iPhone iPhone 6 Bought and now Network Blocked....

Hi Guys,

I've fallen a victim of a Bumtree scam where I purchased a, iPhone 6 from Gumtree which was working fine and three days later its not blocked.

It will not accept any UK sim (no service) and having spoken to O2 they inform me its now blocked due to either reported lost or stolen.

I have tried contacting the seller, coincidently now his phone keeps going to voicemail and he does not respond to my emails either.

I have spoken to the police, but I doubt anything will be done.

Does anyone know what I can do with this iPhone now apart from use it as a £365 iPod??

Thanks

Ps. The iPhone still has Apple warranty until May 2016, but I doubt they can do anything is the block is from O2?

Apart from trying for a refund, you have an expensive iphone 6 ipad don't think anything can be done.

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Thanks Napster....

Thought so, but worth a try.

The phone you don't legally own as far as Apple (or wherever it was originally purchased) are concerned so they will just think you have stolen it yourself and trying to get it unblocked.

How did you pay, can you try and approach bank or paypal? If you paid cash then i'm afraid it is looking good at all.

There maybe a way but it is likely illegal and I wouldn't even know how/where to look tbh.

please watch the video it might help too many people fall foul to scammers, arse holes.

You still wont be able to use it as a phone , and i suppose its a last resort

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biffo1 said:

please watch the video it might help too many people fall foul to scammers, arse holes.

You still wont be able to use it as a phone , and i suppose its a last resort

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You can watch videos all day long at the end of the day there's to many people trying to rip the god old people off now a days shame we live in world like this but one thing is to pay a bit more and buy direct from Apple

Thanks guys for your replies. The iPhone does not have a iCloud lock so currently I'm not totally locked out.
O2 have said there's nothing they can do and I'd have to await the police outcome (if they even bother getting involved).

In the meantime what's the likely hood of still being able to unlock the iPhone for all networks (I know it still wouldn't work here in the UK) and sell it abroad. I know some would say it's not the moral thing to do, I did purchase it with a clean intent so I'd like to get as much of my money back as possible??

I even offered to pay o2 to unblock it, they are not interested and not willing to contact the original owner either, they appreciate my honesty however and said most people wouldn't even contact o2 knowing its potentially stolen. Lol

I don't mean to be harsh but buying phones and other high value items from any sites like this at a good price often results in a hard life lesson.

If the price is too good to be true then 99% of the time it usually is.

I don't suppose you could sell it for spares, screen, some of the parts of the board etc.. obviously you would have to stipulate the history of the phone which would probably end up with you getting the ad removed from where ever.

I was scammed many years ago out of a games console that I had imported. Was about £700 worth of kit, sold and took payment via Paypal. This was back in the day when Paypal was new and had no protection for buyers or sellers.

I lost every penny...

Sorry this phone is no more then a door stop why don't you go round the person house and pay them a nice visit I'm sure he or she will be very happy to see you

Goldberg said:

I don't mean to be harsh but buying phones and other high value items from any sites like this at a good price often results in a hard life lesson.

If the price is too good to be true then 99% of the time it usually is.

I don't suppose you could sell it for spares, screen, some of the parts of the board etc.. obviously you would have to stipulate the history of the phone which would probably end up with you getting the ad removed from where ever.

I was scammed many years ago out of a games console that I had imported. Was about £700 worth of kit, sold and took payment via Paypal. This was back in the day when Paypal was new and had no protection for buyers or sellers.

I lost every penny...

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£365 doesn't sound implausibly cheap for a 6 these days, there are new ones on the 'well-known auction site' for that and less, scammer obviously knew what (s)he was doing.

If you need a foreign SIM @Malcolm-X let me know & I can send you one. I feel for you.

Might be worth selling abroad as long as its not icloud locked.

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how much you willing to sell it if nothing works out with police or O2

2old4this said:

how much you willing to sell it if nothing works out with police or O2

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Not sure, I'd have to see how much they sell abroad I think. Unless I get a sensible offer.

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trevortron said:

£365 doesn't sound implausibly cheap for a 6 these days, there are new ones on the 'well-known auction site' for that and less, scammer obviously knew what (s)he was doing.

If you need a foreign SIM @Malcolm-X let me know & I can send you one. I feel for you.

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Thanks Trevortron, you'd be a star if that helped me out. Would a foreign sim work here in the uk as I assumed they use our networks anyway?

Also I'm not sure if that iPhone is currently locked to o2 only so it may not accept other sims?

if that were me I would strip it down to it's bare knackers and sell the parts for spares. I bet the screen will fetch a hefty sum , screen, casing, speakers, buttons battery, etc. You wont get what you paid for it but it will lessen the blow

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Not sure, I'd have to see how much they sell abroad I think. Unless I get a sensible offer.

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Thanks Trevortron, you'd be a star if that helped me out. Would a foreign sim work here in the uk as I assumed they use our networks anyway?

Also I'm not sure if that iPhone is currently locked to o2 only so it may not accept other sims?

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I'd have been tempted to make an offer myself up until recently , but I managed to free myself from the manacles of Apple, quite liberating! Doubt I will ever go back.
I hadn't thought of the foreign SIM using the UK networks- which of course it will, so you might still be in the same boat. But you can have one if you want- PM me your address.
500~600 Euros seems to be the going rate for used ones here in Portugal. How the natives can afford that
I will never know- that's the national minimum (average?) monthly wage!

Iphone 6 - OLX Portugal
Iphone 6 - OLX Portugal

(Desbloqueado means unlocked)

I had the same problem with a phone I bought and reported said scammer to the police, they did nothing and warned me not to visit the seller or id be in trouble

brianmac said:

I had the same problem with a phone I bought and reported said scammer to the police, they did nothing and warned me not to visit the seller or id be in trouble

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That's the UK police to a tee! (But they didn't say you couldn't send someone else, did they?)