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I run a business dealing with used games retro games consoles, and a not-insignificant part of this involves buying and selling faulty items. E-waste chains, e
by AussieWog93 4y ago
I run a business dealing with used games retro games consoles, and a not-insignificant part of this involves buying and selling faulty items. E-waste chains, especially for devices like iPads and PlayStations, are ridiculously complex, international and informal.
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the thief here really was just a chav on a bike that flogged the phone off cheap to some guy he initially met on Facebook Marketplace. That guy probably paid a couple of quid to some random in India to attempt to unlock the phone remotely (without telling the buyer how he does it), and when that failed it would have been shipped to a contact in China who the buyer knew paid $x for a iPhone with an uncracked screen.
Also interesting to see the difference in culture. In Australia, if you lose your phone (almost always from falling out of your pocket, I've never really heard of anyone having theirs stolen), you just call it every couple of hours until the person who found it picks up. Then, you fling them a bit of cash or booze when you go to pick it up and everyone's happy.
- Bilal_io 4y agoSame experience in my home country, Algeria. In most cases you'd call and someone would be happy to meet and give you the phone, and they won't take money. This happens even though most people don't have iPhones, and carriers don't lock phones, so technically it's easier to format the phone and use it or sell it.
- genghisjahn 4y agoThis has happened with me in the US twice. My wife lost her phone, daughter lost her phone. Made a call, "Sure we'll wait here." Got the phone back both times.
- 13of40 4y agoBack when the iPhone first came out, one of my friends got one. One day we ended up going out fishing on a boat with another guy and we all left our phones on the dock so they wouldn't get wet, and I signalled to my wife to pick them up. Apparently she didn't understand my hand gestures or whatever and left them there, and they disappeared. For the two junky flip phones there was a happy ending - someone dropped them in the window of a park ranger's truck - but the iPhone was never seen again.
- RektBoy 4y ago>(almost always from falling out of your pocket, I've never really heard of anyone having theirs stolen), Lol, I wonder why?
- eric__cartman 4y agoGod I wish I lived in a country where that were the norm. And not have some crack head steal something to sell it for peanuts later.
- 4gotunameagain 4y agoI think it was a joke about Australia being up-side down :)
- Uyuxo 4y ago
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