I would suggest a new Verizon store, that one could be selling "New" used phones that others have returned.
It happened to someone else on this forum, the phone still had contacts in it when he got it.
If someone who has ChompSMS could clarify a few features. It looks good but I want to be sure it has certian features before I make the jump.
Does chomp sms reliably resend an sms when you get back in cell range (IE you send a txt outside of tower range, and it will when it gets back in...