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In Reply to: RE: Does anyone know what to do with a found iPhone? posted by fstein on February 13, 2017 at 14:18:18
1. Find out who owns it and sell it back to them for a couple of hundred
dollars
2. Sell it to the highest bidder
3. See if you can unlock it somehow and keep it for yourself.
Or you could do the ethica thing and try to find the owner ...
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That is what I've been trying to do for over a week now. Apple and AT&T are no help whatsoever. I suspect they are more interested in selling a new phone than finding the original owner. Turning it in to ATT or Apple is equivalent to throwing it away as far as I can tell.
If you have any suggestions on how to find out who owns it, I'm all ears. I don't need it and its probably not worth much as its a model 5. I've got 2 iPhones (work/home), my kids are too young for a phone and my wife is happy with hers. I just don't want to throw it away.
Nate
You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump -- W.C. Fields
I don't have any suggestions for finding the original owner, other than
to check lost and found ads in your local paper and on Craigslist.
As re: Apple and ATT not being helpful, and having no incentive to help
find the owner, this is just another reason(s) not to deal with large
companies who do not give a damn about their customers. airlines are
another sterling example. My advice is not to deal with these people
and to urge others to act similarly. ATT is esp. bad in this regard.
'Apple and AT&T are no help whatsoever. I suspect they are more interested in selling a new phone than finding the original owner.'
Can you imagine how many calls a day AT&T and Apple get like yours? Thousands I would imagine......every single day. Both companies would need to create entire new divisions to handle lost phones.
Thousands of people loose their phones every day. The system is not set-up to handle absent minded owners. iPhones, like most modern consumer electronics, are designed to be disposable.
Throw it away.
That is basically what Apple said but a bit more politically correct.
And I didn't mean my comment as a dig at Apple and ATT. What incentive would they have for returning lost phones to owners? They wouldn't make any money off the deal. In fact they probably stand to make more money if the phone isn't found. They are not the ones who lost the phone, the owner is. My point is that comment was to make clear that suggesting ATT or Apple could/would help is not a meaningful comment. They aren't interested in helping.
Nate
You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump -- W.C. Fields
Cell phones are fairly valuable in the scrap industry, as these things go anyway. I have a basis from which to speak, having been an e-scrap buyer for 4 years. Smart phones especially can often be wiped and refurbished, so just donate it to a charity that collects cell phones for such purposes. Here are a couple of examples that refurbish or recycle for soldiers and/or veterans:
https://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/
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