Garz
Retired Moderator
I also purchased the iPhone for full retail price and T-Mobile, like the jerks they are, still locked the device. It pissed me off, to be sure.
Yeah I found mine became locked when I sold it to brother n law. Luckily it was my brother n law and I took like a week but got T-Mobile to unlock it again. I was so glad he bought it and didn’t sell it on swappa and got stuck. Now I just finance my phones on T-Mobile so when and if I sell it, I can request an unlock after it’s paid off. Not worth buying unlocked phones if you use on their network. Plus you get free Apple Care with T-Mobile if you buy their $12 insurance. Saves me $199 up front from Apple. Only difference with that is it won’t transfer to new owner because if it get activated under a different account, it gets removed.