From: "Phil Payne" 

"Dave Ings"  wrote in message
news:44e09d6b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Similar thoughts occurred to when I followed the link to the Washington
Post
> story. There really doesn't appear to be any arbitrage opportunity here,
the
> (their) story doesn't make sense.

http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2004/may04/20040519_airguitar.html

But they buy an unlocking kit for a few hundred dollars, get themselves a
laptop, unlock the phones and sell them on eBay for $50 apiece.  Or they
use spam email.

I could imagine it working.  Well, not now.

Someone also sold a pair of headlamps off an Audi quattro Sport on eBay for
GBP350.  Granted, the bonnet (hood) costs around $15,000 and most of the
parts are vicious - but the headlamps are off a VW Passat; $10 in any
junkyard.

In the UK, phones are locked to networks, not SIM cards.  If you have a
phone you can get a SIM card on Sheffield market for GBP10 with some free
airtime.  They sell anonymous SIM packs for all providers, so they just ask
if your phone's locked to a network.  If you're really keen on one
provider, they'll unlock it for GBP10.

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