Best site to check of a phone is stolen/lost?

harveybobbles

I've been offered a Galaxy Note 3 by a baghead family member and would like to know which site is the best for checking to see if its stolen/lost etc.

They only want £50 for it - I assume their dealer is due tomorrow, hence the low price.

My plan would be to take it to CEX and sell it if its not stolen.

Silk

harveybobbles wrote: »

I've been offered a Galaxy Note 3 by a baghead family member and would like to know which site is the best for checking to see if its stolen/lost etc.

They only want £50 for it - I assume their dealer is due tomorrow, hence the low price.

My plan would be to take it to CEX and sell it if its not stolen.

The catch would be even if it's not reported stolen at the moment if it does get reported at a later stage you would then be liable

harveybobbles

I do know that she's had this phone for most of the year and has been using it.

I just think her dealer is due this weekend or she owes money out.

Silk

harveybobbles wrote: »

I do know that she's had this phone for most of the year and has been using it.

I just think her dealer is due this weekend or she owes money out.

If she has it on contract and stops paying it will become blocked which is the same as stolen. If you sell it to someone like CEX you have to give proof of ID etc so they can recover at a later date if this happens.

harveybobbles

Think it's only iphones that get blocked for non payment of bill?

Silk

harveybobbles wrote: »

Think it's only iphones that get blocked for non payment of bill?

95% of all phones that are blocked is because the networks have not had full payments for the contracts and does not apply just to iPhones. It also can take up to 3 months for a network to block so what a report says now can be different in a month or two
However if that is what you think and it's not an iPhone then pay the £50 and ignore the advice

d123

Silk wrote: »

95% of all phones that are blocked is because the networks have not had full payments for the contracts and does not apply just to iPhones. It also can take up to 3 months for a network to block so what a report says now can be different in a month or two
However if that is what you think and it's not an iPhone then pay the £50 and ignore the advice

Have you got any proof of that? I've worked for 2 networks and it wasn't procedure with either, blacklisting happened for lost,stolen and fraudulent connections, never for a customer going into default on their account. That was handled by sending the account to collections and DCA's, the handset has nothing to do with the debt.

The only exclusion I can think of might be O2 Refresh where a seperate agreement covers the handset finance.