Should I Sell My Iphone?

Have you tried finding a non-online job? Find a job, save some cash then get back to finding work online on your free time. This way you'll keep your iPhone, get some much needed funds, and have time to find work online.

Try submitting your writing to constant-content.com . They pay well for articles.

Also PM me your writing samples. I am in search of a writer.

If your iphone is not bring in money for you and it is a high cost each month, then YES sell your iphone. I still have a crappy razor with a dealer line. I pay $15 a month. People mock me all the time that my phone is so primative. Fine by me, I laugh with extra money to invest in each month. To me a smart phone is one that doesn't cost $100 + a month.

You should keep posting on the related forums about your situation. I'm pretty sure there are so many people looking for the great article writers all the time. Since you are in need of very fast money, you need to write for someone else. Plus, do you have a blog? You should try to monetize it.

I had a wonderful article writer for about a year... She was probably the best writer I ever hired, and could simply write a brilliant article about anything...

How did I find her? She ran an offer on a website similar to this forum, where she gave away 5 articles for free to the first five people who requested. She later told me (if I remember correctly), that almost all of them purchased articles from her in the future.

Simply put, if you show people the quality of your work, maybe doing a free job or two to get started, you'll have your writing business up quick.... I don't think that hundreds of dollars in investment (Cash injection) are needed for a writing business, $20 max (Hosting + Domain + little advertising), so I wouldn't sell the iPhone... (plus you can write articles on the go, communicate with clients... can't do that in an ole flip phone).

Just my two cents...

Caleb

The problem with selling your possessions to get living money is that eventually you run out of possessions. Sure, you could sell something, like an iPhone, and get a quick couple of hundred bucks or you could mow a lawn once a week and have a couple of hundred bucks each month... and still have an iphone. In between grass cutting jobs, you could learn to build a less physically tolling business.

If your lights were about to be shut off I would say YES sell your I-phone. Don't sell in hopes of making fast cash online.

Take a look at law firms. I have been offered jobs as a writer for law firms for their website. If you are good with web copy that is a really good place to start. Not only is the content fairly easy to write but it also has a lot of credibility for a "resume" when dealing with new clients.

It may be time to get a regular job and start back up on the side as someone else suggested.

You have written over a hundred words in your post. If you do the same as a forum poster, jobs that are easily available on the net, you can easily make income that can pay at least some of your bills.

I just found this thread again, ha. Thanks for the suggestions guys. I can't PM you cause my post count is too low. You can contact me at timothy.f.gagnon@gmail.com if you still need a writer.

I thought about and i decided to keep my phone. But just for the sake of discussion, if you had a couple hundred extra bucks what would you invest it in? (how do i find the threads i started, can't find the link anywhere)

Oh and the expenses for the phone are quite low, i mainly use it to receive calls.

So you sell your iPhone, and now you have $200, maybe $300?

After selling your iPhone, you have $200 or $300 that will probably disappear pretty quickly. (You know what happens...when you break a $100 bill, after a couple of days, you're asking yourself "where did that $100 go to?") If you didn't break the bill, you'd probably still have it.

If you keep the iPhone, and get creative in finding ways to make money, instead of spending money to make money, (as so many people on here think they need to do, i.e. they keep buying all of the next "shiny objects" they see). You can have your cake, and eat it too.

At this juncture, it probably is best to find an offline job as other people have suggested.

Internet marketing doesn't always take off quickly (sometimes it doesn't at all), you have to find a way to support yourself until when, and if it does.

Invest your time if you have no money. One of the best resources you have.

it is difficult for a foreigner to find a job in Taiwan. I don't really have any special qualifications or degrees either - the only thing that i could do is teach english. If i did sell my phone, do you think it would be a good idea to buy some second hand products and sell them for a profit? There is a website like craigslist but for taiwan (tealit.com) and i'm pretty sure i could buy stuff from people and resell for a small profit. what do you guys think?

Well I ended up losing my Iphone on a trip to get some paperwork done with my parents.

If it is old you can do it. Because the world is going ahead.

If you really sell your iphone. Make sure you have good plan to buy again with new model and more higher price.

Make your sacrifice is bring more better results.

Keep the phone and go out and network. The contacts you make can be way worth more than the $200 or $300 you'll get if you sell it.

timbonitus,

You said you're a writer. Why don't you spend $20.00 to open a Warriors For Hire sales thread so you can accept writing gigs? That's one of the options you have. Don't sell our iPhone yet unless you think that's your very last resort.

There is a lot of help provided in this thread.

I'm assuming you are not talking about the iPhone 5,
but the time to sell was before the latest version
came out.

-Ray Edwards

You're right. This is for the off topic forum here. Just saying...

Since you got such a large response I hope some of the advice got through to you.


Manie

You have to market your skills. There are people that need what you have. I would have advised that you sell your iPhone and invest the money. You could always buy the latest iPhone later. However, since you said you have lost it, that's no more an option. Here are some things I suggest you could do. Pick the ones you have skills for. Also, do an inventory of your skills and offer them to people. Create a business card and distribute it. You could also market your skills on social networking sites like Facebook. Upload a picture of your business card with your contact details and what you do. Here are some ideas:
1. Can you fix computers/electronics?
2. Offer a service such as mowing the lawn
3. Teach a subject like Math or the Sciences
4. Look in your neighborhood for problems people have and provide solutions for them
5. Can you fix cars?
6. What skills did you acquire at your previous jobs? Make use of them
7. What do people say you are good at?
8. Sell items on Ebay
9. Become an affiliate e.g on Amazon
10. Write articles. Some websites where you can submit your articles include constant-content, associated content and infobarrel.com
11. Create information products based on what you know and have experience with and sell them on the kindle and Nook platforms, amongst others
There are many more ideas I could give you. These should give you some ideas All the best!

Buy a blackberry 10

If it can help you save money (e.g. by getting rid of costly contracts) and you can live w/o data plan, then dump it!

try sites like freelancer.com, elance.com,odesk.com ....you'll be able to make good money by selling your skills

You could sell the iPhone if you aren't dependent on it like rest of the world.
You can basically take 200-300$ and invest into buying 10 keyword rich domains ($2.95 each with NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO- promotion code)
Total = $30 for domains
Hosting at hostmonster $70/year
Total $100
and install wordpress sites on it.
Invest into articles with remaining $200 and market these sites!

Sign up at each and every free writing freelance exchange. WFH may not profit you in the very first go, initial rounds may need to be losses to bear. Try fiverr, script lance, vWorker, freelancer and any other free website. The rates will be low but you will get enough to save for websites like warrior forum and Elance,

Once I was going to sell my phone, but decided to keep it. Glad I did. Keep your phone, get money from a job offline or online then re-invest into your business.

Why buy it in the first place? If you really-really do not need its functions (about 95% of the owners don't), and you bought it to impress those around, you could have bought a gold ring, a good brand watch (even some pre-owned Rolex watches are available for the price!) or something like that what do not drop its value all the time. The person who bought a gold jewelry item 2 years ago, can have about 20% more money for it today if he decided to sell it, while his neighbour who bought a phone.. well, you know what a 2 year old phone can be sold for.
I'd say sell as fast as you can. Only a really rich person can actually afford to have an Iphone: its price must be pennies for its owner.

Is there another phone you can use? If so then yes, I would sell it if in fact you are sure to be able to get 2-300 hundred for it... With the arrival of the new iPhone 5, older models may be harder to get rid of.

My advice, sell the iphone, take that money and invest it to be able to make more money.

There are way more sites that pay you good for articles...

Choose a good one among them and start earning through it.....

Dude... for your own sake... apply some common sense...

If you need cash so bad that you need to sell off your mobile phone, the last thing you should be thinking of is to invest those $200 into ANYTHING. You should be thinking in buying groceries with those $200, and start searching for a McDonalds job right away so you can at least get back on your feet!

Geez...

dude pm me ill show u how to make real money very fast with 0 cost and you can keep your cell phone. i will help you.

Haha don't worry guys I'm not exactly on the street begging for food. I live with my parents so I have my basic needs met. Regardless, my only source of income is from my writing service and as you probably know it can be quite unstable. I lost my phone a long time ago and I am using a old one now.

I'm not starving.

Right now I am working on creating a product and a squeeze page. Wish me luck!

How about continuing to try working online?

A new idea pops up in my mind... photography!
How about photography? Learn digital photography (provided that you have a good DSLR machine already). Then proceed to sell your photos on stock photography sites.
You could potentially make hundreds of dollars per month... or more.

Another idea... blogging
Start a simple blog or vlog on YouTube about "some interesting subject". If you are good in writing, it would work easily for you. But the advertising part would still be quite hard...