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Anyone having problems selling old iPhone?

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California King

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Maybe it's just not a great time to sell your old iPhone with all the other people trying to sell it now as well, or maybe it's the price ($350), but I posted my 16GB white iPhone 3GS on Craigslist and haven't received 1 offer. The posting was very detailed and included good pictures of the iPhone. Should I just lower the price or just wait a few weeks and post it up again?

BTW, I'm seeing about 2 whole pages of new listings everyday.
 
I'm selling my 8GB 3G for $250. I think the price is high but that's what the norm is in this area. I haven't received any offers either...but it's only been up for 2 days. I'll probably just drop the price if it doesn't move.
 
California King said:
Maybe it's just not a great time to sell your old iPhone with all the other people trying to sell it now as well, or maybe it's the price ($350), but I posted my 16GB white iPhone 3GS on Craigslist and haven't received 1 offer. The posting was very detailed and included good pictures of the iPhone. Should I just lower the price or just wait a few weeks and post it up again?

BTW, I'm seeing about 2 whole pages of new listings everyday.
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did u unlock it ?

if u unlock it and mention that it will work for tmobile people will def buy it.
 
Pre-sold my 32GB a few days before 4-launch to beat the rush of old phones. Got $300 I asked for within minutes. (Basically free iphone4, lol)
 
I sold my 16GB 3G yesterday for $250 including a dock. If you offer in your ad to unlock the phone, you've got a good chance. I heard from about 4 buyers, and 3 of them wanted it to be unlocked to run on T-Mobile.
 
j3w3ly said:
I'm selling my 8GB 3G for $250. I think the price is high but that's what the norm is in this area. I haven't received any offers either...but it's only been up for 2 days. I'll probably just drop the price if it doesn't move.
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i sold my 8GB 3G for $250 about 2 weeks before the launch. It was jailbroken and unlocked, too. I don't know where you are (I'm in Houston), but I'm guessing that your price might be a bit high.
 
California King said:
Maybe it's just not a great time to sell your old iPhone with all the other people trying to sell it now as well, or maybe it's the price ($350), but I posted my 16GB white iPhone 3GS on Craigslist and haven't received 1 offer. The posting was very detailed and included good pictures of the iPhone. Should I just lower the price or just wait a few weeks and post it up again?

BTW, I'm seeing about 2 whole pages of new listings everyday.
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I'd say yes you asking too much for it. I'm in So Cal and I've not been looking at any ads for 3GS/16 above $300. There are simply too many of them.

I say this as an owner of a 3G who I know probably won't get more than $200 for it.

A couple points.. one, there is a glut of iPhones. Two whatever was presold is also dumping on the market for the most part. That means likely up to a million iPhones now hitting the market used.

Three, even with pics, people get tired of scammers and people making claims about these very expensive phones that just end up not being true. There's a lot that can go wrong on them and they have to reflect that pricing.
 
I am hoping to sell my 8gb 3G soon for at least $200. I had it on eBay earlier for a day and a half with no bids, but will re-list it now that it is jailbroken and unlocked.
 
sold my unlocked 3gs for 350 on Wednesday. although it was to a guy from germany who told me they pay 1500 for unlocked phones over there and it was a steal in the US. just put stuff in there like need to sell today, lowest price on cl, unlocked, mint condition, and give your phone number and ask for texts. thats what i did and i got a call within 15 minutes. if it doesnt work then delete the post and repost every 6 hours or so
 
I sold my first 16gb 3gs on ebay for $300 a week ago - and I'm advertising my other 3GS for the same price on Craigslist and got plenty of offers.
If you add some extras such as JB and unlock, you'll have buyers!
 
I'm so glad I have a friend who would happily buy my iPhone 3G (year and a half old, refurb) for $200!! :D That's more than what I paid for originally for it
 
I was barely able to sell my 16gb 3G for $200 last week. But from reading what other people are getting, I think it really comes down to luck.
 
I had 3 interested people via Craigslist. One withdrew, one never responded, and the third replied too late.

I was selling it with a Vaja case. Instead, I locked in a good price through one of those companies that buys iPhones, and will try to get a better price for my Vaja case as a solo item since there are a lot of new 3G/S owners out there.
 
So you guys don't think I can get $350 if I wait a few weeks? Just lower the price? What price should I set it to? $280?
 
Because it's a 16 gig prob 200-250$ even unlocked. Again your location matters. In southern California and I've seen 32 gigs 3GS going for 300$
 
We sold a 16GB 3G for $227 and a 16GB 3GS for $275 yesterday. Could we have timed it for higher, maybe, but we're happy, just wanted them to pay for the new phones and cover any shipping and other fees from selling them.
 
Geez you Americans are the ones causing the stupidly low prices offered on ebay.

Do NONE of you realise that paying $200 for an iphone on contract is not the full price of the phone?? Part of the monthly price is paying FOR the phone. The full price of the phone is actually closer to $600-800 new.

To putt into perspective, a contract WITHOUT a phone for the same minutes and texts will cost ALOT less, you pay that much BECAUSE of the phone.

In the uk we get our iPhones unlocked and sim free. The 3GS was £549 for the 32gb that is $827 , before all of you started listing your phones so low a preowned one would sell for about $700.

I mean seriously, in the uk they even pay you £285 ($485) to RECYCLE the phone and you are selling them for ALOT LESS then that even.

If you do not believe me then see for yourself https://moneysupermarket.money4mymobile.com/sell/mobile/apple-iphone-32gb-3g-s

Double what you are selling your phones for to RECYCLE it...
 
on planet earth...

California King said:
So you guys don't think I can get $350 if I wait a few weeks? Just lower the price? What price should I set it to? $280?
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uh no. I sold my 32GB for that earlier this week. And if I waited a couple more days it would be lower than that.

New product, new market. Hello. :rolleyes:
 
No issue here. Sold my 32GB 3GS like a hotcake the first day I put on craigslist for $475 unlocked / jailbroken & provided some useful apps
 
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