who is matt and mary and why is this stuff ending up in my mailbox.haha ---- "~Mary G. Ray~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
============= Matt: Well, until you asked (Thank You), I hadn't really bothered to calculate my ultimate profit. It was actually more than I thought. At Target, I bought six Nokia 6030 To Go phones w/$100 refills for $539.58 (incl. tax) ($88 plus $1.93 tax on each phone). I did not sell three of the $100 refills, keeping them for myself. The actual cost to me of each of them works out to $58.50 after you subtract the income from the sale of the phone. I have a little spreadsheet that figures out your investment, minus your PayPal and eBay fees. My total profit from the sales was $198. I calculate nearly 37% profit. It ultimately works out to three $100 refills for FREE, plus $23. (If you were to use the true typical cost of a $100 refill, then the profit is even more substantial.) Meanwhile, I bought two more Nokia 6030 To Go phones from T-Mobile when they threw in a FREE $25 refill. I kept one of the phones and I'll be listing it and its SIM this Saturday on eBay. These phones were $29.99 each. I will be stacking two of the $25 refills for my own use, so I'll get 460 minutes practically FREE. My last purchase from T-Mobile a month ago was a 6101 To Go phone for $50, which I'm again tempted to keep for myself. I can't seem to bring myself to open it because I don't actually *NEED* it. This also came with a FREE $25 card. To me that refill is really only worth $15 because it'll only give me 150 minutes, so the phone ended up costing me $35. I'm also keeping a couple of SIM kits. From what I understand from T-Mobile, if you lose a phone with lots of minutes on it, you can have those minutes credited to the new number if you activate a NEW SIM. I figure with four phones in the family, one of us is bound to lose one at some point. You might ask why we all use prepaids. Well, my teenage son is the biggest burner of minutes at an average of 20 min. a week. (How convenient!!! That works out to about 1000 min. per year.) I use about 10 per week, and my daughter and husband each average less than that! (I log into My T-Mobile and chart everyone's minutes weekly.) What does everyone think? Did I do good? Mary -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Johnson Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [T-Mobile-US] Re: eBay & PayPal Fees HI Mary: I've just re-read your post from March 7th 07. Did you end up returning the phones or were you able to move them on ebay? Just wondering if all the refill cards went though and if you came out ahead on the phones. I haven't seen a similar target sale since. -Matt Johnson On 3/7/07, Mary Gelewski-Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I bought the deal on Target. I bought SIX of them!!! > Worst case scenario, I figured I could keep one extra phone as a back > up for me and end up getting a few refill cards really cheap for my > own use. But I'd still have to sell 5 phones and three refills. > > I am about to request an unlock code for the 1st phone I'm attempting > to sell. Hopefully it will come through without a hitch. I am using > one of my established prepaid accounts to request it from. Then I > will try to sell the phone by itself and the activation $10 SIM > separately. > > Yes, as to FastCard, I realize that either I or the buyer has to > initiate the FastCard PIN within 90 days of purchase, and from what I > understand the action T-Mobile PIN does not have to be activated for > a year from the FastCard activation date. > > If anyone sells any of this stuff on eBay, I would appreciate any > advice on starting bid amounts, shipping amounts, what you ultimately > average on these sales, etc. > > Thanks everyone for all your posts. > > Mary > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] - - T-Mobile-US on Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/T-Mobile-US _ _ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/T-Mobile-US/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
