mhinc
Well-known member
About the time to finalize porting a phone number, it's instant to get the new phone to work but if you're transferring between carriers I guess it can take a few hours or even days before it's completed and you won't miss calls or texts on the new phone. Not sure if that was the situation, but just playing devil's advocate regarding the T-Mobile employee.
Sent from my LG-LG870 using Tapatalk 2
Well the OP said he was AT&T and they went to a T-Mobile store. Which leads me to believe the phone was a T-Mobile phone. Otherwise why would the craigslist guy need to go to T-Mobile. So yes, I guess it could take a couple days to PORT a number if he was keeping the same number. BUT, the employee should have known RIGHT AWAY that the phone was reported lost or stolen, as he/she would have got a warning as soon as the phone was put into the system.
So we either have lazy employee never did his or her job while customer was there, or fraud. And Craigs list guy and t-mobile employee are in on it. I am swaying that way, since craigslist guy had NO issues going into the t-mobile store. If that was me and i knew that phone was lost/stolen I would have **** my pants walking into a store with it.