Help!! Im stuck! (iPhone 4 replacement options)

[kayla.dever]

Hey guys.. okay so i left my iphone 4 in the car and it got completely ruined from the heat. I dont have an upgrade until february..So i bought a brand new iphone 4 off of craigslist..well my problem is when i took it to sprint for them to connect it to my service, they said they cannot connect it because they person that owned the phone either didnt pay the bill or they never cancelled there service on there account.. what are my options?? Please help i paid $350 for the phone and have no idea what to do??
Thankkss!!
Kayla.Dever

[risestar]

You might be able to get a gevey sim and use it on at&T but it'll be blacklisted forever on sprint

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[savenas]

It's a 4, cdma version has no sim card slot, you're stuck other than flashing to cricket (not recommended and/or not legal) or selling on ebay to recover some of your money, I've learned to always check the esn or imei of a phone by calling the service provider before hand, better safe than sorry from now on, good luck

[burgi]

Seriously, harass their customer support, you are a paying customer. Write a mail to dan.hesse[at]sprint.com and complain that you don't understand why you as a paying customer can't use your new iPhone on their network. Make the pain big for them

[johnhere]

I would still try to get them to hook it up. If I was the carrier I would gladly hook up the device in order to recoup the money, so I've never quite understood the carriers not hooking up phones after the last customer fails to pay. Seems like they would rather recoup that money somehow

[jamesstarks15]

I would still try to get them to hook it up. If I was the carrier I would gladly hook up the device in order to recoup the money, so I've never quite understood the carriers not hooking up phones after the last customer fails to pay. Seems like they would rather recoup that money somehow

If the carriers activated those phones, fraud would go thru the roof. Buy a phone on contract in cash, sell it, never pay anything, and claim identity theft in a few months to restore your credit. Happens all the time. In this case, sprint will collect money whether they activate that phone or not, being as the customer appears to be under contract. No reason for them to help a fraudster.

[phonejunkie.org]

Resell on Craigslist

[mrcamp]

See if you can contact the seller on craiglist to try to get your money back. If not, you can try to resell on craiglist.

[eliechart]

Seems like u were a victim of buying a bad esn iPhone. Im sorry my friend, that's y I go GSM

[sectime]

Seems like u were a victim of buying a bad esn iPhone. Im sorry my friend, that's y I go GSM

There is a bumper sticker line
"thieves prefer GSM"

[manofstill2012]

Sorry don't fell bad for you why on earth would you buy an phone off cl without checking the esn sorry you had it coming

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