The story behind the greedy guy selling them on Ebay.

[auctioneero]

Hey gang, I just thought I would tell you a quick story about the Nexus 6.

I was at work the other day and was cruising twitter and noticed you could buy them from Motorola. So I thought awesome! I'll buy one now. I realized they had a drop down menu and at that point it hadn't even occurred to me to buy two. So I decided what the heck, i'll buy two of them and see what happens. Unfortunately Motorola put a hold on my order and I had to call them to clear some things up. I called them and got it figured out. The next day motorola send me an e-mail saying my order was canceled and my credit card would be refunded! What!! WHY!? So I called them and after sitting on hold for probably 45 minutes I spoke to someone who was literally no help whatsoever. Oh well.....looks like I won't be getting these phones.

Fast forward a few days in the future and I get an e-mail from Motorola saying the phones had been shipped! What??? So I did what any reasonable person would do, I listed it on ebay with a starting bid of .99 cents. My plan was to sell one and keep one. Well bidding started going so well, to be fair to everyone I listed both of them.

I sold one for 1375 yesterday and it's shipped and gone and the other one is up to 1900 dollars! It's crazy! I literally started both of them at .99 cents and I've just let everyone determine it's value. Long story short, I got very lucky and I'll probably use the profit to buy a new Moto X, and diapers and pay bills.


Anyways, thanks for reading! Have a great day. It hasn't been easy having these two nexus 6's on my desk and not being able to open them!

 

[nickacs]

LOL good for you! I'm in the same boat with my 1 phone shipping Fri 11/29 from Playstore. I went last night to local TMo store to play with it and man, the phone is just too big for my liking/use. It didn't help they also slapped a big 'ol "security" thing on the back while I walked around with it. But still....

I just don't need/would use a screen that big. So when mine gets here, I'm 99% sure I'm just going to sell it on Fleabay and let the consumer dictate the price, much like you did. Christmas coming and other stuff, an extra $300-500 would go nicely now

I did the same thing/similar story when I ordered my Nexus 4 two years ago. I accidentally ordered 4 of them(!!) but that's because I just kept clicking the 'Add to cart' button before it vanished. Long story short, I was able to cancel 2 of them and decided to sell the 3rd on Fleabay for $600 and it was the 16gb version. Nice little profit I must say for retail at $350!

 

[anon(661246)]

The real story behind this is "I have a mediocre job and need some $$$"

 

[DeathWolf00]

Holy crap people have bid up a 64 GB to 1,900 and bidding hasn't ended. Interesting to see how much people are willing to spend to get it quick!

 

[Bren S.]

There's stupid people everywhere. I want a Nexus 6 haven't even been able to order one ( not for lack of trying since 10/29) and I still would not ever pay those types of amounts for any phone.

 

[Eric The Duke]

In a few weeks when the phone is readily available, the people buying these will be kicking themselves in the ****!

 

[auctioneero]

Thanks worldsoutro for the condescending response. I appreciate that.

 

[Beeford9]

Story behind this is "I am green with jealous rage and I need a way to make compensate for it"

 

[BobDaNob]

This is a far more interesting thread than the usual schlock, to be sure.

 

[Ry]

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