here's the story.
my sister has verizon. so i decided to buy her a verizon for cheap. found a iphone 4 in decent condition on craigslist. for 380$. so i bought it.
when we tried to activate it, we were told that the iphone has bad esn. and has been blacklisted. could be either for non-payment of bills or because the iphone was reported lost/stolen. the Rep wouldn't tell us exactly. nor would she tell us who it belonged to.
so i tried getting in touch with the seller on craigslist. but surprise surprise..he had disappeared. and so had the listing.
so i did my research and listed it on ebay. and advertised very clearly that it has a bad esn. so that i could get atleast some of my money back. well, somebody did end up buying it. and after sending it to them..i thought everything was right with the world.
A week later he calls me and tells me that he didnt know that it had bad esn..and wants to return it. so i said ok, ship it back, i'll refund the money.
and after that i didn't hear from him.
here's where it gets weird.
every couple of days he will call me...i can hear people talking in the background. but he won't reply...after shouting "hello hello" about a million times, i'll hang up. and redial..and he won't pick up. this has happened too many times for it to be just a coincidence.
so, my question is this. can he involve the cops in this? and am i in the proverbial deep ****? what kind of game is he playing? please help.
if this is the wrong forum for this, please let me know..and i'll take my problems else where.
thanks.
my sister has verizon. so i decided to buy her a verizon for cheap. found a iphone 4 in decent condition on craigslist. for 380$. so i bought it.
when we tried to activate it, we were told that the iphone has bad esn. and has been blacklisted. could be either for non-payment of bills or because the iphone was reported lost/stolen. the Rep wouldn't tell us exactly. nor would she tell us who it belonged to.
so i tried getting in touch with the seller on craigslist. but surprise surprise..he had disappeared. and so had the listing.
so i did my research and listed it on ebay. and advertised very clearly that it has a bad esn. so that i could get atleast some of my money back. well, somebody did end up buying it. and after sending it to them..i thought everything was right with the world.
A week later he calls me and tells me that he didnt know that it had bad esn..and wants to return it. so i said ok, ship it back, i'll refund the money.
and after that i didn't hear from him.
here's where it gets weird.
every couple of days he will call me...i can hear people talking in the background. but he won't reply...after shouting "hello hello" about a million times, i'll hang up. and redial..and he won't pick up. this has happened too many times for it to be just a coincidence.
so, my question is this. can he involve the cops in this? and am i in the proverbial deep ****? what kind of game is he playing? please help.
if this is the wrong forum for this, please let me know..and i'll take my problems else where.
thanks.