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Originally Posted by joeyjoe
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. |
I purchased from her originally, the phone I got from her was already programmed with someone elses phone number. I've tried to contact ebay to revise the feedback, to remove the 50.00 portion of the feedback, as it's the only part of it that's not correct. The phone still DID come pre-programmed with another persons number, and Sprint suggested that I return it, which I did, since they couldn't activate it on MY line.
As far as the theory for getting account info from Sprint, I believe it works like this (as far as ebay purchases go). You buy from seller A (who either ships it to you themselves, or has someone else ship it to you, which is the scenario I'm using).
Buyer buys from seller A, seller A forwards the name and address for the purchase to seller B (aka shipper). Seller B *somehow* has, or gets access to Sprint's records (either the work FOR sprint, or know someone who does).
They then look up the name of the person, and their address (I don't know if it can be done, but it has been done to me, and several others, so unless we make it a habit to provide our account PIN with each purchase, the only theory I can come up with, is someone is on the inside).
Anyhow, seller/shipper B, files an insurance claim, using the information obtained from the buyers account. Instead of having the phone shipped to the address on the accountholders account, it's appearing its getting shipped to the next purchaser in line.
In my case, I purchased a Touch PRO (from celldep0t), never got it, got a refund, however in the meantime, celldep0ts "seller" (known now as dmilton111) submitted the insurance claim to Asurion, and that phone was shipped to someone who purchased an HTC Diamond from celldep0t. So, using my insurance, a phone was ordered, to fill someone elses purchase.