So I was working at the airport yesterday(I work at a rental car company), and one of my co-workers hands me a Verizon envy, and its in awesome condition. I guess they have been trying to find the owner for about 3 months. They even sent it to a customer and the customer sent it back because it wasn't their phone. Well its odviously enough time has passed that its not going to make it back to its owner. I was thinking of using the envy as my backup to my new phone(lg chocolate) should something happen to it. It just so happens that my phone charger also charges up the envy, so I powered it up and the phone is locked. I want to know if in the event that my current phone craps out, can I go into the verizon store, or a sketchy wireless store and have them reset the phone and activate it for me to use? If not the phone has a 2 gig memory card so I at least go that out of the deal.
I asked on howard forum, but they are giving me the do the right thing routine and that I should hand it in to a verizon store so they can try to track down the owner. Thats odviously way too much effort for a phone that was handed to me. I'd rather smash the phone then hand it in, mainly because that would be way more fun.

 

What an ass.

 

You should send it to Verizon to send back to the registered owner.

If you were any kind of customer service agent this is what you would do.

 

I know I'm an ass, but can I get the phone to work? I could care less about morality and what's the right or wrong thing to do.

 

You should return the phone to Verizon so they can return it to the registered owner...you know the person who paid their hard earned money for the phone you are trying to hack open to use for your own.

 

Find the owner and send it back.

Find the cell number, and call it from an activated phone. Chances are they kept the number. Say that your company has been trying to find the owners for the past 3 months and ask where they would like the phone sent to. They might say just keep it, if they had insurance on the phone.

But any Verizon place will do it for you. When I bought a replacement phone on eBay they activated it and reset it for me.

 

The right thing to do is send it to Verizon.

 

they proably have the insurance and have since already gotten a new phone. I don't need morality lessons, I just want to know if I can use the phone or not. I will not return the phone to verizon. I'm either going to use it for my own personal use or I'm going to smash the sucker.
I know I'm an ass, if I found a large sum of money I would keep it instead of trying to find the rightfull owner, no matter how much of a sob story it is.

 

you can get the phone to work

 

It is still stealing if you don't at least make the honest effort to return it to the customer.

Yes you are an ass because the phone is traceable back to it's owner. Large amounts of cash is an apples and oranges scenario