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Look instead of moaning go on Ebay or Craigslist sell your iPhone 3g and go online and pre-order the 3g(s).... Simple as that!!!

I posted my 8GB 3g iphone today and sold it within 5 hours!!! I posted it for $320 and had 15 replies... I sold it for $330.. Now I have a gift card for the rest but lets assume I didn't.

$399.00
$ 36.91 tax 9.25%
$ 18.00 upgrade fee (mine is waived but for math purposes)
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$453.91 (Total after phone, tax, upgrade fee if not waived)
-$330.00 (From Selling 8GB 3g)
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$123.91 Out Of Pocket for New 3g(s) phone..

How hard was that!!!!!!!!!!!

Instead of Bitching just make it happen... If anyone has an issue with $123.91 you shouldn't have an iphone.

That would be cool if you could sell it like that.

But ya know I kept my iPhone in case at all times and never dropped it, but the black plastic casing is cracking. Can't sell it for much like that.
 
And next year when Apple release the next iPhone you'll be in the same situation and stuck in the 18 month contract and we'll say - lol should have waited that extra year!

I won't be bitching about it. I know that will be the situation. I will be patient and wait to the following year. I won't expect 02 to release me from my contract early. Why would I?!
 
I can't see Apple's sales being anywhere near as good compared to the 3g, there are not many customers out there that will go for the 3gs having never had the 3g. The majority of Apples customers will be those upgrading. I'm not saying they should just subsidise already tied-in customers, but it's not the best strategy.

Actually I think Apple/AT&T market share is going to increase dramatically with the $99 8 GB 3G. That is the "shuffle" of the bunch!
 
Can anyone tell me if I can still use my iPhone 3G as sort of an ipod touch if I cancel my contract?

Thanks.

i currently still have my iphone 2G (since i never got around to selling it) and restored it to erase data and it behaves just like an itouch with WiFi but no cellular. i would assume that the 3G would work the same...
 
I remember the time when I had a telephone from Ma Bell in my home. We had that same photo for maybe ten years. Most of you here would have pissed your pants. :eek:
 
maybe

Yes, I agree. This is becoming messy. Anyone who buys an iphone today will complain next year when the new iphone comes out.

Make the contracts one year long instead of two years.

Hopefully they will have better options for us by the next iPhone release.
 
Can someone explain this? The first iPhone that came out in the UK was unsubbed. It was £275 odd.

To buy the iPhone 3GS PAYG in the UK is £540 odd. Why has the price of the device doubled? I know it has more memory and better internals but still, double the price?

Furthermore, presumably as the subbed price of the current 3G iPhone has dropped, the price of the ubsubbed PAYG one would drop but it hasn't. It's still the same and still way more than the original iPhone price of £275.

I got the 3G on launch day and have 7 months of my contract left. Apple probably won't release a new iPhone in 7 months time. Having a device cycle of 12 months and contract cycles of 18 months doesn't work out. Especially when it comes to Apple, where people are used to buying their devices when they want to, not when they are told they can.

I agree. This is exactly what peeves me....

I want a 3GS now not in December...plus I'll go one further I'll want whatever iPhone Apple release next June as well, and I don't want this crap again. So the telco's and Apple had better sort this out somehow...

As for all the people who think we shut just shut up and accept it I'll say this...Why the heck wouldn't I want the latest greatest iPhone on my £35 per month airtime contract???


1) I've bought 2 iphones and paid for 24 months of airtime with o2. Approximate spend £1200 ( $2500). I'm happy to do this. No complaints at all. Great product, good service.

2) I'm happy to renew my contract now and pay another £200/£250 for a new iphone right now. Seems like a fair deal no?

but I am NOT going to pay £500 + £35 * 6 months airtime TWICE!! to get it...I'm not stupid - terminating/renewing with a remaining airtime penalty and paying for 6 months airtime I don't use then paying again (in my new contract) for the same 6 months airtime I just got charged for not using is criminal isn't it?

There must be a way, and yes as an Apple user I expect to be treated differently. I won't tolerate the sh*t the rest of the world seem willing to put up with.

Apple users expect more - that's part of the deal right?

Really are these phones costing £700 to make because that's the only conclusion I can come to over this mess...
 
That would be cool if you could sell it like that.

But ya know I kept my iPhone in case at all times and never dropped it, but the black plastic casing is cracking. Can't sell it for much like that.

Yes you can. Look at what 3Gs with smashed screens go for...over $200. Someone buys it for $200, fixes it for $50 more, and then resells it for over $300. There is a huge market for used iphones...even 2G.
 
Man that's complicated. I don't want to take months of lessons for understanding that. Come on Apple, carriers! Keep it easy. Let the people upgrade if they want but don't let them go starving.

I have my white 3G now for almost nine months (molto contento--have a look at my blog in the sig please) and would pay $100 or maybe even $150 for a white 3G S without changing anything on my plan (maybe starting a new two-year contract), without additional fares for tethering or MMS. The iPhone is expensive enough (but worth every cent).

But I don't need two devices. My "old" 3G is in very good shape. I would give it back and they could resell it again as refurbished or something with a new contract... Or they let me unlock it and I sell it in "official virgin" shape after upgrading and migrating all the apps and so on.

And I don't understand completely why Apple announces "the new iPhony costs $99, $199, $299..." when it's the two years plan what is absolute ruling for the costs! It sounds a bit like dupery in my ears. Here in Austria you can get the 8GB 3G for "€0.0" (what they are announcing in the tv spots but it is nothing but a lie).

I love my iPhone, but the two hugest drawbacks are the battery runtime (you can buy additional battery packs) and the lame carriers (almost all over the world; and you can do nothing against it other than jailbreaking).
 
I have a friend who has been lookin to buy a new LCD tv for the last two years because he keeps saying the prices are dropping. Meanwhile I bought 2 LCDs in the last yr and have been enjoying them very much while he's still staring at his old tube waiting for prices to bottom out. That's great if you waited, maybe you should wait one more year and then you could post the same comment again.

I didn't think slightly faster internet and a GPS chip were reason enough to upgrade. I didn't miss them. There's plenty of WIFI around and my iPhone does a pretty good job to tracking using phone masts, without the GPS.

Are you going to upgrade every year on the day of release? If that's your plan, you're Apple's wet dream.
 
I agree that contracts should be one year instead of two years. Two years is a long time and a lot of stuff can change in two years. Also, I don't see why iPhone 3g users think they should be eligible for the new iphone even though they haven't had their iphones for the required time. Before the iphone came out it was the same way. iphone users knew going into it that they were signing a contract for two years. If they wanted the 3g(s) so bad they should have waited.
 
Tethering Charges

I got an iPhone 3G on launch day in the UK and signed an 18 month contract at £45 a month and got the phone for free as it was subsidised.

12 months later, I don't expect an upgrade or treatment different to other o2 customers. I do expect an upgrade in December.

An 18 month contract is an 18 month contract - get used to it.

I agree 18 months is 18 months....but this extra tethering charge for my "unlimited data" really really grates. O2 are simply moving the goal posts. When they lose the iphone contract ..and I hope that is soon, they will lose me and 3 family members, and when the upgrade gets offered in Dec I'll think very seriously about buying on a PAYG basis, so I can ditch O2 ASAP.
 
I don't understand why apple or att NOT letting people to get the new iPhone for subsidized price?

The reason is;

First of all people are not asking anything free , obviously you are going to start a new 2 years contract. The good news for att is , customers are at least going to keep paying another 2 years.
Good news for Apple is , more people will buy this year's iPhone.. So what is wrong with that?

When more people want to buy a product seller should make it available .. That is the easiest rule of selling and buying.. Especially in this economy what would be the wrong for apple to sell more iPhone to more customers?

I understand when people say, "Well, get use to it , you have 2 years contract!" .. I know that , everyone knows that , but isn't their purpose selling more and making more profit? Are we not in the same planet with the same trading rules??

Ps: I am not talking about what fine print says. We all know what it says but is that really wise when there are people out there asking to pay for their product and they say "Sorry, we can't sell it to you for the convenient price!" Is this really wise?
 
What a bunch of whiners!

Apparently nobody understands that they signed a contract that has terms and conditions and is a legally binding document?

I bought the original iPhone on launch day and have been using it since. Now I am going to upgrade to the 3GS. I don't expect to be handed a new phone every time there is an upgrade, nor do I need a new phone every year either.

Why would you expect AT&T to bend over backwards for iPhone customers to 'make an exception, please!!!'?? They don't do this for the users of any other phone, they all have to follow the standard upgrade policies.

Where is this 'random dates' theory? Reading this thread it all seems to make sense to me. $99+ you get an upgrade after 12 mo. Less you get one after 18 mo. You should feel lucky AT&T isn't making you wait until (god forbid!) your entire 24 month contract is up like it always used to be several years ago.

People just expecting something for nothing...
 
eligibility

for what it's worth: although it impossible to find this info on the att site and nobody at apple has it, i have now been told by att that in their internal documents it states that after 18 months of the contract on the 3g, customers are eligible for the standard upgrade pricing on the 3gs.
 
stop cryin!

c'mon! everybody knows that tech changes daily so if you buy something today, tomorrow it is upgraded. The car industry is notorious for that stuff.
 
Where is this 'random dates' theory? Reading this thread it all seems to make sense to me. $99+ you get an upgrade after 12 mo. Less you get one after 18 mo. You should feel lucky AT&T isn't making you wait until (god forbid!) your entire 24 month contract is up like it always used to be several years ago.

People just expecting something for nothing...

i love the HURR THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS HURRRRR READ YOUR CONTRACT simpletons.

most people are upset that there are wildly differing dates - from 7/2009 to 12/2009 to 3/2010 or later - and those dates DO NOT always comport with what AT&T guidelines are regarding length of contract, contract expiration date, and amount of monthly bill. there are people on this forum that have two identical separate plans with different dates. there are people on this forum that bought an UNSUBSIDIZED iPhone 3G and are unable to get 199/299 prices.

it's about inconsistency and that sort of unfairness first and foremost.

now come tell me how HURR I NEED TO READ A CONTRACT HURR.


HTFH
 
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