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OP I sold my 16GB 3GS on craigslist for 300 and that over a month ago. Every day more and more phones are getting sold and all the high bidders by now would have already payed the high price for a 3GS, if you can get 280, I would call it a deal at this point.
I would probably consider 280. But 220-225? Nah.
craigslist is my favorite place to sell stuff.
cash + local pickup = fast transaction with no worries.
I think 3GS prices will drop now, but when I sold it right before iPhone 4 was available I got top $ for it.
The thing you have to keep in mind is A LOT of people that buy on craigslist want to try to resell what they get from you right back on craigslist or ebay. You want to weed those people out. They're not gonna want to pay say $400 to sell for $400. They're out to make a profit.
Yeah... I think that's what I got. There are a couple ads from people in my area wanting to buy 3GS used for 220 bucks.
They want to do that, turn around, list it and sell for a hundred bucks more, probably. Seems like a crappy way to make a hundred... so much effort for so little cash.
Just deal with it or post somewhere else. And I love how everyone in here acts like they have never "lowballed" anyone in their life. And to the guy who started this thread, check out what other people are selling their phones for. Right now it's definitely a buyers market for the iPhone 3GS and below. Alot of times people think their stuff is worth more than it really is.
Actually, I'm a girl.
I know what it is worth. It's worth about 300 bucks. I posted it high because I knew I'd get people like the ones I've gotten so far. Something similar happened when I first listed my 3G last year.
And I really never have seriously lowballed anyone. I don't think I'd insult a person by offering them roughly half of what they said they wanted for an item.
I might offer them 3/4 of what they wanted, but that's just negotiation.
Just have patience. I had a guitar case i put on there and i listed it for $75 and somebody offered me $40. I just said no that i could take less but not that much. Ended up selling it on ebay for $100
Yeah. I may well slap it up on eBay if I don't sell in within the week.
Really, I don't NEED the money. It's more like I'm not running a charity via Craigslist, yanno?
I'd rather just give it to someone that I like that sell it for next to nothing to someone with a complete inability to form a coherent sentence.
There's a lot of scum on Craigslist. It's like shopping at Walmart; there's a lot of crap to weed through, but occasionally it's worth the effort. I sold my last MacBook Pro on Craigslist and had a very pleasant transaction. I did have to reluctantly refuse the generous offers of a few Nigerian princes though.
Yeah... both the other times I've sold iPhones on Craigslist, I had to continually insist that I did NOT have any interest in allowing a foreign woman living in Virginia on a student visa to send me a money order for 100 dollars more than I asked for the phone so I could then mail it to her husband back in some country I'd never heard of (and I'm wondering if said country existed).
Crazy. People really are crazy. Sad part is that they do this because there are people who will fall for it.
One of the common things i see in ads here in Kentucky is "I have a El Camino I want to sale." (Be sure to use your best redneck accent when you read it in your head and you will get it

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Drives me nuts.
Yeah... they really wanna noun it instead of verb it, eh?