I own a pawn shop and I have some apple products that were sold to me but the are firm ware locked how can I resolve this issue

I own a pawn shop and I have a number of apple products but some are firm ware locked and iCloud locked. These item are now my property. And I need help in order to prepared them for resale?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

Posted on Feb 28, 2014 9:43 AM

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Posted on Feb 28, 2014 9:50 AM

Read this first

it will explain Activation lock

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818


The only way to unlock them is to have the original owner to release them ,as explained in the above document

The iPhones may have been stolen or the donors intended you to be left with a brick


There is no solution .Apple will NOT unlock them ,it is an anti theft device and since it was introduced with iOS 7 from the posts here it will be very successful at making stolen iPhones useless

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Feb 28, 2014 9:50 AM in response to Community User

Read this first

it will explain Activation lock

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818


The only way to unlock them is to have the original owner to release them ,as explained in the above document

The iPhones may have been stolen or the donors intended you to be left with a brick


There is no solution .Apple will NOT unlock them ,it is an anti theft device and since it was introduced with iOS 7 from the posts here it will be very successful at making stolen iPhones useless

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I own a pawn shop and I have some apple products that were sold to me but the are firm ware locked how can I resolve this issue

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