There are lot of sellers in India who are selling blackberries bought from Orange (UK and europe) and AT&T (from USA) through various sites in India, here is a little warning, if you are looking to spend 25-30k, always go with the authenticated blackberries as trying to save 2-3k can later cost you a fortune.

What happens is, there are lot of businessmen in Delhi, Mumbai, Indore who import blackberry phones from europe say countries like poland as the cost of blackberry is about 30% less there, similarly from USA and then these people sell the mobiles in India for healthy margin. You can see Orange and AT&T mark on the phones as in India, only vodafone and airtel are selling blackberries (now realiance too has joined it)

So what happens is, these people get the orange and AT&T blackberry, unlock them and sold them on various sites like ebay India, rediff, sify and various other ecommerce sites but here is the problem, if the blackberry gets damaged and stops working you have no where to go, specially people in small cities. I have also noticed that there are some minor changes in UK/USA blackberry and the once which are sold in India, specially in display screen so what happens is, if you want to get repair parts, not only it will take more time to get it fixed, it will also cost you more money.

So the ideal thing to do is, if you are looking to buy a bold 9000 or 9700 or Tour (the costly blackberry phones) stick to the official vendor in your country as later on, these imported phones can cost you lot of trouble, fortune and waste of time.

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