I purchased a used "unlocked" HTC One M8 (T-Mobile) on swappah and received it May 18th 2014. As of Aug 12th 2014 however, I lost my T-Mobile connectivity (tho thankfully I am on prepaid anyway) ; the ESN is now blocked and on T-Mobiles blacklist for non-payment of its EIP. It is still however still clear on the global white list, I even tried a friends AT&T SIM and it worked.
Anyway I will paste the current swappah comments here:
I am now unsure of what to do. I technically no longer have trust with this buyer. I even checked his history on swappah and it is really fishy that he has sold two other HTC One M8s as well.......secondly: T-Mobile to my knowledge only unlocks phones if their EIP is completely paid off and the person has been in good account standing/used the phone for at least 45 days?? -At the very least I've confirmed that it is indeed unlocked.
There seems to be many other people that have gotten burned this way, either it being from E-bay, Craigslist or even Swappah with T-mobile used phones, as currently they are not allowed to tell people if a phone is on a EIP or not, which to me is retarded, they should fix this policy.
As you can see, both swappah and the seller want me to return the phone before I get a refund....but what's to stop the seller from simply not giving me a refund? The purchase was defiantly more then 45 days ago......so technically I do not see what good issuing a paypal dispute past that time frame would do, or if it is even possible.
Should I tell the seller I want a refund before I give him a tracking # / ship it back? Or go 50% up front then the other 50% after?
Should I simply call my CC company and ask for a fraud-charge-back? Tho I think it is now past their 90 day protection window as well.....funny how scammers do that hmm?
Or should I simply put the phone onto straight talk / AT&T and either A) transfer my T-mobile prepaid # to it and be stuck on that (I really like the $30 5G data / unlim messages 100 min T-mobile plan) or B) try reselling it on craigslist / swappah boneyard as T-Mobile bad ESN (But still works on ATT/Straight Talk) ?
Thanks for any advice or consolation for my issue here ; ;
Anyway I will paste the current swappah comments here:
I am now unsure of what to do. I technically no longer have trust with this buyer. I even checked his history on swappah and it is really fishy that he has sold two other HTC One M8s as well.......secondly: T-Mobile to my knowledge only unlocks phones if their EIP is completely paid off and the person has been in good account standing/used the phone for at least 45 days?? -At the very least I've confirmed that it is indeed unlocked.
There seems to be many other people that have gotten burned this way, either it being from E-bay, Craigslist or even Swappah with T-mobile used phones, as currently they are not allowed to tell people if a phone is on a EIP or not, which to me is retarded, they should fix this policy.
As you can see, both swappah and the seller want me to return the phone before I get a refund....but what's to stop the seller from simply not giving me a refund? The purchase was defiantly more then 45 days ago......so technically I do not see what good issuing a paypal dispute past that time frame would do, or if it is even possible.
Should I tell the seller I want a refund before I give him a tracking # / ship it back? Or go 50% up front then the other 50% after?
Should I simply call my CC company and ask for a fraud-charge-back? Tho I think it is now past their 90 day protection window as well.....funny how scammers do that hmm?
Or should I simply put the phone onto straight talk / AT&T and either A) transfer my T-mobile prepaid # to it and be stuck on that (I really like the $30 5G data / unlim messages 100 min T-mobile plan) or B) try reselling it on craigslist / swappah boneyard as T-Mobile bad ESN (But still works on ATT/Straight Talk) ?
Thanks for any advice or consolation for my issue here ; ;
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