forum.
 
darster said:
Well, this is near the top as one of the dumbest suggestions ever made on this forum.
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Oh Yeah? You have a better Suggestion? you can take the screen off unplug the connectors and put it back together and say the screen went black and cant get it to turn on worked for me... Just when you go to apple make sure there isn't a sim in the sim tray

And Apple isn't going to noticed that it is not activated?
There is no way that this would ever work.
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He never said that it wasn't activated so it probably already is activated.
 
hockeyman94 said:
Here is What you could do. If there is anything wrong with the phone at all like camera blurry or bad battery life or like a bad pixel (you can check by saving a black picture on your phone turing the brightness up all the way and go to that black picture) you can trade it in and they will give you another iPhone 5 from white box and it will have a clean esn.
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hockeyman94 said:
Oh Yeah? You have a better Suggestion? you can take the screen off unplug the connectors and put it back together and say the screen went black and cant get it to turn on worked for me... Just when you go to apple make sure there isn't a sim in the sim tray
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What's wrong with you in suggesting to commit fraud and think nothing of it?
 
hockeyman94 said:
He never said that it wasn't activated so it probably already is activated.
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Obviously it's not activated... Otherwise the OP would have no idea if it was stolen. It must have a bad esn, which therefore cannot be activated.

Kind of implied by the OP.
 
hockeyman94 said:
Oh Yeah? You have a better Suggestion? you can take the screen off unplug the connectors and put it back together and say the screen went black and cant get it to turn on worked for me... Just when you go to apple make sure there isn't a sim in the sim tray
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You're an idiot for suggesting fraud. Lie to Apple to get a replacement. You accidently buy stolen. But make Apple pay for mistake. Yep, near the top as one of the dumbest suggestions.
 
hockeyman94 said:
Here is What you could do. If there is anything wrong with the phone at all like camera blurry or bad battery life or like a bad pixel (you can check by saving a black picture on your phone turing the brightness up all the way and go to that black picture) you can trade it in and they will give you another iPhone 5 from white box and it will have a clean esn.
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It never ceases to amaze me the despicable lack of character in some posters.

Seriously, if you put as much effort into clever ways to earn a living as you do into looking for ways to screw "the man," you'd be rich beyond your wildest dreams.
 
quietstormSD said:
Sprint won't re-activate a phone if it's reported stolen by the original owner.
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I understand what a stolen phone is but the OP didn't say why he knows it was stolen.
newport123 said:
my ****ed up 11 air for 300$cash plus iphone
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Oh now you say it was trashed? Come on, really. How do you know the phone was stolen? I don't think this story is exactly accurate for some reason.
 
cpc12 said:
Craigslist is shady.. I only sell... Never buy....
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Depends on what you buy... for furniture it is great. Bought several great mid-century pieces off CL when I moved into my new place. Got great deals... but yeah for electronics & cameras, I will stick with eBay.
 
Cuechick said:
but yeah for electronics & cameras, I will stick with eBay.
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Just curious, what's wrong with buying a camera that you get to test and see with your own hands and eyes before forking over cash? Just trying to see the logic with preferring eBay over CL.
 
tgi said:
Just curious, what's wrong with buying a camera that you get to test and see with your own hands and eyes before forking over cash? Just trying to see the logic with preferring eBay over CL.
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I'd say they are both inferior to buying brand new from a store. Yeah you save a lot of money but used electronics are a crapshoot.
 
I once got screwed buying a cellphone on ebay. Ebay raided the seller's account and we all got a small % of it. Learned then (back in the early 2000s) that it's extremely risky to buy anything over $100 on sites like ebay.
 
darster said:
You're an idiot for suggesting fraud. Lie to Apple to get a replacement. You accidently buy stolen. But make Apple pay for mistake. Yep, near the top as one of the dumbest suggestions.
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It's better to make someone else pay than yourself that way you could use the money for something else...
 
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