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From: Bob on 28 Jan 2010 16:19
Be very cautious if you are buying a Nokia smartphone on ebay,
from newspaper classified ads etc

If seller has more than one nokia smartphone listed "buy it now"
with a stock photo at a cheap price then you need to verify if they
are real Nokia's or chinese counterfeits that don't have all the
features of a real phone.

I'm guessing that there are inept people who buy thes
things, put a sim in, just use one to make phonecalls
and don't realise they have been ripped off until it is far too late?

Be very suspicious if a seller won't provide photo's of the actual
phone they are selling.

Do not do any deal with ebay sellers that fall outside ebay/paypal
protection eg meet the guy and pay cash.

The makers of the fake N95 phones keep updating them to
report the same firmware as real phone etc but it is usually
possible to tell, for example the camera iris is smaller than
on a real phone. There are a few websites with photos of
the fakes.

There are lots of fake n95 and n900 phones around at the
moment.
I am very suspicious of the cheap 9500 phones from
Hong Kong but google dosn't turn up anything about fakes,
anyone know more?


Bob
From: Steve Terry on 29 Jan 2010 09:11
"Bob" <bob9(a)mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> Be very cautious if you are buying a Nokia smartphone on ebay,
> from newspaper classified ads etc
>
>
It's always been a bad idea to buy a phone on ebay
as the seller can after selling the phone have it backlisted

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From: Theo Markettos on 29 Jan 2010 09:47
Steve Terry <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote:
> It's always been a bad idea to buy a phone on ebay
> as the seller can after selling the phone have it backlisted

There's nothing special about eBay in that respect... any secondhand phone
could have that happen.

Theo
From: newshound on 31 Jan 2010 17:05


"Theo Markettos" <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
news:Xlz*90l2s(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> Steve Terry <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote:
>> It's always been a bad idea to buy a phone on ebay
>> as the seller can after selling the phone have it backlisted
>
> There's nothing special about eBay in that respect... any secondhand phone
> could have that happen.
>
> Theo

And why would they bother? More likely it is stolen phones that get blocked
when they are discovered to be missing.

From: Steve on 31 Jan 2010 18:19
newshound wrote:
>
>
> "Theo Markettos" <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:Xlz*90l2s(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> > Steve Terry <gfourwwk(a)tesco.net> wrote:
> >> It's always been a bad idea to buy a phone on ebay
> >> as the seller can after selling the phone have it backlisted
> >
> > There's nothing special about eBay in that respect... any secondhand phone
> > could have that happen.
> >
> > Theo
>
> And why would they bother?

That's what I'm thinking too. I've bought and sold a few mobiles
on ebay and never had a problem.

More likely it is stolen phones that get blocked
> when they are discovered to be missing.

Yep.

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