Thread: Can't Register Kindle 3 (Keyboard)?
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Old 01-04-2014, 03:10 PM   #3
rcentros
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Originally Posted by l_macd View Post
I guess that's always the danger of buying from a pawn shop. At least you have two working Kindle's.... and I wonder if the pawn shop will just try to resell it anyway?
I don't know. At $10 the temptation is to just keep it and side-load books to it. I'm surprised Amazon doesn't request you send these Kindles back to them. They just wanted me to return it to the pawn shop(?)

I know now that, if the used Kindle is a 3G model and 3G doesn't come up, that there's a pretty good chance it's been "deactivated." But none of these were charged, so I had no way of knowing even if they were 3G. It would be nice if they somehow let you reunite the Kindle to its owner, but then the owner could have just reported the Kindle lost or stolen for insurance purposes, or out of vindictiveness after losing it the pawn shop. It would be interesting to find out if the one who sold it to the pawn shop was the registered owner, or not.

All and in all it was still a fantastic deal for the ones that work.
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