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eBay bans stolen phones |
axxxr
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Along with the London Metropolitan Police eBay have banned the sale of handsets that are barred.
Whether eBay will be able to police the ban remains to be seen but at least its a step in the right direction.
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fatreg
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that will never work...
"phone doesnt pick up a network" will be what you see from now on..
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masseur
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strange  I thought this was in their restricted items for a while now
anyway, it can only help make stolen phones less saleable and thus less worth the bother of stealing in the first place.
as a side note, Esato doesn't allow the trading in barred phones either 
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Sammy_boy
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Yes, I bet phones will be appearing with a 'network problem', or 'no signal' instead!
Step in the right direction though, shows they want to do something about it
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Vein
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They were still great for spare parts...
But yeah they're still being listed, just under difference "aliases" 
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Mulder7
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Prob will just sell as spares as Vein said. Still worth what 40/50 pounds depending on what make and model I guess.
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Scorchio
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I just don't see this working. For example, where a phone is barred in Ireland, It will work anywhere else. The only way this can be administered is if all countries share banned IMEI's AND then give ebay access to that list. Then of course, you have to introduce a policy where all phones sold on ebay must have there IMEI provided to ebay officials.
A GREAT idea but not realistic!
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daz221980
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Somehow i can't see them stopping everyone selling barred/stolen phones.
They still let people sell fake dvds and pc software even though there rules forbid it.
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Luke-the-magic-man
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Hmmm now this is one of those things I feel a bit funny about. I am in no way a theif and have never stolen a phone, but I do get barred phones in now and again, one time I used a phone for a year and that it got barred forcing me to buy a new one, the main problem was if this happens to you within like a month it could mean loosing over £100 on a phone and no way to recover that... |
Stone_Ox
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Couldnt ebay ask for the IMEI number then when it gets sold on, there is proof of where it was bought from. So if it was barred for example, details could be sent of who bought and sold it, then maybe recover some costs?
Then again, theres always that risk where the seller of the stolen phone wont reply to e-mails and just shut down or never log into the account again.
Hang on, but then wouldnt ebay be able to log the sellers ip address and if they broke the law, report them, or would that be breaking the data protection act?
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Luke-the-magic-man
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yeh, but ebay dont care that much about their customers!
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Sammy_boy
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I have a bit of a dilemma now, I recieved a K750i off Ebay with supposedly just a broken screen. It actually had a W800i mainboard in it as stated in the auction, but when I tried it with another screen the damn thing's most likely blocked! I suspect the seller knew this and was a bit careful with his wording, at least I didn't pay too much for it.
I might re-list it as having a signal problem (it could well simply have a software problem), be interesting if anything's said.
One thought that occurs is that this new ruling could mean more people are dishonest - whereas before they'd list a phone as blocked or barred, so you know what you're getting, I can see there been a lot more phones listed as 'Untested, don't know if it calls in or out, no returns or refunds accepted'. This could make buying secondhand or faulty phones even more risky than before 
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brix25
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Most stolen phones don't end up on eBay but in places like Nigeria and Ghana. Can't they find a way to ban stolen cellphones wherever there's a GSM signal?
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aragorn666
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how do they know its stolen
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aragorn666
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i heard tat peoples change the imei no of stolen phones
is there any other way tjo track a stolen; phone other than imie
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