Purchased iPad on contract can I sell it before length of contract ends?

freeofdebt1977

Hi,
Can anyone please advise I purchased an iPad on a 24 month contract from O2. I have paid a few months without issue but I never use it. Can I sell it or do I need to pay each month until length of contract ? Could this be viewed as fraud if I sold it? I will pay the contract each month until length of contract but I'd rather just sell it now.
Thanks

born_again

It's on contract, so yes you need to keep paying the fee till the end of the contract. When it will roll over to a month by month contract.
If you sell it, you still need to pay contract, or you will have one very unhappy buyer when it stops working.

prettyandfluffy

I don't see how they would find out.  Just be careful if you have a SIM package from them as you may not be able to cancel it without penalty.

I got an iPhone from 3 with a separate SIM contract.  The phone didn't have enough storage so I sold it and bought another direct from Apple.  I continued to pay for the original handset until the contract was up and there was no issue but I don't know if what I did was legal.

molerat

2 completely separate things here.

Could you sell the iPad now ....... most likely yes, many people upgrade their device, sell it and carry on using the old one.

But you will still need to pay the monthly payments until the end of contract.

pushpull

Typically the device would become the consumers property immediately, so you should be free to dispose of it as you please.

Unless you have a need for the SIM you're likely going to be better off terminating the contract early rather than letting it run its course.

vacheron

If you sell the device and continue your monthly payment until the 24 months is complete, and then cancel the subsequent rolling contract, you should be fine. 

If you intend to sell and then default on the monthly payments, you will experience "problems". 

user1977

You have to keep on making the payments, but they won't care what you do with the device. It's not like ye olde days of hire purchase where you didn't own the thing until you had paid it off.

Grumpy_chap

user1977 said:

You have to keep on making the payments, but they won't care what you do with the device. It's not like ye olde days of hire purchase where you didn't own the thing until you had paid it off.

I am not sure, with devices supplied as part of a mobile phone contract that is necessarily true.

I understand the devices can be remotely disabled by the service provider using an IMEI number.
There have been threads in these boards where people have purchase a phone / tablet via online sites ("unwanted gift") and then found the item was perfect on arrival but ceased after a short while and the suspicion was that the seller failed to pay the bill so t device got locked as "stolen".

Obviously, not a concern if the OP pays all the necessary monthly payments.
I am not sure that taking a contract with a "free" device when you don't want the device so sell the new device (and keep using old device) would be particularly MSE compared to a more straightforward SIM-only plan.

pushpull

Grumpy_chap said:

user1977 said:

You have to keep on making the payments, but they won't care what you do with the device. It's not like ye olde days of hire purchase where you didn't own the thing until you had paid it off.

I am not sure, with devices supplied as part of a mobile phone contract that is necessarily true.

I understand the devices can be remotely disabled by the service provider using an IMEI number.
There have been threads in these boards where people have purchase a phone / tablet via online sites ("unwanted gift") and then found the item was perfect on arrival but ceased after a short while and the suspicion was that the seller failed to pay the bill so t device got locked as "stolen".

Obviously, not a concern if the OP pays all the necessary monthly payments.
I am not sure that taking a contract with a "free" device when you don't want the device so sell the new device (and keep using old device) would be particularly MSE compared to a more straightforward SIM-only plan.

That's not for non-payment.  It will be when the seller sells the device, then reports it as lost/stolen a few months later and gets a new device or a payout.  Insurers will insist the IMEI is blacklisted and will request proof that it is.

Networks don't block IMEIs for non-payment.