How do you sell your old phones?

[AstroManLuca]

Recently changed providers and I want to sell our old phones. There are a lot of options - Craigslist, Swappa, Glyde, eBay, the FS/T forum here. Not sure what the best option is.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Swappa pretty consistently now. It's simple and cheap ($10).

Not a fan of eBay lately, too many scammers bidding up auctions.

 

[PowerYoga]

Swappa pretty consistently now. It's simple and cheap ($10).

swappa all the way.

 

[Red Storm]

I always try local (Craigslist) first. Just reset the phone, and meet potential buyers in a carrier store, both for convenience (they can verify with the carrier that everything works) and peace of mind (buyers are less suspicious if you're willing to meet at a carrier store than some dark alley or gas station).

 

[openwheel]

craigslist with firm cash price and meet at Verizon only. Phones sell in no time, especially iPhone and iPad. I remember buying iPad 2 refurbished, hated it and sold it the same day with $25 profit.

 

[ImDonly1]

Craigslist.
I list on here and swappa but it usually sells on Craigslist first. Also no fees.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I still use Ebay to sell because I get good results.

I don't know if I would buy off Ebay though.

 

[corkyg]

I never sell my old phones. I donate them to the troops.

 

[vi edit]

I'm a fan of Swappa. Done a couple transactions there and quite pleased.

 

[Radeon962]

Swappa or CTO if it's a newer model.

EBay if it's an older GSM.

 

[Sheep]

I recently sold a GSM Galaxy Nexus using Amazon's trade-in program. Much to my shock, Amazon's offering price was within $10 of what people were asking for on Swappa.

 

[Oyeve]

I amass a bunch throughout the year then trade with the carriers for new phones.

Like today alone, I used an old iphone 4 to trade with VZW to get a Note 4 for free and I just finished trading a Blackberry 9930 for an iphone 6 64gb and MADE 100 bucks off the deal.

It also help if you control the corporate account and do "buddy" upgrades.

So, yeh, I keep all my phone cuz ya just never know.

 

[bassoprofundo]

Here and/or Swappa... EBay is a last resort

 

[bassoprofundo]

I amass a bunch throughout the year then trade with the carriers for new phones.

Like today alone, I used an old iphone 4 to trade with VZW to get a Note 4 for free and I just finished trading a Blackberry 9930 for an iphone 6 64gb and MADE 100 bucks off the deal.

It also help if you control the corporate account and do "buddy" upgrades.

So, yeh, I keep all my phone cuz ya just never know.

Curious as to how this works when you do it... Something Verizon-specific?



I used to do this with AT&T, but since the move to a Mobile Share plan, I have an actual incentive to stay off contract ($25/month discount per line). Before, it was the same no matter what, so I just upgraded every 4 months or so using the 5 lines on my account staggered.



Do share...

 

[Spineshank]

Craigslist and Swappa. Sometimes ebay, but im very careful.

 

[Oyeve]

Curious as to how this works when you do it... Something Verizon-specific?



I used to do this with AT&T, but since the move to a Mobile Share plan, I have an actual incentive to stay off contract ($25/month discount per line). Before, it was the same no matter what, so I just upgraded every 4 months or so using the 5 lines on my account staggered.



Do share...

We have a business account and they know we are being solicited by t-mobile and I constantly get promos from VZW. For instance, for 23 lines of service we pay 40 bucks for each smartphone and 10 bucks for each tablet. Getting a new line added right now if I trade an iphone 4 or blackberry they take 200 of for the phone of choice and another 200 for adding a new line, so, an iphone 6 with 128gb storage goes for 400 on contract, with the for the old phone plus new line incentive the cost of the phone is free and 40 bucks a month added to the account. Cost of the account is $300 for 80GB of shared data and on top of that I have 23 smartphones and that included 7 tabs so 7x10 and 16x40 comes out to $1010 plus fees and taxes for 80GB of shared data and unlimited talk and text. Not too bad.

 

[blairharrington]

Sold my last two phones on Swappa. Probably will sell my Moto on there too at some point.

 

[bassoprofundo]

We have a business account and they know we are being solicited by t-mobile and I constantly get promos from VZW. For instance, for 23 lines of service we pay 40 bucks for each smartphone and 10 bucks for each tablet. Getting a new line added right now if I trade an iphone 4 or blackberry they take 200 of for the phone of choice and another 200 for adding a new line, so, an iphone 6 with 128gb storage goes for 400 on contract, with the for the old phone plus new line incentive the cost of the phone is free and 40 bucks a month added to the account. Cost of the account is $300 for 80GB of shared data and on top of that I have 23 smartphones and that included 7 tabs so 7x10 and 16x40 comes out to $1010 plus fees and taxes for 80GB of shared data and unlimited talk and text. Not too bad.

Not bad at all... I do miss the "good old days" of not seeing the unsubsidized phone price. I don't mind the sizable discount to staying off contract though. With my discount, I'm paying $120ish a month for 40gb of data and unlimited everything else for 5 lines. Pretty tough to beat that. Maybe I'm just getting old, too, or maybe the tech is just leveling off in terms of gains with each new gen of phones, but I'm finally at a point where I'm pretty content with what I have. Upgrading every 1-2 years is starting to look more realistic now.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I sell on Ebay because I want max value. Swappa is more for phone flippers who want to dump and go, and often on there phones go for the same relative price no matter if you throw in accessories or not. On Ebay I pile up all those old accesories I get with every phone and I can usually get 10+% more than I could get on Swappa. With that said, BUYING on Ebay is a fools game when Swappa sells guaranteed clean phones.

So I sell on Ebay and I buy one Swappa. I actually did that last night- I sold a phone on Ebay and bought one off Swappa.