{"id":455,"date":"2014-07-30T21:26:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.swappa.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2020-09-24T12:49:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:49:21","slug":"why-are-bad-esn-devices-allowed-to-be-sold-on-the-boneyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/why-are-bad-esn-devices-allowed-to-be-sold-on-the-boneyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are bad ESN devices allowed to be sold on the Boneyard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea for <a title=\"Swappa Boneyard\" href=\"http:\/\/swappa.com\/boneyard\">Boneyard<\/a> came primarily from legitimate business sellers and re-sellers that wanted to be able to sell all of their devices, even the devices they ended up with that aren&#8217;t activation ready or otherwise sellable on Swappa.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases the Swappa sellers are re-selling devices that were activation ready when traded in, then blocklisted afterwards by the original owner to the re-seller&#8217;s detriment.<\/p>\n<p>We are not trying to make it easier for thieves to profit, rather trying to help legitimate businesses recover some money after getting burned by dishonest customers.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, thieves don&#8217;t typically use sites like Swappa which leave a digital trail of a purchase and provide recourse for bad transactions. Rather, thieves use Craigslist and cash, so they can disappear when the deal is done.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve built Swappa&#8217;s reputation on being the safest place to buy and sell by operating our business with the utmost integrity. We don&#8217;t plan on letting the more relaxed criteria\u00a0of <a title=\"Swappa Boneyard\" href=\"http:\/\/swappa.com\/boneyard\">Boneyard<\/a> change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea for Boneyard came primarily from legitimate business sellers and re-sellers that wanted to be able to sell all of their devices, even the devices they ended up with that aren&#8217;t activation ready or otherwise sellable on Swappa. In many cases the Swappa sellers are re-selling devices that were activation ready when traded in, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,36],"tags":[90,45],"products":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boneyard","category-swappa-2","tag-boneyard-2","tag-esn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15223,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/15223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"products","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swappa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/products?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}