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my boss bought a phone some time last year and about 2 months ago it stopped working. turns out Optus blocked the IMEI number and refused to tell my boss why. he bought this phone 2nd hand of a guy some time last year and it was working for a few months. And sadly my boss bought it with cash so he has no proof of perches. as far as i read there is no way to get them to unblock the IMEI, which is really really dumb. and changing the IMEI/ESN is highly illegal. i don’t wanna go to jail but i still want to help my boss recover some of his losses. because Optus refused to mention why it was blocked i am going out on a limb here and hoping that if it was a stolen phone they would request it be sent to them so it could be returned to the rightful owner. now that that’s out of the way i read it was still legal to sell a IMEI blocked phone provided it is stated it’s IMEI blocked. the phone is in good working condition with no cracks on the screen either. what parts could i sell? should i just sell it whole?
The boss bought it from a guy that basically most likely reported it stolen. I havent seen a method that is possible to change the imei on the s6. Only the S4 and older have viable methods but require expensive programming boxes in order to do so. Probably not worth doing yourself.
Just sell it to celphone shops where they can dissect the parts one by one and sell them
