Before you buy that Sidekick on eBay…

[negronese]

just saw this on hiptop3.com
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"It sounds like T-Mobile had a huge theft of phones over the weekend. Someone broke into a warehouse and stole around 36,000 phones, roughly worth about $8.2 million. And the kicker, most of these phones were Sidekicks (we’re assuming LX and Slides). T-Mobile of course has all of the IMEIs for the devices on record, and they’ll be keeping an eye out for any of these devices by monitoring who activates them. So if you see a deal that looks too good to be true, and the dealer is a little bit sketchy, you might want to pass. Here’s the internal email that got sent out to T-Mobile dealers:

“Wanted to let you all know that one of our warehouses was broken into over the weekend and some 36,000 phones were stolen (worth about 8.2 Million). The most significant phones stolen were the Sidekick phones. Please make sure you inform the dealers who like to purchase gray market handsets that we are aggressively working with law enforcement to prosecute anyone who has these handsets. We do know the IMEI’s of the stolen phones and once they end up on our network we will go to the dealer code that activated the phone. So if your dealers get a call about Sidekicks and the deal is too good to be true you will know why.”
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so watch out to everyone who is tryin to buy a sk off ebay

[Paolo]

can t-mobil blacklist imeis? meaning will a phone be blocked from placing and receiving calls if the imei is on a blacklist database over at t-mobile?

[shaznizzle]

Users can just skip the activation part, unlock it and use it with other sim.

Other than that, I dont think SideKick will punish anyone buying a stolen SideKick, from the way I see it its not the buyers fault and they should have paid more for security.

Bottom, nothing wrong if you didnt know it was a stolen one.

[xburnerx]

Oh come on, how the hell do you steal 36000 phones, specifically sidekicks, and no one notice? You would sure have to know your way around the warehouse to designate enough time to find and load em. I call hoax.

[Amw3000]

Seems like one site posted the story and everyone just followed.

NY Times has it posted and local police are on the case so id say its pretty reasonable.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ick-phones/?hp