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Originally Posted by ajones7279
And I dont think it was a replacement the seller ordered from sprint for herself because she was selling about 20 of them at the time
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Yes, and I don't think they track these things very well because I know someone who requested a replacement (due to a lost phone) a couple years ago and Sprint sent them 2. They eventually gave one to their brother after telling him about what happened and he had it activated without a problem.
At first I was thinking people would just sell the phones cross-carriers so that it would be more difficult to track, essentially taking a Sprint phone and selling it as a Verizon phone, but then realized that apparently Sprint isn't even tracking (or rather enforcing) any of the swaps even when it's within their network.
If Sprint enforced policy when they could track it (which would be when the swap occurs inside their own network) then people would only sell the fraudulently obtained 6800's to people using carriers other than Sprint- and Sprint would lose more money.
The simple fact is if Sprint enforces policy they lose money, and if they don't then they likely make money.
They make money by way of enticing more people to their network, via inexpensive high end phones sold on eBay and listed as "Sprint".
It's no secret that Sprint makes it's money from the services, and not the hardware.
The public relations department (and stockholders) of any company wouldn't want any negative press in regards to their company, so they like to keep such matters muffled as much as possible.
This could be happening with any other phone company, it's just my personal experience has been with Sprint.