Managed to upgrade phone and make a profit in the process

Psycho Sonny · 2 Jan 2012 at 03:27

Well i bought the Monte Carlo for my fiancee at £100 from argos, £90 for phone and £10 mandatory top up voucher.

Her dad owns a shop which sells top ups by pay point, so he sold the top up voucher to a customer for a tenner who came in for a top up. So the phone cost £90.

Now i managed to sell her old phone, the original san francisco which is basically an older version of the monte carlo on ebay for £96.99 + £4.50 postage, now take paypal fees into account im left with £97.84, I dont know how much the ebay fee's are going to be, but I'm thinking they wont be as high at £7.84 i would hope.

So i'm actually left with a profit. Imagine that, managed to upgrade the phone and make a profit, result. I have no idea why someone bidded so high. It had 25 bids in total. In fact I'm amazed it went so high and I never bidded on my own auction to raise the price.

The guy has paid already by paypal, so it wasn't a scam or anything. I've had Nigerians win with a ludicrous bid before and I have had to re-list but this all looks kosher.

I must say the advert was extremely well made, maybe that's why it attracted a lot of attention?

anyway if anyone was going to sell their san fancisco, now is the time to do so.

asim18 · 2 Jan 2012 at 03:35

I've seen brand new OSFs go for up to £150 on ebay.

Psycho Sonny · 2 Jan 2012 at 03:52

asim18 said:
I've seen brand new OSFs go for up to £150 on ebay.

you must be talking about SF2's?

because surely nobody would buy them for more than what you can get them for from orange.

in fact im pretty sure the SF cost my fiancee £90 less than a year ago, brand new from orange.

it's amazing we sold it so far afterwards second hand for more.

I was expecting to get no more than £50 for it.

just checked and even SF2's can be found for £112.99 delivered online, so i dont know why anyone would buy an SF for £150 on ebay

SimonCHere · 2 Jan 2012 at 10:19

possibly the original oled screen ones?

randal · 2 Jan 2012 at 10:32

My original OLED screened SF went for silly money, some dude in Russia bought it and paid the extra for the postage. Think it cost him something daft like £170 in the end.

Still he was happy, so win win.

reflux · 2 Jan 2012 at 10:33

Psycho Sonny said:
Now i managed to sell her old phone, the original san francisco which is basically an older version of the monte carlo on ebay for £96.99 + £4.50 postage, now take paypal fees into account im left with £97.84, I dont know how much the ebay fee's are going to be, but I'm thinking they wont be as high at £7.84 i would hope.

eBay takes 10% of the final selling price iirc, but whether that's before or after the PayPal fee I don't know.