Patent ID: 8060409

Claim:
A method for providing an online auction of a previously activated wireless telecommunications device, the method comprising: a web server connected to one or more online client devices, wherein the web server performs a method stored in a storage medium and executed by one or more processors comprising: forwarding an indicator for display on the client device to a user, where the user is a winner of an online auction of the previously activated wireless telecommunications device, the indicator being associated with an option for the user to certify the previously activated wireless telecommunications device for use with one or more providers of telecommunications services; and certifying the previously activated wireless telecommunications device in response to the selection of the indicator by the user, wherein certifying the previously activated wireless telecommunications device further comprises comparing an identifier associated with the previously activated wireless telecommunications device to one or more identifiers associated with one or more wireless telecommunications devices that are indicated as not certifiable by the one or more providers of telecommunications services.