99.4% positive feedback
1, 789, 743 positive ratings compared to 7,990 negatives

I understand that it is refurbished, but actually the vast, vast majority of people are clearly happy with this company and their 2nd hand products. If you'd rather pay £269.99 to Samsung for new that is your choice, but calling them rip off merchants, as if they're cowboy builders or dodgy dealers or something, seems in my opinion to be quite unfair and rather uneducated in relation to this seller, who have an extremely good past eBay profile

Rip off merchants cold

Great price, but their description of 'good condition': Moderate signs of wear and tear which may include scratches, chips or dents to screen and/or housing. That sounds pretty 'grade C' ish to me.
Also Please note – unit only, does not include any accessories. - I'd assume the back cover and battery are included but it's not specific.

loads of nonsense..if you cannot ell the difference between a product designed by technologically adavanced company and cheap junk from unknown factors of China then I have nothing more to say.specs and numbers alone don't make a product..you bing me a screen that even gets close to the quality OLED screen used in these and then we talk.

Rip off merchants cold

99.4% positive feedback
1, 789, 743 positive ratings compared to 7,990 negatives

I understand that it is refurbished, but actually the vast, vast majority of people are clearly happy with this company and their 2nd hand products. If you'd rather pay £269.99 to Samsung for new that is your choice, but calling them rip off merchants, as if they're cowboy builders or dodgy dealers or something, seems in my opinion to be quite unfair and rather uneducated in relation to this seller, who have an extremely good past eBay profile

Still a great phone.

Have Nova Launcher on mine and it's still going strong after over 2 years. :smile:

Going to run it into the ground as I still love it.

Was never a fan of Nova Launcher haha, altho I do like this phone

Great price, but their description of 'good condition': Moderate signs of wear and tear which may include scratches, chips or dents to screen and/or housing. That sounds pretty 'grade C' ish to me.
Also Please note – unit only, does not include any accessories. - I'd assume the back cover and battery are included but it's not specific.

The battery and back cover are included xD

Are there any better smartphones at this price?

This isn't exactly a BAD smartphone, personally I have an LG G3 and think you can get one for a little less than this, not sure. My mum had the G4 and now has the G5, and I STILL prefer the G3, if anything I would recommend that, the specs are fantastic. Best phone I ever had

loads of nonsense..if you cannot ell the difference between a product designed by technologically adavanced company and cheap junk from unknown factors of China then I have nothing more to say.specs and numbers alone don't make a product..you bing me a screen that even gets close to the quality OLED screen used in these and then we talk.

Awesome post.

Smart ultra 6 for £100 or so, worse camera (although better with firmware updates) stuck on 5.1 and is lcd (but about the best lcd youll find) but 8 cores and better battery life. And as this is a refurb, probably much better battery life. Bit bigger, whether that's good or bad depends on point of view.

Bit bigger! :smile:

buy better samsung j5 you gonna have s6 experience for budget price phone

If you're not Jeremy beadle you should be alright :wink:

My budget Chinese phone uses an LG (a technologically advanced company) panel that's way better than the panel on my old S5.

Snap 410 and half arsed HD? For £130?!

This is £115 ( was as cheap as £85 with Paypal voucher)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-Smart-Android-Smartphone--Silver/dp/B013F8UIX2

Its nearly a year old but still better than anything under £150

The cameras on these are spectacular.

Don't be fooled and don't expect good condition

I have this phone for work and Samsung have ruined a potentially good phone with their software. hate it compared to my personal phone. cold from me.

I cant see any post that says any of the above

I've been eyeing up Chinese phones as a spare for exercise tracking and playing music. Which one do you have and any tips on picking a decent, reliable one?

Thanks
:smiley:

Replace the Samsung software with Cyanogenmod 13 (klte) and it's fast and better on battery.

Agreed. Cyano is a fantastic lil thing

found 10% off voucher in my PayPal account nice!! bagged for the missus

Niceeee haha, someones getting in the good books today ^^

Just be warned I have an S5 and updated to marshmallow and now can't Bluetooth to car . Samsung ringing me next week .Fingers crossed

I had a friend with that issue too, unfortunately sometimes upgrades do mess up phones, not limited to this one in the least tho. Hope it sorts out mate

if the screen is scratch free, bargain.

Smart Ultra 6 is £99 now at Vodafone http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/mShop/pay-as-you-go/vodafone-smart-6-ultra-payg/sku86605-grey

i take it you work for these?

Smart Ultra is a great phone you'll be hard pressed to find something at 99 quid to beat it, good CPU, full HD screen, 5.5'', runs the latest Android, awesome

The camera on it kinda sucks, that puts some off, and it just looks a little bland imo, but for £99 what dyou expect

I would personally spend about £150 as this can get you into a much more upgraded area of the phone market, LG G3, Samsung S5, etc.. but people have their price limits


Mate theres nothing wrong with having a phone a while and liking it, Nova is a popular browser solution too

I got the Elephone P9000 from gearbest. The S5 I had previously had a much better camera but the P9000 is superior in almost every other way. choose a Chinese phone that doesn't modify Android too much

Really wish elephone could sort out their cameras, had my p7000 almost exactly a year now, great phone but cameras not as good a it should be. Even the vowney camera has issues.
Trying to find a suitable upgrade, but needs to have similar features, 2 SIMs + SD card, 5.5 screen, and a 2 day battery, waiting for decent reviews on the M3.

The problem with S5 refurbs by 3rd parties is that there's no official guarantee with it. A lot of people have had problem with these sort of refurbs as the phone had been taken back in due to a fault and then re-released by a 3rd party. If the phone develops a fault again, Samsung won't touch it as it's already been into them and written off and the 3rd party won't be interested after 12 months anyway.

Yes, it's cheapish but you're taking a risk if this 3rd party company doesn't take it back if it develops a fault and after 12 months, you're on your own.

you can say that about anything when it's warranty expires...

How do I go about doing this ..any links ? TIA

Are you the Ebay seller?

500 negative reviews in the last month!

http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=musicmagpie&iid=301850948933&de=off&items=25&which=negative&interval=30&_trkparms=negative_30

I appreciate that he simply shifts used stuff and is not going to have time to check the items being sent out, but if the phone/CD/DVD/item or whatever it is he's selling doesn't work properly, he'd should be refunding and covering return postage in full, not asking the buyer to meet the cost, not leaving them out of pocket.

'He' is a big UK company selling 2nd hand, well, everything. 500 negatives in the past month compared to what?

129,000 positive in the last month. You are compared 500, to 129k. It just doesn't even compare mate

I am not the seller, I was responding to a completely unfounded comment about rip off merchants, if they were bad I would accept it, Im just a guy who saw a phone deal, but they're not, soooo

Just updated mine to marshmallow, bluetooth connects no problem to whatever I use, including both car audios. Good luck with sorting it, I'm sure it's just a glitch.

Good camera for that money surely?

But it's easy to get a lot of positive reviews. You sell a load of used CDs, and most of them will be fine, especially if you're bulk selling like he is. The real sign of a quality seller is what happens things don't go according to plan. In that regard, his track record isn't the best. A used £2 CD, you can write off if it doesn't work, but a £125 mobile phone that has all your data and passwords on it is going to leave you high and dry if it malfunctions. What are you going to do? Send it back to this 3rd party second hand CD/DVD bulk selling guy? What does he know about repairing Samsung phones? What's he's going to do when he has access to all your email accounts, passwords and other logins? You must be very trusting. Steve Oliver who's the managing director of that business, was also managing director of Music Zone, which went bankrupt leaving debts of over £31m.

Have a read of people commenting on this seller's business practices:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4689281

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4786431

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/threads/music-magpie-what-a-con.130503/

I'm not gonna get into an argument here its pointless, you have your opinion and I have mine. I don't care about his past business dealings, or if he's got webbed feet, or if he's 5'8 or 7'3, I just know that this seller has over 1.7mil positives, only 8k negatives, hes got a good phone at a good price with delivery and a warranty

(I still don't get why it's 'he' when we're talking about a multi million £ business, but ok)

great phone until Samsung totally ruined it with their latest update - constantly using a load of ram whilst actually doing nothing. Various times its totally unresponsive and locks up, despite clearing cache and all other tricks. My only hope is a factory reset, I'd be better off going back to an old Samsung S2!

Then you're just being clueless and going into denial.

Ok man, 411 degrees worth of HUDKers seem to disagree with ya

do you know how can i unlock this?

bought for the daughter, her s4 is on its last legs. thanks op will keep her happy

Not really a good deal..............

Thanks :smiley: Nice spec there for the money!

The newly announced Moto G4.

Why? Are dead people known for wanting smaller phones?

lol....I think Jaydeeuk1 was referring to Jeremy Beadle's little hand.

thanksss

I would 2nd this.

If 150 quid is your limit I would get an LG G3, cheap, 2.5Ghz quad core CPU, 2560x1440 resolution, 3GB RAM, best screen on a phone I ever had, good battery size at 3000mA (S5 is 2800) and a 13MP camera with auto laser focus.
Not to mention currently on Marshmallow 6.0, latest OS, runs like a dream. Imo the best price-performance ratio of any smartphone atm, can't state how amazing this phone is for the money

run one instead of my huawei p8 as i got fed up lack of options and spare battery.

Install http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/unified-development/rom-ressurrection-remix-mm-t3275340/page288

cm13 rom and the phone is silky smooth and i get better battery. Havnt even modified the kernel or governors yet.

I'd be interested in which Chinese phone you own as the screen on the S5 is absolutely fantastic so...

My G4 is not on Marshmallow here in uk - still waiting

? Idk why my G3 is on Android 6 (Marshmallow) and so is my mums G5? Hmm

Well ours areives this morning and whilst the screen is intact, the phone looks like its been driven over by a bus. Not only that but the waterproof cover is missing from the usb port so the phone os no longer waterproof. Will be sending it back.

Unlucky, I do find that these ungraded phones are somewhat of a lottery, the screen has to be intact or otherwise it counts as spares and repairs, sorry it didn't work out for ya :smiley: thanks

My wife's G3 I had to manually update via my laptop using the LG PC Suite, doing a firmware update search on the phone itself from within Lollipop would not find any OTA (over the air) update.

I suggest you do the same with your G4 and install the LG PC Suite and you should be able to update to Marshmallow with that.

same here, looks like driven over lorry.

Thats a shame, posted these before, got good reception, and bought one myself, got a basically new one :/

Thanks for that, cheers

Anyone get a good one?

I got a basically new one, one tiny scratch on back

purchased this, screen didn't respond, then it died and won't charge... return requested awaiting responce

not a mark on mine, have given it a charge and will see how it goes!

returned mine. magpie messaged saying no others available and gave us a refund.

Not a good deal. Found £85 for the same locked to Vodafone.