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So are phones with removeable batteries gone for good now?

Spymaster said:
With warranties usually. And you've found the most expensive one there. There are over 50 similar phones with BiN prices between £130 and £170. I can get into that ballpark with a sale and payment in around 72hrs as opposed to a week to 2 weeks, and my time is far more valuable than yours. AND I won't have to deal with someone like you. Total win! :)
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You are wrong on all of this except the fact that not going through ebay will save you time. But anyway, your preferred approach is what I've already said I'd recommend for someone like you. Where you are incorrect is in your denial that someone who knows what they are doing can get quite a bit more by selling directly instead of through one of these middle-men.

Start to have a look into the various online reviews for the supposed top-paying companies on that comparison website and anyone can see why they'd be foolish to think they are really going to get the amount promised anyway.
 
teuchter said:
Where you are incorrect is in your denial that someone who knows what they are doing can get quite a bit more by selling directly instead of through one of these middle-men.
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Nope. As I said, I could get a bit more but not enough to make it worth my time, and certainly not enough to make it worthwhile dealing with eBayers. Pissing about on eBay for a couple of extra quid probably makes some sort of sense for someone who has nothing better to do though.

Start to have a look into the various online reviews for the supposed top-paying companies on that comparison website and anyone can see why they'd be foolish to think they are really going to get the amount promised anyway.
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The fact that you've just wasted a load of time reading reviews of mobile phone resellers in order to win on the internet makes my last point perfectly!

I've used them several times. Mazuma once offered £20 less than their original quote but I told the rep to send it back and she countered with £10 less which I accepted. Why do you so often insist on arguing things you know absolutely nothing about? It always ends with you looking silly.
 
Spymaster said:
Mazuma once offered £20 less than their original quote
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Yeah, so you went to one of the large well known companies who trade on reputation rather than one of the sketchy ones who bait people with unrealistic prices. And guess how much Mazuma would offer for the phone you were describing above?

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teuchter said:
Yeah, so you went to one of the large well known companies who trade on reputation rather than one of the sketchy ones who bait people with unrealistic prices. And guess how much Mazuma would offer for the phone you were describing above?

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You're getting desperate now, old chap. The point was, Mazuma was the only company that offered less than the original quote. All of the others have paid the full price with no issues. What they are offering for a different phone 5 years later is neither here nor there.
 
Anyways, you punt you phone off to them, should you be removing email accounts, photos and shit first? Is there an easy way to do that and does it affect your current phone?
 
Spymaster said:
With warranties usually. And you've found the most expensive one there. There are over 50 similar phones with BiN prices between £130 and £170. I can get into that ballpark with a sale and payment in around 72hrs as opposed to a week to 2 weeks, and my time is far more valuable than yours. AND I won't have to deal with someone like you. Total win! :)
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Then take off ebay's listing fee, their 10% selling fee, Paypal's fees, and you've probably made a couple of extra quid, then you have to deal with the scum who swap your phone for their fucked one and put a claim in with Paypal, who always side with the buyer, so you end up paying about 30 quid and you get a fucked phone back the scum who sent you 50 emails before buying it and swapping all their broken bits onto it before saying it arrived broken.
I don't understand how anyone can think that selling anything but obscure items on ebay makes any sense. It's a minefield of messers and thieves.

Bahnhof Strasse said:
Anyways, you punt you phone off to them, should you be removing email accounts, photos and shit first? Is there an easy way to do that and does it affect your current phone?
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Factory reset.
 
Bahnhof Strasse said:
Anyways, you punt you phone off to them, should you be removing email accounts, photos and shit first? Is there an easy way to do that and does it affect your current phone?
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Yes. Make sure it's backed up and signed out of iCloud.

Then: Settings - General - Reset - Erase All content and Settings - Erase iPhone

It doesn't affect any other phone.
 
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Saul Goodman said:
Then take off ebay's listing fee, their 10% selling fee, Paypal's fees, and you've probably made a couple of extra quid, then you have to deal with the scum who swap your phone for their fucked one and put a claim in with Paypal, who always side with the buyer, so you end up paying about 30 quid and you get a fucked phone back the scum who sent you 50 emails before buying it and swapping all their broken bits onto it before saying it arrived broken.
I don't understand how anyone can think that selling anything but obscure items on ebay makes any sense. It's a minefield of messers and thieves.
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Indeed. Paypal and eBay are massively geared to the buyer's advantage and give scrotes far too much leeway. I'd be pretty wary of anyone who's prepared to buy unwarrantied tech from anonymous sellers too. The higher paying mobile phone recyclers usually refurbish the phones and then knock them out with a warranty, or export them to slower markets. If you've ever claimed for a new phone on insurance and been sent a replacement, chances are it's a refurb job via a reseller. Ebay has it's uses but this isn't one of them for sensible people.
 
Sounds like Spymaster and Saul Goodman have both gotten burnt on ebay at some point, going by how worked up about this they seem. If you know what you are doing, there are plenty ways of mitigating risks on ebay and that's why I've hardly ever had any major problems selling on there. Of course, it can be a dangerous place for numpties who lack basic common sense and indeed it's best (as I already said) for these people to send their phones off to one of these companies who will resell it at around 100% markup.
 
teuchter said:
So, you claim there are all these problems on ebay but also that you've never been affected by them.
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There are inherent problems with eBay that can be mitigated if you have a half clue what you're doing. Not selling things that are well known to attract scammers, timewasters, crooks, and blowhards, when there are perfectly viable alternatives is a good start.
 
So, after suffering a not inconsiderable quantity of their bluster, we have it confirmed that both Spymaster and Saul Goodman have zero experience of selling a phone on ebay, and their opinions are just based on anecdote they've read online. Maybe we can get back on topic now.
 
teuchter said:
So, after suffering a not inconsiderable quantity of their bluster, we have it confirmed that both Spymaster and Saul Goodman have zero experience of selling a phone on ebay, and their opinions are just based on anecdote they've read online. Maybe we can get back on topic now.
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I've probably sold over 100 phones on ebay. I've just been careful enough not to sell them to the likes of you.
 
Not too bad tbh - only about £100 short of what you could have gotten on ebay, but that would only be possible for someone who knows what they are doing, so sending it in to these guys may have been a reasonable choice in this case.
 
I have a small Samsung. Possibly a J1 Prime (not sure of the model). Cost €90 as a new import about 16 months ago. Battery started fading about a month ago. Went to the shop I bought the phone from and they tried to sell me a fuff battery and told me my phone was fucked. Couldn't find any off the shelf batteries. Ran it on a power bank for a few weeks until someone told me about a guy selling every battery ever. Found him. Bought 2 batteries. One is staying sealed. The other is getting moderate use.

I reckon 2 new patten batteries and powerbank will out last my phone. All numbers stored on cards. Haven't bothered with cloud.

There is a short article with video on the BBC business site all about a market where you can go and build a phone from scratch. It is not difficult. Choose your counterfeit components, or even invent your own custom phone. The batteries are the expense. Or, more precisely legal disposal is the real cost. Look at what is happening in cobalt rich countries. Actually, I think there is only one country with known cobalt resources of size.

I will try find link to BBC article. Looked fun. Think it was a town in a province next to Macau.
 
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