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This really sucks, what to do now????
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Posted by: Jattah

I am really besides myself. I have always purchased items on ebay without a problem and now it finally back fired. I have wanted a treo for a while but been short off cash. I finally put aside a little change and got lucky on ebay and got a Treo 650 for sprint for a fairly good price. Anyway when I called sprint to activate the phone I was told that the phone was reported stolen/lost after I provided the clerk with the ESN. I tried explaining to her that I bought it online through ebay. She did not want to hear it. So i tried getting in-touch with the seller but not surprised he is no longer a registered member and has not returned any of my emails. I have tried for 2 weeks now and sent out more than 50 emails and no reply. Now I am stuck with what looks to be a new Treo 650 from Sprint but can't activate it because of a bad ESN#. This really sucks what am I to do now. Has anyone ever experienced this, if so what did you do?

Posted by: NailsByMee

Sorry to hear about that, but I don't know what you can do. This is why buyers get the ESN# cleared with Sprint before bidding. Have you tried contacting Paypal or your bank? What type of payment did you use?

Posted by: johndoe2k4

jattah can you post the link to the ebay auction after I take a look at it I can tell you what I think

Posted by: sirclown82

goto the ebay customer help page and do a live chat w/ a customer service person. they should be able to help you if anything can be done.

Posted by: Fatal99

I once had this same problem on ebay, I purchased a phone that was stolen. After a few weeks of calling insurance and sprint I was finally able to email proof that I purchased the phone from someone and they reversed the phone of the stolen blacklist. But this was with nextel, don't know if sprint works the same.

Posted by: scadle

You aren't by chance from the bay area in california are you? Saw an ad on craigslist with almost the exact info on it...

Posted by: CrunchDude

Unfortunately, with CDMA phones (Verizon and Sprint), if the phone was ever stolen or lost and the person called it in, it is blacklisted and you cannot activate it ever. Sorry for the bad news. Whatever seller sold you the phone is the culprit. Well, maybe he/she didn't know either.

A general rule applies when buying ANY CDMA phone from anywhere other than an official store is CHECK THE ESN BEFORE YOU BUY!!!!!! People have gotten burned this way a lot in the past.

Posted by: yakky

You can always sell it for parts on ebay....

Posted by: fisher109a

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I would resell it if I were you. Or make your bank refund your money.

Hope for the best of luck.

Posted by: TWO515TY

Well if he resold it, and mentioned that the ESN is blacklisted, then he wouldn't get very much money for it and he'd be out of money.

Posted by: CrunchDude

That's correct. He would get next to nothing, most likely. Only people who would use it for parts will probably bid on it.