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Direct Unlocks Reviews Summary

The company has garnered a mixed reputation, with many customers praising its efficient and quick unlocking services, often exceeding expectations in terms of speed and communication. Positive feedback highlights the professionalism and reliability of the service, with several customers expressing high satisfaction and willingness to recommend the company. However, concerns have been raised regarding service delays, particularly with unresolved cases, and a perceived lack of support in certain situations. Overall, while many customers report successful experiences, some express frustration over communication issues and the handling of complex cases, indicating a need for improved customer service responsiveness.

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My phone was unlocked as promised, but it took a very long time - I was expecting a week at the most but it took almost a month from the day I paid for pre-order. They did however send emails apologising for the delay and they did respond to emails requesting more info, even if they couldn't give me a timescale estimate. Another thing is the misleading price - please note that the price displayed on the website prominently is just the "pre-order" price, you will have to pay (a lot) more for the unlock to continue. This isn't made clear on the website, you have to really search to come across this info, and even then you still don't know exactly how much you'll be paying. By this point it's too late to change your mind as they don't refund you for the pre-order. You either go ahead and pay more to continue or quit the process and lose what you've already paid. Had I known the total price before hand, I probably would've looked elsewhere a bit more. Job done and I'm happy my phone is now unlocked, but wish they could've been more upfront about price and timescale.

Date of experience: September 14, 2016
GB
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Avoid this company, they are the biggest scammer's on the net by far, they take your money then they want more for this, more for that, and still no result, should be reported to trading standard's for deception and fraud.

Date of experience: September 13, 2016
Washington
1 review
6 helpful votes
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First they make an offer on the web to trick people. If you pay they send you an automatic email saying that you paid just a ¨Pre-Ordering Service, then they ask you to complete the price, if you pay them they tell you, few days later, that your phone needs a Premium Service, if you pay they continue asking you more and more money and never they unlock your phone or reply your emails. They say that they are in England but they are lying. They are pirates. They are thieves. They have deceived me, and I have reported to them.

ESPAÑOL:

SON LADRONES;! CUIDADO!

Primero ellos hacen una oferta en la web para engañar a la gente. Si tu pagas te dicen en el correo automático que se trata de un precio inicial, después te dicen que hay completar el precio, si pagas ellos te dicen, dias mas tarde, que tu teléfono necesita un servicio premium y si pagas te siguen pidiendo dinero y nunca te liberan el teléfono ni contestan a los correos. Dicen que están en Inglaterra y es mentira. Son piratas. Son ladrones. Ellos me han engañado, y les tengo denunciados.

Date of experience: September 11, 2016
Georgia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I started going through the online form and submitted the IMEI, paid 19.99 at first and then after some time asked me again to pay for another f***ing 30.00 more stating Worldwide/Any Network/Premium Service but didn't get any unlock code whatsoever, no service, nothing. May God punish you for deceiving so many people!

Date of experience: September 5, 2016
New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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SCAM SITE - THIEVES
September 5, 2016

As with so many others, I have been scammed by this company. They first took £20 to remove the activation lock on my iphone. Then a day later they asked for £30 more, which I had to pay or lose my initial payment. Then my order was under way. Three days later I get an email saying that my iphone has been reported as blocked and lost or stolen. This is a lie. They said I could pay more to have their premium service unlock the phone. I have told them I want a refund of my £50 as they haven't provided the service I've paid for, and I'm not willing to pay more money to them after I've now seen all the negative reviews. I am awaiting their response. UPDATE: 12.09.2016. After advising them that I would file a complaint and leave bad feedback, I am pleased to say that they emailed me to say that their information that my phone was stolen or blacklisted was wrong, and they refunded my money.

Date of experience: September 5, 2016
RU
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Cheaters!
September 4, 2016

In 2013 year I order sprint unlock. My iPhone was clean(not blaclisted) but after some days they said that it is blacklisted and they can't refund me money. Only refund on my web account.
Now I want to order iCloud unlock, but can't pay using my money on web account. And they don't answer on my emails!

Date of experience: September 4, 2016
Ohio
1 review
2 helpful votes
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After a whole two weeks my phone is still locked and after serveral attempts of messaging them for a refund they keep ignoring my messages, aslo it seemed very skeptical once they reply at 2:02am every single time, they took out more money from my bank account which is how i verified they are scammers luckily I only had a few money in the bank and have a holder which limits me from going into debt, if i didnt who knows how much they wouldve pulled! Please avoid this site and DONT GET SCAMMED.

Date of experience: August 23, 2016
GB
2 reviews
23 helpful votes
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Avoid Avoid Avoid!
August 17, 2016

This is a fraudulent company they will not unlock your phone or refund your money you have been warned ill be reporting then to trading standards

Date of experience: August 17, 2016
Connecticut
1 review
5 helpful votes
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It's been 3 months since I paid for this service to unlock the Apple ID on my of one which they claimed they could do. I paid 19.99 and then after I paid for the premium service of 40.00 they still have not unlocked the phone and are not emailing me back. It's a big scam stay away from this site

Date of experience: August 15, 2016
Bangladesh
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I HAVE SENT SEVERAL MAILS TO YOU FOR DETAILS BUT I AM TOTALLY UPSET WHEN I COULD NOT RECEIVE ANY MAIL FROM YOU (WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY- I HAVE PAID FOR YOU). TOTALLY UNPROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE. I AM ALSO WORKING SEVERAL CLIENTS IN THE EITHER COUNTRY LIKE (UK, USA, CANADA) BY ONLINE.

I KNOW WHAT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY. THIS IS MY LAST MAIL TO YOU. I HOPE YOU WILL THE POSITIVE RESPONSE OF THIS MAIL. OTHERWISE, I WILL POST BAD FEEDBACK IN THE FORUM AGAINST YOU AND ALSO GOOGLE.CO.UK. AND I KNOW HOW CAN SPAMMY LINKS FOR YOUR SITE IN GOOGLE.

Date of experience: August 9, 2016
Japan
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Some issues
July 27, 2016

Im sorry for late to inform this issues to you,
Before I was informed to your system but nothing respons for that.
I HAVE some problem of my unlock delay.

Order ID:
*******
Order Status:
Description:
Official Factory Unlock for ************** (iPhone 5S) locked to KDDI Japan
Amount:
£64.99

Cardholder Name:
Rizkiedysaputro
Address:
Takahama shi yashiki cho 1-1-16
City:
Takahama shi
Postcode:
444-1331

At 12 MAY I send the IMEI unlock by IMEI provider kddi au but actually comes from docomo provider. Apologize for any data entry errors are given. Please help over this issue. That imei **************

But now the condition is not compatible with any provider.

Actually before unlock condition from DOCOMO but after unlock, after one weeks later was changed to kddi provider.

Please help for this

Date of experience: July 27, 2016
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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This site is a scam
July 13, 2016

Please do not make the same mistake I have.

You may think that this company is reputable after reading hundreds of positive reviews on multiple websites. There website has a 100% money back return claim so you mistakenly believe everything will be fine.

They claim to unlock phones via imei within a certain time frame. For me it was 4-7 days. After nearly a month of emailing back and forth requesting updates, and false positives of being told my device was officially icloud unlocked twice. I finally decided it was time to request a refund. They clearly were unable to render the promised services.

Heres where the trouble starts. First you opt in for a regular unlocking service for 19.00 pounds. I suppose a typical scam tactic would be that shortly thereafter they would send an email back stating that for whatever reason your phone is blacklisted/lost/stolen and inform you that you will not receive a refund. They would then subject you upgrade to the premium service. This costs 29.00 pound and they can definitely unlock your device. For me I was not informed that my phone had any issues with the regular service. I had advised them one day after purchasing, rhat I wanted to upgrade to the premium service under the pretense that if they were unable to unlock my phone, I would get a full refund. After 3.5 weeks, and no results I have asked for a full refund. Now I'm getting the run around that I was informed that I could not get a refund for the initial charge. This is a lie. I was never informed of anything. I never would have purchased anything from a website that didn't have a 100% money back guarantee. Like this website claims to have. Im out nearly $70 Canadian dollars, and am taking legal action to have my money recovered. Not to mention the verbal threats that have started.

Do not use officialicloudunlock.co.uk.

Date of experience: July 13, 2016
New Jersey
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I requested an unlock service for my IPhone 5 locked to Sprint and they claim that once my Iphone was unlocked it could be used at any carrier. GUESS WHAT? When I received the email confirming that my iPhone was unlocked I put a seem from Tmobile and my iPhone DID NOT recognize the sim and it would ask to insert a compatible sim card (Sprint sim card).
I sent an email to the unlocking company letting them know that my phone was locked still and they replied back saying that my phone was Unlocked.
There's a disclamer about unlocking a phone, but my phone DIDN NOT apply to that disclamer since my phone imei is clean and is not reported lost/stolen and it is not blacklisted.
They are asking me to use a "non US" sim card to activate. Meaning that my phone can't be used at the US. Why would I unlock my phone to use it outside the US?
Stay away from this website.

Date of experience: July 10, 2016
Philippines
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I'll make this short but straight to the point. I have one word to describe officialiPhoneunlock and that is "OUTSTANDING".

I never imagined that the process I went through is real. I took the risk of having my iPhone unlock not knowing if it wil be unlocked or not but to my surprise a miracle happened and I cannot explain how grateful I am and thankful to everyone. I thought its hopeless but the customer service is so fabulous that they are really effective and efficient on updating me about the status.

Indeed, testimonials are the best way to know if a company is legit or not. I strongly and highly recommend officialiPhoneunlock and I am proud to say that I chose the right company and it is worth every penny.

My sincerest gratitude to all who have been part on unlocking my iPhone. I am confidently satisfied and I will share this good news to ny friends and relatives!

Date of experience: July 6, 2016
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I paid them to get my iphone unlocked and they told it would take about 4 weeks. I did wait over 4 weeks and emailed them. I never the code, so I emailed them again to ask them for refund and they never answer me. I'll not recommend it to anyone. Honest business go beyond and dishonest businesses don't go so far.

Date of experience: July 5, 2016
Delaware
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They unlocked my phone with no issues quicker than I expected. Though, I had a problem with their support service. I sent an email with two questions to the support email address; they didn't actually answer my first question and they blatantly ignored my other question. I then sent a follow-up email saying that that wasn't what I asked and that why they disregarded my other question. They never replied back... It seriously pissed me off.

Date of experience: July 4, 2016
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was cheated by someone with a Barred iPhone 6S, it was locked due to non payment of the previous owner. I, However bought it unaware and then I was in such a mess on how I could use this iPhone other than to just use it as an iPod. For a few weeks I was so disappointed then I was referred to this website official iPhone unlocks, They were very cooperative with amazing prices cheaper than the market price of other websites, They assured quality even giving you a tracking of what process it's presently on, I was very impressed a finally my iPhone 6S is now UNLOCKED and I'm soooo glad, Thank you OfficialiPhoneUnlock!

Date of experience: July 3, 2016
Greece
1 review
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Signing up to get it is no problem, The wait you have for unlock too clear the Carrier is not down to OfficialiPhoneUnlock.co.uk its as always with these things the Carriers slowness to get job done. I must say that EE have been the quickest too clear the unlock happening in just around 3 days
This is the 3rd time I've used this service and has been great every time.

Date of experience: July 3, 2016
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awesome
January 18, 2021

This is great I get to use my IPhone again but it took about a week to unlock but it was worth the wait & now I can put any sim on my IPhone

Date of experience: July 1, 2016
Nigeria
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Best
July 1, 2016

Thanks for unlocking my iphone for me. This officialiphoneunlock.co.uk is the best. 5 star for u

Date of experience: July 1, 2016