Used phones

Buy used phones

Buying used is one of the best margins in the shop, and the easiest to lose track of. A phone bought for $80 that becomes three good parts and a board is only a good deal if you can still see, months later, what it cost and what it gave you.

1. Register the purchase

   Open Used purchases and hit Register purchase. Device, IMEI, what you paid, and who sold it to you. The seller matters: if that phone turns out to be reported, you need to know where it came from.

2. Grade the device honestly

   Grades are yours to define — A, B, C, or whatever your shop calls them. The grade is what sets the price you can ask later, so an optimistic grade today is an argument with a buyer next week.

3. Resale or teardown

   This is the real decision. A phone with a good screen and a dead board is often worth more in pieces than whole. Mark it for resale or for parts, and the screen tells you at a glance how much of your money is sitting in each pile.

4. Parts get their own label

   When you take a part out of a donor, print its QR label. That piece is now stock like any other — except you know exactly which device it came out of, which is the difference between selling a used part and selling a mystery.

5. Print the certificate

   For a device you are reselling, the certificate states what was tested and what grade it got. It is what lets a customer buy a used phone from you with confidence — and what protects you when they come back.