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Originally Posted by Anubis_
Hello,
I've read on the forum that some other user(s) got into this unlucky situation where you buy a Kindle 3G/WiFi from e-B-a-y or similar sites and got shipped to their addresses blacklisted kindles...
Now, the first reason why I bought a Kindle was the possibility of getting books from 3G, which is useless when you call up Amazon's CS and they tell you how your kindle has been reported as stolen and is therefore unusable.
I came up with an idea, but before putting any more money out for this I was going to ask some experts (i.e. you guys) if this could make any sense.
Is it possible to buy a new Kindle ( i.e. a broken one) retrieve it's serial number and overwrite the serial number of the blacklisted Kindle with it ( i've read you can do it in debug mode). Then register the kindle normally.
What are your opinions? 
Thanks |
Under which conditions did you buy this Kindle? E.g., price, rating of the seller, ect. Did you try to contact the seller about the issue? You didn't state any of this (
edit: I missed that you are trying to contact the seller in a later post of yours)
I'm not really out to judge you, but perhaps it will help others that are thinking of buying via Ebay or similar sites. I myself got my Kindle of a trusted seller on Ebay without any complications.
I suspert that many of these rip-offs are made possible because people are not careful enough during the purchase (not saying this is true in your case), though I'm also sure that some of these scammers are quite cleaver at this sort of business.