Fix glass before selling...or no?

[skiz]

I have an iPhone 6S, white, 128GB, unlocked, (currently on AT&T if that matters). The rest of the phone is in excellent/new-ish condition. Is it worth paying Apple $140 to replace the screen before selling it? Or should I sell as-is? In other words, will I recoup that $140 if I fix it?

This is all generally speaking of course.

 

[silverblack]

Who knows?

But speaking as a buyer, I would stay away from phones with a cracked screen. I will never know if there will be further problems down the road since the phone was dropped and had a hard impact.

 

[Sunny1990]

Who's gonna buy a shattered iPhone??

 

[Suckfest 9001]

Yes. People simply won't buy a phone with a smashed screen. You'll lose a lot more than 140 dollars on that sale if you try to sell it with the screen as-is.

 

[AndrewR23]

Who's gonna buy a shattered iPhone??

Who? Go look at eBay and swappa and see the hundreds of completed listings.

I used to buy tons of them for parts and rebuild the phone. Thousands of people buy them.

 

[Applejuiced]

Who? Go look at eBay and swappa and see the hundreds of completed listings.

I used to buy tons of them for parts and rebuild the phone. Thousands of people buy them.

True but on swappa the screen cannot be cracked in order to sell a device.
Unless you're selling it in the boneyard section and you will get way less money for it with a broken screen.

 

[44267547]

Who's gonna buy a shattered iPhone??

Try there is a huge market for broken iPhones. Have you seen the aftermarket for parts for iPhones? Broken iPhones can go for as much is $200 for parts alone. There are loads of broken iPhones on eBay for sale for parts that people use to repair their iPhones or mix and match all the time. It's not unusual.

 

[skiz]

Who's gonna buy a shattered iPhone??

If the price is right, why not? Just replace the glass.

 

[Analog Kid]

Who knows?

But speaking as a buyer, I would stay away from phones with a cracked screen. I will never know if there will be further problems down the road since the phone was dropped and had a hard impact.

Of course as a buyer I'd like to know that the screen cracked so I'm aware that it had at least one good impact before I bought it. I'd be pretty unhappy if I bought a phone and the seller hid the fact it had been broken and repaired.

If it was going to cost me $140 to repair it, I'd probably pay a bit more than that to have it already repaired and save me the trouble.

I'd say get it repaired and include the details of where the glass came from and anything you can include to indicate lack of damage internally. If I know you didn't use poor quality materials and everything else is just fine, you'd recover the cost from me based on the convenience alone. If it were sold cracked, I'd tend to steer clear, I think. Too much uncertainty and future hassle.
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Of course as a buyer I'd like to know that the screen cracked so I'm aware that it had at least one good impact before I bought it. I'd be pretty unhappy if I bought a phone and the seller hid the fact it had been broken and repaired.

If it was going to cost me $140 to repair it, I'd probably pay a bit more than that to have it already repaired and save me the trouble.

I'd say get it repaired and include the details of where the glass came from and anything you can include to indicate lack of damage internally. If I know you didn't use poor quality materials and everything else is just fine, you'd recover the cost from me based on the convenience alone. If it were sold cracked, I'd tend to steer clear, I think. Too much uncertainty and future hassle.

Of course, not repairing it saves you the hassle, and it sounds like you can get something for it just as parts...

 

[skiz]

Of course as a buyer I'd like to know that the screen cracked so I'm aware that it had at least one good impact before I bought it. I'd be pretty unhappy if I bought a phone and the seller hid the fact it had been broken and repaired.

If it was going to cost me $140 to repair it, I'd probably pay a bit more than that to have it already repaired and save me the trouble.

I'd say get it repaired and include the details of where the glass came from and anything you can include to indicate lack of damage internally. If I know you didn't use poor quality materials and everything else is just fine, you'd recover the cost from me based on the convenience alone. If it were sold cracked, I'd tend to steer clear, I think. Too much uncertainty and future hassle.

I have an appt at Apple to have it replaced. I called three different repair places and they were as much or more to replace it. Going with Apple allows me to say it was replaced by them which I hope is worth something.