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I think they are more into sending unpaid stuff to a collections agency, instead of disabling IMEI but idk depends on the country and circumstances. One think you could do is ask them over the phone if they can negotiate anything, or better yet start trying to negotiate over them over mail, maybe claim that it has some issues and you want a discount etc, or it wasn't as advertised, honestly if you can try to baffle them sometimes you can get away with free stuff or them apologizing, usually they are more interested in giving free or discounted service instead since that's where they make most of their profit... One other thing is that if companies don't respond in a reasonable time to confirming debt it can be erased (this is a very particular process but I know someone who negated close to $9000 dollars in debt by mailing the people he owed debt to repeatedly, if you plan on taking debt on that could get you ahead but it's a very particular and stressful process and I think it's much less of a thing now due to automation.

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Basically debt gets sold to collections agencies who are much more situated to hound people for payment, but often they don't really understand how the debt has validity in same way as the original person you were debted to. So if you ask them to confirm the debts validity to you over letter mail, and they can't prove the debt ie. They don't respond in time the debt becomes invalid. this is to prevent collection agencies from falsely claiming debt etc.

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