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Re: 3 Verizon Phones - Throw Away or What?

Joseph (JoeOfSeattle@yahoo.com)
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:21:29 -0800

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:04:03 -0800, Paintblot <sssssssssssff@ef.com>
wrote:

> I'm permanently leaving the USA in a few weeks. I have a Verizon
> account with 3 telephones, 2 of which are almost new. These phones
> have 2 year contracts. When we leave, what should I do? I cannot take
> them back to Verizon, because all they'll want is the big dollar
> contract buyout, which I won't pay (let them attack my credit, who
> cares, I'm not coming back here). Sell the phones? Aren't they banned
> from continuing to work on the Verizon network, and locked into the
> Verizon network? Just destroy them and throw them away?

If the contract was not fulfilled or you have not paid the account the
ESNs on the phones will be shown to be in default and no one will be
able to use them. I'm not sure how contract terms will have any
effect on it though.

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:04:03 -0800, Telecom digest editor wrote:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My personal advice, for whatever it is
> worth, is sell them for a few dollars each and get what you can out of
> them. If you know anyone you can generally trust, sell them a phone
> (for ten or twenty dollars?) with the understanding that _they_ can
> continue to pay the bill for the remainder of the contract (or until
> they get tired of paying the bill and/or the phone gets turned off,
> whichever comes first. PAT]

If you mean pay the charges as if he was someone else that would work.
If you meant taking over the account Verizon would likely require a
credit check.

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