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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Martin_1962 on 20 June 2008, 14:33:54
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As a lot know I am repairing keyfobs mainly facelift but also the occasional battery holder for 2 button remotes.
How should I do an advert for ebay to try to make some money off these?
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I Wouldnt....
Degree of trust on here.
Would you send your car key to a total stranger for repair?
Who could then come around and rob your car?
I wouldn't
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Only want the fob not the key
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still enough to rob the car!
I beleive there are dodgy units you plug in the diag port to start the car, bypassing everything!
You are asking for quite a level of trust on a place people often don't trust.
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Does seem a bit of a sticky issue. Not sure how you could best go about it. I suppose having a link to good testomony would help.
I find in general people in the main will trust.... if the price is right ;D
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still enough to rob the car!
I beleive there are dodgy units you plug in the diag port to start the car, bypassing everything!
You are asking for quite a level of trust on a place people often don't trust.
I've done a few here - some someone trusts me!!!!
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the problem normally is people in general trust too much
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Only want the fob not the key
?? My key has the buttons on it, my old one was seperate. :-?
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go for it martin :y :y
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go for it martin :y :y
Go for it.. :y
Those who don't trust you wont bother..
Make a few quid if you can mate... :y
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I Wouldnt....
Degree of trust on here.
Would you send your car key to a total stranger for repair?
Who could then come around and rob your car?
I wouldn't
Why not.
If they have issues, they wont go for it.
If you are offering them a service that potentially saves them a fortune then they are daft not to take it up.
A thought here is, I belive that post offices used to offer a PO box service, check it out, and if it's worth while and they are concerned get them to set up a tempory PO box number to return the key to and then they have piece of mind on getting a quality cheap repair, and returned in a way that they have no security concerns.
Just a thought.
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As a lot know I am repairing keyfobs mainly facelift but also the occasional battery holder for 2 button remotes.
How should I do an advert for ebay to try to make some money off these?
Martin my i ask how much you charge and what repairs can you do.
Only ask as my fob isnt working buttons feel very vague,boot release works most of the time,Locks occasionally and never unlocks.
Its the square type for Facelift.
Just a thought but do the older style oval two button fobs work with face lift...lock and unlock.?
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As a lot know I am repairing keyfobs mainly facelift but also the occasional battery holder for 2 button remotes.
How should I do an advert for ebay to try to make some money off these?
Martin my i ask how much you charge and what repairs can you do.
Only ask as my fob isnt working buttons feel very vague,boot release works most of the time,Locks occasionally and never unlocks.
Its the square type for Facelift.
Just a thought but do the older style oval two button fobs work with face lift...lock and unlock.?
You need new switches OOF rate of £7.50.
A few members have them
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Only want the fob not the key
?? My key has the buttons on it, my old one was seperate. :-?
Both suffer the problem with switches failing. Though neither are as bad as the 3 button facelift type.
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Martin Imber - I think your issue comes with offering repairs, but not being able to repair faults not related to switches/batt holders. So make sure you put something in your description about what can and can't be repaired. Also, for return, use recorded postal services.
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Martin,
I think the biggest issue you are likely to face is how do you test the fob actually works? Aside from it lighting up the LED, you have no idea (or rather the potential customer wont) that it will actually unlock/lock the car which will not be with you. This also leaves you open to scam(scum) who will receive your hard work, then claim it doesn't work when it does.
If you're ok with the risks though, go for it.
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Martin Imber - I think your issue comes with offering repairs, but not being able to repair faults not related to switches/batt holders. So make sure you put something in your description about what can and can't be repaired. Also, for return, use recorded postal services.
You can call me MArtin you know ;D ;D
I do recorded only!
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Martin,
I think the biggest issue you are likely to face is how do you test the fob actually works? Aside from it lighting up the LED, you have no idea (or rather the potential customer wont) that it will actually unlock/lock the car which will not be with you. This also leaves you open to scam(scum) who will receive your hard work, then claim it doesn't work when it does.
If you're ok with the risks though, go for it.
Just have to see how it goes.
And empty paypal as soon as it gets in if they pay that way
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Martin Imber - I think your issue comes with offering repairs, but not being able to repair faults not related to switches/batt holders. So make sure you put something in your description about what can and can't be repaired. Also, for return, use recorded postal services.
You can call me MArtin you know ;D ;D
I do recorded only!
Sorry, I always use peoples display names ;)
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Martin,
I think the biggest issue you are likely to face is how do you test the fob actually works? Aside from it lighting up the LED, you have no idea (or rather the potential customer wont) that it will actually unlock/lock the car which will not be with you. This also leaves you open to scam(scum) who will receive your hard work, then claim it doesn't work when it does.
If you're ok with the risks though, go for it.
Just have to see how it goes.
And empty paypal as soon as it gets in if they pay that way
Irrelevent if you empty it, trust me you will just have a negative balance, which you have a set number of days to pay off before other charges added.
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Martin Imber - I think your issue comes with offering repairs, but not being able to repair faults not related to switches/batt holders. So make sure you put something in your description about what can and can't be repaired. Also, for return, use recorded postal services.
You can call me MArtin you know ;D ;D
I do recorded only!
Sorry, I always use peoples display names ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D