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Apple's iPhone buyback program-- likely to cause prices to rise or fall? - Black - 08-30-2013
Used prices will rise because people will prefer the convenience of trading up via Apple over eBay/craigslist....
or they will continue to fall since the trader-uppers would have probably just let the old ones rot in a drawer?
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/30/apple-confirms-iphone-trade-in-program-launching-today-at-u-s-retail-stores/
Re: Apple's iPhone buyback program-- likely to cause prices to rise or fall? - graylocks - 08-31-2013
from what i've read it's not clear to me that apple will be re-selling these phones. they may well use them for refurb repair replacement.
Re: Apple's iPhone buyback program-- likely to cause prices to rise or fall? - NewtonMP2100 - 08-31-2013
so Apple got back......???
Re: Apple's iPhone buyback program-- likely to cause prices to rise or fall? - Black - 08-31-2013
graylocks wrote:
from what i've read it's not clear to me that apple will be re-selling these phones. they may well use them for refurb repair replacement.
I really didn't weigh any possible effect of what Apple would do with the phones once in their clutches--- although now that you mention that, my guess is that they'd channel them through gray market sites such as Overstock.com and Cowboom-- which would most likely drive prices down.