Refurbished Phone Sellers on Wave pay $16/month — $192/year. Over three years, that's $644. Nexa is $279 once. Break-even runs about 17.4 months. The median refurbished phone seller earns $32,000/year, so Wave's annual cost is roughly 0.6% of typical revenue — every year, forever.
That's $644 gone. And you don't own anything. Stop paying, lose access.
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Refurbished Phone Sellers face unique challenges: Checking IMEI status so a phone isn't blacklisted, financed, or carrier-locked before you invest parts into it. Sourcing quality screens and batteries when cheap aftermarket parts cause touch issues and returns. Disclosing grade honestly (A/B/C cosmetic) so a 'like new' phone doesn't come back over a scuff. Battery and screen replacement costs eating the margin on lower-end models. On top of all that, Wave charges $16/month ($192/year) — money that comes directly from your revenue. The median refurbished phone seller earns $32,000/year. Software at $192/year is a meaningful percentage of that income, every year, forever. And you do not own anything.
Your a phone repair toolkit (pentalobe drivers, suction cup, spudgers, picks) is yours. You bought it once. Nexa works the same way — $279 once for invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, and full accounting. All connected. All offline-capable. You own it like you own your tools.
Wave is just one piece. What else are you losing money on?
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| Feature | Wave | Nexa |
|---|---|---|
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling | ✗ | ✓ |
| CRM | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time Tracking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full Accounting | ✗ | ✓ (SIMPL) |
| Task Management | ✗ | ✓ |
| Price | $16/mo forever | $279 once or 3 × $99 |
| 3-Year Cost | $644 | $279 |
| Stop paying? | Lose everything | Keep everything forever |
Most refurbished phone sellers are fully switched before the weekend.
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The first thing he does with any phone, before a screwdriver touches it, is run the IMEI, because a gorgeous handset that's blacklisted, still financed, or carrier-locked is a paperweight, and he's not sinking a screen and a battery into a dead end. Cleared phones go on the bench for triage: battery health, screen response across the whole panel, Face ID or fingerprint, cameras front and back, every button and the charge port. The common jobs are a screen swap and a battery replacement, and here the trap is parts, a cheap aftermarket screen that ghosts or loses touch sensitivity is a return waiting to happen, so he pays up for quality and watches his margin shrink on the cheaper models where the repair cost is a big slice of the resale price. Cosmetic grading is a discipline: an A is genuinely clean, a B has light wear, a C is functional but scuffed, and he photographs the actual scratches so a buyer who wanted pristine isn't surprised. The thin-margin reality is that a mid-tier phone might only clear forty dollars after a sixty-dollar battery-and-screen job, so he has to choose which devices are even worth refurbishing. He boxes them clean, with a protector on and a tested cable, like a retail unit, because presentation closes the sale.
Real refurbished phone sellers near you who run their business on Nexa — book directly, no platform fee. Are you a refurbished phone seller? Post your business and get found in your area — $2.99 one-time. Or browse every refurbished phone seller on Nexa →
For solo operators and small teams (1-5), yes. Nexa includes invoicing, scheduling, CRM, time tracking, task management, and full accounting. Wave may be better if you have a large team (10+) or need enterprise-specific features.
It's $7.75/month over 3 years. Wave is $16/month — that's $644 over 3 years. Which is more? And if you'd rather split it, Nexa is also available as 3 payments of $99.
Yes. Nexa is $279 as a one-time payment, or 3 payments of $99 ($297 total). Either way it's a one-time purchase — no subscription, no recurring fees ever.
30-day money-back guarantee. Full refund. If Nexa doesn't save you $500 in year one, you get every penny back.
Export your data from Wave as CSV, import into Nexa in about 5 minutes.
The average solo operator there spends about $2,208/year on software — and refurbished phone seller face their own version of that math. ND state licensing requirements apply.
Numbers reflect typical solo operators in the Fargo metro. Your situation will vary.
Specific gaps Refurbished Phone Sellers run into with Wave, and what Nexa does instead.
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