Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

Simple, because good and experienced eBay users will open the box just to take the pictures and prove to you that you're bidding on a real item. Most people won't/are advised not to bid unless this is done or it has eBay Buyer Protection - anything else is a risk obviously.

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

The seller posted pictures of the real N9 and switched to that crap when sending it to me. The good old bait-n-switch scheme. A less informed buyer would think it's the real deal.

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

my sympathies Ming. Is this the fake n9 with the dual sim that were posted in the news? Hope you get your money back.

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

Probably this one
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/n9-3-5-...a-black-103485

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

I feel sorry for you man. Hopefully ebay will settle this ASAP.. Thats too bad, some seller take advantage on others, using their good reputation. I got my third replacement N9 from nokia Australia few days ago, which all is also made in china, as previous two, and still now have the same noisy camera problem and wrong time display on youtube, even after updating to PR 1.1. It really frustating.. And the phone gets really HOT when using even 2g connection with multitasking 3 to 4 apps..

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

hey, at least you can take the battery out, and it takes memory cards!

XD

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

240x320 resolution? What an abomination to the real N9.

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

WoW...just the other days i saw fake N900 here...really 98% just like the real deal...the different is the menu(system) & no...

at the back (if you slide open the keyboard)


Today i saw a fake N9....same designs & colour (+white colour) but like the N900 fake got the same system insides....


The Chinese really do thing fast.... :D

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

For future buyers, is there a means of verifying a device, by say IMEI?

Obviously, a truly dodgy vendor could sell one device and display an IMEI from different device but one would hope that the host (i.e. ebay, here) might have things to say if that happened.

Re: FAKE N9 (Buyer beware)
 

Ehem.... The original is also made in China, so, you know, they copy here, copy there, get the external that looks almost like ori.;)

Verify IMEI also not much can do, they can send a different device from the IMEI they display.