iPhone flipping after release?

[andyACEcandy]

I sold the 64GB Gold 5S for $2500 last year. True Story

Woooooooow lool

ebay?

 

[617aircav]

I'll be getting 4 hopefully. Sell three.

 

[Dunbar]

Of course he's free to do so, as I acknowledged above, but I think it's a douche move because there are a lot of people who are eager to get the phone early, from Apple, for their own personal use, but may miss out on getting it straight away because scalpers get there first. I certainly wouldn't do it.

Or these consumers could just pre-order the phone and not pay any markup at all. These 'scalpers' are taking a risk that there will be enough scarcity at launch to charge over MSRP. That doesn't even account for how much time they spent to make what is probably a meager profit.

 

[G-Ziss]

Which carrier version is the best one to flip, Verizon since it's unlocked?

 

[YungMoola94]

Woooooooow lool

ebay?

I am trolling.

 

[rambo47]

It goes against the social contract. It's a douce move. Therefore, buying a high demand, low supply product for profit, makes you a douche.

There is no "social contract." There is no gentleman's agreement, or any other silly thing like it.

If you buy an extra one on opening day, you're taking the chance that you'll be able to scalp it. Nobody forces a rube to buy it. The rube makes his own choice.

The only douchebaggery is projecting your own warped socialist morals on everyone else.

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Anyway, I bet they limit it to one per customer at the stores.

 

[MacFriedRice]

For there to be any money made via craigslist:

1. Need to live in a large market with lots of tourists.
2. Hope models sell out, leaving shortages in your local area.

If there's no flip ability, you have 14 days to return the phone.

The end.

 

[MalR]

The only douchebaggery is projecting your own warped socialist morals on everyone else.

Says this guy...

 

[lordofthereef]

I am trolling.

I, on the other hand, am not. I sold a 32GB for $1200 cash on Craigslist. Met the guy at the mall. He was shipping it out to cambodia where he said he would nearly double his money. Whether the latter part is true or not I don't know.

The story behind why I "flipped" a phone is a long one. I had no real intentions to. Long story short, my wife wanted to wait for her work subsidy a few months later rather than us paying full price for a gold phone (after she insisted she had to have one...lol)