In a case like this does anyone know how a buyer can verify it's legitimate? Even with an X-Ray or MRI, could one tell between real and a very lightly used one carefully repackaged?
I still have my original, aluminum back is bent and the screen has popped out in one corner from the expansion of the battery.Opens box, discovers screen popped out as battery has expanded, $35k well spent.
Best I can do is $5 but I'll pay shipping also.I will seal my original iPhone in the original box with the original dock and sell it to someone for only $3500.
Good thing they didn't sell it on eBay. I sold a 20 year old first-gen 5GB iPod in the box (used, not sealed) on eBay, and 20 days after receiving the item the buyer complained it no longer worked. Of course it was sold in as-is condition, with no guarantees.
But guess what? eBay declares sellers have to guarantee everything they sell. So nearly 3 weeks after receiving a 20 year old iPod, the buyer can decide they're not happy and insist on a full refund.
eBay provided the refund, and immediately tried to debit my accounts, which I preemptively removed from my eBay account. After over 20 years on eBay and 700+ feedback, I no longer have an active account, I have a collection agency chasing me for USD$650 (LOL good luck, I'm self employed and could care less about my credit rating) all because of a 0 feedback buyer who bought a used iPod with no guarantees and their reason for a refund was it no longer worked.
Not that it wasn't in the condition described or didn't come with the accessories listed in the auction - that it 'stopped working'. Inferring that it worked upon receipt and now it doesn't anymore.
Rant over - articles like this trigger me. Long story short, I'm glad someone profited big time on a sealed gen 1 iPhone, and F eBay.
Weren’t the iPhones only being sold at AT&T stores on day 1? I seem to recall Apple Store sales coming later onI remember launch day like it was yesterday. I was in line at my local Apple store. Probably was around the 30th - 50th person in my state to get an iPhone. Staff were giving out free coffee & donuts to those of us in line. It was definitely an exciting time that I won't ever forget.
Weren’t the iPhones only being sold at AT&T stores on day 1? I seem to recall Apple Store sales coming later on
I remember lining up at a local AT&T store and it was a very small affair, maybe 10-20 people at the absolute most. People were asking what we were lining up for and at the time we could barely explain it because barely anybody even knew what an iPhone was.Nope, Apple store had them in my area. Service was indeed exclusive to AT&T though. There was actually an AT&T store close to the Apple Store, and I contemplated whether it might be a safer bet to get one from there, but ended up at the Apple Store and was in luck.
Get those off him if company allows it.I think that the IT guy that sits across from me has a few iPhone 5's and maybe 6's that are still sealed, Got them for employee's and then they left....or never open-end them as they chose to use their "personal communicator device"
50 years. The Apple Watch didn't make Apple the largest company on the planet, the iPhone did.
I was thinking about that……but I believe they are useless, as it’s a major financial corporation and I know that MacBooks….Mac computers have some kind info put into the ROM that both identifies it as a company computer and also if you wipe the OS and try to install a fresh one, it will automatically try to take you to the company IT config site.Get those off him if company allows it.
I was thinking about that……but I believe they are useless, as it’s a major financial corporation and I know that MacBooks….Mac computers have some kind info put into the ROM that both identifies it as a company computer and also if you wipe the OS and try to install a fresh one, it will automatically try to take you to the company IT config site.
Yeah, that's what I was told by one of the IT people that I know.That is Apple DEP, same as for iPhones/iPads purchased from an Apple DEP authorized carrier retail store. Even if you iCloud wipe the devices, registration is setup for an MDM with a specific 'key/hash'. it's useless to consumers.