abcZ That's what I was hoping for when I bought the phone I had to return.
It was not marked in any way that would indicate verizon, had a sticker that said something about being imported to Canada, it did not have a US charger in a box, about>legal information also didn't mention verizon. I'd say those are strong indicators of not being verizon phone.
I agree that phones not purchased from verizon have the best chance but the one I got didn't seem to be and still was not unlockable so I'd say not to be that optimistic.
That, or I did something wrong when checking, or that magical server that the phone supposedly needs to call before enabling that option was somehow unavailable.
Does anyone of you know what that server URL is? Maybe one of you bothered to put a packet sniffer in between your device and the gateway when unlocking...