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MeMelYup wrote:

mojo84 wrote:

MeMelYup wrote:The person most likely wanted the phones without activation.

Those prepaid phones aren't typically activated at the time of purchase. It's done later online.

When the phone is scanned for sale the register requests that the serial number also be scanned. Usually people buying in quantity don't want the serial number scanned because that starts the activation of that phone and registers it as being sold.

Interesting. I thought that serial number scan was to verify the phone was properly sold and was authorized to be activated at some point in the future and no personal account info taken. It's my understanding that Is just to prevent stolen phones from being activated.Is that not the case?

MeMelYup wrote:The person most likely wanted the phones without activation.

Those prepaid phones aren't typically activated at the time of purchase. It's done later online.

Pig Renter wrote:If it's a law, I don't like it. Why would anyone need that many phones? Don't know, not my business.

Maybe he has a small business and is buying for his employees. Maybe he is about to hike the Appalachian trail and needs reliable phones for him and maybe a couple of his buddies. Maybe he hates Walmart and wants to buy a year's supply so he doesn't have to go there anymore.

Sure I'd be curious too, but in the end it's not my business, Walmart's, or uncle sam's.

Don't know if you realize it or not but there are all sorts of "red flags" out there that retailers, bankers, insurance agents, car dealers etc. have to watch out for and report if they meet certain requirememts.

Boerne is a long way from the Appalachian mountains. Is the cell service for cheap burner prepaid phones really that reliable there?

I hear you about Google. I used Startpage. It didn't look like a law to me either. Seems arrange to be buying that many burner phones at once.

My wife and daughter came home from Wal-Mart today with an interesting story. They went to the electronics section to get a couple of things my daughter wanted. There was a guy at the electronics cash register when they heard a guy at the register getting a little frustrated and somewhat beligerent. It didn't take them long to realize the guy was trying to by 15 prepaid phones. The clerk was explaining that the register wouldn't allow him to finalize the sale and he had called for a supervisor.

When the supervisor saw what the guy was purchasing, she immediately said she is terminating the transaction because she couldn't sell him that quantity of prepaid phones because it is illegal. She said The most she could sell him would be 2 per transaction and 5 per day. The guy got really agitated and angry. By then, my wife and daughter decided to move along and create some distance between them.

Is that really a law or just a Wal-Mart policy? I also wonder for whom he was getting that many phones. Was he getting them for drug dealers, criminals or terrorists? Makes me wonder if he is one of these thugs.

Made for a semi Interesting little story. Not a lot of excitement in Boerne.