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Well i bought an iphone 4 over the summer to try out and mess around on but it is just to boring, the only exciting thing on it is angry birds, and madden but oh well. So im gonna sell this and try and find a "mini pc"... not as big as a netbook but larger than phone
This is most likely what im gonna get but its got a high price tag so im looking for something similar to it.
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...d=8198552921644608896&langId=-1&storeId=10151
So I'm selling a phone on craigslist...a guy calls me this morning wanting to buy my phone...I go to meet up with him at a QT gas station in Decatur, Ga....to make a long story short, there were two guys and they robbed me for my phone and drove off.........well....long story short....my car is faster than theirs and they quickly found out that I had an assault rifle in the car...my phone was promptly returned to me. Then next thing I know, I get a call a few hours later from someone telling me they saw my story on the news...but the guys who robbed me are on the news crying victim (saying they got robbed). Well anyway I went to Dekalb County Police and showed them the receipt for the purchase of the phone, craigslist ads, and online auction ads, and I easily proved I own the phone. Now there's a warrant out for the arrest of the guy who is on the news pretending to be a victim. Moral of the story: You guys out there who use Craigslist..BE CAREFUL!!....especially in Atlanta.
Here's a link to the story (this is what the robber told them): http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28442577/detail.html
Update: The guy who gave the bogus news story is now in police custody (as of 9pm last night) and is facing robbery charges. I interviewed with the reported today and they will broadcast an updated story today. I will post it up when it airs.
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The robbers are in police custody now and Channel 2 news has aired the corrected story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tTwkq8usas
wow, what a great story.
Which ever way it went... BBC son, BBC.
omfg thats epic, there are LOTS of craigslist robberies (myself included, but got my laptop back), and i love hearing the retaliation stories, this is on the top 3 for sure
EDIT: just read the article, wtf is wrong with the media?!? they still make it seem like you are the bad guy, id demand a redaction or reprint with the facts
THUG LIFE!
Solidus_n313 said:
omfg thats epic, there are LOTS of craigslist robberies (myself included, but got my laptop back), and i love hearing the retaliation stories, this is on the top 3 for sure
EDIT: just read the article, wtf is wrong with the media?!? they still make it seem like you are the bad guy, id demand a redaction or reprint with the facts
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Yeah I spoke with Tom Jones over at Channel 2 and informed him of what really happened and the fact that the police will be picking him up (if they haven't already). I also pointed out to him the inconsistencies in his story (the same inconsistencies the detectives noticed from the beginning). He said, when they ran the story they weren't able to speak to anyone besides the guy who robbed me...so they didn't have anything real to go on....my thing is if you couldn't do any fact checking then why the heck did you run the story?!....
hahaha thats hilarious, they were speaking to the CRIMINALS, and let them go anything for a story
at least it had a happy ending!
Story is confusing. It starts of correct talking about the seller got robbed but half way through the article they make it seem like the buyer went after the seller with a gun.
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" I had an assault rifle in the car" !
I live in the UK, sod the robbery having a rifle in the car is far more serious!
But what did the prick think was going to happen going on the news, criminals can be so dumb.
Great story thanks for sharing.
NardVa said:
Story is confusing. It starts of correct talking about the seller got robbed but half way through the article they make it seem like the buyer went after the seller with a gun.
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U read the op? The robbers gave the statements
Always take a friend. Always take a gun. That's my craigslist chekclist
Yes great story wild wild west *lol*
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Jasand said:
" I had an assault rifle in the car" !
I live in the UK, sod the robbery having a rifle in the car is far more serious!
But what did the prick think was going to happen going on the news, criminals can be so dumb.
Great story thanks for sharing.
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Yeah he's definitely a dumb criminal. He could have just left, and we would have only had a phone number to go on, and probably would never have caught him. But because he was dumb enough to get on the news, and make a false statement to the police, they have his information. And as it turned out, HE HAD PRIORS TOO! lol The cops showed me a picture lineup and had me pick him out. Now he'll soon be behind bars where he belongs.
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Always take a friend. Always take a gun. That's my craigslist chekclist
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hahaha thats an important life lesson in the XDA world
i bought my S4G off craigslist, cash in hand, and the system ive worked out for buying/selling work pretty well for tech.
i got him to put my sim in the new fone, turn it on and show its carrier unlocked, if all is well, do the handoff, let him count the ducketts, and we were on each others way in less than 5 min
also it was done in a subway station, so lots of ppl, lots of cameras and a friend standing nearby nonchalantly
but if you have an assault rifle, he is your best friend in that situation
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Really? You're going to have a shootout (if they have a gun as well) with the robbers over a $250 smartphone?
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And as it turned out, HE HAD PRIORS TOO! lol The cops showed me a picture lineup and had me pick him out. Now he'll soon be behind bars where he belongs.
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hahaha finally! some justice! even thought you had to do most of the legwork
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Really? You're going to have a shootout (if they have a gun as well) with the robbers over a $250 smartphone?
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Better to have one and not need it than need one and not have it.
I'm sick of these lying bums in Dekalb County. I feel you bro,glad you got the phone back. I'm on that side of Atlanta too so I know.
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Great story! But one thing... an assault rifle in the car!? Your allowed to have assault rifles!?!? Damn California.... I cant have jack **** here. Pretty funny those robbers didnt have any idea what they were getting into. How did they rob you in the first place? Did they pull a gun or what?
glad it all went well. sometimes robbers **** with the wrong people and get what they deserve.
I dont do craigs list. Too sketchy, rather sell on ebay and not make as much money.
lol i do.
yesterday i needed some quick cash because of a move im doing and i was short on my energy bill...
so i put my sprint galaxy nexus on craigslist for sale/ trade.
last week i got it new in the box for 150. a deal to me for sure.
i got a bunch of crap offers but eventually someone offered me their epic 4g touch and 100 cash for the gnex.
so we met up at a sprint store and called customer care because the store cannot do active phone swaps and we both went home happy.
right away i listed the phone on craigslist, within a few hours i got a few offers, mostly junk but one was or seemed to be worth while.
a white iphone 4 8gb, with case and charger, even trade. so telling her i was interested i posted the white iphone up on craigslist also forsale/trade before i even had it. i got many offers, a few low balls (lol even 50 dollars with the excuse that its outdated and old and the new iphone will be out this month lol), then a 225.00 offer, a 200 dollar offer, you get the idea. i entertained them all, but one of the guys ended up changing their minds and made a even better offer, he retracted his 200 dollar offer and said he would trade me his mint condition epic 4g touch with case,charger and 100 cash... BINGO lol, i quickly accepted.
how could i loose, i met up with the girl at 615pm to do the swap for my epic touch for her iphone 4, after thats done i wait for the guy who comes at 7 and we call sprint all over again and do another swap, it all works out and i leave with another 100 in cash and the same phone i came in with lol.
so i was tainted with a apple phone for about 10 mins... Lol it wasn't that bad but the screen was hard to adjust to.
anyone else flip on craigs? needless to say i have my epic back up on CL for hopefully another trade or sale.
i already got my epic touch running jellybean and honestly its not too much different then my gnex minus the lte which i dont have yet and the HD screen which is noticeable to me.
Seems kind of immoral to me. It's like abusing Wal-Mart return policies to make a buck. You're using Craigslist outside of its intended use for profit. But you do what you gotta do to make the bills work: I personally would not make a habit of "flipping phones".
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Seems kind of immoral to me. It's like abusing Wal-Mart return policies to make a buck. You're using Craigslist outside of its intended use for profit. But you do what you gotta do to make the bills work: I personally would not make a habit of "flipping phones".
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lol immoral?
im using a public website that is made for buying,selling, and bartering.
thats exactly what im doing.
im not "abusing" or misusing anything, and its not a mega corporation where im scamming their return policies.
its a buy sell and trade website..
thats exactly what im doing.
in fact there are reality tv shows based on this same thing, that where they use outlets like craigslist, people do it with everything under the sun, from tvs, to cars.
im not ripping anyone off or telling people things that they arent.
im giving people what they want and im getting what i want.
exactly what the website is for.
When you start to talk about morality, you instantly are entering into a subjective paradigm in the philosophical/metaphysical sense. However, I do agree you're in a way taking advantage of peoples lack of knowledge on the tech you're trading. Is this immoral? Depends on how you define it. If both parties are happy and walk away from the deal feeling like their was an equitable exchange, then I personally don't think so. Ignorance is bliss I guess. Now, if you intentionally mislead the other party into believing they're getting a much better offer than they realize for your profit then yes this is, to me, immoral, but I don't think your doing this. It is the reason I believe the majority of advertisements and those working in the field are in some sense immoral, but this is getting off topic.
In short, I haven't done it and for me the amount of time and effort isn't worth the small return.
I didn't mean to imply you're ripping anyone off. I just find it interesting how one can make a buck nowadays. I stress the kind of part because I read about the iphone part and it boggles my mind how people are willing to pay so much for so little. I get that if the needs are met then it's fine. However it boggles me further how people can conclude the iphone 4 and the galaxy s2 phone is of equal value. Galaxy s2 clearly has better specs plus MIUI more than makes up for the iOS experience. I get that not everyone is gifted with our passion which is why I use the term "immoral" for someone who knowingly barters with this information in hand. But I do agree with l3lessed that if the girl is happy then that's what matters. Then I conclude that while the ends justifies the means this time, I wouldn't make a habit of this kind of business.
That said: I'm sure you can many people in the MP that has "flipped phone".
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I didn't mean to imply you're ripping anyone off. I just find it interesting how one can make a buck nowadays. I stress the kind of part because I read about the iphone part and it boggles my mind how people are willing to pay so much for so little. I get that if the needs are met then it's fine. However it boggles me further how people can conclude the iphone 4 and the galaxy s2 phone is of equal value. Galaxy s2 clearly has better specs plus MIUI more than makes up for the iOS experience. I get that not everyone is gifted with our passion which is why I use the term "immoral" for someone who knowingly barters with this information in hand. But I do agree with l3lessed that if the girl is happy then that's what matters. Then I conclude that while the ends justifies the means this time, I wouldn't make a habit of this kind of business.
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Ahh I see.
I was just short this month and this way its legal Lol
Everyone was happy. In fact all the deals I did were brought to me, made by the other party.
I agree the iPhone to me isn't worth much but as everyone can see they have a huge faithful following, enough so to dump more premium phones (in our eyes) in order to have one.
Locally regular iPhone 4 non s versions are still selling more than galaxy s2s.
Its mind boggling to me actually.
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I flip phones all the time. If i find a great deal then i will most definitely snatch it up. One thing I never do is low ball. I always offer them a fair price that's low enough for me to make a profit, yet sits well with conscience. Business on Craigslist is easy money if you can negotiate.
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I can't see the immorality in his actions. He's entertaining offers from others and not misrepresenting his goods. If anything, I'm impressed by the fact that youre arranging Craigslist deals in advance and juggling it all. You should get into stocks or futures or something and make real money with your talents.
It's not immoral, nothing wrong with it.
I have done that once or twice, it's how I get "new phones for free" but honestly it takes too much time/effort/driving and to me is not really worth it. I do it like once a year to upgrade my phone but that's about it. It's not a bad way to get a decent device though, just be willing to put up with all the BS that goes along with it.
I actually prefer the MP here for the most part, except for a few items that are overpriced here that I want to buy or underpriced (compared to local prices) that I want to sell.
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I can't see the immorality in his actions. He's entertaining offers from others and not misrepresenting his goods. If anything, I'm impressed by the fact that youre arranging Craigslist deals in advance and juggling it all. You should get into stocks or futures or something and make real money with your talents.
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If I only knew where to begin.
I'm stuck at a dead end job for the last 8 years and live check to check.
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I apologize I thought I was in the off topic section.
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Damn, that's a really good idea. Never though of that. ;p
KayxGee1 said:
I flip phones all the time. If i find a great deal then i will most definitely snatch it up. One thing I never do is low ball. I always offer them a fair price that's low enough for me to make a profit, yet sits well with conscience. Business on Craigslist is easy money if you can negotiate.
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Exactly.
Low ballers make me sick,but that's just a part of Craigslist.
Its not hard to do,but can be time consuming and irritating when you run into tire kickers and people who bs.
Throughout all the years I've used Craigslist for everything under the sun, from TVs,to fish tanks,to cars,refrigerators and probably other things I can't recall. But I've never have had one bad experience, never been robbed or put into any bad situations.
You just have to be smart and smell a bad situation before it happens.
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Exactly.
Low ballers make me sick,but that's just a part of Craigslist.
Its not hard to do,but can be time consuming and irritating when you run into tire kickers and people who bs.
Throughout all the years I've used Craigslist for everything under the sun, from TVs,to fish tanks,to cars,refrigerators and probably other things I can't recall. But I've never have had one bad experience, never been robbed or put into any bad situations.
You just have to be smart and smell a bad situation before it happens.
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I've never been robbed either. Just very nice people looking to buy and sell items.
If they want quick cash and I'm willing to buy, so be it. I take the time to relist the item and sit on it for a few days, a week, hell I've sat on an item for 3 months! It's all about time and effort. Here in NJ, there are really good deals. Business is just business.
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alpha-niner64 said:
Seems kind of immoral to me. It's like abusing Wal-Mart return policies to make a buck. You're using Craigslist outside of its intended use for profit. But you do what you gotta do to make the bills work: I personally would not make a habit of "flipping phones".
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So you feel the same about people that flip houses, cars, etc? Essentially you hate capitalism? Supply & demand, etc?
I made money on craigslist this pass week. I just sold my GS3 for $400 (which I bought new for $440 on eBAY) and with the money I bought a white EVO LTE in mint condition for $225 which I sold on Ebay for $340 ($300 after fees and ship).
I list it on XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900703 but the memebers here are to cheap to even recognize a good deal.
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I made money on craigslist this pass week. I just sold my GS3 for $400 (which I bought new for $440 on eBAY) and with the money I bought a white EVO LTE in mint condition for $225 which I sold on Ebay for $340 ($300 after fees and ship).
I list it on XDA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900703 but the memebers here are to cheap to even recognize a good deal.
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Very nice.
I made some additional moves on Craigs list recently which I didn't post about.
I traded my gs2 for a white 16gb 4s which in return i traded for a new in the box black evo lte.
Sad to say I'm surprised that the resale value on these phones aren't higher, because the lte is not too much different than the gs3...
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I have for years!
Sent From My Amaze.
I think it depends on your local community. For me craigslist is a massive headache full of flakes and people wanting msrp for 2 year old used tech.
I can't even tell you how many times I've relied to ads and been ignored.
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Well our kiddo pulled off the impossible and made honor roll and went from referrals every week to not having a referral to the office all year.
I gave him my xbox for making honor roll, but I've given all of my games away to single mothers over the last few years, and now our lil guy is in need of games.
I had Forza 4, and a few zombie slasher type games but those will give him nightmares. Do any of you have any older or budget games lying around that you could donate or sell real cheap? He doesn't have to have to latest and greatest for him, just some fun games for a kiddo about 8. Maybe some games your or your kid have outgrown.
He has the instruments from rock band and guitar hero but no game discs, and also has the Kinect. It's brand, new someone gave it to me as a gift, and I'm letting him use it as well as my xbox 360.
If you have some things laying around that would be affordable to someone on a tiny budget let me know. I have a fedex account and will cover shipping, or might have things to trade also.
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Well our kiddo pulled off the impossible and made honor roll and went from referrals every week to not having a referral to the office all year.
I gave him my xbox for making honor roll, but I've given all of my games away to single mothers over the last few years, and now our lil guy is in need of games.
I had Forza 4, and a few zombie slasher type games but those will give him nightmares. Do any of you have any older or budget games lying around that you could donate or sell real cheap? He doesn't have to have to latest and greatest for him, just some fun games for a kiddo about 8. Maybe some games your or your kid have outgrown.
He has the instruments from rock band and guitar hero but no game discs, and also has the Kinect. It's brand, new someone gave it to me as a gift, and I'm letting him use it as well as my xbox 360.
If you have some things laying around that would be affordable to someone on a tiny budget let me know. I have a fedex account and will cover shipping, or might have things to trade also.
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Do you have a local game stop? You can find some cheap used old games there. Perhaps ebay or amazon?
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Ive come to realize that everything and everyone has value and can be bought in the market for higher than actual prices or bought, traded and many times stolen then sold on the black market. Many people has been designated as being valued at 7 one dollar bills and some change. Sadly I thought it was ridiculously low before I found out it wasn't the 8.50 in my mind. So with everything breaking just in time for the newest release and commericials making the guy with an old phone look like an outcast its no wonder antidepressants have many pharmaceutical companies counting their money, not because theyre worried about a bill or a kids lunch money but because its not.illegal for companies to rob and steal from people even though if one of us did what they do we are looking at 25 years easy behind bars. Yea, conning people out of their money and bank robbery are serious crimes unless you have Inc. Or Co. after your name. My reason for this is because the little flappy plug broke off on my.Samsung galaxy.s4 active after 2 months and now its not considered water resistant anymore. Not like it was anyways but now instead of replacing it they say its not covered because the usb cover isnt on there like I took it off so I could root it or something. So they can sell a defective item and when it defects it somehow legally puts them in a more financially sound place. Wow what a mission statement. Our motto here at [email protected] "If it was made more than 6 months ago and still works, we made it wrong." Now I.understand why a lot of items have inspectors initials or numbers on them. Cuz when they get all the defectives back they can see.whose are still on the street and get Donald Trump in there to say "you're fired," and they use his or her next check to give bonuses to defective unit inspectors for units going bad one day outside the 3 day warranty they legally had to issue.
What geniuses they are to promote blogs and such, just like this one here, so we can read and complain to each other and drop the number of would be complaints to there websites and call centers by an estimated 70%. Blog it up America. Letter from our government and Big biz>>>>>*
Dear internet, thank you so very very much. First we would like to say sorry for scaring you with internet shutdowns and what not. That was just to prove a point. Yes, it worked. We would never do that though. Restrictions and complete surveillance, you bet your bandwidth bubba, but you're a cornerstone of todays democracy. Keep sending those "isnt America a republic" google searches over to "america and George Washington love democracy too" pretend a history sites. Well so long, you are forever in our thoughts and stuff, the best double agent that ever has or will of been. Can you imagine if people took to the streets in protest again. Budget, deficit, two words I refuse to say, hurts to type them. Yes we can change whatever we want to.
Forever yours, big guv n big biz
P.S. Facebook likes you, we lied and said you liked her too. I mean without her we would still be hacking myspace and aol accounts. Anyway she's a big fan. Millions of thanks, a billion more if China keeps up its westernized movement. So long you sly devil.
So im taking donations to hopefully get a website/company up and.running that takes complaints from you and sends them to the proper company or calls them. Whatever it takes to get these complaints heard by the ones selling this garbage instead of calming others down because they feel better that it wasnt just them that got robbed. Its time to be heard and they better hire some people to listen if I have anything to type about it. Peace fellow humans.
The flappy cover was crap, but it's not a conspiracy.
This reminds me of What Really Grinds My Gears by Peter Griffin.
I can not deny that there some truth in your post, manufacterers want you to buy new phones so they can make more Katjing.
Yesterday I ordered the S4 Active and I'm very excited about it.
After some online research I've come to the conclusion that the S4 Active is NOT made for being dipped into water.
Some tests showed that you CAN dip it into water, without damaging it. But some showed that the water damaged the phone's screen.
Of course, we don't know if those second tests were performed under the right circumstances, e.g, phone cover, usb jack, water temperature, although most testers say they were. Capability of assuring those circumstances is another story.
I am still going to use this phone to make underwater pictures, but to brag and showboat by deliberately throwing it into water is certainly not worth risking a 500$ device.
PS: I called Samsung and asked about the warranty. They told me you can NOT use it in a hot shower, because of the (hot) steam. Besides that, she said that the phone has been designed for taking low depth underwater pictures. If it should damage anyway, you can send it to Samsung, which will probably take at least 4 weeks, and they will investigate if it was a defect device.
If it is, you're getting a new one. If it isn't, it was probably your fault. If it wasn't your fault, then you just got screwed.
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So im taking donations to hopefully get a website/company up and.running that takes complaints from you and sends them to the proper company or calls them. Whatever it takes to get these complaints heard by the ones selling this garbage instead of calming others down because they feel better that it wasnt just them that got robbed. Its time to be heard and they better hire some people to listen if I have anything to type about it. Peace fellow humans.
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I thought that was what the Better Business Bureau was for? I'm in the US but I would bet other countries have a similar organization?
My Old Phone
I treated it like a new born baby and my galaxy note i717 sucked from the moment I go it. Then 2 years later 2 months before I was eligible for my next upgrade the turd phone's charging port went and a week later it would switch from full 5 bars of cell signal to 0 signal and drop calls all the time...AT&T didn't care I had insurance but it would have cost $200 to get a new phone cause the note was no longer made. They wanted to give me a note 2. I declined because the note three was coming out in a week and a half. I just got a new phone plan and got the S4 active. No problems since. I was mighty pissed though!!
Motorola Defy is the exeption to this rule. Its bullet proof.
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Motorola Defy is the exeption to this rule. Its bullet proof.
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I agree my defy lasted me a whole two years i went caving with it, climbing, fishing and dropped it in the sea once where it sunk to at least a meter and once it was in my fishing box that fell over board and still worked, i took it sailing while it was in my pocket, my pocket filled with water but the phone was fine only trouble was the screen did get a fair few scratches on it by the time i sold it. the little flap was much better on that too
the s4 active i had to send one off for a broken gsm reciever and one for water damage all i did was walk in the rain for a few hours.
so the next one that came i stripped it and filled it with non toxic fisk tank sealant put it back together added a wireless charger filled the back cover and all screw holes with sealant and filled the flappy port with sealant and hopefully now it should be all good thinking of sticking kitkat aosp on it now as samsung are taking an age to release 4.4