Cell Phones

Question: Is it really safe buying cell phones from craigs list ?

(Posted by: Sun on 2010-09-03 20:11:26)

I see 100's if not 1000's of Cell Phones Listed on Craig's List for Sale. Just doing some 'Research' about it right now on ones I'd like to have, but have not made up my mind yet on a certain one. I was wondering if you bought one of these from Craig's List and paid several hundred dollars for it what guarantee would you have that you would be able to 'Activate' any of these phones at all ? How could you find out if you could 'activate' it before you buy it ? Or is that something that you would 'not' be able to do and therefore you'd be out your money big time ? Also, how could you really tell if an Individual is trustworthy enough to buy one directly from them when they say they are selling theirs so they can get a Newer one for themselves. I keep seeing 'jail broken' and 'unlocked', so does that mean I could use a Prepaid Plan on one of these Phones no matter what Company made it ? So many unanswered questions on something like this. Contract Phones are NOT good any more on what they tell you when you buy the phone and what you are charged when you actually get the bill. My Friend sure found that out and is now stuck with a BIG BILL. Several calls to Company only got a small portion taken off but not even enough to really say it helped take the Bill down any. I sure don't want to get stuck with anything like that and that's why I was thinking 'Prepaid' only . All suggestions are apprecitated .

Posted by: MadisonK on 2010-09-03, 20:12:50

I wouldn't trust buying anything from craigs list

Posted by: The Phone geek on 2010-09-03, 20:19:38

Meet in a public place check out the phone then exchange cash Unlocked phones work on GSM carriers If you are getting a CDMA phone (VZN or SPrint) ask for the ESN number and call the carrier and verify it has a clean number and can be activated. I sell phones all the time on CL because i usually buy all the bad ass new phones as they come out

Posted by: Matter Malik on 2010-09-03, 22:27:52

Unlocked phones are those which can be used with any networks, mostly GSM networks. where as when you buy a CDMA phones like Verizon its impossible to unlock and use it with other networks.try mobileunlocksolutions.com/ which gives you a list of networks that can be used unlocked phones.

Posted by: Fang Yang on 2010-09-05, 20:16:33

I am never buy items there, i always go to pickegg.com/ wholesale/ Cell-Phones.html for cell phones, which are very cheap and good in use.