Stolen phones? Where to Look?

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I have a question to ask, is there some kind of Database out there that could let you know if a ESN is stolen? i know where not the police or anything like that but it would be nice i think to find out of a phone is stolen or not, i have had so called run in's with people saying oh that phone you flashed was my phone and it was stolen from me etc or i found it etc. Like i said, i know where not the police etc, it just be nice to know if something like that out there.

Also what do you guys do when something happens like that?
 
xD wtf lol thats cool, now the question goes who up to date is it and dose it get there blocked list from the Companys ie Cricket or Sprint etc or is it just data that people have inputed into there site,



*ill have to dig up a phone that i have blacked listed and find out.*
 
just be careful. out store advertises that we buy up used phone, blah blah. Keep good recorRAB of who and when u buy from in case anything happens.

I have people say ther same thing- "that phone in the case LOOKS just like a phone I had stolen from me." If they want to show proof of a ESN/IMEI being theirs, I have no problem returning it to them if it was indeed stolen.
 
i buy used phones 2, ill return to whoever the owner is, sometimes ill browse thru phonebook, if its still there, call mom or dad, and ask if sum 1 is missing a phone, if its there's, they pay me the price i paid for it 2 get it back, so i not at a loss, for the ones that get buy, well, thats why everyone likes cricket. :P
 
I think he is purchasing a phone, and then when someone comes looking for the phone, he sells it to them even if its the original owner.

I know most companies actually just give the phone to the rightful owner. I believe its against the law to sell and receive stolen property :)
 
Companies would start loosing out on money if they returned phones. Specially if they paid top dollar for the phone.

Most used cell phone companies try to do their best when buying phones not to buy stolen one's but its next to near impossible to know if it has been stolen unless it has been reported. VZW, SPRINT wont tell you that the phone has been stolen only info you get out of this ***'s is that it has been blacklisted for lost or stolen.

If someone comes in and say's that it is their phone and have proof it is their's thats fine most companies will in fact return it for the price they paid. Even in court (Personal Expericene) the judge will see it as fair. How it works is that you are supposed to keep information of who you are buying the phone from though. We keep recorRAB of drivers license's of each personal we buy a phone from. After that if someone claims to be their phone we ask them to pay us the fee of the phone in many cases from 15 to 100 dollars, Once that is done we file a police report with the original owner and give the police officer the information of the personal who sold us the phone. It is then the customers job to either press charges and get their money back or they dont have to do anything...

This is how I (we) most of us do our busniess.
 
i'm pretty sure you cannot sell someone back their own stolen property. check your local laws. IANAL but i believe just by possessing stolen property you are breaking the law in most states, although i believe it is unlikely you would be charged with anything in the situation you described.

as for what you paid... it's a business expense... write it down. you could probably go after the person that sold it to you to attempt to recover your money, but trying to extort it from someone that had their property stolen is just wrong.
 
I understand what you are saying, but like i said i have had this gone to court and based on a personal experice this is exactly how the judge in my state described how it should be done.

It is up to the person who had their properity stolen to proceed and press charges.

We are uncertain and do are best to find out if the phone is stolen. Now when companies such as sprint and verizon will not share this information their is nothing we can do. If a customer where to come into are store and say i have had a phone stolen can you look out for it we will indeed look out for it and if it came in we hold the phone and call the original owner of the phone in.
 
We are not asking them to buy their phone, we are asking for reirabersment. As far as we know and have tried we are not allowed to right it off. As it was not stolen from us.

A lot of them dont mind reirabersing us the money when this sort of situation happens. We have the police come over file a report and we help them to the best we can...

I even went through this once found my stolen mogul at a store paid 60 bucks to get it back. In my eyes i was glad to get it back cause i know what kind of stores are here and which ones just buy them up and sell them with out ever recording anything.... To me thats wrong that has intentions to screw people over.... As well as selling their phone back to them for more the what you actually paid for to me thats wrong... If the company only bought the phone for 20 dollars then they should only accept the 20 dollars back but i have seen some people say yeah we paid 50 or 60 dollars and tell them thats what they have to pay to get it back.. To Me that is just screwed up and that is selling the phone back to them.

Im not in the used cell phone busniess anymore so i really have nothing much to say its all based on P.O and local state laws.

All i do is unlock and reprogram cell phone's
even then i still see companies charging more and more for this, even more then what the is actually worth its crazy.. I've seen people get taken for 125$ unlock... I've NEVER CHARGED THAT MUCH IN MY LIFE EXCEPT FOR A 1:30am in the morning travel unlock that was 80 dollars for my time plus trip charge plus unlock of a v3xx.
 
Amoamare, i agree, thats what we do too. if i buy a phone for $15, we record, a phone nuraber full name, and esn, imma start doing driver license now 2 :P. thats a good idea. but yea, if sum 1 says thats there phone, and have ANY kind of proof, they pay me the $15 i paid, and its fine. i am unaware of that being illegal, almsot impossible to know with srpints, on active accounts, or stolen, i hate sprint, and sanyos. =/

And, I ASK them if they will pay, what i do, so company isnt at a loss, if they argue fact, i will not hold there phone. i will return, and msot people dont mind paying 10-50 bux for there fone back.
 
In the end i take it is that if all the companys would work together which will never happen, but one can help, is if they just have one DB that all the ESN's and IMEI's get put into, as far as the GSM companys go, i head that in the EU if you report a IMEI stolen, if you pop the sim in there and you try to make a call it wont work it just make a busy sound and or just drop the call. thats what i read years ago, but yeah never the less one DB that everything got put into would be nice .
 
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