selling a hacked phone

[SPpasty]

does anyone know if i can sell my phone on eBay legally if it is hacked and loaded with a custom rom?

i'm runnin' winmo 6.5 right now, so will i be allowed to say it in the listing? because clearly it doesn't come that way.

[denco7]

does anyone know if i can sell my phone on eBay legally if it is hacked and loaded with a custom rom?

i'm runnin' winmo 6.5 right now, so will i be allowed to say it in the listing? because clearly it doesn't come that way.

Can you sell an older car with a new race engine ? Can you sell your house with with a newly remodeled kitchen ? Can you sell your children now that they are older, talk back, eat too much and are a general pain in the ass ? ( well maybe not that one. )

The point is, you can sell what ever you want, and in any condition that you want, as long as you don't misrepresent it. If it has a custom rom, list it as such. The HTC warranty is non-transferable anyway. So some one might like the custom rom.

Or reflash the original rom and spl and sell it as stock.

[8525Smart]

The point is, you can sell what ever you want, and in any condition that you want, as long as you don't misrepresent it. If it has a custom rom, list it as such. The HTC warranty is non-transferable anyway. So some one might like the custom rom.

Actually, Denco, this isn't completely accurate. If Microsoft contacts eBay regarding taking down phones with a hacked Windows Mobile, then eBay will do it without question. In fact, Tomtom is doing something similar right now. If you find a way to install the Tomtom software on a non-supported phone and you try to sell it, the listing may get taken down.

Nonetheless, at the moment, I believe selling phones with customized ROMs is completely fine. I've done it myself about a few months back (sold a Hermes with a custom ROM) on eBay. Unfortunately, I can't see any example on eBay right now, but there appears to be people selling custom Windows Mobile ROMs (yes, just the ROMs) on eBay right now.

[the-equinoxe]

Please don't forget you are infringing Microsoft's Copyright.

Since WM 6.5 hasn't been released yet, you would be selling a device holding pirated copyrighted (and confidential) material. No doubt that this is against E-bays policy!

[denco7]

Please don't forget you are infringing Microsoft's Copyright.

Since WM 6.5 hasn't been released yet, you would be selling a device holding pirated copyrighted (and confidential) material. No doubt that this is against E-bays policy!

As is everyone selling a comupter loaded with software, and everyone who sells a Zune or iPod loaded with music. And any phone that has any commercial software on it at all. Unless you include all the original disks and erase all copies from your possession.

All these, software, music , phone software, are licensed to the original purchaser only, not to the device.

My point was being true to the buyer, not to ebay or M$.That is why I said list it with a custom rom, you don't have to say 6.5. If they have a problem with it. Take it down, reflash it and puy it back up.