Don't do it

I bought the phone to save money from buying a Straight Talk phone at Wal-Mart or something. Plus I liked that it was gold. They had everything to activate the phone with Straight Talk. I got the phone activated fine, but I had no mobile network. Did the typical turn the phone off and on. Didn't work. I called Straight Talk, and they had me check the network mode in the settings, and found out my network mode was wrong. It couldn't be changed though. It had the option for the mode I needed but wouldn't let me select it. I then contacted Verizon, since it's a Verizon phone. They couldn't figure out what was wrong, they thought maybe my phone was locked and I should contact Samsung. I contacted Samsung and they told me they don't lock their phones and suggested I should probably just return the phone. Samsung thought maybe the phone was "blacklisted" as lost/stolen and that was the whole issue. I spent 2 days trying to figure all this out, just to return it, and never got a clear answer of what was even wrong. Giving 2 stars because returning the product was absolutely no problem at all. The seller is very responsive, and everything went as it should.

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