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In Reply to: RE: Yes! posted by texanater on February 14, 2017 at 06:40:04
'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.
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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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