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iphone 5

  • 14-03-2013 9:35am
    #1
    baddebt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭


    Hi
    Just on Holidays here in spain ,
    can buy an Iphone 5 very cheap ,

    would it be worth it , and when I get home to ireland would I have to get it unlocked ??


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  • #2
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    Make sure it's a genuine iPhone and not a rip off. It's probably stolen if its so cheap and possibly not unlocked either. There is sites you can enter the imei or serial number and it will tell if its unlocked or locked. I paid around €2 a while ago to check a phone


  • #3
    baddebt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭baddebt


    Guil

    Can you remember the names of any such sites ?


  • #4
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    i'll check paypal and let you know


  • #5
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    the site was http://www.imei.info/ and it cost $2.99


  • #6
    shinkansen
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 228 ✭✭shinkansen


    there's no such thing as a 'cheap' iphone 5 tbh.

    dont know why anyone would pay face value for one anyway with the oodles of smart phones out this year.


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  • #7
    IrishHomer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,002 ✭✭✭IrishHomer


    baddebt wrote: »
    Hi
    Just on Holidays here in spain ,
    can buy an Iphone 5 very cheap ,

    would it be worth it , and when I get home to ireland would I have to get it unlocked ??
    Where a abouts in Spain? Please elaborate I go to Spain regularly?


  • #8
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    baddebt wrote: »
    Hi
    Just on Holidays here in spain ,
    can buy an Iphone 5 very cheap ,

    would it be worth it , and when I get home to ireland would I have to get it unlocked ??

    No you can't. If it is the real deal you will pay a fair price. If you go to the spanish equivalent of Donedeal / adverts, you will see all sorts of stuff for way below the price. These are almost certain to be stolen. Even if you did a deal and arranged to meet, do you feel confident that the person you just handed you money too will not just follow you, rob the phone back and keep your money.
    Please don't buy stuff off the street. Twice today, in a cafe I go to, the same group of gypsies came in running around looking to distract people and rob phones of customers tables. It happens. I don't want these people getting rewarded from robbing.


  • #9
    shinkansen
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 228 ✭✭shinkansen


    90% positive any 'cheap iphone or whatever you get abroad is either

    a) stole
    b) sim locked or bricked
    d) fake

    or

    e) a mixture of the above

    anyone who pays 200eu or so for these deserves to be done by.

    iphone 5 is 600euro + either suck it up or get a cheaper one


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