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4s Value in 4 months?

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sk24iam

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I am 4 months away from an early upgrade with Verizon. I am considering on buying an iphone at retail price this month. In 4 months, I will renew my contract with another iphone upgrade and then sell it online. Will the seconday market price be signifcantly lower than the reatil price in 4 months?

Which size iphone has the highest resale margin?
 
You should be able to do OK with this scheme, particularly if you sell the new one you get in 4 months (i.e. don't try to sell the one you get now, sell the NIB one). That lets you get the size/color you want now, and coming up on your upgrade date you can check eBay/CL and see which size/color combo is selling for the best price - and use that to decide which one to get (and sell) with your upgrade.
 
sk24iam said:
I am 4 months away from an early upgrade with Verizon. I am considering on buying an iphone at retail price this month. In 4 months, I will renew my contract with another iphone upgrade and then sell it online. Will the seconday market price be signifcantly lower than the reatil price in 4 months?

Which size iphone has the highest resale margin?
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Why not snap up a cheap iphone 4 on craigslist/ebay/etc for $200-300 and then get the iphone 4s in 4 months?

Once your upgrade is available sell the iPhone 4 for the same price you bought it for.

Non contract prices are $650. In 4 months I think they'll be $500-550.
 
Depending on where you live and the demand for the iPhone 4S, a new in box iPhone would probably go very close to the actual full retail price, minus tax of course. In southern California, the Phone 4 new in box white was going at nearly retail price like three months ago. My guess is you could get $600 or so full a 16gb, $700 for 32gb or $800 for 64gb if you worked hard to sell it. However, I do think it would be hard to sell the 64gb, and judging by preorders, it looks like 16gb is selling the best so far.

But really at this point it's all speculation
 
why go through all that trouble? just wait the 4 months. you may not even be able to buy one at retail at launch
 
doesn't seem like too much trouble. As long as I can resell a new 4s in February it shouldn't be that bad. It would be great if they are selling for more than retail price on ebay at the time.
 
sk24iam said:
doesn't seem like too much trouble. As long as I can resell a new 4s in February it shouldn't be that bad. It would be great if they are selling for more than retail price on ebay at the time.
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You will get close but not over retail. By February the market will be filled with them so you will do ok on a NIB but don't go expecting a profit. By that time you would be better off saving up for jumping on iPad 3 preorders.
 
sk24iam said:
doesn't seem like too much trouble. As long as I can resell a new 4s in February it shouldn't be that bad. It would be great if they are selling for more than retail price on ebay at the time.
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How on earth would it be selling for MORE than retail price ?
 
You should wait to at least next month and buy an unlocked one from Apple if you are going to pay full retail for it now.
 
About a dollar.

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edk99 said:
You should wait to at least next month and buy an unlocked one from Apple if you are going to pay full retail for it now.
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Isn't the unlocked one going to be GSM and will not work on Verizon?
 
iPhone 4 16gb was worth about £400-450 after 4-6 months

So you can expect about £50-100 drop in Market price.

But buying from retail price won't go down
 
I don't get the logic of buying it full price and then upgrading your line in 4 months and then selling that one. Why not just buy it full price if you really want it, and leave your upgrade alone incase you want the next iPhone that might be coming out in a year? That makes more sense to me. Unless you are just looking to get back some of your money now and don't care about the next iPhone.
 
Codepiink said:
I don't get the logic of buying it full price and then upgrading your line in 4 months and then selling that one. Why not just buy it full price if you really want it, and leave your upgrade alone incase you want the next iPhone that might be coming out in a year? That makes more sense to me. Unless you are just looking to get back some of your money now and don't care about the next iPhone.
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I don't intend on paying $749 for a phone. And there is no guarantee when another iphone will be..
 
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