I need to sell a new mobile but you've all scared me stiff!

cranhill

Hi, I would look at http://www.envirofone.com/
before selling the phone on eBay less hassle and no chance of any PayPal problems.

Tripledrop

cranhill wrote:

Hi, I would look at http://www.envirofone.com/
before selling the phone on eBay less hassle and no chance of any PayPal problems.

If you're selling new phones, this is really not an option! It would give me £62 for my Sony Ericsson w800, when I could get £150 on eBay. Also a poor option for older phones, unless you can't be bothered to go through the hassle of listing it...

orlando1088

I have sold quite a few phones (upgrades, unwanted etc) and had my share of problems. In fact i have just re-listed one because the spanish guy that won it first time around thought it was white when the it was silver/chrome and emailed to say "oh well you can offer it to the second bidder", he was a newbie with no feedback.
I now only accept bank transfer on high value items, which i am told is THE safest mode of payment, I will only sell to the UK, block bidders with no feedback (good idea to make it under 5) and hope for the best.
I once sold a pda/phone for £200 which i was thrilled with until i saw the buyers details - Taiwan. When i contacted him he told me he now lived in England, still thought there was something dodgy so paid £12 to have his cheque express clearance but he was actually a really genuine person so i panicked for nothing.

Good luck

kenix_2

LULUBELLE wrote:

Make sure that you block (in your preferences) bidders from countries that you won't send to (personally, I block them all, except the UK, for mobiles) and block anyone with strikes against them.

Put in the description that you won't accept offers by e-mail, you won't post to anywhere except the UK and you will only post to a confirmed address. State specifically that you will not post to Nigeria, just to ram the point home.

When you post it, after whatever form of payment you accept has cleared, you MUST send it Special delivery.

Oh, and if you're being paid by Paypal, and you get any e-mails saying payment has been made, check 'My messages' in My Ebay, to verify that the e-mail is genuinely from Paypal. :rolleyes:

EDIT: Forgot to say make a note of the IMEI number before you send it, so that if anything goes wrong you can report it as stolen and it will be disabled. Also, so that the buyer can't say it didn't work and return a different one.

Good advise...totally agree!

Another point i would like to add, for me i won't use paypal because of the high risk of chargeback.

try moneybookers or nochex...it is much safer...

trencherpilot

smartie1976 wrote:

To be fair you need to get a decent picture of it so just put in your listing "taken out of the box only to photo", and then use the contract sim once in the phone to make sure he isn't charged. No-one will know.

They do! I had an orange phone stolen last Dec but fortunately the sim card for my contract was in a different phone that I use for work. When I phoned Orange they told me the last time I had used my N70, for how long and who I dialled!

Your son will have to use the new sim card or someone else will get his account and phone number. Sell the phone without a sim or get it unlocked.

TP