Wheeling and Dealing on eBay

Barb is very happy with her iPod Touch. She is able to email, imessage, Facetime and take pictures with it.

She met a lady in the park who was selling an iPod Touch. She wondered whether I would like an iPod Touch. I already had an iPod classic for my music and an iPod shuffle for my audio books but I said that an iPod Touch might come in handy in the summer when I get emails about fastball on the afternoon before a game. I may not be on my computer but if I had a iPod Touch, it would ring when I got an email, then I would know to check it out. So Barb decided to get it for me to test out.

I reset the iPod to the factory settings and began to set it up for myself. I figured out how to use the wireless and starting getting email. I couldn't hear it beep, it was too soft. I also couldn't imessage or Facetime. After some investigation, I found that apparently it was an iPod Touch 2 and was too early a model.

So we decided not to buy the iPod Touch from the lady in the park.

Undeterred, Barb decided to buy me an iPod Touch 3 on eBay. She put a bid in and won it for $80. Then we waited and it came in the mail in a couple of days. We were excited. I set it up but noticed that it seemed a lot like the iPod Touch 2 that we got from the lady in the park. I checked it out on the internet and found out that Apple sold the iPod Touch 2 as an iPod Touch 3 as well. Then Barb searched the internet and realized that her's was an iPod Touch 4 not an iPod Touch 3.

So still undeterred, Barb put a bid on an iPod Touch 4 on eBay and won it for $130. However, our iPod Touch 4 did not arrive quickly. We waited and waited. Eventually, we had to email the seller. He said that he mailed it the day after we bought it. It was now more that a week later and it was only coming from Tampa. He said he would check into it right away. He found out that it was sitting all this time at the bottom of the mailbox that he mailed it in. He said that when he checked he saw the mailman take it out of the box. It came in a few days and it was the right one this time. It worked exactly like we needed it to.

But now we had too many iPods. So Barb decided to sell the iPod Touch 3 on eBay. She had to figure out how selling on eBay worked which wasn't straight forward because she was selling it from the US but eBay had a Canadian address registered for her. She finally got it up for sale and it sold quickly for more than we bought it. Then she had to figure out how to mail it to the buyer. She packed it up and mailed it. It arrived at the buyer in a few days and he gave Barb a good review. Barb had made her first sale.

Barb and I thought this might be a good way to make a little money on the side, buying things of eBay and then reselling them for more than we bought them.