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Apple's Refurbished Store Now Offering iPhones
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This is correct, I bought a refurb 8 gig way back in 2007 to use on T-Mobile for $350.
Refurb'd, new battery and brand new casing? You'd be mad to get a second hand device anywhere else.
I totally agree. Most people will see this as a better, safer route to take. Others will expect those people selling their iPhones to sell them at a much lower price to make up for the lack of a new warranty, same old dying battery, no inspection of the components or new scratch-free shell. In other words, selling your iPhone privately will no longer generate the past high amounts of cash that you can use toward paying for your subsidy-free full price iPhone or payments.
At least with these, you're guaranteed to get a good unit that's not going to need to be replaced due to infant mortality.
These are probably "better" than new because they've been carefully looked over and tested... unlike new units that are stamped out by the millions every day.
This will be the direction I'll go in the future.
These are probably "better" than new because they've been carefully looked over and tested... unlike new units that are stamped out by the millions every day.
This will be the direction I'll go in the future.
Well, when India falls through you do this.
Well, when your annual trade up program is successful, you do this!
yeap
[doublepost=1478643395][/doublepost]I grabbed one...the wifes birthday is on sunday and its cheaper for a 64GB 6splus with apple care then a 7.
Why don't you go ahead propose that MR ban all members who make negative comments about Apple?
If they are like other refurb products Apple sells, they'll come with a refurb model and serial number. They don't inherit the history of their past life.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH.
Who would've guessed?
I just bought my daughter a used iPhone 6S from Gazelle four days ago.
*sigh*
Who would've guessed?
I just bought my daughter a used iPhone 6S from Gazelle four days ago.
*sigh*
And your point is...? If there is a sale opportunity, Apple can and should take it, if it's profitable. Just because you bought a phone doesn't mean you're entitled to a certain resale price to sell at.
Coupling one of these refurb'ed phones with Verizon's $50/mo. 5GB prepaid plan would be a pretty sweet way to go for cellular/smartphone service.
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Give them a couple of weeks.
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Give them a couple of weeks.
Hopefully they are better than their Genius Bar service swap phones. I'm on my second, and it has low better life out of either of the other two.
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But isn't the NZ store a third party store, and not an Apple owned one? When I was there, people bitched about having to go to OZ to get to an Apple Store.
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But isn't the NZ store a third party store, and not an Apple owned one? When I was there, people bitched about having to go to OZ to get to an Apple Store.
It's true there's no Apple Stores here, but we have Apple Authorised Resellers. You can do whatever you can do at an Apple Store with these guys, but yes the support is limited, your privileged is also toned down (like for example, there's no story we can swap used cases that we bought) and yes, online orders are normally dispatched from Sydney Apple Store.
