Unlock a TCL Phone

I bought a tcl phone on ebay it turned out that the seller stole it from a store and it wasn’t scanned and therefore unable to be activated or unlocked though moving a nother sim card worked. Tracefone promised me they would take care of it but they didn’t. I tried complaining to fcc but it didn’t help. Tracfone has crazy customer service even after verizon bought it! What i want to do is change the imei number in android utility in meta mode my questions are. Which service providers will take a none registered imei number? If i take a imei number from a Old phone will it be registered? What happens if that old phone is locked? Where i a safe place to download android utility?

What do you want them to take care of??
How do you expect them to help you? They were never paid for that device. Why is it their responsibility?

EBAY. Go to ebay to help you. First message the seller, if he refuses to help you, open a claim against him…

All very true but still not getting why its their fault,

Sounds like a lot of work. What model is it? How much did you pay?

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I messaged the seller he allowed me to return but i told its fine since tracefone said once i e-mail them certain information (which i did) they would take care of it. Its a regular tcl flip 2 t408dl

Tracfone wants a store receipt. You bought from eBay not a store. There is no way for them to help you. How much did you pay? Just send back to seller and order one from a real store…

They told me ebay is fine

Whoever told you that from TracFone is misinformed.