If its from the factory it doesnt have a bad ESN. No factory iPhones would have a bad ESN, only time you get a bad ESN is when a device has been reported lost or stolen.
If its from the factory it doesnt have a bad ESN. No factory iPhones would have a bad ESN, only time you get a bad ESN is when a device has been reported lost or stolen.
All phones in the US have an ESN, whether they are iPhones or not. It is a legal requirement.
Where are you going with all this? Are you trying to buy or sell one with a bad ESN? And yes, Ebay does allow phones with bad ESN's. They are supposed to disclose it, but it doesn't always happen. It can have a bad ESN also if the owner has defaulted on the account.
I have a friend who sold one iphone 4 with a bad esn and he told me he coudn't afford his plan nomore and let it grow for a few months and he was cut from verizon so that phone can't be used with verizon, but anybody else can flash it to another carrier that is not verizon and accepts cdma.