I’m selling an iPhone on eBay

If you are interested, I’m selling an 8GB Apple iPhone on eBay. I’m mainly mentioning it for anyone looking out for fraud, and is interested in a known seller from whom to purchase a unit.

Click here for auction. The auction lasts 1 day and will end on Sunday at 11:45am Pacific time.

BTW it was interesting to note that eBay instituted a wise set of iPhone selling restrictions. The gist of it is: 1) no Pre-sales; the seller must have an actual unit in hand. 2) The auction must be accompanied by a photo of the actual unique item. 3) The seller’s eBay account name must also be visible in this photo, along with the unit to be sold. It must be part of the scene (i.e. physically written), rather than Photoshopped in. 4) PayPal is the only method of payment for the iPhone.

Even still, there are risks for the sellers. Therefore most sellers are requiring buyers to list shipping addresses that are PayPal confirmed as being the same as the billing address of one of their credit cards. Whew. I noticed that the eBay staff was very proactive, and taking down auctions that did not comply; I’m sure they are trying to avoid any bad publicity, for which the potential does exist wiht this madly-hyped item. I also noticed that the earliest auction I saw was taken down or removed– before that happened, I saw it had an auction price of of $20,000.

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