Hi all,
Just to update the unlock situation with o2 as I understand it.
Firstly, I bought one of the phones off Dem, and of course all was as described and a pleasure doing business with!
I am on the Three network, my wife is on o2. I chatted to O2 online initially asking how to unlock, they said you need the original contract owner to ring o2, or just pop into store as I don't have the original number for the online form.
Of course o2 in store have no clue why I was told this. 5 phone calls later to a "computer says no person" I decide to try unlocking online for £20 using iPhone unlock.co.uk type site. Bad move... They then charge an extra £30 once they've charged the £20 to actually unlock it... Not visible on Web etc, so going through credit card fraud to claim that back as a scam site...
Then try ringing up with my wife's sim in the new phone (she's been with o2 for years) and 3 clicks later phone will be unlocked for free! As of today it's now unlocked for no charge.
So you need to be an o2 member somewhere, or pay your £45 in a high street repair shop to do it.
Hope that's of some use to the next chap in the future!
So far, I've now bought my wife's iPhone off the bmw forums when I had a 330d, and my iPhone off a maserati forum after owning (for only 6 amazing months) a GT with Larini-can't-sneak-home-quietly sports cats!
Laurence