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# Thursday, February 19, 2009

Selling gadgets without using eBay or craigslist

I refresh a bunch of my gadgets almost yearly. This includes things like iPods, Cameras, Phones etc. Selling these items through eBay can be tedious. Selling them through Craigslist usually has some one on my doorstep negotiating a different price with me. Both are annoying.

imageIn fact, I just just sold something on eBay yesterday and eBay decided to “hold” my money for 21 days. That is just lame. Actually this is PayPal, but whatever, same company.

So for the past few months I’ve used a service called Gazelle. I love this service because they tell you up front how much they will pay you for something. They will also ship you a postage paid box to send the item to them. When they receive the item, they inspect it and then pay you via PayPal, Amazon Gift Card, check, or you can donate to charity.

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Gazelle is super easy to use… and you get money without any hassles.

My only complaint is that they don’t buy all forms of Gadgets, but if you have a camera, digital music player, mobile phone or anything listed below, it’s a bit easier than eBay or Craigslist IMHO.

  • Cell Phones
  • Digital Cameras
  • MP3 Players
  • PDAs
  • Laptops
  • GPS Devices
  • Gaming Consoles
  • Camcorders
  • Satellite Radios
  • External Hard Drives
  • Video Games
  • Movies
  • LCD Monitors

Another great thing is that they will recycle anything of no value for you.

Give them a try next time you need to sell a gadget.

Get Cash For Your Gadgets at gazelle.com!

Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009    Permalink    Comments [4]  View blog reactions

 

Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:33:01 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I'm a regular reader of your blog. So I noticed that you posted this entry twice. I also notice that you use a referral URL to link to gazelle. Is that 5$ you could earn worth the doubt I now have of the review? I thought you have a good job at MS and wouldn't need advertising on the blog...
marc tobias
Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:32:54 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Marc: Omar has a track record of recommending services and products he legitimately likes. It doesn't matter one bit to me whether he makes a few bucks in the referral. Heck, he deserves it given I didn't even know this service existed.
Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:22:37 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
marc,

not sure why this got posted twice. I did make an edit to the post and my guess is that there was a bug that cause it to get posted twice. I have such corrected that.

with respect to the referral. Make your own decision about weather you should use the service or not. Feel free to use my review as an input. I didn't know about the referral link till I explored their site when doing some research for this article.

-Omar
Friday, March 20, 2009 12:10:11 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I've been thinking I should sell my 1st gen iPod Touch but didn't know which way to go so this post is quite timely. Thanks!
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