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Organized retail theft rings. Both the stuff you see on the evening news where a group grabs everything off the shelf at an Apple store and one off thefts from

by mike_d 4y ago

Organized retail theft rings. Both the stuff you see on the evening news where a group grabs everything off the shelf at an Apple store and one off thefts from places like Best Buy. The fact that Amazon willingly participated in this scheme is a strong indicator that they were getting a high volume of charge backs and returns that they had to eat because the devices were new in box but couldn't be activated.

asadlionpk 4y ago
Are you telling me Apple doesn't immediately ban those devices?
- sokoloff 4y ago
  Isn't that why GP says they'd be getting returned to Amazon?
- galuano1 4y ago
  Some devices have their warranty expired, but not disabled per se.
drewg123 4y ago
Couldn't Apple just enable Activation Lock for the IMEI or serial numbers of the stolen devices? Maybe the retailers are not able to report the serial numbers / IMEIs of stolen devices back to Apple?