With the new phone being released every other month, a lot of you might be thinking to change your phone. Especially this week apple released a new iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus, many of you like me are thinking how you can sell your old phone and get the new iphone. I know most of you go to Amazon, eBay or some other online site to sell the phone. Unfortunately, some of you might be the victim of online scammed. So it is very important to take few extra steps, be cautious and sell the devices to the right person. I found this article, which tells us some excellent tips to take into consideration.
1. If you are selling it online, make sure to look closely at the official email from Amazon, PayPal, eBay or another entity. If the email consist of misspelled words or grammatically incorrect, the email is very likely not the official email from Amazon, or eBay. It is most probably fake.
2. If you have sold before, compare previous, “your item just sold” emails to the ones you just received.
3. Look at the sender’s email address. Make sure its official email address.
4. Before taking action, verify the transaction by logging into your account at the site you are selling through.
5. If someone contacts you outside of the official Amazon, eBay or other seller messaging system, be wary. There’s rarely a good reason for this.
6. If you want to avoid the risk of scam altogether, just sell your gadget to Gazelle, USell, or similar company. You might not make as much money as selling it yourself, but you don’t have to worry about fraud.
Originally published: Network world.com.
Martin, James A. (n.d.) “How to avoid online scams when selling your iphone or ipad”. URL: http://www.networkworld.com/
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