If you're a verizon customer, I really need your help
Hi All,
If you're a verizon customer, I was wondering if you could help me unlock my saga? I'm in the UK and I bought a verizon-locked saga from an ebay seller who was selling it as unlocked, which it wasn't/isn't. It is a GSM phone, which is why I bought it (and it is the only phone that ticks all the boxes)
I was wondering... if you are a verizon customer, could you dial 800-711-8300 for me, as a favour, and ask for the unlock code for my saga (with my IMEI) on your verizon account (me being all English n all, in the UK and wotnot).
I promise it isn't a scam, just a *plea* for help.
I can pay you (paypal) for your time if you wish. Verizon won't accept payment from me, they just don't want to know because I am an Englishman living in England without a Verizon US account. Neither can they help me set up an international account because it won't work with their US 'Global Department' to unlock my Verizon Global phone.
dammit
Would very much appreciate everyone who reads this, who would be OK helping me (it's just a phone call), to PM me, please please, I would rather have a flurry of people contact me rather than the 'bystander effect' of no-one helping, because everyone though someone else would have helped the needy person by that time.
There may be more issues on doing this than just having someone call Verizon and ask for the unlock for your specific phone. I may be wrong, but I can foresee the big V requiring that the phone they're unlocking to actually be activated on the account which is making the request. Even if a person called Verizon and added that specific phone's ESN on their account, the next step in activation would be the *228 for the OTA piece -- I'm not sure that would work in the UK. Maybe it does.
I haven't unlocked my phone, either through the Verizon route or any other, so I don't really know exactly, but I remember reading a post here that someone who had Verizon unlock their phone had to call and have them do it again after a hard reset or something of the sort. So, there's a possibility that certain conditions would even nullify any unlocking that was done this way.
Other solutions may be uber expensive.
I understand that the Saga "fits the bill".. I love mine (when my VZW service is good..) but if I were in your situation, I'd ask the ebay seller to refund you -- PayPal can open a case, too -- because you didn't get what was advertised. Then find a 'real' unlocked phone -- if they even exist.
If the phone isn't currently activated on Verizon's system, I'm pretty sure they will not give out the unlock code. Worse, if the phone isn't free and clear from Verizon (meaning that somebody actually paid full price for it originally), they also won't unlock it. Why don't you call Verizon yourself, and get the story on the phone you have? They're not going to do anything to you. Just tell them the truth. If the phone is free and clear of contract, they may help you unlock it. Here's their overseas Global Roaming support number: (+001) 908-559-4899 (they should be open 24/7)
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