Network blacklist requirements
 

If a phone came factory unlocked (and thus not restricted to a specific carrier), do the standard blacklist criteria still apply?

I'm about to buy a new phone off eBay from a local seller but was offered a cash deal at a decent discount which obviously benefits us both but then I'm not offered any sort of buyer protection.

I'm aware that the phone will be blacklisted if you're on a contract and you stop paying your bill and also via the stolen phone scam best exemplified in a recent thread involving some RS members.

Yes. Blacklist and Unlocking are two different things.
Blacklist is an IMEI being reported as lost/stolen/unpaid bill/contract unfulfilled/etc, resulting in no signal to your phone.
Unlock/lock just means whether the phone will allow you to access the sim card. So for Android/most other phones, it will ask for a code before you can use the sim, or for iPhone, it will take you away from the home screen and say sim not valid.

Even if you unlock a phone, and say you can put in other sim cards into the phone, if it's blacklisted, since it's the signal being blocked, you can put any sim card you want and it will still never get signal. Except mobilicity of course, which doesn't participate in that.

I was under the impression that the network providers don't care unless the phone was purchased through them. Since its factory unlocked....

Read the sticky: http://www.revscene.net/forums/60431...ed-phones.html