Selling iPod’s and the iPhone on eBay & electronic cigarettes
Posted by testcrunch on 1st July 2009
Since I’ve got the 32GB iPhone 3GS and that it can now store quite a lot of music I’ve been able to rationalise all of my devices and stuck three of them for sale on eBay.
I sold a 60GB iPod which was in pretty darn perfect condition apart from a few scratches you get on the back of any iPod which is a couple of years old. I described it as that and I’ve just found a message from the purchaser that it’s not in the condition it was described as. Except it was exactly in the condition I described it as. He hinted at contacting eBay which I assume was to scare me into giving him his money back. I’m not that bothered as I’m not an eBay trader in any form and I can’t see that they would side with him anyway. I think he expected to get the iPod box with the iPod but I didn’t have it any longer and never described the iPod as being sold with the box. Anyway he’ll get his money back no problem.
I also have a 160GB iPod that has just sold and mercifully it wasn’t to the same person. Again I got a good price and this time it did include the iPod box. The purchaser had also asked me, before winning the auction, what the condition it was in and the condition of the box. This one is obviously going to be passed off as new to someone.
Lastly my iPhone 3G was on sale on eBay but I had rather stupidly started the auction at 7am so it would therefore finish at that time. People don’t like that, they prefer finishes at about 8-9pm. I had put it on with a starting price of 99c and no reserve and I had about 12 watchers at one time but this morning with 24 hours to go only had 4 watchers and the price was stuck at $108. So I pulled it from auction and will start again with a far more flowery description and a starting price of $150 just to get rid of the time wasters who think they’re going to pick it up for a song.
I had another go at using the iPhones bluetooth function (with OS 3) and this time tried to pair it with a Jabra Bluetooth Speakerphone and still it wasn’t discovered. I bet the only thing that will be discovered will be some A2DP headphones that Apple will release soon and that will cost $100.
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