K800i Phone

Phileas wrote:
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Wouldn't it work with a different 3 usim in it?
Or, unlock it unless it gets barred.


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"We are the robots" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Phileas wrote:
> <snip>
> Wouldn't it work with a different 3 usim in it?
> Or, unlock it unless it gets barred.
>
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If the intended recipient had been onto the network to say it hadn't
arrived, it might already have been barred, blocked or whatever they do.
Surely the operators don't leave 'mis-placed' active for anyone to use....

K3 wrote:
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You're probably right, if it's not blocked now it soon will be.
Could always sell it on Ebay!


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"Phileas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Jun 30, 7:17 pm, We are the robots <[email protected]> wrote:
>> K3 wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>> You're probably right, if it's not blocked now it soon will be.
>> Could always sell it on Ebay!
>>
> This was the point of my original question. I'm really not into mobile
> phones so if I knew the phone was saleable I might try to sell it. If
> it's been "blocked", does this make it worthless?
>


yes - unless you want to ship it to africa.
plus if you did sell it to someone and it turned out to be barred, they
could conceivably contact the police to ask if it had been stolen before
being sold to them.
easier to wait until the six months are up-then you are in the clear and can
test it yourself.



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Phileas wrote:
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You used to be able to sell blocked/barred Mobiles on Ebay, don't know
if you still can?



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"We are the robots" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Phileas wrote:
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> You used to be able to sell blocked/barred Mobiles on Ebay, don't know if
> you still can?



can't imagine the buyer will be too happy.



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the dog from that film you saw wrote:
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Why? The person who's bidding knows the score, there used to be shed
loads of them on Ebay. I've even seen software listed to change the IMEI.


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"We are the robots" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> the dog from that film you saw wrote:
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> Why? The person who's bidding knows the score, there used to be shed loads
> of them on Ebay. I've even seen software listed to change the IMEI.


have you seen the sentence for doing that?
of course people break the law but even so.....



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Phileas wrote:
> My original question was "Is the phone likely to be usable by someone
> with a different SIM?"

And the answer is "Yes, in time"

Other posts in this thread have mentioned the Unsolicited Goods Act.
This act only applies to unsolicited items sent to you directly. What
you have is an "abandoned or uncollected good".
<http://www.npt.gov.uk/shoppersrights/sr20021122abandonedgoods.cfm>

What you need to do is write to the company that sent the phone and give
them a reasonable period to collect the phone (at their expense) - say
30 days. If they fail to do so then the phone is legally yours.

And here's the clever bit: once the phone is legally yours you can order
them to unblock it. If they don't then you can take them to court and
force them to. Once unblocked you can then sell the phone legally and
safely.

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> On Jun 30, 7:17 pm, We are the robots <[email protected]> wrote:
> > K3 wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > You're probably right, if it's not blocked now it soon will be.
> > Could always sell it on Ebay!
> >
> This was the point of my original question. I'm really not into mobile
> phones so if I knew the phone was saleable I might try to sell it. If
> it's been "blocked", does this make it worthless?

Pretty much.

Why not call the network it belongs to and tell them of their mistake?
It will make you feel good.
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> I could well be wrong... but I thought that once a phone is blacklisted
> as 'stolen' that's it; there's no way it gets removed from the
> blacklist.

Networks can un-blacklist just as easily as blacklist.
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In article <[email protected]>, Bruce Horrocks
<[email protected]> Sun, 1 Jul 2007 01:22:16 writes

>And here's the clever bit: once the phone is legally yours you can
>order them to unblock it. If they don't then you can take them to court
>and force them to.

On what basis can you force them to do anything? There is no contract
between the two parties involved.

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