Troubles unlocking Sprint iPhone 4

I have an iPhone 4 (wife's phone) that the contract was up a year ago, and I am in the process of selling it on Ebay.
It is an A1349 model which should be CDMA.  I know that unlocking it still only enables it to work on other CDMA networks and a new user of this phone would be safest just to use it on the Sprint network.  But it seems like getting it unlocked should be trivial - I've done this with an iPhone 4 on Verizon, and they responded quickly and did it for me no problem.
She called in to Sprint to have it unlocked, and Sprint told her that only Apple can issue unlock codes, Sprint cannot.  I said that this has to be total BS.
Anybody have success getting Sprint to unlock an iPhone 4?

You're right, it's up to Sprint to unlock the phone. But there would be much point to it as Sprint would be the only CDMA carrier the phone can be used on, and the iPhone 4 does not have a SIM slot for use on GSM carriers.

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