bought a used phone and its now been blocked

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bought a used sensation xe off a facebook selling page on the 1st of January and its now been blocked by the network.
the seller is a scruffy scumbag and will not give me my monies back.

i suppose i could use moneyclaim to try get my money back that way.
 
Blazin23 said:
:D

Phone is either stolen, or the seller rang up the network and declared it lost/stolen. You will have to ring the network who blocked it and see if you can have it unblocked.
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I doubt that will happen to be honest, if it was that easy, there wouldn't really be any point in blocking it in the first place.

Depending which phone it is, it might be possible to change the imei, but that's very illegal :p (and will cause problems if you use an imei that's already in use...)

Cosimo said:
GD at it's most helpful. :D
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Well, the OP didn't ask any questions or for any help, simply posted a statement. ;)
 
Blazin23 said:
:D

Phone is either stolen, or the seller rang up the network and declared it lost/stolen. You will have to ring the network who blocked it and see if you can have it unblocked.
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Which will never happen.
only the person who reported it can have the block reversed.

This will teach the OP from buying a phone from a Facebook selling page, and actually handing cash over to a scruffy scummy fellow.
 
Would you not be able to unlock it using a bit of time, patience and dodgy firmware?

Or is it more of a hardware block?
 
I thought networks couldn't block your phone if you didn't pay your bill? I thought phones could only be blocked if lost or stolen?
 
Meatball said:
I thought networks couldn't block your phone if you didn't pay your bill? I thought phones could only be blocked if lost or stolen?
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Depends on the policy/contract? If you buy a contract with a phone included then the phone isn't really yours until the contract has fully finished is it not?
 
Yes, that's how this works. Person sells phone, waits a month, declares it lost, claims a new one on insurance. Keeps the cash from the sale of the previous phone.

Contract phones are yours the day you receive them in most cases (I don't know how things like O2 Refresh work). They are considered a free gift, hence why the networks want nothing to do with supporting them even if you're still in contract.
 
teenwolf said:
yes but the same could happen here on OCUK.
buyer buys phone that's still in contract. seller stops paying bill.
phones blocked.
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mrk said:
Depends on the policy/contract? If you buy a contract with a phone included then the phone isn't really yours until the contract has fully finished is it not?
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Didn't think those kind of contracts exist in the UK any more? They certainly aren't the norm.
 
mrk said:
Depends on the policy/contract? If you buy a contract with a phone included then the phone isn't really yours until the contract has fully finished is it not?
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I'd be interested to know. I thought 'free' or subsidised phones are simply gifts from the network to encourage you to use their service and therefore the network have no ownership over the handset.
 
Hmm no idea, not had a non sim only contract for a while to check documentation :p

But they won't sim unlock a handset until your contract is up for free anyway although whether that has anything in relation to this I don't know.
 
Diagro said:
It's a network block. Each phone has a unique IMEI which each network will check against a dabatase.
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Fair enough. Would all networks check against one database then? So if you get blocked on one network, you wouldn't be able to switch to another?
 
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