Best Buy Finally Called and Asked Me To Return The GN

[Suprtrukr425]

OP is listed as being online...anyone notice if he's been on the whole time?

 

[radgatt]

Best buy can kiss my ass if they think I would return that phone. If they blacklist the phone they would get sued in a heartbeat.

 

[dimsdale]

This thread is nothing compared to the one on phandroid.***Official Galaxy Nexus Pre-Release thread***(LEAK:THURSDAY'S THE DAY, BABY! w00t!!) - Android Forums

Those boys have got themselves pretty well convinced that preorders will start tonight at midnight eastern.

 

[Premium1]

Best buy can kiss my ass if they think I would return that phone. If they blacklist the phone they would get sued in a heartbeat.

except they can do that. you know the tiny fine print nobody reads? The OP would just be wasting his time and money..

 

[YourMobileGuru]

This is completely and utterly false. Verizon has no way of bricking your phone besides deactivating your SIM, which then would just be as easy as going into another store and asking for a new mSIM. Most likely after deactivating the first SIM they will just mark the account as closed and move on, not even paying attention if you get a new SIM.

Stores don't just hand out SIM cards they actually link them to your account and have to re-enter the phone IMEI for verification (at least in the system I use, not sure about corporate stores) and it would come up blocked. Also in all likelihood the IEME of the phone would be blocked preventing activation. Trust me they are quite thorough.

 

[Premium1]

Those boys have got themselves pretty well convinced that preorders will start tonight at midnight eastern.

They have been saying that for awhile though. Probably just another clueless csr.

 

[YourMobileGuru]

EDIT: The guy calling you like mad is probably begging for his job right now.

Very likely... or he has already done so and is waiting for their decision.

 

[deviouslylost]

lmao - duh, my bad dude! I didn't fee like going ALLLLLLLLLLL the way back to the initial post to figure out the dude's name But thanks for setting me straight. BTW, if you click refresh, it seems that someone is posting on this thread about every 10-20 seconds - friggin' awesome! I think someone said it earlier: "Epic."

It's my fault, just assumed. Yes this is epic.

 

[dadsterflip]

Those boys have got themselves pretty well convinced that preorders will start tonight at midnight eastern.

Really now lol.

 

[ManBearPig618]

They have been saying that for awhile though. Probably just another clueless csr.

The Phandroid boys?

 

[mechapathy]

Those boys have got themselves pretty well convinced that preorders will start tonight at midnight eastern.

26 minutes. . .Not that I care, I won't have the money til Wednesday and I'm gonna go to a store anyway. But let's watch. At least if it doesn't happen, the thread will be fun to watch.

 

[deviouslylost]

Someone should hit the phandroid thread with "Jumper" lyrics after midnight.

 

[ManBearPig618]

26 minutes. . .Not that I care, I won't have the money til Wednesday and I'm gonna go to a store anyway. But let's watch. At least if it doesn't happen, the thread will be fun to watch.

Doesn't VZW do midnight pacific?

 

[mechapathy]

Someone should hit the phandroid thread with "Jumper" lyrics after midnight.

How about "Tubthumping?"

 

[mechapathy]

Doesn't VZW do midnight pacific?

No clue. Just going off the quoted post.

 

[YourMobileGuru]

Just because it was said to you doesn't mean they can do that. I have a feeling it was either just to scare you or he meant he was going to deactivate your sim card.

Given that the situations are almost exactly the same I am inclined to take bworley50 at his word. In his case Moto gave the device before VZW approved it and in this case BB sold the device before VZW had approved the sale (worse they had actually issued instructions to NOT sell them). If there is something about the device that Verizon believes is detrimental to their network they WILL brick the device, and have every right to do so.

 

[JoeNM84]

Given that the situations are almost exactly the same I am inclined to take bworley50 at his word. In his case Moto gave the device before VZW approved it and in this case BB sold the device before VZW had approved the sale (worse they had actually issued instructions to NOT sell them). If there is something about the device that Verizon believes is detrimental to their network they WILL brick the device, and have every right to do so.

Then they better brick all the demo units... more of those out there than actually sold devices

 

[Premium1]

Doesn't VZW do midnight pacific?

No EST unless it is an iphone and then they go by apple's time lol.

 

[YourMobileGuru]

They cannot make the argument that the device is unauthorized when there are thousands upon thousands of the exact same device currently using the network. It doesn't matter if they are in consumer's hands or not.

Thousands? lol maybe a couple dozen. Most of the demos floating around are not activated yet.

 

[Droid800]

Given that the situations are almost exactly the same I am inclined to take bworley50 at his word. In his case Moto gave the device before VZW approved it and in this case BB sold the device before VZW had approved the sale (worse they had actually issued instructions to NOT sell them). If there is something about the device that Verizon believes is detrimental to their network they WILL brick the device, and have every right to do so.

People, get your terms straight.


BRICKING-making the device non-functional, and unable to be powered on or used in any way.

DISABLED-deactivating the sim remotely, and possibly blacklisting the ESN.

Verizon cannot brick a device. The only thing they can do is deactivate the sim. And they can't even do that without jumping through many legal hoops.


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