[joeyjoe]

Originally Posted by boxermansr

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)..

Well I appreciate you sharing with us your experience. I showed this forum to a buddy of mine that bought a touch pro on Ebay as well. He got it from mullingsm and said it came directly from the seller via USPS express mail and he was legit. I looked that seller up today and to my surprise I noticed you left her bad feedback saying something about a phone programmed with a different number and they were responsible for your $50 charge for your purchase from 11/13/08. Did you get charged $50 twice or did you get the wrong person? Something does not add up. How many people did you buy from? Who did you buy from first? Also, you said "As far as getting info, all the buyer needs to ship us a phone is our name and address." Think logically. If this was true then anyone would just open a phone book or go online to 411.com or any other site and have access to millions of names and numbers and spend all day trying to make orders. You can not contact Sprint or any phone company with just a name and address and they give you your phone number. You can not ask a phone company what your number is by just using a name and address. I use to work for Verizon and I know there is no search engine for reps to look up a number by an address or name. You must have the phone number, the you need a pin or social to verify. Anyway, at the end of the day we are all looking to save big money (maybe too much money ). I also have TMobile and actually went to the store yesterday in person to purchase a new white G1 for full retail price (over $434). This beat windows mobile hands down easily anyday (yeah adroid o.s =D>). With this phone you have still have to call into TMobile to place the imei on your account for the proper provisions and create a google account on the phone. I did not want to take any chances with eBay (suspiciously low prices) now and not be able to have full access to my G1 eventhough its a sim card phone. Hey if anyone has tried the G! let me know. I know its not a windows or Sprint phone, but after 1 day i'm hooked. Might even be selling my Sprint phones.