Replacing an Old IPhone

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ididgetwhereiamtoday said:

JSmithy45AD said:

Simplest solution by far is to dump Apple (they're treating you as a mug) and buy a new Android phone for the same amount Apple will rip you off for an old iPhone.

And get about Zero OS updates. Lower to midrange Android (and some high end premium) phones can be very frustrating to live with especially if you are use to the smoothness and ease of use of iPhones. 

this is comically incorrect 

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Cisco001 said:

ididgetwhereiamtoday said:

JSmithy45AD said:

Simplest solution by far is to dump Apple (they're treating you as a mug) and buy a new Android phone for the same amount Apple will rip you off for an old iPhone.

And get about Zero OS updates. Lower to midrange Android (and some high end premium) phones can be very frustrating to live with especially if you are use to the smoothness and ease of use of iPhones. 

Pixel and samsung has relatively long support.

exactly  this  

also the mid range Samsungs and Pixels are fine  as long as you  don;t care  aobut things like  the absolutely  coolest  out of the case styling   or in the case  of the smasung  Midrangers at  least that they don;t have  inductive charging 

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LeesArt said:

Kim_13 said:

tiger135 said:

anyone use cex shops for phones? 

My Samsung S22 came from them a month ago. Ordered at 7:30am upon realising they’d dropped the price and it was delivered by 10:30 the next day. I’d have preferred Click and Collect, but it was not in stock at my local store, so I had to pay the £2.95 delivery fee (they used to offer free delivery on orders over a certain value.) As they ultimately used special delivery and packaged it in such a way that it was not obvious that it contained a phone, I didn’t begrudge being charged for it at all.

I would only order online from them though, as you can then get your money back if you are unhappy with what you receive. If you buy in store, whilst you can see the physical condition of the phone, you’d be in the dark as to battery life and if it doesn’t last as long as you expect, you only have a couple of days to return it for vouchers.

I heard two different people on two different radio consumer shows complain how they had bought phones from such a supplier with a red logo only to find them banned for use in the UK within 3 months.  In these cases the supplier resisted replacing them until there was an intervention.  Personally if it were me I would be reporting the supplier to the Police for handling stolen goods.

In theory this could happen to any supplier but if someone is selling a refurbished phone on Amazon or eBay the supplier can lose their ability to sell on that marketplace, so much more likely to be bona fide.

The question is why was there such a lag in the time it took for these phones to be banned?  In these cases the phones had been replaced under insurance.

 

The only lag I could think of would be if someone has a device contract, sells it (so it comes back clear on an IMEI check at that time) and then defaults, so the provider eventually blocks it. As with anything else, buying something with finance outstanding doesn’t create problem if the original owner honours the agreement they made when they bought it.

I’ve also sold a cellular iPad to the retailer in question in the past, and had to provide ID to do so. The purpose being that if a device became IMEI blocked, they would have the right of recovery from whomever sold it to them (i.e. one trying to profit from theft.) It meant I didn’t try to sell my previous refurbished handset to them, as I can’t guarantee it’ll never get an IMEI block, having not owned it from new. I suppose there are cases where such a seller has no provable assets, so heels get dragged as they can’t recover the loss from the person who should be out of pocket. I would hope that that seller is then barred from selling to them again.

My understanding was that eBay/Amazon wash their hands after a month anyway, and with Amazon you might well receive hand gel instead of the phone ordered. Having several stores locally seemed the better bet, but I’ll remember the consumer radio shows if ever I have an issue. I would never buy an almost new handset from them - these are surely the most likely to be stolen.