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iPhone 11 Pro Selling iPhone 11 Pro on eBay - safety checklist
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Might as well just get robbed selling on Craigslist if you’re going to take Apple trades in price.
seriously though Apple prices are terrible. I’d only recommend that as a last resort. I’d personally never use eBay.
While I too prefer to sell for cash locally. As it is so ridiculously easy to scam sellers on eBay. If you do go ahead and sell on eBay.
1. Check the address of the US customer before shipping. A lot of international buyers use a US address. Which really just turns out to be a forwarding service. You send to US address. It gets forwarded to some random country.
2. You have to accept returns. Not accepting returns on eBay means they get to keep it if they have a problem. You have to return the money either way. Don't even bother. Just accept returns. The buyer always wins. Always.
3. Yep
4. Smart but a good way to get a negative when the idiot. I mean buyer didn't bother to read the fine print of your auction. Place you've just eaten shipping costs when they can't get off work to sign for it.
5. Good idea in theory. Not sure if it matters much with eBay's and Paypal's seller is always wrong policy.
Just so you know. I do sell quite a bit of stuff on eBay. However, I keep electronics to those of a sub $100 value. High end stuff is local only, cash only. Most of the stuff I've sold on eBay is various knick knacks and trinkets. Stuff with a low scam buyer rate. I just wouldn't risk a high value iPhone.
If you don't want to use Craigslist. Consider Letgo or Offerup. They are similar but you can see the ratings of people. That way you can limit it to people with some feedback for a better feeling of safety. Any place where you post your phone number. Use Talkatone or similar to use a free burner number. That way you don't give every spammer your phone number.
I know you can also post on Facebook. Although I'm not sure if you can just limit it to friends and friends of friends. Someone you know or a friend knows would likely jump on an iPhone 11 Pro.
Thank you so much for the tips.
Have you tried Swappa? My experience wasn’t as good as I had hoped. But I was wondering what your experience is?
Facebook selling is alright in terms of making sure buyer is happy with the product. I too would avoid eBay but ultimately it’s you’re call. I’ve never used eBay, but I’ve heard too many horror stories about it.
last night I decided I might TRY swappa again since so many swear by it
prices are good too
More money than ebay it seems
Seliing an iPhone on eBay is no more risky than selling anything else on that site. Countless Millions and millions of transactions go through eBay with no troubles. I've sold & purchased tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff on eBay over 20 years and have NEVER had a bad transaction ever. Not once.Granted a few people probably have been scammed through eBay, but I bet statistically it's less than .005% of the transactions.
It's more dangerous to walk across the street.
It's more dangerous to walk across the street.
Swappa never appealed to me. I checked it out when buying a phone but ended up buying off eBay. As the prices weren't that great. I considered selling some old phones there but figured eBay was less hassle to unload a bunch of old phones. As they were worth less than $100 and I already have a good seller account. The expensive stuff I just sell locally.
I was scammed recently on there. It was a horrible experience, made more so because I knew I was being scammed from the moment I pressed the pay now button.
I basically received a message, almost instantly from “the seller” asking me to follow a link to “authorise the payment” I’d never had any message like it from any other sale on there and it immediately raised my suspicions. Tried to cancel but was too late. Ultimately, I paid £600 and received an empty envelope instead of an iPhone.
Kinda fortunately, I knew I was being scammed from early on and made Ebay aware that the seller was ignoring all attempts to communicate etc. Ebay were great and advised me all the way on what to expect. They predicted I would receive an empty parcel (was an envelope) they told me what I had to say to the police to get a crime reference number etc
Ultimately I got my £600 back but it was 4 weeks of unnecessary stress. I totally resented the seller for scamming but was more pissed at the inconvenience of it all. I was only ever told the case was “under investigation” but they couldn’t guarantee my refund. Now received, but the whole experience has left a really bad taste and I feel super reluctant to use eBay because of it now.
I will, no doubt dip my toes in again but will stick to non valuable spends from now.
my first choice is always Craigslist. You’ll get the most money there. I’ve been using them since maybe 2000? never had an issue. Just be smart.
eBay has to w many variables outside of my control for me to feel comfortable.
Thanks for chiming in. I guess with all services where you meet up someone somewhere you have to put some thought into it.
Over here in Canada I often use Kijiji, local service now owned by eBay I believe. Mostly local meet ups and never had a problem.
Agree with this. eBay and PayPal are a total loss waiting to happen for sellers of electronics on eBay.