So, jumped in a pool with my iPhone 5 in my pocket. Stayed under for about two minutes. Left it off and immediately put it in rice the first day then silica gel packets AND rice for 3 days. That did not work. No signal whatsoever when plugging it in or charging it. I assume it's a paper weight now. I try a local iFIX it shop who says it's about 50/50 that they can fix it. He offers to buy it a few times if they can't get it fixed. I say let's try and get it working first but the idea of someone buying it dead with water damage seemed odd. So I came home and googled it and various companies will buy it for between $100-$150. But on Ebay they (water damaged iphone5's) are being bid up to and over $300.
Why would someone want to pay that much for it? Is it a scam? The idea of recouping that much money from my stupidity is very appealing but I don't want to follow one bad mistake with another!
Why would someone want to pay that much for it? Is it a scam? The idea of recouping that much money from my stupidity is very appealing but I don't want to follow one bad mistake with another!
