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What is a fair price for the phone?

Sprint has significantly deteriorated over the past six months in my area. Speeds are on par with GPRS speeds. This, the latest Airave snafu and the ability to get out of contract nailed the coffin.
Where is the best place to sell my two Epics and an Evo? What would be a fair price? Phones are in good condition, just normal wear and tear marks. Definitely not flawless.

Xda market place is a gloss place to sell your phones and I would match someone else's price
But it should be around one hundred
I heard somewhere that sprint was selling refurbs for 120
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Thanks!
geez... Why do CDMA phones lose their value so badly?!

1. ESN... Having to check if it's clean or stolen and useless chases away a lot of buyers who don't want to hassle with finding out the used phone you sold them is a fancy brick.
2. Since there are a lot of returns on the Epic 4G, refurb prices went down quickly... Why buy from a private party when you can buy a warranteed refurb?
3. All phone prices drop quickly... New phones come out every 3 months or so that significantly devalue everything else currently on the market. And it's not just phones... ALL tech devalues at a pretty quick clip. Although Apple products seem to hold their value pretty well... Never figured out what makes them so special though.

There's a guy in the Sense thread in Android Development (a few pages back within the thread) bubby323 and he will trade your epic for his touchpad.

1 million dollars!

I picked up an Epic on ebay for a friend of mine, and the selling prices were going for 150-200 on most of the phones.

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I picked up an Epic on ebay for a friend of mine, and the selling prices were going for 150-200 on most of the phones.
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I did the same For my girlfriend and I. Both phones were flawless and sprint gave us no issues activating them.

I bought one from eBay for 155, only had a 2gb sd card (phone it replaced had a 16gb anyway) but had a case.
(wife killed her transform, which was good because that phone suuucckkeeddd!)

I paid 150 on Craigslist last week.
I'd suggest you hurry up considering Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch Eenie meenie mie ney moe's (long name, shheeesh) is about to release, and I bet Epics and Evos will be hot cakes. Cheap ones at that...
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PM bubby323, he said he'd trade a TouchPad for it.

where do you guys buy your phones?

coming from evo 4g, im due for an upgrade and am wanting the e4gt, and am trying to find the best deal possible. where do you guys go for deals when upgrading your phones?
$150 seems to be the best price i can find online, from amazonwireless, but they're out of stock for the next 8-9 days.

I bought mine from Wirefly via Bank of America's "Add-it-Up" program. $150 from Wirefly, $50 cash back from BofA, and no sales tax shipped to California was $100 net cash money out the door. Worth the extra return hassle during the first 14 days and the handcuffs Wirefly puts on you for the first 6 months.

It was just .01 on Amazon wireless but it seems that ended because I checked today and its back up to 99.99 and 149 for upgrade. Man you just missed that 1 cent deal
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Got mine off Target mobile. Che k Best Buy mobile, Tiger Direct Mobile, Walmart Mobile, Wirefly, etc. All these stores that are by simplicity have good prices, but some are lower than others.
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Craigslist =]
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I bought mine at best buy.

Craigslist. I buy most of my phones off craigslist. Typically you can talk people down in price because they dont know what they have.

Try Let's Talk. Not sure what price they have but was very impressed with their customer service.
http://www.letstalk.com/?ilr=1

Sprint is the cheapest off contract.
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Amazon Wireless. Unfortunately I bought mine right before the 1 cent deal they had this week. I would've bought it at Best Buy in-store but for $100, no sales tax, no activation fee and free shipping was too good to pass up.

Either radio shack or the sprint store.

I usually get mine at best buy. I mainly just get it there for the insurance they offer. $10 a month and they cover everything but lost or stolen. Used it about 10 times on my Droid incredible in one year and got it replaced in about 2-5 days. Oh and no deductible on the insurance
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Best buy
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got 2 epic 4g touch from amazon for a penny each!!!

Got mine from Amazon for ¢1 n a $100 dollar Amazon gift card back.
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I bought my Epic 4g Touch at my local corporate sprint store. I have found that corporate stores usually have the ability to give you deals and exploit little loopholes that are sort of floating around in the sprint corporate system that non-corporate stores/contractors do not have access to.
Since switching to sprint I have had an Evo 4g, Nexus S 4g and currently the epic 4g touch. Despite being with sprint for less than 2 years I have paid below the rebate price for each of these phones. Each time I have gone into my local corporate store, I find the nerdiest guy in the store (basically, I look for someone like me) and then I nerd out with him over smart phones and tech stuff for a little while. I create some kind of basic connection with him and sell him on me as a customer, making him want to give me a good deal. To summarize, go to a corporate store, find an employee who you think will actually want to help you, and make yourself extremely likeable. I have received way more money back on my old phones as trade ins, exploited system loopholes and received discounts that I wasn't supposed to be eligible for.
-Greg
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Amazon. 3 Epic 4Gs at 0.01$ a piece

Try newegg.

Sephirothvfc said:
I usually get mine at best buy. I mainly just get it there for the insurance they offer. $10 a month and they cover everything but lost or stolen. Used it about 10 times on my Droid incredible in one year and got it replaced in about 2-5 days. Oh and no deductible on the insurance
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Same here and they price match anywhere
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Vegasden said:
Try Let's Talk. Not sure what price they have but was very impressed with their customer service.
http://www.letstalk.com/?ilr=1
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Yup lets talk.com is the way to go got mine for $99 after replacing a weak ass nexus s 4g.

How do you guy keep up with the latest phones?

Ok so i'm realizing as i've been reading the threads, that many of us came from evo 3d, and photon, and nexus s. How are you guys able to get e4gt without your contracts being up? I know that some of those phones are less than a year old. and i'm pretty sure some of us will move on from e4gt to galaxy nexus when it comes out. Whats your trade secret? I can't really imagine, people cashing up $500 + every few months? even if you were to sell your old phone to off set the difference.
can you guys please tell me your secret? because i would love to get the latest phones, with minimum money spent.

I'm an avowed gadget freak and when Sprint still had the BTA (bill to account) option, I bought many phones at full price but since they disbanded that lovely feature I've had to resort to calling in and requesting an earlier upgrade (worked once and I used it for that pos EVO 3D). I also used to have 5 active lines, most of those I only activated to get a new phone lol so I paid probably 3 times as much with service, etc.
Some people have better luck than others and get an early upgrade often, I'm guessing it's a case of who you know over blind luck.

Sell the old one to put towards the new one
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It is actually REALLY easy.
It is called Sprint Total Equipment Protection
As you can see below I have had a few phones, Only the Samsung Epic1 was actually upgraded. Everything else is thanks to TEP.
Before I would get broken phones and use TEP to get like new phones and sell them to buy a new phone, but it is even easier now, they offer similar phones to yours. So, In June I bought the Evo 3D, got bored with it by december. Wanted the ET4G, that wasn't available through TEP, so I got the Photon. Got bored of that, then swapped my Photon for the ET4G.
Seriously, that $8 a month is well worth it, AND if you brick your phone, you get a new one!

I sell my girlfriend for money.
now you know.

for me, I just make sure to keep my devices in pristine condition. That way I can sell mine on craigslist and just put in the difference against the retail price of new phone. so im usually out of B/T $200-$250 for new phone

Well, I used to get the Premier subsidy every year so I could get a brand new phone every summer for $200. That's how I've gotten my last several phones. Went from a Sanyo flip phone (before Premier) to a Palm Treo 650. Kept that for 2 years, got a HTC Mogul, that crapped out and TEP replaced it with a new or refurb HTC Touch Pro. This is around when the Premier perks started. Had that for maybe a half a year and then when my contract was up I got a launch day Palm Pre. Had that for a year and got a Premier upgrade to an HTC Evo. That just broke on me a few months ago but I had talked them into keeping my last Premier upgrade on my account so I was able to sell back my broken Evo for $90 and pay like $110 out of pocket for the E4GT.
Trying to keep it in good shape (probably will have to get the USB jig to reset the flash count) so I can sell it and buy the SGS3 whenever it shows up on Sprint in the Fall or whatever.

Its very simple....craigslist lol. I sold my evo 3d for $240 and found a guy selling white epics for 350. My girlfriend did the same thing
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Ditto
Success100 said:
for me, I just make sure to keep my devices in pristine condition. That way I can sell mine on craigslist and just put in the difference against the retail price of new phone. so im usually out of B/T $200-$250 for new phone
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+1 so do i

Censura_Umbra said:
It is actually REALLY easy.
It is called Sprint Total Equipment Protection
As you can see below I have had a few phones, Only the Samsung Epic1 was actually upgraded. Everything else is thanks to TEP.
Before I would get broken phones and use TEP to get like new phones and sell them to buy a new phone, but it is even easier now, they offer similar phones to yours. So, In June I bought the Evo 3D, got bored with it by december. Wanted the ET4G, that wasn't available through TEP, so I got the Photon. Got bored of that, then swapped my Photon for the ET4G.
Seriously, that $8 a month is well worth it, AND if you brick your phone, you get a new one!
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Wait...so if I ever sell my soul to the Devil and jump to the iPhone, it would cost me $100? Do you have to give them the phone you have now or can you flip it? Just say you lost the phone on the airplane lol...

I get money!!!!

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Wait...so if I ever sell my soul to the Devil and jump to the iPhone, it would cost me $100? Do you have to give them the phone you have now or can you flip it? Just say you lost the phone on the airplane lol...
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They kill the ESN so it can't be reactivated on Sprint but there are lots of phones with bad ESNs still being sold on ebay and elsewhere.

One of the benefits of having a real job, I suppose.

Having a job with no debt. And the fact that I got a pristine et4g off craigslist for 275
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I personally have a friend that does work with Sprint and he can get phones brand new at "New Contract" prices... Then I just sell my phone on craigslist!
That's like when the Galaxy Nexus comes out, it will most likely be $199-$249 and I can get $300 for my E4GT when I decide to sell it!
With this method, I actually come out on top!

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Wait...so if I ever sell my soul to the Devil and jump to the iPhone, it would cost me $100? Do you have to give them the phone you have now or can you flip it? Just say you lost the phone on the airplane lol...
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That would be fraud but why are there so many bad esn phones .....impossible to prove really I am sure people do it
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"phone-feens" always find a way to get the newest ish, most of the time its flipping a old phone for a new one... with little cash difference. you be surprise how a head of normal people us xda members are in regard to the newest technology, for example I sold my g2x for $200 and got a epic touch for $260.... $60 difference. But the point is some1 though the the g2x was worth $200, while in the xda world, thats old technology... I switch phones at least 3-4 times a year... I love playing with the new ish! I think we all do! If I don't root my phone then I root my girl, but i'm rooting something, lol

Censura_Umbra said:
It is actually REALLY easy.
It is called Sprint Total Equipment Protection
As you can see below I have had a few phones, Only the Samsung Epic1 was actually upgraded. Everything else is thanks to TEP.
Before I would get broken phones and use TEP to get like new phones and sell them to buy a new phone, but it is even easier now, they offer similar phones to yours. So, In June I bought the Evo 3D, got bored with it by december. Wanted the ET4G, that wasn't available through TEP, so I got the Photon. Got bored of that, then swapped my Photon for the ET4G.
Seriously, that $8 a month is well worth it, AND if you brick your phone, you get a new one!
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You do know three claims in 12 months will get your insurance terminated, correct?
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You do know three claims in 12 months will get your insurance terminated, correct?
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Rightfully deserved too.
That is Fraud.

I make good money.

Looking to upgrade

So Ive had my Evo for almost two years and my update is not due till August 1st. Is there a way to get my upgrade moved up? What would be the most money efficient way for me to upgrade? And how much would Sprint give me for my OG Evo in store credits?
Thanks in advance!
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They most likely will not move your update up. But what they offered me was to pay the remainder of my contract which in your case would be like ~$25 since there is only a couple months left. That would be your best bet. I would expect them to give you less than $40 to buy your EVO back since they gave me only $70 for my gf 3 month old EVO design. But that would definately pay the remainder of your contract to upgrade and end up not costing you anything
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So that means if I go to sprint and give them my OG Evo(Perfect conditions), lets say I get $75, that would pay for getting my contract moved up and the activiation of the Evo LTE?
Wouldnt I have to pay $200 to renew the contract?
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If you call you can buy out your contract at a pro rated rate, Sprint is buying Evo for $90 and they may even give you an extra rebate depending on the phone you buy.
My buddy just did this. He got to buy out for 75 bucks sold the evo for 90 bought the evo lte for 150 and got a 50 dollar rebate from best buy. You do the math, if you are sticking around this is the way to do it!
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So he got it for $85+activation?
Doesnt Sprint give like a discount for renewing the contract or something? I tought it was going to be a little bit cheaper.

There is no price to renew contract . Just price of the phone. The will be no activation since your line is already active. If they are buying the og EVO for $90, they royally f***ed me on the design
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God i am so confused
Can you guys explain this to me further?
Thanks in advance
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So is it $0 or $85? Im still confused on how upgrading works, its my first time upgrading.

Wheres cheapest place yo buy s3 in the US?

Ive already preordered a galaxy s3 for my line that is upgrade eligible. Now my gf has an s2. I bought her an evo lte off craigslist and she hated it so i took it and sold my s2. Im gona give her my s3 launch day snd if she dosent like that ill take it and sell the evo. If she dose like it im a let her keep it and buy me one full price. Now l easily get 450 for thr lte given i have a defender and commuter. And ill probally get 250.... 300 for her s2. So if i can find one on craigslist for around 500 that be great. If amazon or newegg or any other are selling it for cheap ill get bestbuy to price match. Has anyone seen any online sites selling the sprint version for under 600? If i have to ill add a line, pay 200 then swap phones and pay the 350 etf on the new line and im lookin at 550 total
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bmoreboy02 said:
Ive already preordered a galaxy s3 for my line that is upgrade eligible. Now my gf has an s2. I bought her an evo lte off craigslist and she hated it so i took it and sold my s2. Im gona give her my s3 launch day snd if she dosent like that ill take it and sell the evo. If she dose like it im a let her keep it and buy me one full price. Now l easily get 450 for thr lte given i have a defender and commuter. And ill probally get 250.... 300 for her s2. So if i can find one on craigslist for around 500 that be great. If amazon or newegg or any other are selling it for cheap ill get bestbuy to price match. Has anyone seen any online sites selling the sprint version for under 600? If i have to ill add a line, pay 200 then swap phones and pay the 350 etf on the new line and im lookin at 550 total
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Hey let me know where your getting that kinda money so I can sell my stuff there I have 3 gs2 in brand new condition and $450 for an EVOLTE lmfao holy sss bro thats a lot of money.
I know im hating BUT there is no where I have seen those prices for a while the ET4G maybe $250 BUT the EVO fail no way $450
Again these are my own opinions (take them for what there worth)... not much

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Hey let me know where your getting that kinda money so I can sell my stuff there I have 3 gs2 in brand new condition and $450 for an EVOLTE lmfao holy sss bro thats a lot of money.
I know im hating BUT there is no where I have seen those prices for a while the ET4G maybe $250 BUT the EVO fail no way $450
Again these are my own opinions (take them for what there worth)... not much
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Ive been selling on craigslist here in baltimore. I think i luck out bc i live near downtown baltimore but not to far away from DC so i can meet those buyers as well. I just sold my white epic 2 with an otterbox for 300 friday and my gf will be sellin hers she has a pink and black ballistic 2 co workers already wsnt it for 280. I think the cases help. And the evo lte hell bro look on ebay go to craigslist and look in baltimore thats whst there goin for. I post 20 30 bucks more then what im askin bc people will always wanna talk you down.
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Also the evo has a good followin in baltimore and we are 1st in line to get lte i believe so stores mite.be selling out. And remember off contract thats a 700$ phone off contract
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Not sure where you get the $700 off contract unless you are buying it at best buy the Evo 4G LTE and the S3 (16GB) are $550 off contract from Sprint.

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Not sure where you get the $700 off contract unless you are buying it at best buy the Evo 4G LTE and the S3 (16GB) are $550 off contract from Sprint.
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I think bestbuy had it marked up to that but if its only 550 from sprint that works.great bc after i sell this evo lte and her galaxy s 2 that will be enough for her an s3 plus both of us a case. Thanks for the info
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anyone found cheaper then 550?
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can wait to put it on boostmobile

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Ive already preordered a galaxy s3 for my line that is upgrade eligible. Now my gf has an s2. I bought her an evo lte off craigslist and she hated it so i took it and sold my s2. Im gona give her my s3 launch day snd if she dosent like that ill take it and sell the evo. If she dose like it im a let her keep it and buy me one full price. Now l easily get 450 for thr lte given i have a defender and commuter. And ill probally get 250.... 300 for her s2. So if i can find one on craigslist for around 500 that be great. If amazon or newegg or any other are selling it for cheap ill get bestbuy to price match. Has anyone seen any online sites selling the sprint version for under 600? If i have to ill add a line, pay 200 then swap phones and pay the 350 etf on the new line and im lookin at 550 total
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What about tax and activation? $550 total my ()().
Why bother unless you're in an area with no wimax and only lte (doubtful). S2 s3 same ****. If you don't like the design of the s2 get a new case. Certainly not worth the difference you'll pay
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i live in baltimore so ltes not to far away. i actually saw a guy down the harbor this weekend who works for a subcontractor helpin with the towers he said they should be done there work by the end of month but then said its on sprint after that. i got alot more then anticipated for my s2 so i rather just pay the extra 100 to 150 more and save that upgrade. if nothin new catches my eye by fall ill buy thr new iphone on the upgrade then when its sold out and the apple zombies are goin crazy ill double the price and throw it on craigslist lol.
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bmoreboy02 said:
i live in baltimore so ltes not to far away. i actually saw a guy down the harbor this weekend who works for a subcontractor helpin with the towers he said they should be done there work by the end of month but then said its on sprint after that. i got alot more then anticipated for my s2 so i rather just pay the extra 100 to 150 more and save that upgrade. if nothin new catches my eye by fall ill buy thr new iphone on the upgrade then when its sold out and the apple zombies are goin crazy ill double the price and throw it on craigslist lol.
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Hey no taking advantage of the sheep. It's bad enough they get brainwashed into thinking they have the latest and greatest technology on the planet
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but the iphone 5 will have facelock! and it will be the 1st phone ever to have it! people will die without it
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