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green here and today we got five red flags to avoid when buying an iPhone and
we want to save you money and if you're out there looking for an iPhone if
you're wanting to buy one whether you are looking to buy one for yourself or
if you're looking to buy to perhaps flip it and resell it or if you're into phone
flipping then these are five red flags that you want to avoid when you're ready
to make that purchase so we'll get into it right away the first thing you want
to avoid is a phone with a bad ESN or financed and this is probably the
hardest thing to tell because you never know the phone can be financed and you
don't know that until you actually try to activate it for yourself or let's say
you turn around and sell it on a platform such as eBay and a month later
they get back and can't and the phone is disabled well now you have to return
their money so one way to look into this the best way to do it is by going to a
website called sick w comm and what that website does is it looks into the ESN
number and tells you if the phone is perhaps reported as lost or stolen or
even if it's financed so that's one Avenue you can take sick w.com I will
post that in the description below the second thing you want to avoid is a
phone that has an iCloud that's locked or an activation lock or whatever you
want to call it but you want to avoid the phone that has if you try to turn it
on and it has an iCloud account in there and you can't reset the phone then stay
away from it sometimes it will be sold that way they might tell you like we
mentioned on point number one that it has a bad
ESN or a bad or iCloud locked then you want to stay away from it but if you see
the phone in person and you turn it on and you go to settings that's where
you'll be able to tell if it has an iCloud
count on it if the persons in front of you tell them to reset it if they can't
then stay away from this another thing you want to avoid is if they tell you
that the fingerprint reader is is not working so if they tell you right off
the bat hey the fingerprint reader is not working then what that means is that
the screen might have been replaced and therefore it is not an original Apple
screen an original iPhone screen and what that means is the resolution is not
going to be as crisp so a lot of repair people when they replace the screens
they will just keep the the home but that came with a new screen and they
might be a little lazy and they might not replace it with the original home
button that way if the original home button is back on the original phone
it'll work but they tell you right off the bat that hey look this phone the
fingerprint readers not working you might want to stay away from it because
that means that the screen was replaced at one point and it might not be an
original iPhone Apple iPhone screen that's a third point the fourth point is
if it has a cracked camera lens so when you look at the phone or if you're
asking the person to send you pictures tell them to send you pictures of the
actual camera lens so if the camera lens might have a hairline crack sometimes
it's really difficult to tell but if it's got a hairline crack in there
that's gonna be a little bit difficult to repair and let's face it nowadays
everyone has a phone and they want to take pictures with it so you're already
taking a major portion of your audience if you are into phone flipping or
reselling phones that's something you want to stay away from even if it's for
your own personal use of course you want to be able to take great pictures with
it and point number five and last but not least if you look on the bottom here
you see that there's supposed to be two screws on here and there's only one
screw there and one is missing so those are called pentalobe screws so if it's
missing one or both of the pentalobe screws that go in there you definitely
want to run away from this phone because that means the phone might have been
opened at one time and the repair person that worked on the phone was very
sloppy lazy and perhaps even lost the screws and didn't even bother to try to
get a replacement screw in there they just put one in there and and called it
a day so imagine if they did that on the outside one might have happened on the
inside of the phone if they tried to replace let's say the battery or that
let's say they replace the screen there's a lot of screws that have to be
removed to do all this and if they did not put the screws on the outside they
forgot to put one or two or lost it it fell off the table or whatever then
imagine what might have happened inside and stuff that you can't see so again
those are the five points you want to stay away from recap once again any any
phone that has a bad ESN or financed you want to go to sick w.com and check that
in there it is a paid service but it is better than many I've seen out there if
you do have a another service that you use please let me know in the comments
below that's point number one bad ESN or Finance point number two is
going to be your iCloud lock or activation lock if that's the case
definitely stay away from the phone point number three if the fingerprint
reader is not working so if they tell you they fingerprint readers not working
that means it's probably got a non-oem screen or non-original screen you want
to stay away from that point number four camera and lens you want to make sure
there's no cracks on them sometimes there is a crack and even the seller
might not even been aware of it if they didn't take pictures for a while and
then of course point number five if there's one or both of your pentalobe
screws are missing you definitely want to stay away from that but if you do
know of any other things you definitely want to stay away from those are the top
five that I can think of but if you know any more please let us know in the
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