‘I’m surprised he would even wanna try’: Best Buy customer tries to buy unlocked iPhone 16. Then the worker calls Verizon

A Best Buy worker is going viral on TikTok after sharing the lengths one customer went through to get his hands on the new iPhone. 

Dallas Ponzo (@dallas_ponzo), a Best Buy employee, said he recently encountered a customer in his mid-to-late 20s who wanted the latest iPhone 16. Ponzo said the customer also wanted the phone unlocked, meaning it doesn’t have a SIM for any cellular provider.

But after Ponzo explained that third-party sellers, including Best Buy, can’t do that...