Why no mobile/smartphone sale allowed in MM ?
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As a buyer, eBay isn't "that" bad for phones provided you source one from e.g. a shop site or something. With Paypal protection easily favouring somebody who isn't selling I'd have no qualms then to purchase one. Somebody selling just the one handset however, I don't know - phones aren't like other electronics devices in the way that you're billed etc.
Sorry, best way of explaining it, not sure if it makes sense. In fact it probably doesn't.
Sorry, best way of explaining it, not sure if it makes sense. In fact it probably doesn't.
Agreed. At least PC gear either works or it doesn't.
Good thought but then so can be laptops, gps and even some PC bits ?
I bet if I put 600W OCZ PSU bits into 800W corsair box nobody will actually notice and that would make me double profit.
If you mean maybe as stolen, oh well, anything can be?
And I see no reason why someone here with good forum history and good positive feedback will try to sell dodgy phone.
Can be easily seen, if somebody has 0 or only few feedback and then low post count and most of his posts are like " +1 " , " yeh agree " , " no ", " BS " and other random crap that makes no sense whatsoever then surely you'll be cautius.
And if you fell for somebody like that obviously then it's your own fault.
I personally feel that a dodgy phone is no different to dodgy laptop, dodgy dvd player, dodgy amplifier or dodgy sat nav and hence see no point why anything else would be allowed apart from this.
Well, waiting for more opinions ! : )
I bet if I put 600W OCZ PSU bits into 800W corsair box nobody will actually notice and that would make me double profit.
If you mean maybe as stolen, oh well, anything can be?
And I see no reason why someone here with good forum history and good positive feedback will try to sell dodgy phone.
Can be easily seen, if somebody has 0 or only few feedback and then low post count and most of his posts are like " +1 " , " yeh agree " , " no ", " BS " and other random crap that makes no sense whatsoever then surely you'll be cautius.
And if you fell for somebody like that obviously then it's your own fault.
I personally feel that a dodgy phone is no different to dodgy laptop, dodgy dvd player, dodgy amplifier or dodgy sat nav and hence see no point why anything else would be allowed apart from this.
Well, waiting for more opinions ! : )
thing is, you buy a stolen laptop, dvd player etc and it's horridly unfair that it's stolen and all that, but, no ones going to phone up their network and have a bar put on it a week after you've received it are they?
*saying that I wish that you could buy phones as I imagine some bargains could be had and I've had a few i'd have preferred to have put up for sale on here but i'd be very cautious with a mobile.
*saying that I wish that you could buy phones as I imagine some bargains could be had and I've had a few i'd have preferred to have put up for sale on here but i'd be very cautious with a mobile.
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First 2 are correct 3rd is wrong soon as you take your contract out the phone is yours to do what you see fit
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'Any mobile equipment is supplied outside the terms of this agreement'.
Small print in every contract.
No.
No, you got the phone after the retailer* you purchased your phone from received comission for signing you up for x months, and then used this comission to subsidise a handset.
*Ditto direct sales.
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Cause thats the way it is 
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They block the simcard, not the phone.
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Yep exactly, you're free to do with the phone whatever you like, you can even sell it the hour after you bought it and the operator has nothing to do with. Your only obligation with them is to pay the monthly contract fee and that's about it, they can block the SIM card if you stop but they can't do anything about the phone ...
How many of the phones you think actually comes new from shop ? I'd say most of them is contract extensions.
Hence it's no different than any other piece of equipment tbh...
You can get a laptop/netbook nowadays on contract as well with mobile broadband yet it's fine to sell laptops ??
A laptop can't be legitimately blocked after you've purchased it... a phone can, whether it's stolen or just a particularly malicious seller, it's out of the buyers hands.
It's nothing to do with the contract, as everyone who's posted after AcidHell2 has said
A laptop can't be legitimately blocked after you've purchased it... a phone can, whether it's stolen or just a particularly malicious seller, it's out of the buyers hands.
It's nothing to do with the contract, as everyone who's posted after AcidHell2 has said
They can only block the sim, not the phone?
At last that's what happend to me after I told vodafone to **** *** when they extended my contract for extra 2yrs after I said that I don't want it.
All it took me is to take out the sim and put in another, havn't paid them a penny to them for that and even tho it's been like 2yrs ago, I havn't seen my old phone locked yet? Working just as well as it did on the day I bought.
Obviously they could have locked it no ?
As said, I got it wrong they block the sim for contract issues.
However if reported as stolen they can and do block the phone.
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Phones tend to be smaller and easier to steal than other pieces of computing hardware (including laptops), they have a much greater risk of being blocked than any other piece of computing hardware (indeed with many items you can't remotely render them useless). Without having asked for full clarification I'd expect the rationale to be much the same as the reason why many bike shops won't take secondhand bikes - too much risk of the item being dodgy and very little protection for the buyer if it should be.
I said quite clearly
Stolen or reportedly stolen phones can get blocked. Nothing to do with the retailer you bought it from originally, but the person reselling it on here. Working around this block is as far as I'm aware illegal in this country.