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Buying an Iphone help

  • 24-02-2014 5:50pm
    #1
    okidoki987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭


    Member of family got caught out buying a 2nd hand iphone (stolen) so now need to get another one but looking to avoid a stolen/broken one.
    Any pointers as to what I need to look out for and where should I go to buy one?


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  • #2
    FourFourRED
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    In future ask for the IMEI number. With this you can run a check on it to see if the phone has been stolen.

    Otherwise just buy new from Apple or a genuine retailer or buy from someone you know who you can trust.

    https://twitter.com/fourfourred



  • #3
    okidoki987
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    How or where do I run a check on the IMEI number?
    Cheers.


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


    Aodhagan wrote: »
    In future ask for the IMEI number. With this you can run a check on it to see if the phone has been stolen.

    Otherwise just buy new from Apple or a genuine retailer or buy from someone you know who you can trust.

    In fairness you can't always tell no matter what check is done. Some networks won't give out the information either.


  • #5
    darragh o meara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,237 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    Aodhagan wrote: »
    In future ask for the IMEI number. With this you can run a check on it to see if the phone has been stolen.

    Otherwise just buy new from Apple or a genuine retailer or buy from someone you know who you can trust.

    Checking a imei number prior to sale is not really a safe option either, Most devious sellers will wait a few weeks before they report it stolen. Hence a phone that was ok when bought gets blacklisted a few weeks later, and the seller is well gone at that stage...

    My advice is to buy only from someone who has excellent feedback and has sold items like that in the past. I personally have sold a good few phones on the likes of adverts and I've bought a few too , and thankfully I haven't been stung on there. I have however been stung on donedeal..

    Some people will tell you to ring the operator etc and register the phone in your name, It works sometimes but not always and in the end the original registered owner only has to say that he never sold it and they'll generally take his/her side.

    Remember if it seems to good to be true then it probably is... Also I'd be very suspicious of high value handsets that are advertised as "Unwanted Upgrades"
    Some of these devious people buy the phone subsidized on a 2 year contract and dont bother paying the bills, They sell the phone before the first bill is due and then when the operator figures out whats going on they blacklist the phone at which stage some poor person who has just shelled out a few hundred for a new handset ends up with a fancy iPod.


  • #6
    Carroller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Carroller


    seen on some deal pages iPhone 4 for €299 and iPhone4s for €325

    Dont know if refurb or not


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  • #7
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Carroller wrote: »
    seen on some deal pages iPhone 4 for €299 and iPhone4s for €325

    Dont know if refurb or not

    €299 for an iphone4 is crazy money, have a look at the sold adverts on adverts/ebay. you'd get an iphone4 for €150-€200 maximum. and a 4S for €180+

    examples:
    Sold to dubfish for €185
    http://www.adverts.ie/apple/black-16gb-iphone-4s-sim-free-official-unlock/4819745

    Sold offline as couldnt even get €150 for it on adverts
    http://www.adverts.ie/apple/white-iphone-4-16gb-vidafone/4818021


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