hi I'm James and I do things and in this
video I'm going to be showing you how to
list your iPhone on eBay safely
now before we get into the eBay listing
um I just want to say a couple of things
about what you should do to your phone
first and I have made a separate video
about it but I'll just tell you in a
nutshell now you need to
before you reach you need to reset the
phone but before you do that you should
take pictures of the about screen which
will tell you the the exact model
um the iOS software revision and the
storage and things like that so you can
show people the top bit of the about
screen but don't show on the bottom
which is the IM EI number which you
should record for yourself just in case
someone tries to
if someone buys a phone and then sends
it back and says oh I didn't like it or
it's no good and then they actually sent
you a different phone altogether so
um yeah I've done a separate video on
that so I'll link that up here up here
somewhere I'll put a card
um uh but yeah other than that I hope
you find this listing useful um I
actually I'm recording this after I've
listed the phone and I sold the phone in
20 minutes
so this is this is going to help you um
so I hope you enjoyed the video if you
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okay so now it's time to make a listing
so we're going to come into eBay so uh
on whatever computer you use um you can
do this on the app as well but I'm going
to show you on the desktop because it's
much easier for me to record
so um if yeah see me on desktop you just
come onto eBay and you're going to come
over to my eBay and go to selling or you
can just go to sell or just go to sell
and now I've got a business account so
mine look might look slightly different
to yours but this brings you it brings
you through to the same place which is
the
um this is all the Pokemon cards that
I'm selling
um so I'm going to come over here to
listings and create listing
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okay and then we're gonna do
um this is just things I've sold in the
past or drafts so you're gonna ignore
that and we're gonna start typing iPhone
the first one I'm going to sell is the
eye if I'm going to sell the iPhone 12.
iPhone 12 Pro and then what it should do
um once I've done that is it should
should take me through to a screen where
it's ah here we go so because it knows
about smartphones and he knows everyone
smells sells smartphones on it
you come through here this bugs out
sometimes but
going to work okay so ours is an iPhone
12 Pro
I go so select your phone it is unlocked
is a one two eight
it's
blue it's blue yeah
where is it
yeah it's blue
okay it is for so we're gonna put this
one as used because it does work
um it's in poor condition it's got a
cracked screen but it does work there's
nothing on it that doesn't work
uh unlike the other phone I'm going to
be selling and this one actually comes
with a box
check what it comes with
yeah so
um in my case I've got a box and a
charging cable for this
so charge on cable original box and then
we're just gonna click continue so
trending price is 420.
we probably won't get anything like 420
for this but
so
right so now the first thing to do is
put your pictures in
um so in my case I've already taken my
pictures so uh
okay so I've added some photos I
actually forgot that this phone comes
with a box
so that's gonna be my number one photo I
think
um so I'm gonna rotate it
I'm also gonna mess around with it I
don't need to crop it but I am going to
tweak the brightness a bit just make it
pop
it don't so that's gonna be
the main the first the photo and the
title are your main weapons for
basically getting your item seen they
are the things that people are going to
see first
um so it's good to put so for instance
this picture here this is people always
want to see the phone when it's switched
off uh in our case that looks absolutely
horrendous
um so I'm gonna put that picture last
which contains a bit sneaky but in
reality you know we want the most money
for this phone and that that is that is
the truest picture of the phone that is
what it looks like when it works it's a
great phone
um it's it is you know it works fine
so it would be kind of if we put that as
the front picture that looks like it's
just been run over
you know or something it looks
horrendous so we'd get a lot a lot less
money people will still see that you
know they're going to come and look at
it that will probably put some people
off but we've got to put it in
um if we don't put it in
we'll probably we'll just get asked for
it
um so it's it's quite frustrating so so
for the photos
um photo of everything that comes with
the picture of the back that would
probably be my next best photo so that I
would put that on
um because that looks pretty good
picture of the front one is on and then
uh that one's the information of the
battery that's the information about the
phone itself the storage in fact that's
the next most important thing confirm
that it's a 12 Pro not sure the 12.
confirmly it's 128 gigabytes which is a
shame because it's actually the smallest
one they do
and then because we've done the front
and the back we just need to do all the
sides so this shows the corners
the bottom where the port is and things
like that and then obviously what it
looks like when it's switched off so
that's the photos done and we're going
to come on next to
um to the title
okay so the title is your that's your
main weapon for being found in search
this is actually you know people aren't
going to see the photos
most likely unless you've got this
sorted out
um the default comes with lots of
brackets and hyphenations and stuff I
take all that out I don't know if it's
still the case but it used to be that
Google if someone searches say I want a
new iPhone
they don't
it doesn't search very well in eBay if
you've got hyphens and brackets and
basically any non
non-character or non non-letter
characters so I'll basically take all
the punctuation hyphens and stuff out
because most of this it will give you
and then I've put cracked screen so
we're not gonna have we're not getting
people bidding on it and then
then realizing when they see the last
picture oh no I didn't know it's correct
so we're telling people in the title
people will still miss that because the
people you know is eBay
um but we're putting works well so we're
qualifying it and saying this is a good
phone and then we're saying boxed so
we're trying to draw people's attention
to the the good thing so for any for any
eBay thing I usually
have the thing that it is at the front
um is the first
first things are Apple iPhone Pro 12. so
these are all your Search terms and at
the end I try and just put something to
differentiate it between other people's
stuff just to make it look better so
this is the kind of the first few first
I'd say 78 of the title should be
for the eBay search engine and then the
last little bit just to sort of make it
stand out and get people in
so I'm going to come down here this has
all been populated for us because it's
eBay knows what's in the phone I've no
idea this is all witchcraft to me uh
we're gonna put this factory unlocked
we're gonna put that in
um model number
no it's got 12 Pro I don't need any of
that
um
control manufacturing no idea probably
China I don't want to go anywhere near
any of these honestly this is all
right condition so you need to do the
condition probably
um with the condition be as honest as
as possible really
um I'm gonna write it all out now and
then I'll I'll pause recording and then
I'll come back but the the sort of the
guiding principle is be as honest as
possible but maybe put put the best
stuff first and put the worst stuff last
and just it just gives people a better
you've got to pull it all in there but
um usually firstly I would say First
Impressions last and I always put the
good stuff at the front Okay so I've
written the description um I've tried to
put the good stuff first so I've put
phone is in good working order
um but the screen is cracked I've been
I've been upfront about it
um cracks are purely cosmetic uh and and
doesn't don't
don't don't affect the use of the phone
cameras work front and back tucks touch
screen functions all work fine wherever
the phone looks great mine are wear and
tear around the cameras
um but they work fine
and look okay Edge bezels have some wear
um as per photos so it's always good to
say yeah they're fine look go and look
at the photos go and look for yourself
because a lot of particularly wear and
tear is
um I was subjective so it's you know
Beauty's in the eye of the beholder
um
so just the main screen looks bad and
it's worse when it's switched off and in
fact I'm gonna put the the main thing
when it comes to condition is the
battery health that's another it's a
huge thing for people when they're going
phones I'm going to put
battery health
100 percent
um okay so that's that done and now now
we need to do the description so this is
where we're going to really sell the
phone so I will come back in a second
when I filled all this in okay so I've
written the description
um
the uh eBay is actually taking away a
lot of features from the description so
I'm just gonna see if I can
uh add them back in so I'm going to
click show all options see what options
here we go so um the first thing I've
done is I've actually I've copied the
title from up here
on a
put it in in fact I'll actually change
the title slightly since while I was I
realized that I'd actually
bought a screen for this phone and then
never fitted it out of fear of making it
worse
um so I've put this business about the
extra screening so
uh
so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bold
that up and I don't think you can
underline things anymore that's really
really frustrating but I am going to
make it bigger I'm going to make it 18.
there used to be a lot more options used
to be able to make uh text really big
and you still have to underline as well
um so
um I'm gonna build this business about
the replacement screen because it's
uh it's quite good it's almost tempting
to put it in the subtitle
um subtitles are quite expensive given
that the listing will either be 30p or
it'll be free
um so it's but the fact that I'm I'm
mentioning an extra thing that's worth
60 pounds means you know and this will
probably go for
them send the medium sold Prices 3 17 so
if
tempting to do that but I won't do um
nine times out of 12. 99 times out of
100 I would definitely ignore the
subtitle but there are certain
circumstances when you need to
so um
so quick statement comes in the original
box original box with charging cable so
it tells them tell them what they're
getting it's a phone box cable
um the screen is cracked but it works
fine so just tame them just trying to
lay their fears and say look it's fine
it just looks a bit rubbish
and then just saying I bought this phone
just tell you a bit of a story and I
mean it's the truth that's always the
best story
basically I bought the phone and I was
going to replace the screen but I
haven't done
um the battery health is 100 they are
they're always going to ask about that
got anyone and they always want to know
is it iCloud locked is it Network locked
um no other issues of the thing postage
I always State the postage
on my eBay listings so usually towards
the end just say postage I'm only going
to send it to a UK address
because this is on a business account
you can send things through the eBay
global Shipping program
so basically you just send it to like a
warehouse somewhere in the UK and eBay
deals with all the kind of taxes and
sending things abroad and the risk which
is really handy however
um phones are such high risk item and if
you I find that if I if I say I'm going
to send it abroad if I put it on double
shipping program I get people from all
over the world who
desperately want an iPhone but clearly
can't afford one bidding on it
and then and then they don't pay so
um I tend to
basically I'll I've had people buy them
from
a couple people buy stuff from Africa
um and then have it shipped to basically
an independent
uh
sort of place in the UK which then ships
stuff all over the world and that's fine
because that's I don't mind them because
that's that's not my risk anymore I'm
going to ship it to your UK address and
if if someone wants to try and defraud
me I'll say no
I'll ship this thing to an address
here's what is the postage that says it
got there that's all I need to know
um but what I don't really want is to be
sending it abroad myself so I'm staying
that there to a UK address only because
that's what I live and then returns
um people
I find the returns think it's not so
much for information as giving people
confidence
so if you're saying look my business as
a business seller you have to sleep you
have to accept returns there's no
there's a minimum of 14 days
um certainly in the UK um but I find
that the number of people who will
actually return stuff
um is very low and it's
it's worth
you know for the ones who do return
things
um it's just it's much better
to put returns and have the occasional
one
um than to say no I'm not having a
return and it just puts people off puts
people so yeah don't do it format I'm
actually going to use
an auction for this
um
okay so we're gonna put bite now because
because these phones they're so popular
and it should get a little it should get
a lot of views
um I do prefer doing auctions but the
trouble is you people like I said people
from all over the world bid on them and
then their own pay at least we buy it
now
here um can get so we'll do c c sold
listings this function doesn't always
work
cracked screen
because that one sold for 317 at an
auction but that was in that was in
December so that's not particularly
helpful okay so what we are going to do
we're gonna go
out in my head I think I bought this for
200 and something sorted iPhone
12 Pro
right so then we're going to come down
here to
sold items
and then we're gonna just put
I'm going to put UK only
so that was a pro Max the pro Maxes are
bigger and then what they're worth more
um so that was 370. so I'll expect this
to go for 300 that's a two five six so
that's that's a
that's bigger than ourselves is a one
two eight so again that reinforces my
belief that 300 is a fair price
um that's a pro Max
that's
Pacific Blue that's what that's what we
got so that's that went for 280 that was
at auction
and that was that was that was yesterday
um
12 plus a pro Max
that was a pro Max
so that's 275 280 for the size that
we've got
see that one went for 350.
with a cracked screen I mean our
screen's probably more correct than that
one
um okay so I think three hundreds
there's there's a few gone for auctions
280. so I think if we put bike now price
299 that's probably Fair uh
um I want you know I've got I've got a
bill to pay what I can do is by putting
it on for buying now
um I know I've got three weeks
so if I put it on for a week and it
doesn't sell that gives me another week
to put in an auction and if I get
if I get messed around in the auctions
if people don't buy or people don't pay
then it gives me the chance to just do
like one day auctions after that to get
rid of it so
um as I've got a little bit of time I'm
going to put on it put it on buy it now
I'm not going to allow offers to be in
with because you just get lowballed with
iPhones just get people businesses come
along and just spam you with you know if
you put it for 300 people just spam you
with oh give you give you 150 give you
180.
um you get some quite aggressive
sellers so
um postage the postage is a bit
different when you've got a business
account
essentially you you can ignore that bit
at the top you want to do domestic
postage flat same cost to all buyers
for for Royal Mail
um
because it's an iPhone and it's worth
more than I think
obviously you need to go for special
delivery I think recorded delivery comes
you to 250 or signed for as it's called
and then track 24 I think only covers
you up to 100 I'm not sure I don't think
once you get to kind of three 400 pounds
plus you need to go for special delivery
and then
there's another
once you get over 500 it's still special
but there's a there's an extra
basically you need to take more
insurance so it gets more expensive
still so postage is going to cost me
about 10 pounds
it's between 7 and 10 I think
um
which is fine so I'm just gonna I'm
gonna put free postage because
I'm just lumping it in and just keep it
keep it simple if I was doing this as an
option I might start at 99p but I would
put 10 pounds postage so dispatch time
one working day I'm not going to have
international postage
so I'm not going to send it using the
GSP
and the global Shipping program and I'm
not going to have any alternative
postage I don't have any rate tables
um Road tables are more for other
countries where
it costs different amount to send stuff
in the same country
or to you know if you send a lot of
stuff abroad so for instance in America
sending stuff from New York to LA would
cost a lot more than sending stuff from
say New York to
Washington so that's why that exists but
for in the UK it doesn't really exist
although but the other time you could
use this is if you were sending
something to say the highlands via
non-royal mail related stuff or to
Northern Ireland which then it does
start to cost you more even though it's
still the UK so a package weight you can
ignore these it's good to know what what
your thing weighs
um make sure your address is in here
uh
I'm not going to promote this listing
um
oh will I
do it two I'm gonna I'm gonna promote it
but I'm going to put it in at the
minimum which is two
um promote I mean eBay takes eBay is
going to take about 13 of this which is
going to be quite a lot we're selling it
for 300 that's going to be 30 because so
you're going to be talking nearly 40
pounds so whatever you put in here like
if you put 10 in that's before the at so
eBay is going to take two percent and
then it's plus it's Times by 1.2
so your two percent is actually 2.4
so I'm gonna I'm gonna preview it
always work
they worked
right so there we go just just check
basically check it looks how you'd
expect it to look check the price isn't
stupid
um
scroll down see the title is nice and
big the bowling doesn't really work that
well battery health returns prostate so
that looks good that looks fine so I'm
gonna list that right now let's
and that's it that's how you list the
phone
um okay so after I finished making that
video
um about me listing the iPhone I went
and made some lunch and literally before
I could finish making my lunch I got a
message to say that it sold which just
shows you the power of eBay so um I've
put basically I put some stuff up to
block the buyer's information
um but essentially yeah he bought it
straight away
um
the only full price as well and it
didn't even go as as a
promoted listing so I don't actually
lose that extra two percent that I put
in so um so I made 300 pounds okay I
might have gotten 315 or 320
you know if I'd I could have possibly
put it up a touch higher and waited a
few days
um but that you know just goes to show
that um you know if I if I put on an
auction I would have waited a week
maybe been sort of had my my time Wasted
by someone and then you know I had to
put it on more options and more auctions
um
but now literally 20 minutes got my 300
pound
so really happy I won't get all 300 of
that I'll just do a quick I will
probably get I think it comes out at
phones get done at a lower rate when
you're a business
so that something like 6.9
times 1.2
okay so I think eBay will take about
nine percent of that so
zero nine of That's How we'll do it on
the calculator so 0.09
times
299
okay so email probably take 27 pounds
so
so 272 pounds in my bank so that'll
probably go in today's Saturday
um eBay
basically that'll be my bank on Monday
morning
which is great which is what I need so
now now I've got another phone to list
but it's brilliant so this just just
goes to show you the power of
um
of eBay really and when you when you
need money in a hurry this is you know
it's a really good way of doing it you
know you've got 20 million people
um at your fingertips