[Raging Idiot]

Guru, you answered your question again...
"Why would Sprint try to thwart an investigation?" Just read carefully your last post.


And then I see you write this:
"They might make money by signing up your 3rd party phone from e-bay, but I guarantee you they make more money by selling you the phone too - particularly if the 3rd party phone was fraudulently obtained."

I know you aren't naive. Perhaps just an oversight. Certainly you are aware that if the customer doesn't receive the upgrade (because of embezzlement scheme) that the customer will then have to $purchase$ the upgrade which they otherwise would have received for free.
The person that bought the cell phone from eBay might then sign up a new contract with $print and therefore $print doesn't have to absorb the cost of the phone in the 24 month hidden fee contract.
It's no secret that cell phone costs are largely hidden in the contracts.
So new customers that bring their own phone to the contract are helping $print even more in the overall profit.

A real investigation, and not just an internet chat, should be done in regards to this. Police? FBI? FCC? Media? HTC? Insurance?

You could say $print would do this or they could do that, and you could say that just because the boxes being received from eBay have "illegal" written all over them doesn't make them illegal -- but it doesn't hold much weight when compared against the simple facts already given.

Raging Idiot