FYI I'd be wary of ordering from Negri. About a month ago I placed an order for an unlocked US T-Mobile BlackBerry Z10. The next day I received an email from them saying I needed to read and agree to a section of their terms of service before they would ship the phone. I've included it below but basically it says the IMEI on the phones they sell can be blacklisted by T-Mobile/AT&T at any point after they initially test it. It sounds like they are purchasing "grey market" phones and don't have an official source. If your phone does get blacklisted you can only return it to Negri in the first 25 days.
Thanks very much for posting this!!
I have never used Negri before, so this inspired me to do a bit of research.
I looked them up on the Better Business Bureau, Reseller Ratings and Ripoff report.
After this and reading through your post, I have decided to let my preorder remain active - I am a T-Mobile user by the way.
Every company gets some complaints. On resellerratings, Negri seemed to be pretty good about responding in detail to most of them. Also, some of the complaints were pretty bizarre to begin with.
What I noticed was that almost none of the complaints dealt with having phones lock up with restricted IMEI. The only one I could find had some confusion in that the author tried to return something with a cracked screen while claiming the IMEI was also locked. But from scanning all of the reviews, the vast majority were positive.
This leads me to believe that the disclaimer from Negri you published is a cover-your-a$$ maneuver to give them some legal protection. It doesn't seem like there are any problems with these occurring though..
If anyone else has further info, I'd love to read - please post!!
Backup plan - if this thing with Negri falls apart or if the phone won't work with T-Mobile in spite of my being in a strong LTE area, I'll return it then pick up a 925 phone. I would rather have the oversampling and larger storage, but the 925 is getting some amazing reviews including the camera.. In that case I'd still keep my 808 for special shootings. Otherwise if everything works out, I'm planning on selling the 808 to recoup some of the 1020 expense..