You cannot gift someone a phone without them suspecting that it has been opened, used and repackaged. The reason - when you are sold a mobile phone, the box is opened to ensure there’s a charger, a battery and of course - the phone itself. The shops where you buy from don’t trust you and you in turn will not trust the people running those stores. Since there are so many of these small shops, apparently, a company like Nokia or Motorola will not give them importance.

I find that a little hard to digest especially when they call themeselves premium resellers. When everything comes factory sealed, if there is a defect, it will be in an entire batch of products and such batches would obviously be recalled. Not trusting the customer wouldn’t make the customer feel welcome. The problem of something going missing in a factory-sealed box that has it’s seal untampered should be handled by the manufacturer. It shouldn’t become an issue like this.

I know three people who have bought mobile phones in the past two weeks and none of them were allowed to leave with a sealed and unopened box.