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The great T68i to W800i or iMate Jam experiment! |
Sammy_boy
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Of course I have nothing against the T68i, it just makes a good starting point.
I'm tempted to find another cheap 'fixie uppie' to keep for myself!
Few minutes left guys/girls!
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Sammy_boy
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Well, the phone sold for £16, or £19.95 including postage!  Made a nice bit of profit, hopefully enough to get a faulty T610 or equivalent to fix up.
So I'm now looking for a phone with a fault for £20, or less than £20 to account for buying any new parts the phone needed.
I'm going to start here on Esato first to see what faulty phones people have before hitting Ebay, take a look HERE for the thread I've started!
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Coxy
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May be of some interest?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BATCH-O[....]goryZ22325QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Pradhika
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Winners make things happen. Wish you success.
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Sammy_boy
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I now have my next phone, well I will when I get it hopefully tomorrow!
It's an unlocked Motorola V500, though this one's fully working. I'm going to put it on Ebay and hopefully make a profit - think I've got a bargain there as that's the price you could pay on Ebay for a faulty V500!
Masseur's also sold me a Nokia 8250 that doesn't power up for a pound, be interesting to see if I can get that working also! If not, I bet I could sell that for spares and hopefully make a couple of quid on it 
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Sammy_boy
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Recieved the V500 today! All's well with it, nice little phone, had a black/silver facia fitted. I'll post a picture of it (as well as the T68i) later too
Just as an example of how this can potentially work, I bought a Samsung D500 with a 'scrambled' screen fault for £56.55 inc. postage. After taking it apart and fiddling with the data ribbon between the phone and PCB ensuring it was pushed in correctly, the phone now works fine!! So I've bought a £130-£150 phone for a about a third of it's value
Might keep that one for a while as I rather like it 
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Sammy_boy
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The next phone in the experiment is now up for sale on Ebay!!
A nice Motorola V500 and charger, unlocked to any network, fully working. Nice little phone!
Link to the auction is now in my signature, feel free to have a bid or ten 
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Jordan17
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Seems to be going well, I see the phone has not yet had a bid but has 2 days to go. How much did you pay for this? |
Sammy_boy
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Not sure if I should put the price I paid for it as it might put people off - but you could probably guess - I had £20 from the sale of the T68i, and I couldn't pay any more than that!
Oh yes, nearly forgot, I haven't posted any photos yet:
The phone that started it all - the first T68i:
Which then funded the V500 which is now for auction in the link in my sig:
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shoei
Joined: Jan 12, 2003
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Goodluck man! I gotta see how this turns out!
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Sammy_boy
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Thanks, I'll need all the luck I can get!
As an example of how things cannot go so well now - I've just bought a Samsung E800 with a 'white screen' problem - it works fine other than this fault. I tried taking the phone apart and fixing it - and managed to make the problem worse, now the screen doesn't display anything! The screen connector on the main PCB has a broken securing bit on the connector for the ribbon that goes to the screen -beyone my capabilities. Phone will only be good for spares for me 
If I'm lucky I'd get my money back by listing the phone back on Ebay, or using it for parts. Compare that to potentially more than doubling my money with the D500 I talked about a few posts ago!
It's a gamble, this experiment. I could be lucky and get relatively simple and cheap to fix problems on phones, or an almost irreparable (to me anyway) one that could hamper me, but there's only one way of finding out!
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dude_se
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dont think that you are on a roll and it will be easy just because of one great success (d500). just keep on taking it slow and hope for the best. dont buy a load of phones and convince yourself you will fix them all. its worth a try and i cant wait to see the results.
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shoei
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@Sammy_Boy:
I know it's probably impossible and/or a stupid question. Can you add an additional band to your phone (by the word "band" i mean like Tri Band or Quad Band). In my area, Cingular mainly uses the 850mhz freq, so i'm very limited on my phone coverage....Once i go into some buildings i lose my signal
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Sammy_boy
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On 2005-12-11 01:20:20, shoei wrote:
@Sammy_Boy:
I know it's probably impossible and/or a stupid question. Can you add an additional band to your phone (by the word "band" i mean like Tri Band or Quad Band). In my area, Cingular mainly uses the 850mhz freq, so i'm very limited on my phone coverage....Once i go into some buildings i lose my signal
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Not quite sure what you mean, I'm guessing you're asking if it's possible to 'install' or 'bolt on' an extra band on a phone - short answer to that I believe is no, impossible. Though this V500 I'm selling is a quad-band phone!
@dude - You're right, and that is one thing I have already found out, and that is there are swings and roundabouts with doing this. Sometimes you're up, sometimes you buy a complete turkey which you've paid too much for and is only useable for spares. I bet that will be the conclusion of this experiment too!
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dude_se
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just dont give up easily. im looking forward to the results
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