Remove Google Account After Factory Reset (2019)

Post by Schroedingersat » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 11:23 PM UTC

Underphil wrote: post #69

Schroedingersat wrote: post #68

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I mean, we have that. It's called an imei and you can't change it. All that would be needed is for anyone selling a phone to provide the imei and some id to a govt service to assert that they are the current owner and intend to sell it for x price on y day. If you don't do this check and buy a phone, you're held liable if it is stolen. If you do, and it passes but later turns out to be stolen, automatically reimburse…

You can't change it, but you can find it inside the phone, no?

That's...the point?

Have a central database of registered owners.

Allow current owner to assert that they own a given imei in a way that the buyer can check on said database.

Post by butlerm » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #62

butlerm wrote: post #36

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Credit card providers not only do not buy anything that goes on your account, they do not pay for anything that goes on your account. They transfer funds for purchases that you make, and make payments on your behalf. As such they are neither the buyer nor the payor in any credit card transaction.

They are the payor in every credit card transaction. Merchants aren't waiting for you to pay your credit card bill. The provider gets paid back when you do that. That's why it's called a "credit" card.

This is semantics, but the payor in a commercial transaction is normally considered to be the customer / purchaser regardless of whether anyone anywhere extends credit to them. It is their name on the account.

The credit card issuer doesn't appear in the vendor's accounting system, they count the payment as having been made by the customer purchaser. It is only for relatively limited purposes (ones that approximately no one ever thinks about) that the credit card issuer is considered the payor. The merchant vendors generally don't care, don't know, and don't record. As if they are going to care whether the customer uses a Capital One credit card or one issued by his or her local bank.

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