{"id":86948,"date":"2015-05-11T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=86948"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:34:52","slug":"how-much-money-can-you-get-for-your-old-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/86948\/how-much-money-can-you-get-for-your-old-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"How much money can you get for your old mobile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"st\">Online classifieds<\/span> group Gumtree has created a phone price checking tool that collates all the data from the site to demonstrate how much second hand cellphones are being sold for, per brand, device and model.<\/p>\n<p>The eBay-owned site says that the tool enables SA consumers to accurately sell their old phones for their correct worth.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Gumtree, electronics remain one of the most popular categories on the site with as many as 17,000 cmobile phones being sold on the site each month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great way to recoup some money from your old phone to put towards a brand new one,\u201d said Claire Cobbledick, head of marketing for Gumtree South Africa. \u201cCellphone technology changes rapidly, which is why buying and selling is a great way to always have the latest gadget in your pocket without breaking the bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phone price checker is the latest offering in a series of three by the classifieds site, which also boasts a car price checker and a property checker.<\/p>\n<p>The various checkers enable retailers to track products after they have been sold. &#8220;It\u2019s telling to see, for instance, how quickly certain phones are being sold after purchase or how much value consumers place on one brand as opposed to another,&#8221; Cobbledick said.<\/p>\n<p>All three price checkers can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gumtree.co.za\/pages\/pricechecker\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on mobile in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/67282\/gumtree-wins-the-internet-in-sa\/\"><strong>Gumtree wins the Internet in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/74382\/sa-start-up-offers-cash-for-your-old-mobile\/\"><strong>SA start-up offers cash for your old mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/84311\/what-south-africans-do-on-their-phones\/\">What South Africans do on their phones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay-owned Gumtree has launched a mobile phone price checker service, which lets you price your second-hand phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882,34],"tags":[803,5701,26],"class_list":["post-86948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile","tag-ebay","tag-gumtree","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86958,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86948\/revisions\/86958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}