Just curious what people do with their iPhone cases after they upgrade their phone every year? For instance last year I got the iPhone 11 Pro and a Pitaka air case ($50-60 case) so do you just consider expensive cases like that a sunk cost and toss it out or do you try to sell them on ebay or something?
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Do you sell your high quality used cases or toss them?
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Most of my cases are "cheapie" or I just toss them in with the box for whoever I sell the old Phone to. I traded in my XS Max though, so I still have my old Pitaka Magcase flying around. I'll probably put it on the market place here to see if I can at least get a few bucks for it.
I usually grab a <$10 case from Amazon, but my last couple of iPhones have lived in more expensive cases, which I never used to do since its kind of a lot of money to spend every year. Still rocking an $8 Amazon case on my 12 Pro Max until the blue Pitaka Mag EZ case is released.
I include them in the sale of device, since that is how I upgrade, rather than trading in with Apple or some 3rd party site. I don’t know conclusively if it helps with the sale, but I do like to see perks like a case/charger when buying used. I don’t see much value in selling them. Bundled or individually, they seem to be a hard sell on the MR marketplace.
Sell only unused or hardly used once. I nearly made £200 when i sold 11 Pro cases. I still have two spigen and a torras case left for 11 Pro.
I pass my phones onto my parents, so they like to go through my case collection and pick some out. The rest just gets stored. If I think I can sell them for a decent amount, then they'll go on eBay, but some cases (like Spigen) are already so affordable, that it's not worth it for me to try and sell them.
