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Have to sell my evo =(

So ive fallen on some hard times, and im going to have to sell my evo to make rent next month. Its obviously used but in good condition otherwise. Included is all stock accessories, screen protectors (one applied), and the official leather hip case.
Ive listed the item on ebay and thought id give you xda'ers a heads up.
Item number: 120638581726
The money would sure help. Thanks for looking =)
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Sorry to hear about your situation

Same here, but I don't think selling your phone would be a solution to a problem you are in. Good luck and hope it turns better for ya.

Hey man don't know all about your financial situation but keep your head up there's light at the end of the tunnel. When you get back in your feet you will a better than evo phone
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O man Ebay? If someone wins your item the money is put on hold until they receive the phone or leave positive feedback (whatever comes first). The smarter thing was to place the phone on Craigslist. You also dodge the eBay seller fees.
Don't know when your rent is due but good luck.
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Be prayerful and I hope it sells for more than enough

Unless you used your rent money to buy the phone in the first place, Im not sure if I could sacrifice my phone for rent, Id rather just pay it late.

damn, never used ebay before? that sort of makes it a bit sketchy... CL may've been a better idea, but it sucks dealing with people in person too.

I'd rather get evicted than give up my EVO.

I really hope it works out because if rent is due the 1st of the month you may be SOL. I believe that when eBay bought Paypal the payment hold policy changed.
If you charged for shipping that will have to come out of your pocket. I always recommend the craigslist route because it's more of a cash in hand route. If you sold the item today for example and shipped it the funds get released 24 hours after they leave feedback. You can go to PayPal's website and manually upload the tracking info and then call them to see if they can do a courtesy funds release for you but who knows what they'll say. By the way I hope you have a Paypal Mastercard Debit (it's free) because if not you have to wait a few more days to transfer the money into your bank account.
Just be careful next time and allocate $20-$40 bucks a paycheck into a separate account for the just in case situations. If you are really in a bad situation and have a 401k you may be able to withdraw some money but you will get taxed heavily. I personally would never do it but if you really need the money it could be an option.

I'll buy it
Let me get some pics though

Man... i didnt realize it took so long to actually get paid. This sucks. And yeah ive never used ebay. Never had a reason to. Not sure what i should do =\
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Rocket, i can send out pics if you're still interested. Any way to get the money a bit quicker than the paypal route?
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Paypal is instant unless the person is paying with a credit card but if the person buying it has paypal it is instant payment.

I was just reading the finer details about it and it does say that they may hold the payment until positive feedback is issued from the buyer. It said they like to do that for new accounts, which i am =\
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eBay has some drawbacks, but you may get more for the phone.
With CL, you have to name the price you want, then hope somebody wants it for that price. Plus there's the "flake" factor. Waiting for them to come and they never do, etc.
I had a several year old HP wireless printer that I was un-able to GIVE away on CL earlier this year. Your EVO will definitely be more in demand however.
eBay is more of a, I don't need the money tomorrow kind of thing. However, you can go to their help section and read "Canceling an auction".

Franteeko said:
I was just reading the finer details about it and it does say that they may hold the payment until positive feedback is issued from the buyer. It said they like to do that for new accounts, which i am =\
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I've had Paypal for about 5 years and the rules still apply. It's only instant if I were to send you $50 today because it doesn't involve a middle man such as eBay. I would just sell it on Craigslist and take the hit on negative feedback. It will mess up your feedback rating but you'll have the money faster.
If someone on XDA buys it and sends payment then it's instant but you still have to wait to take the money and transfer to your bank account.
I have a Paypal mastercard debit (free) so that if I get payment I withdraw with the debit card and deposit at a chase atm.
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Franteeko said:
I was just reading the finer details about it and it does say that they may hold the payment until positive feedback is issued from the buyer. It said they like to do that for new accounts, which i am =\
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As an ebay user for years, I can testify to the Paypal BS. I am a trusted user etc...all that good stuff. When I sell anything I still have to wait for positive feedback etc. It can get REALLY annoying. So basically I have to wait for the other party to leave feedback, even though I am trusted/100%/paypal power user/confirmed etc. It gets annoying when you just want to transfer ur money.
That being said, there is only 1 way to get your ebay reputation up....and that is to sell... I think I am still bounded by the delayed payment because I only sell things randomly...I am not a store

That's odd, when ever I sell I never have to wait for Payment. The funds are never held for me.

rockethot said:
That's odd, when ever I sell I never have to wait for Payment. The funds are never held for me.
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It is probably because I only sell things like 3 times a year max. When I asked them about it, it was more of a hassle than to find out why. Everything was eventually released etc, but still annoying to wait.

Just Sold my extra S2 on Ebay for $1100

We'll I had it listed on ebay it was going for $820 then some guy offered my $1100 through paypal. Woohoo this phone is popular, people were emailing me like crazy for it.

falconeight said:
We'll I had it listed on ebay it was going for $820 then some guy offered my $1100 through paypal. Woohoo this phone is popular, people were emailing me like crazy for it.
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Scam, better make sure you don't ship it until paypal confirms after 2-3 days. I've had people do that to me before. They send a paypal payment, you ship the item, then they retract their payment and you're screwed.

Ya i already put the money into my bank account. I didn't realize how popular this phone was.

falconeight said:
Ya i already put the money into my bank account. I didn't realize how popular this phone was.
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But was it confirmed? Paypal will let you withdraw the money even if it isn't confirmed, but they'll force you to pay the money back to them if the payee retracts his payment.
Like I said, I have went through all of this before.
Edit: Even if it has been confirmed, you can still do a chargeback through your credit card company. I'm not saying that's what happened to you, but you have to be cautious.

It was confirmed and I am protected

last time I checked the phone was going for about 880$ on ebay. what kind of idiot would pay 1100$? congrats if its true though

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It was confirmed and I am protected
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Good job, high five!
So these are selling for more than the iphone 4 did when it was first released.

damn kid, hope you didnt get scammed...
these scammers are pretty elaborate. Spoof paypal sites and emails, they are GOOD. This dude almost got over on me when I was selling my laptop

falconeight said:
We'll I had it listed on ebay it was going for $820 then some guy offered my $1100 through paypal. Woohoo this phone is popular, people were emailing me like crazy for it.
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i dont believe you
give me link.
and i just sold S2 new and sealed for 789.99 plus 19.99 shipping on ebay

netnerd said:
i dont believe you
give me link.
and i just sold S2 new and sealed for 789.99 plus 19.99 shipping on ebay
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we want proof OP!

c19932 said:
we want proof OP!
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I just want to see it also, the highest SG2 i see that sold was 985.

could be op is still selling and wanna boost rates haha

I don't feel bad, I sold s2 new and sealed for 789.99 plus 19.99 shipping. OP never provided link, so I say it's BS!

[Q] Is this a scam?

I found yesterday on ebay a canadian seller who had an auction for a Samsung Galaxy S2 new unlocked international version.
So I did the usual send a message if he could end the auction for 280+Shipping
because that's what I have in hand.
This was the messages:
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Me: Hi I would like to buy your phone I have 280+Shipping
Seller: Hi there, yes i can do a buy it now for 280+20 shipping to Honduras. Send me your paypal email and i can send you the invoice that you can pay and i will ship out asap. thanks
Me: my paypal address is ***********@*****.net
Seller: Just sent you the invoice for 300. Please let me know when you have paid and confirm your address. thanks
Me: Hey I saw you didn't ended the auction and it got sold for 432!
Seller: No i have 2 phones that i am selling. You can still pay the invoice i sent you. I will still sell you the phone for the agreed price
So then I received a paypal invoice of 300$
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So do you think this guy is a scammer or not? Seller has 5 feedbacks and he is canadian, should I send the money? Would I be protected by paypal?
Item is going to be shipped to Honduras.
What do you say should I go on and buy it or not.

If it's an invoice you should be good, file a dispute if you don't get it
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not a scam

280 is impossible
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Lol, if you had a phone that just sold for 400 plus why would you sell another one for more than 100 less?
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Never ever deal with an ebay seller through email. Your purchase will NOT be protected and the guy knows this. Keep that $280 man!!

754boy said:
Never ever deal with an ebay seller through email. Your purchase will NOT be protected and the guy knows this. Keep that $280 man!!
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It actually is still protected by paypal.
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he send you invoice, you pay it, you dont get item, you dispute gg

There is nothing special about buying it with ebay really, if anything ebay screws over the seller! They charge so much in seller fees (in my opinion). I would just make sure the invoice is legit as I have gotten fake invoices before.
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I just sold something on eBay for 400 and the fees were over 65.00 and if you have less than 25 sales they hold the money for 21 days or 3 days after its delivered with a tracking number. eBay sucks to sell stuff now. So its not really 100 less than his last sale.
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awca22 said:
I found yesterday on ebay a canadian seller who had an auction for a Samsung Galaxy S2 new unlocked international version.
So I did the usual send a message if he could end the auction for 280+Shipping
because that's what I have in hand.
This was the messages:
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Me: Hi I would like to buy your phone I have 280+Shipping
Seller: Hi there, yes i can do a buy it now for 280+20 shipping to Honduras. Send me your paypal email and i can send you the invoice that you can pay and i will ship out asap. thanks
Me: my paypal address is ***********@*****.net
Seller: Just sent you the invoice for 300. Please let me know when you have paid and confirm your address. thanks
Me: Hey I saw you didn't ended the auction and it got sold for 432!
Seller: No i have 2 phones that i am selling. You can still pay the invoice i sent you. I will still sell you the phone for the agreed price
So then I received a paypal invoice of 300$
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So do you think this guy is a scammer or not? Seller has 5 feedbacks and he is canadian, should I send the money? Would I be protected by paypal?
Item is going to be shipped to Honduras.
What do you say should I go on and buy it or not.
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you must also check whether the device is in perfect condition !!
also the seller may bluff you by not sending the desired item or he may send anything else even a cheap clone or something !!
pls confirm via pics or video and then go for the transaction !!

you could even ask him to create another auction on ebay with a buy it now price that you agreed to and have him send you the link.

ekz13 said:
you could even ask him to create another auction on ebay with a buy it now price that you agreed to and have him send you the link.
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A seller did that for me for an item that he accepted my offer on. It worked very well.

280 no way! The phone is worth around $600.
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I believe seller can create a private sale through ebay to buyer and ebay will give you buyer protection.
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When a deal sounds too good to be true... perhaps its too good to be true. I wouldnt do it.

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oatterzonxda said:
When a deal sounds too good to be true... perhaps its too good to be true. I wouldnt do it.
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Had the same thought, then seen your post. I agree.
Tony

Do not buy from simplyelectronics.net!!!!!

Wow...stay away from this company as far as possible. Trying to deal with them has been harder than performing brain surgery in the dark with one hand tied behind my back.
Ordered a white Note on January 25th. They needed extra identity verification (aka the documents they need to defraud me a month from now). I order from B&H all the time with orders exceeding $2,000 without having to verify my identity.
Fine, I played their game, January 28th rolls around and it can't ship till next week because they are backed up. I tell them forget it, to cancel it, and I will get it from someone else who can do business professionally.
Between January 28-30. I have FOUR comfirmation email cancelling my order from TWO diff reps and from the [email protected] email. Now today, February 3, I receive an email that my order has shipped and here is your tracking number...
Scammers folks. Terrible customer service. Been sitting on the phone for ONE HOUR trying to talk to someone live....no one will pick up. No one is returning my emails. I just filed for fraud on my credit card, I will refuse the package when it arrives, telling you guys here, and also prepping my attorney for anything.
SimplyElectronics.net is not professional, not prompt, sketchy, involved in fraud throughout Europe, and by far the worst company I've ever dealt with.

Wow - sounds absolutely awful...
Sorry to hear about your miserable experience, but thanks for the heads up.

Almost ordered a Galaxy Tab from there at Christmas, but found out about Note and bought it from Finland. After hearing this i am glad i didn't choose to buy the Tab there.

why do you people send your money to shady non trustworthy companies. Just to save a couple dollars.
I must be weird to shell out a extra 50-100 for a little peace of mind
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They are based in Hong Kong, look at their address on the terms and conditions tab on their website.
I made the mistake of ordering from them before and looked into the company. They were taking ages to dispatch so I asked for a cancellation. They agreed to the cancellation but after about two weeks of not receiving my money back on to my card, I sent a chaser email which they responded to and I managed to obtain my refund after another few days.
Their website is very deceptive because when you go to it, everything is in UK currency, and even their phone number is a UK one.
Any warranty claims seem to go to a UK mail forwarding address who then probably ship it back to Hong Kong.
Definitely stay away from this company.

Dont you think it is enough with one thread on this subject, since you also posted one in the "Q&A" section?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1478659

This is why I stick to Amazon. Not always the cheapest but you know what you're getting.
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intruda119 said:
why do you people send your money to shady non trustworthy companies. Just to save a couple dollars.
I must be weird to shell out a extra 50-100 for a little peace of mind
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I'll pay another $20 to $30 extra for a little peace of mind, but $100 is kinda steep (IMHO).
--For the record, I bought my Note from a Top-Rated seller on eBay for $629. Transaction was excellent, and so is the phone.

I ordered from simply electronics and had no issues, and that was in the run up to christmas, took exactly a week to arrive. I think there were excellent, always replied to my emails and was miles cheaper than anywhere else. I think you just need patience when ordering from a company based in Hong Kong. I'm used to it get a lot of stuff off ebay from Hong Kong, and a lot of it takes about a month to arrive. Which I'm told is because they have very strict outgoing customs over there.

ericshmerick said:
This is why I stick to Amazon. Not always the cheapest but you know what you're getting.
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+1000 !!!!!!!!!!

I got my note from expansys USA for $689 2 months ago.
If you think $100 is steep for peace of mind vs what the op is going through then I must be crazy.
I have learnt over the years that you have to pay for quality service. My extra 100 I spent originally with expansys was worth it when I had to do a replacement. Hassle free with absolutely no issues.
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intruda119 said:
why do you people send your money to shady non trustworthy companies. Just to save a couple dollars.
I must be weird to shell out a extra 50-100 for a little peace of mind
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I did pay extra for what I thought was peace of mind. Use google shopping. SimplyElectronics is one of the highest rated sellers according to my search result. I posted twice to warn my fellow XDA'ers. I have credit card protection and an attorney I'm afraid of. I'm not worried about it per se. I run a small business and I just get really irked by the way some companies treat their customers.

roxxy said:
Dont you think it is enough with one thread on this subject, since you also posted one in the "Q&A" section?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1478659
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No. I do not think its enough.

lol just type simplyelectronics scam into google and see:
http://fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38576
sorry if this is no help, but i would of checked a few reviews. good luck getting ya cash back though

iceghost1210 said:
lol just type simplyelectronics scam into google and see:
http://fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38576
sorry if this is no help, but i would of checked a few reviews. good luck getting ya cash back though
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Lol already done...

Yep. I too bought my Note from Expansys for something like 600€.
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I think they maybe just aren't the best at keeping up with orders, i got mine fine, I paid with paypal so I knew I was covered if the thing didn't turn up. Not really any risk these days if you use the options that are there.

Paypal Chargeback on a Swapp.com sale

So I sold a Galaxy S5 on swappa.com two months ago for $585.
I shipped the S5 via USPS Priority (with tracking number) to an address in Florida.
Low and behold, two months later, completely out of the blue, Paypal just subtracted $585 from my Paypal account, so now it's in the negative.
Seems the buyer initiated a "Unauthorized Payment Chargeback".
I've submitted my tracking # and Swappa.com sale ID to Paypal and they are "reviewing the claim". But some quick Googling says I'm probably about to lose $585 when Paypal deducts it from my checking account.
I called my Credit Union and they need form after form after form and a $30 fee to block PayPal and the form can't be submitted until AFTER Paypal takes the funds from my checking account. And then there is no guarantee it'll work?!?
And the Paypal website won't let me remove my checking account from my Paypal account. So if they decide against me, which it sounds like they might, then I'll be screwed.
Just a warning to you guys.
I wanted a quick sale and did not research the buyer before shipping the item. That was my bad.

I don't get it. Why was the charge reversed? Maybe it was a hi-jacked account that was used. That happened to me years ago. The money just magically vanished right out of my bank account. Nobody could tell me how or why. Had to figure it out for myself. Unreal.

theorioles33 said:
I don't get it. Why was the charge reversed? Maybe it was a hi-jacked account that was used. That happened to me years ago. The money just magically vanished right out of my bank account. Nobody could tell me how or why. Had to figure it out for myself. Unreal.
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Yeah, I guess.
What I don't get is why do WE get dinged for this.
It wasn't US who mishandled the buyers charge account.
So wtf. Paypal or Credit Card companies are the ones who should eat the charge.

CZ Eddie said:
Yeah, I guess.
What I don't get is why do WE get dinged for this.
It wasn't US who mishandled the buyers charge account.
So wtf. Paypal or Credit Card companies are the ones who should eat the charge.
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Yeah I know. The sellers always get screwed.

I'm afraid you're going to have to just use this as a $585 lesson on why you should NEVER use Paypal for anything. I don't have a checking account OR a credit card linked to my PP account.
Edit: I thought Swappa was a broker, of sorts. Don't they get hold the funds till the buyer receives the phone?
Edit2: Call AT&T and Tmo and report the MEID as stolen?

Honestly, i think paypal will rule in your favor. From personal experience of this happening to me on ebay; generally providing paypal with the proof of shipment is enough. Granted, it takes a couple weeks for them to get their stuff together, but just wanted to let you know.
Good luck

CZ Eddie said:
So I sold a Galaxy S5 on swappa.com two months ago for $585.
I shipped the S5 via USPS Priority (with tracking number) to an address in Florida.
Low and behold, two months later, completely out of the blue, Paypal just subtracted $585 from my Paypal account, so now it's in the negative.
Seems the buyer initiated a "Unauthorized Payment Chargeback".
I've submitted my tracking # and Swappa.com sale ID to Paypal and they are "reviewing the claim". But some quick Googling says I'm probably about to lose $585 when Paypal deducts it from my checking account.
I called my Credit Union and they need form after form after form and a $30 fee to block PayPal and the form can't be submitted until AFTER Paypal takes the funds from my checking account. And then there is no guarantee it'll work?!?
And the Paypal website won't let me remove my checking account from my Paypal account. So if they decide against me, which it sounds like they might, then I'll be screwed.
Just a warning to you guys.
I wanted a quick sale and did not research the buyer before shipping the item. That was my bad.
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hi
in my experience if your tracking number show the item was delivered for the address that confirmed on paypal for the buyer at least ( city, state and zipcode ) match then even chargeback will be end up in your favor . but if the address was unconfirmed on paypal then ya they could decided it against you .

Forgot about this thread!
Yeah, they ruled in my favor after holding my account hostage for two weeks. Thanks guys.

Congratulations on the ruling. And just for that guy being a ****, and trying to scam you, I'd still report it as stolen. But that's just me.
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graydiggy said:
Congratulations on the ruling. And just for that guy being a ****, and trying to scam you, I'd still report it as stolen. But that's just me.
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graydiggy said:
Congratulations on the ruling. And just for that guy being a ****, and trying to scam you, I'd still report it as stolen. But that's just me.
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Echo that.

Hahahah... Yeah but he's likely sold it to some unsuspecting fool who doesn't deserve that. Funny idea though. ;/

Didn't think of that. Good call.

I just bought my note off swappa. I'll keep that in mind when i go to sell one on there.

Good information that has run it's course. Closed.