Phone Buying Firms

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by sweller, Jan 24, 2011.

  1. sweller

    sweller Guest

    Are they any good?

    I've got a 10 month old HTC Desire to sell and they're offering £185 for
    it. It beats throwing it in a drawer to gather dust.

    Unless anyone here is interested in it.
     
    sweller, Jan 24, 2011
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    Simon Wilson Guest

    They go for £250 to £300 on ebay, so I'd sell it there.
     
    Simon Wilson, Jan 24, 2011
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    wessie Guest

    they are great for those phones you have which happily turn on then
    mysteriously switch themselves off after a few minutes. It's not my fault
    that the questionaire with Virgin's buyback scheme was not very thorough
    and their verification process needs a bit of a tweak...
     
    wessie, Jan 24, 2011
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    Catman Guest

    Mazuma (IIRC) were fine when I offloaded a whole stack last year.



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    Catman, Jan 25, 2011
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    Vass Guest

    ?

    ditto

    old Nokias £ 20, lots of Blackberry curves went for £ 60 each
    other tat £ 10 - £ 30 each
    All had to be working
     
    Vass, Jan 25, 2011
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    Switters Guest

    Could well be. Has the battery had 10 months of torture, or has the phone
    just been sat in a drawer gathering dust?
     
    Switters, Jan 25, 2011
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    Ben Guest

    Surprisingly, Computer Exchange (CEX) seem to offer pretty good prices
    for phones.

    A quick sample of the SE K800i I've got lying around, min £20 from
    CEX, £15 from Mazuma et al.
     
    Ben, Jan 25, 2011
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    petrolcan Guest

    I sold one of them on ebay last year for £42.
     
    petrolcan, Jan 25, 2011
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    Ben Guest

    CEX's mint condition price is around that. £20 was for lousy
    condition.

    Mine is somewhere in between, and to be honest, toddling into CEX is a
    lot less hassle than Ebay.

    Although I'm amazed anyone would want to buy a 4 year old K800i.
     
    Ben, Jan 25, 2011
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    BGN Guest

    From that sad 6 days when I was the owner of a HTC Desire it seemed the
    only way to make it work properly was to have a small nuclear power
    station attached, so I imagine the battery is utterly fucked after 10
    months use on a Desire.
     
    BGN, Jan 26, 2011
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    sweller Guest

    ....of course it needs a nuclear power station, in the same way your
    iPhone only needs a charge from gently rubbing a balloon once a month.
     
    sweller, Jan 27, 2011
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    sweller Guest

    It still works ok - and holds a charge for the same amount of time as it
    always did (ie not long). It's lasted a several days without a sim card
    but hooked up to the wireless.

    I used to get a day out of it in my normal use (wireless on, push email,
    twitter and plenty calls) - it still manages it 10 months on.

    It's the data use that kills the battery but I also have a spare pattern
    battery.

    drop me an email to simon at my posting name .co.uk
     
    sweller, Jan 27, 2011
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    Greybeard Guest

    Thread HiJack

    I can now answer this question from personal experience. I couldn't last
    week as I was waiting for the result.

    Webuyanyphone do but not at the price the webshite says.

    I had 2 (1 brand new) Nokia 9300's that I didn't want so checked a few
    sites and selected the above thieves. The site offered me 20 ukp each in
    working condition with battery. Both were working 100% and both had
    batteries that held good charges. Cheque arrived yesterday paying me 20
    ukp for both!! I looked in the envelope for the second cheque because I
    was sure I must have missed it, but no, only one cheque with a covering
    docket attached clearly stating 2 x Nokia 9300 (i's) tested and working,
    10 ukp each.
    Well, whether the fact that they think these were the I model and that
    is what makes it half the agreed price I don't know as yet. These are
    not i models as I bought 10 for business at the time, and they were
    9300's.
    Of course no phone number anywhere to contact them so I have sent a
    rather unfriendly email asking for an explanation, the full 40 quid or
    my phones returned intact!

    Watch this space.

    Greybeard
     
    Greybeard, Jan 27, 2011
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  14. Not interested, but interested in what you're replacing it with.
     
    stephen.packer, Jan 29, 2011
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    sweller Guest

    HD Desire - why do you ask?
     
    sweller, Jan 31, 2011
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