safe way to buy sechond hand phone

[nokia8210]

Helo all my story follows, Bought a sechond hand spv-m3100 from local paper paid £380 worked fine for a month then apears to have been barred. called number were got it from number is now dead. went to adress and that apears empty so not lucking good. Called orange explaned what had hapend they wanted me to send hand set in i asked if i could pay and have phone re activated they say phone must be sent back as its classed as stolen they then ask me for my name and adress at that point i hang up, I paid £380 i at least want a paper weaght to show for it and pda part still works. please pm me if there is any way i can resolve this. sorry for spelling and grammer i have dyslexia.thanks

[Jigzuk]

Doesn't sound good mate!! My guess is that the person who sold you the phone has done an insurance job on his! Hence why it worked fine for a while. And as soon as he's reported it they've blocked the phone you bought!! Can't advise you on a completly safe way to buy a secondhand one.

[nokia8210]

there should be some change of ownership number like dell lap tops have. Is there any way of geting this phone back up and runing.thanks:)

[lukjod]

For now I will advice U to sell it to other country via ebay and buy a new one not blacklisted in U motherland