looking to sell my nokia 5800 and ebay seem to get decent prices but majority of the bidders when you look at the phone sales seem to be people with little or no feedback which strikes me as odd. anyone sold on there?
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Check http://www.mazumamobile.com/ you may get more for it than ebay! much easier too
there's a couple of sites that give you aggregated prices from all the main buyers of mobiles so you can pick the best for you. Google will find them.
I'd avoid selling anything on ebay that 'yoofs' tend to buy
they work on different morals to the rest of society
Firstly put a reserve on it, secondly specify that people with little or no feedback get in contact first (if they bid and win you have grounds to not accept), also specify that you only want UK bids or europe as you will get emails from the far east asking you if you will post and they will probably stiff you for it too.
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Genuine email receivd by my mum:
[i]We are to let you know that the total sum of £150.00 GBP of payment made by our client (SMITH WAYNE), for your GOODS is confirmed and it has been deducted from the buyer's account which will be credited into your account as soon as you provide us with the shipment Confirmation Code,we give you just 24 hours to do so.
We have received the money which is pending in our database and we will like you to provide us with the following information as requested by PayPal for verification to protect their customers from fraudulent business transactions.
Kindly make the shipment progress within 5 hours in order to release the money into your account for the transaction as we can not accommodate any form of misappropriations and we have a reputation to protect and do all that is possible to increase our business relationship with the international PayPal Worldwide.
As soon as you notify us about the Shipment status, we shall deposit the said amount into your account immediately.
The address you are requested to ship the item to has been confirmed by us.
This is as a result of new safety measures that has just been adopted by us to safeguard all our customers against any internet act.
Thank you for using PayPal online services,
PayPal Team.[/i]
I hope she got the phone in the post after such an official looking email.
Check http://www.mazumamobile.com/ you may get more for it than ebay!
You must be having a giraffe!
I got £280 for my iphone on ebay. They are offering £155.
Anyway, it's reasonably safe so long as you don't take bids from obvious con artists and only send after you have received the money.
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Make it clear you will only accept bids from the UK and will cancel any bids from people with what, in your opinion, have too much negative feedback.
Don't use eBay unless you are going to make significantly more than other means! A next best solution is no not accept Paypal, but this will limit your number of potential buyers.
In the interests of "security", Paypal may withold payment until you have sent your item and the buyer has left feedback (transactions over £50). The buyer may not leave feedback and in this case you will have to wait at least 30 days after they have recieved the item. It then goes to a Paypal dispute process. Stuff that!
It the buyer decides they don't want the item or finds a non-existent problem, you will have forked out for shipping and listing fees. You might even have to pay to get your item back (an possibly damaged to boot).
The problem of fees being withheld happened to me, but fortunately the buyer left feedback immediately. This delayed me sending the item and i had to speak to the buyer to gauge whether I trusted them or not. I was really miffed and concerned about shipping valuables before recieving any money and Paypal were completely useless at understanding my point of view. Damn it, I was their customer!!
Paypal do this to save them any trouble with unscrupulous sellers, but at the time I had a 4 year unblemished selling record with many transactions. Paypal didn't seem to think 80 odd transactions was sufficient!
Their policy has nothing to do with seller protection, in fact the opposite effect is true.
Add the 14% combined fees and eBay looks like a waste of time.
I would use one of these companies that buy up mobiles. After you factor in eBay and Paypal fees, postage, these companies work out to be an attractive alternative.
thanks for that . they look to give as much as ebay on the whole anyway
Slight hijack.
Do these companies that buy old phones require the chargers, it's not clear on the sites. I've got loads here.
most want the chargers - it's mostly to 'prove' you didn't just mug some teenager for the phone I think.