I recently purchased an iPhone 4 from Property Room (Orlando) only to find out it had a bad (i.E. Reported stolen) ESN. Once a phone is reported stolen it CANNOT be activated! Basically, I now have a very expensive ipod.
At the time I picked up my item I asked the girl at the front desk if they'd ever had any problems with bad ESN's, she said, "Yes", but "if they know they ESN they will normally list it in the auction". It took me all of 1 minute to pull up the ESN on the phone once I had it in my possession and all of 10 minutes to find it was bad from one of the free on-line database sites which show whether a phone can be reactivated. This information was subsequently verified by Verizon and the original issuer of insurance for the original owner.
If it only took me minutes to find the ESN, then why wasn't it included in the original listing as the employee indicated? Why? Plain and simply because they wouldn't be able to sell the phone for as much.
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