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Originally Posted by joeyjoe
I like your theory but it makes no sense. I purchased phones online from celldep0t and do not have insurance. I do not have my cell number online or given to the seller either. You should rethink your theory to include non insurance people such as myself that have been buying phones on Ebay since the PPC 6700 1st came out. Also for your theory to work everyone in the world would have to have insurance and the seller can only sell an even number of phones. A friend of mine referred me to celldep0t a few months ago. I been reading these forums because my girlfriend's sister told her about them. My conclusion is if you want something half price or cheaper than contract price there has to be some backdoor deal going on somehow or eBay would never have phones, tvs or anything much for that matter. If us buyers want to be 100% legit we really would have to go to Sprint or www.sprint.com and spend our rent money to make them billionaires. New customers get treated better than paying loyal 10 year customers. |
Thats why I said for the PERFECT scenario, I'd say that everyone HAD insurance, I realize that everyone doesn't. How that's going to work out for buyers who got phones that were claimed on someone else's insurance, I have no idea. (In your case, not having insurance, I imagine you get a phone that was LIKELY claimed using someone elses account information). The phone you got, most lilkely is 100% free and clear, as none of this started (at least with celldep0t) until about 3 weeks ago or so (based on what I've heard from him at least).
All I know, is that SOMEONE got a phone that was claimed with MY insurance. I talked to the guy myself. As far as celldep0t, this whole mess just started a few weeks ago, another seller contacted celldep0t, offering to ship phones FOR him, at a lesser price. In the end, that person ended up screwing celldep0t, AND several of the people who got phones both from HIM (he was selling as dmilton111), and from people who got them directly from celldep0t (as dmilton111 either stopped shipping phones FOR celldep0t, or something else which I can't even begin to imagine).
As far as getting info, all the buyer needs to ship us a phone is our name and address, which they get when we pay (via paypal, or however). In this case, the seller was forwarding that info off to the person who was shipping phones FOR him (in this case, dmilton111). My theory speculates that dmilton himself, or someone he knew, used THAT information (the name, and the shipping address), to access the buyers Sprint account information (how, I don't know, but it HAS to be done, as in order to file a claim "supposidly" the person filing the claim has to know the account PIN of account holder that is filing the claim).
Now, I don't know anyone who buys a phone and provides the seller their PIN and any pertinent passowords to their account on top of it, but somehow, someONE got that information, which was needed to submit the claim.
I know I got a 50.00 charge. I know where the phone that was claimed was shipped to. I talked to the person who got the phone, they purchased from the same seller, the seller himself admits that he was "in bed with the devil" so to speak (in that he was letting someone else process the orders for him, the seller has no idea how the phones were being obtained)..