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All iPads Is your iPad engraved?
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If your gonna keep it until you can't use it anymore go all out with one you like. Personally I don't engrave anything of mine. However, I do like those words.
Heck no. While I don't really care about the resale price as I rarely resell my devices, the engraving detracts from the sleekness of the product. To me it's equivalent to those "wonderful" stickers you get on Windows machines, except you can't remove the engraving.
...or coming home with your brand new car only to announce to the world where you bought your car from and proceed to proudly display said stickers until you sell it.
as others have said, it reduces the resale value so i wouldn't engrave it. on something that i'd keep for a very long time i'd have no problem, but with the constant changes/upgrades to the iPads i could see myself wanting to upgrade every couple of years. and this would just make it harder.
As mentioned it reduce resale value; plus nobody would see it on myPads anyway as there is a cover in front of ...
...or coming home with your brand new car only to announce to the world where you bought your car from and proceed to proudly display said stickers until you sell it.
This is what my car looks like
Now I can't even trade it for a Playbook
I don't resell so I got mine with:
Outside the street's on fire
In a real death waltz
It's my favorite lyric from Bruce Springsteen's Jungleland
Outside the street's on fire
In a real death waltz
It's my favorite lyric from Bruce Springsteen's Jungleland
My New iPad has "the things you own end up owning you" written on the back. Seemed appropriate to me
My original iPad is engraved and I have no intention of selling/upgrading. Tried a new iPad and couldn't see enough difference to justify the expense of changing.
When it finally gives up the ghost, it will go in the skip after the use of a sledgehammer.
When it finally gives up the ghost, it will go in the skip after the use of a sledgehammer.
You could sell tickets for 1 whack at your dead iPad. Should help towards the purchase of a new one.
This is a first hearing of it lower the resale value. Several of my friends have sold theirs with engraving at the resale value with no problems. Only problem with engraving is when you have to get a replacement ... and then you get a new one w/o any engraved writing. But hey it's free so do it, scribe away. !!
If anything, engraving something clever on the back of an iPad could actually increase resell value!
Anything I would inscribe would more than triple the resale value. My words illuminate far greater than light from a screen; they offer both wisdom and understanding, eternally invaluable.