Help with selling expensive item - iphone 5s

spacey2012

That Nokia 1080 is one bit of kit .
Not android but does most things.

sharpy2010

DO. NOT . SELL. A. PHONE. ON. EBAY.

You (your brother) will lose the money.

Find a different way to sell it.

Roxy07

mark88man wrote: »

Yes it is his to sell and is not on contract - my brother has the receipts it was a replacement for a broken one, but he decided that he would sell it and use the cash on a high end Android for half the price

I like the look of the Samsung Galaxy S4, many people I know are moving from Apple to Android because of the way the phone is not improving much. Siri is probably the only positive thing of the new iPhone lately.

mark55man

funnily enough Roxy that is what he is looking at

badger09

sharpy2010 wrote: »

DO. NOT . SELL. A. PHONE. ON. EBAY.

You (your brother) will lose the money.

Find a different way to sell it.

That's very sad

I bought my new, boxed, unused, unlocked iPhone 4S in September last year. I paid immediately, seller sent very quickly - 2 happy eBayers I'm sure we're not the only ones.

While I know there are scammers around, not everyone is dishonest!

steveo3002

take the cash offer if its still going

arrange to meet at a local supermarket or somewhere safe thats not your home address

mark55man

thanks Steve - the auction is in the last 3 hours now, and a 300+ feedbacker (100%) is in the lead at a price he is happy to accept. so I advised him to let the auction run but for a bit and if someone less desirable bids to cancel the bid and sell to the current high bidder

Kite2010

simpywimpy wrote: »

I have the same thing for sale but am reluctant to put it on ebay after my recent experience. I sold some v festival tickets and sent them by special delivery. Two days after the event, the buyer said the envelope did not contain the tickets and ebay decided in their favour. Im an experienced ebayer so cant understand where I went wrong other than losing over £400

Was that before or after event ticket reselling got banned on ebay (being forced onto stubhub)?

Stoke

I have to agree with the shared sentiments of those suggesting Gumtree or Pay on Collection.

Not every buyer is bad on eBay, but I had my own issue with selling an iPhone 3G on eBay (which I documented in another thread) and eBay were all too quick to side with the buyer.

I recently sold something on Gumtree for the first time. I was all ready to sell it on eBay, but having read some horror stories regarding this particular item (a very expensive set of coilovers for a car), I decided to use Gumtree instead. I got plenty of phone calls and after about a week, someone came and picked them up.

I think from now on, my use of eBay will be for buying bits and bobs only.