[Pyrogen100]

Want to refund an iPhone 6s Plus that I bought. It's locked to Simple Mobile for 12 months (I already knew and accepted this, I use them.)  But it's shipped AND sold from Amazon, so I'm assuming even IF I'm able to get the refund (considering it's a brand new iPhone) then they'll definitely block the IMEI, I'm 90% sure. Purchase price is $299.99.

I'm assuming there's no way to get around this? No, I don't want to jailbreak the iPhone or change the IMEI.

Contact the network company and ask to unlock it, if they give you reasons for 'atleast 1 year service', talk about bad network service or something.

For amazon, if you are going to refund it, if you say the item is broken or leaking, they probably wont block it.
With Amazon or any big company you can never be sure what the rep is thinking or will do.

You could say item did not arrive, which they would look into.

If you say you received it, with only an invoice (make sure you have it printed first before you contact them), they would think it wasnt placed in the package. And when you return it, make sure you make up for the weight difference, but thats probably not needed since it very lightweight, you could add more packaging.

Ah, so you can really finesse an unlock?