checking IMEI/MEID

markfrommodesto wrote:

Check Your Service and Support Coverage - Apple Support, asks for the Serial Number. The person selling the iPhone in question only gave the IMEI/MEID number.

I would be suspicious of that seller. See→The All Too Common SAD Reality of Buying a Used iPad/iPhone

As I tried to say above, enter the IMEI number there where the serial number is requested.

Enter it here.

Check Your Service and Support Coverage - Apple Support

Of course, that will not provide vital information such as whether the iPhone is Activation Locked by its previous owner.