Do you want to buy a second-hand iPhone and don't know where to start looking? Do you want to sell your used MacBook and don't know to whom? What you are looking for is called Marketpple, an application for iOS (not available for Android) that serves as a meeting point for those who want to sell an Apple product and those who want to buy that or any other apple product.
But what exactly is Marketpple? As the name suggests, it is about an 'Apple market', but second-hand. The service is somewhat reminiscent of other applications in which we can search for second-hand products, find them and buy them, but with the main difference that, if we are interested in exchanging Apple products, in Marketpple we will not be distracted among thousands of items that we are not interested in, but we will go directly to the point or, rather, to the apple.
Marketpple is Apple's second-hand market
The operation of this application for buying and selling Apple products is very simple. After downloading, installing and starting the application, it will ask us for permission to access our location, important if we want to find options close to us,; permission to send us notifications, essential to chat with users of the service; and a nick. That is all the registration you ask us to do. From here, we can do the rest.
On the main screen we will see the options:
- , which we could define as a bulletin board where products of people who have paid to gain visibility appear.
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Apple TV
- iPod
- Accessories, where we will find not only official accessories, but all kinds of third-party accessories such as cases, headphones, hard drives or routers.
In this way you will be able to select only the product that interests you the most from all Apple products and see the best offers there are for it.
Apple products near our location
Once we access any of the previous sections, we will see articles that are relatively close to our area, as long as we have allowed it when starting the application for the first time and that is why it said it was important. If we touch on the icon at the bottom right, we can apply a filter to refine the search: how to limit a price by entering a minimum and / or maximum price, in which city we want to search, when the ad should be, and sort the search by publication date, the closest to us or the lowest price. If we are a bit lazy, we can always tap on the magnifying glass and define the search in a few taps in which we will indicate the type of device, color, storage, etc.
Once the option that interests us is found and entered it, we can start a chat with the seller in which we can buy the item or even reserve it in case at that time we do not have the necessary money, but we know that we will have it in the near future. If we were the ones who had placed the ad, all we would have to do is wait for the application to send us a notification that someone wants to interact with us.
Send and receive Apple products without worrying about the logistics company
The one that is perhaps the most interesting or differentiating point of all those that are part of Marketpple is the delivery of the packages. Any item buying / selling service is used to put a seller and a buyer in contact. The end. Not that that's bad but, if we compare it with what Marketpple offers, the purchase is much safer and easier with this app. One of the main advantages is that Marketpple has a cash on delivery system with package opening, which generates greater confidence in the purchase. Ultimately, the buyer can open the package to check if everything is correct. Quick, easy and safe.
Speaking of security, Marketpple also has something interesting in this regard. Unlike other services, it is not required that payments are made by hand to the seller or to your bank account, something that can be used to carry out a scam at times. The payment can be made through the app and this is the one who will deliver the money to the seller, but only once the entire operation is correct and completed. Of course, if we prefer, users are free to meet the seller for delivery / collection and payment by hand.
Marketpple offers the simplest and least annoying chat you can imagine
Once we have seen something that interests us, we will get ready to buy it. If we are convinced that we like it, in a few taps we will have bought it. If not, it is always a good idea to ask for some information in ... something like a chat. What Marketpple offers us is not just a chat like those in other services, no. These chats force us to think about what to write and be somewhat creative to give a good image to someone we do not know, which may not be a bit embarrassing to people. The chat of this application offers us the following actions, available just a touch away:
- Request information. This is always important if we are not clear about what is offered.
- Make Offer. Although the price would already be included in the ad, we can always haggle a bit. This option will help those embarrassed who have a hard time asking for a rebate.
- I want it. With this option we will practically close the negotiation.
- Actions with the seller. Here we will find the next steps to make the purchase, such as meeting to pick up the product or negotiate the shipping price.
However, I personally have this application installed and saved in my "Finance" folder for what may happen in the future. I am one of those users who find it difficult to buy or sell to other users online. Although Marketpple will come in handy if, for example, they launch a iPhone 8 groundbreaking and I do not have an acquaintance willing to buy my iPhone 7 Plus, since I can always sell it to Apple but at a ridiculous price.
What Apple product would you buy or sell on Marketpple?
