Phone Buying Firms

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.

 

They go for £250 to £300 on ebay, so I'd sell it there.

 

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...

 

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



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ditto

old Nokias £ 20, lots of Blackberry curves went for £ 60 each
other tat £ 10 - £ 30 each
All had to be working

 

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

 

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.

 

I sold one of them on ebay last year for £42.

 

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.

 

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.

 

....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.

 

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

 

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

 

Not interested, but interested in what you're replacing it with.

 

HD Desire - why do you ask?