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Hard time selling my Surface 3 128GB WiFi

Ephraim Becker

Ephraim Becker

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I'm having a hard time selling my Surface 3 128GB WiFi on eBay. My Surface 3 has a cracked screen and when I stopped using it because of the screen being cracked, it was on a Windows 10 Insider Preview build. I tried powering on my Surface 3 a few weeks ago but the Windows 10 Insider Preview build I was on before I stopped using my Surface 3 expired. So not only does it have a cracked screen and the touch screen doesn't work but it doesn't have an Operating System as well. Last month, I tried selling it on eBay and just last week, a buyer on eBay offered to buy my Surface 3 for $150. Unfortunately, the buyer didn't pay so I had to relist the item after reporting an unpaid claim. I'm now listing my Surface 3 on eBay as an auction with the starting price at $150. You can see my listed item here. Can you please give me suggestions on how to get people to bid for my item? Right now, I have 0 bidders.
 
My understanding of eBay auctions is that no one ever bids on something when they're is still a lot of time left on it. Because there's no point. All the bids happen in the last day and a few hours because people are trying to 'snipe' the item from others. In the few times I've used eBay that's what I've done anyway. But I'm an asshole.
 
Ephraim Becker said:
Do you think $150 is too much for an auction starting price for a Surface 3 with a cracked screen?
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TBH, from my perspective any price is too much for a mobile device with a cracked screen. Unless of course someone wants it for parts. But that's a highly proprietary device to begin with.

I'd want to know how the screen got cracked...which might shed light on the integrity of other components. If you simply dropped it, I suspect there's much less incentive to salvage other parts.
 
I would be surprised if anyone would pay anything for a broken devise!
Sounds like it would only be useful for spare parts (although it's doubtful that anyone would trust the other component parts as something that cracked the screen may have damaged the insides as well) and with a devise like a Surface the ability to take it apart and use the bits is quite specialised, far more than with a regular computer. Try advertising in on a computer nerds site rather than ebay, and reduce the price!
 
Southern Discomfort said:
My understanding of eBay auctions is that no one ever bids on something when they're is still a lot of time left on it. Because there's no point. All the bids happen in the last day and a few hours because people are trying to 'snipe' the item from others. In the few times I've used eBay that's what I've done anyway. But I'm an asshole.
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Why an Ass****? When I first started buying on ebay, I lost out at the last minute due to being too confident that I had won and so, got wise, and put in a very high bid like 3 seconds before the time was up and always got the product. I do not consider that I am stupid, but actually a pretty clever trick. (Oh I use stupid instead of ass****, because I hate that word, but that is what I mean).
 
NothingToSeeHere said:
I would be surprised if anyone would pay anything for a broken devise!
Sounds like it would only be useful for spare parts (although it's doubtful that anyone would trust the other component parts as something that cracked the screen may have damaged the insides as well) and with a devise like a Surface the ability to take it apart and use the bits is quite specialised, far more than with a regular computer. Try advertising in on a computer nerds site rather than ebay, and reduce the price!
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I guess he put that much, because that is what the other buyer who did not pay, offered.
 
Despite the ebayer offering to pay that amount, the fact that he or she did not come through with the payment, shows that they were trying to fool you.

I know you put it to 100dollers, but since it is broken, you should put it down to as little as 50dollers and you never know, that might attract competition which will put the price up.
 
$100 is the minimum i'll sell this for. This Surface 3 was originally $750. It's $420 to replace the screen. That brings it to be worth $330. But then the Windows 10 Insider Preview build expired bringing it to be worth $230. I feel more like raising the price. I'm actually selling it for $130 less than it's worth which is less than half the price.
 
Ephraim Becker said:
$100 is the minimum i'll sell this for. This Surface 3 was originally $750. It's $420 to replace the screen. That brings it to be worth $330. But then the Windows 10 Insider Preview build expired bringing it to be worth $230. I feel more like raising the price. I'm actually selling it for $130 less than it's worth which is less than half the price.
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Devices like this loose worth as soon as they are used, and with new models and updates coming out so quickly they are outdated within months of purchase, so calculations like the one you are doing here are completely meaningless. It is not what it is worth that matters, it is what people will pay for it, and it the case of a broken tablet that is pretty much $0, unless you manage to find a tech savvy thrifter who is willing to fix it up themselves. If you want to actually get your moneys worth you are better off paying to have it fixed and keeping it.
 
And now eBay had to verify my identity and said to me that they failed to find me in the public records so i'm not allowed to use eBay for selling anymore.
 
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