Selling a phone is a data problem wearing a sale's clothing. The device is worth what it is worth; what is on it is worth considerably more to somebody who should not have it, and the order in which you do things decides whether any of it leaves with the phone.
Do this in order, and the order matters
- Back up everything you want to keep, and check the backup opens, on another device, before you go further. A verified backup is the only kind.
- Sign out of your accounts on the phone itself — the manufacturer or platform account first, then mail, then everything else. A factory reset on a phone still signed in to its platform account can leave the device locked to you, which turns into an argument with a buyer who has already paid.
- Turn off any find-my-device or activation lock. This is the step people skip, and it is the one that most often ends with the buyer returning.
- Remove the SIM and any memory card. They are yours. A memory card handed over by accident is a second copy of everything you just took care to remove.
- Factory reset, last. Then set it up far enough to confirm it reaches the welcome screen without asking for your credentials.
Be exact about the two things that decide the price
Battery health and screen condition. Give the battery figure your phone reports, if it reports one, and say how long it lasts in ordinary use if it does not. For the screen, photograph it switched on, in a dark room, with a plain white image on it — that is the only way scratches and dead pixels show honestly, and a buyer who has bought a phone before will ask for exactly that photograph.
Say whether the screen or battery has been replaced, and whether it was an official repair. It changes the price, it is discoverable, and it is better said by you.
Say what is in the box
Charger, cable, original box, bill, case. The bill matters more than sellers expect: it is what lets a buyer check the warranty status and, for an expensive phone, it is often the difference between a serious enquiry and a haggle.
Hand it over in person, powered on
Meet somewhere public. Let the buyer switch it on, work through the setup screens, put their own SIM in and make a call. Every fault that ever turns into a dispute — the network band it does not support, the microphone that does not work, the lock you forgot to remove — surfaces in that three-minute check while you are both standing there.
Where this site fits
Listing is free and there is no commission. Your phone number is not on the listing page and is released only when you and the buyer have both confirmed the deal — which is the point of some quiet irony worth stating plainly: you should not have to publish one phone number in order to sell another.
Photographs are re-encoded in your browser and their location data is removed before upload, so a picture of the phone taken on your kitchen table does not publish your kitchen table.
Post it in For Sale › Phones, or start from a new listing.