Thanks Bill I'll try this. Actually I'm looking for a real address in NYC or Chicago more than a web address. Cheap Photo gear: I mailed some of the sellers. No one answered me about their real address although I had asked, some of them didn't even have a person name, those who have - it is a Muslim / Arab name, most of them have a phone number beginning with +44.. ( UK ?) Do not look reliable. Pini -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of wpettit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 1:02 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: RE: Cheap equipment Pini: Overstock.com sells unlocked GSM smartphones for reasonable prices. I bought two blackberries from them (one for me one for my wife). We've had no problems. Bill -----Original Message----- >From: Pini Vollach <pinimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Aug 20, 2011 5:38 PM >To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: RE: Cheap equipment > >Thanks to all of you for advices and shops details. >I will not seek adventures with photo gear. >I still don't know a reliable shop address for buying a smartphone without a >contract. > >Pini > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Cunningham >Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:23 PM >To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students >Subject: Re: Cheap equipment > >True, I bought an AT&T Go sim card for US travel this summer. Pooper it >didn't work in Canada. But I must have missed the coordinating unblocked >smartphones. > >On 8/20/11 5:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> On 2011-08-20 05:57, Trevor Cunningham wrote: >>> I'd recommend eBay for this. Or, in Chicago, there's always Devon St. >>> Lots of East European/West Asian electronics merchants from the lake to >>> the airport. The US is rather behind the times with the whole cellular >>> thing and insists that phones be sold with service contracts. >> >> Contracts are more common, but they're not required. My wife's phone >> is a pay-as-you-go model, and there are lots of people selling those, >> from specialty stores to the corner grocery. >> >
