I bought a Motorola cell phone from RGM Telecoms on Ebay. They advertised the phone as brand new-never opened. However, they claimed there was no memory card (SIM card for Nextel). I didn't care because I was just going to move the card from my old phone.
Well, the card type changed and I had to go to a Sprint/Nextel store to have them transfer the data from my old card to the new style... Oh, and purchase a new one. They started asking questions and I showed them the phone I purchased. When the employee tried to activate the phone for me, Sprint refused, saying the phone was connected to fraudulent activity. The clerk said that most likely meant "fallen off a truck."
She went on to say that Sprint/Nextel never sells phones without a memory card. There is no legal reason why the phone wouldn't have one.in fact, she pointed to the memory card serial number right there on the box!
I am filing a police report on RGM Telecoms and hopefully their activity will be investigated.
Lately, since my purchase, their feedback has steadily declined, with a negative out of about every 15 feedbacks. I guess selling stolen phones is lucrative enough to not worry about 5-10% of the unknowing customers.
Hopefully buyers will be resourceful enough to investigate this company before buying from them, unlike I was.
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