found a phone

i found a phone on the street no not stolen, i was wondering if i could take it to bell and use it since my phone is 2 years old and sucks

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Yes, you need to take it to Bell and tell them you found it. You got half of that right... do you really think it's "ok" to keep something like that without trying to find its owner first? Nobody is going to activate a phone for you that you found. Bell uses CDMA technology and every phone has a unique ESN that becomes unusable when reported lost OR stolen. Just let Bell find the person who lost it and give it back to them, isn't that what you'd like someone to do for you in the same situation? Thanks!

*tear* for that person... if i lost my phone, I'd die.

Originally Posted by Brad729

Yes, you need to take it to Bell and tell them you found it. You got half of that right... do you really think it's "ok" to keep something like that without trying to find its owner first? Nobody is going to activate a phone for you that you found. Bell uses CDMA technology and every phone has a unique ESN that becomes unusable when reported lost OR stolen. Just let Bell find the person who lost it and give it back to them, isn't that what you'd like someone to do for you in the same situation? Thanks!

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Bring it into a Bell World store and let them find the owner.

Yeah take it to bell, and HOPE the store cares enought to contact customer support or the insurance department so they can actually look up the serial and track it down to the customer that owned it before. And still HOPE that they credit his deductible fee back which would be 1 out of a million that they'll do that.

There is no "deductable" with Bell. They will locate the owner by ESN, then call the owner and let them know the unit was found and where the owner can pick it up. Very reasonable if you ask me, and I'm sure the owner will be very grateful

Originally Posted by Abom

There is no "deductable" with Bell. They will locate the owner by ESN, then call the owner and let them know the unit was found and where the owner can pick it up. Very reasonable if you ask me, and I'm sure the owner will be very grateful

You Canadians sure do know how to keep a happy cell phone customer! I wish the US providers would do away with deductibles for lost phones and give the original phone back to people when they lose it... however I do understand that every company has operating expenses to cover, as I explained in a private message to someone who remarked on the unfairness of cell phone insurance companies.

Originally Posted by Brad729

As the owner of a business I'd like to somewhat defend those insurance companies you think are so evil. The $5-7 per month they charge doesn't exactly cover the cost of replacing those phones that become defective by no fault of the owner, for which there is no deductible (I've had 3 phones replaced with no deductible under my lockline esrp, all 3 were free upgrades due to unavailability of discontinued models).

Every business has overhead to pay, the cost of running a business such as utilities, leases, employee wages, etc. So when you drop your phone in a toilet or lose it somewhere, you pay a $50 deductible. Again, this is one of the ways a company has to recuperate the costs of staying in business. When a lost phone is replaced and then later found, it's unfortunate that a person might lose their contacts and personal data stored on the phone and I really do feel for that person... but the phone that is found has to be refurbished and used for a replacement for someone else, if all the people who work for lockline want to keep their jobs...

All because when corporations start to lose their profitability, that's when they have to start laying off large numbers of workers... which has an effect not just on the people who lose their jobs, but on the economy as a whole when they start collecting unemployment from our already broke government, and displacing other workers by taking their experience back into the competitive job markets and causing equally-experienced but higher-paid people to get laid off and replaced by cheaper labor. Oh, I could go on all night about this... I think most people slept through their high school economics classes, but when I started my own business these are things for which I've developed a keen understanding. Does it make sense?