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Jailbroken Apple TV sells for tonnes more
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Yes, you should jailbreak. And sell. You will come out way ahead.
There is a community of people out there who will pay top $ for a jailbroken Apple TV because jail breaking allows them to install other apps on it like XBMC which open up lots of possibilities. Also, your original-style Apple TV has built-in storage, which hobbyists like.
Personally, I have sold a jailbroken Apple TV 2 (no storage) for $270 on ebay. Keep in mind I originally purchased that Apple TV 2 refurbished from Apple.com for $92 ($85 + tax). So selling it net me a profit of $178. Well more than needed to cover the cost of the Apple TV3 I replaced it with, which you can get for $75 refurbished from Apple. Because of that one sale the three Apple TV units I have purchased (one of which was the one I sold) over the past 5 years have been almost free. (paid a total of $108 and $92 for two ATV2's, then paid $82 for an Apple TV 3, total outlay: $282. Then sold that one ATV2 for $270. So my net outlay for using three different ATV's over a period of 5 years has been $12.)
These days the jailbroken Apple TV2 goes for ~$150 (rarely above $200) on ebay. Note that the Apple TV 3 (Current model) cannot be jailbroken.
So why would someone pay £200 more to buy a jailbroken one rather than just jailbreaking it themself? (I've never jailbroken or even looked into how to do it).
If it's a 40gb model then it's a first generation aTV... even jailbroken they go for no where near that much on ebay, I found one that went for £170 and the rest went for about £80 to £110.
Now if it was a jailbroken aTV 2 then you've hit the jackpot, they do go for silly money 🙂
Last time I checked, ATV2s that were jailbroken were going for about $100-$150 or so. The price seemed to drop from what they were previously at about $200-$250.
When I got my ATV3, shortly after its release, I shipped my ATV2 to friends (who don't know that jailbreaking even exists), not realizing that it was a hot commodity. If I'd know, I would have done the jailbreaking thing and sale on ebay, bought them a brand new ATV3, and pocketed the extra $100 or so. 😡
After reading about it, I told another friend who had an ATV2 about it, and he did do the jailbreaking/ebay thing, and got a couple hundred bucks for it. I kind of had my doubts, but it's for real - people do buy them for that kind of money. I do sometimes wonder if those people buying them have any regrets after a few months. It seems like there are better devices out there for XMBC, etc.
After reading about it, I told another friend who had an ATV2 about it, and he did do the jailbreaking/ebay thing, and got a couple hundred bucks for it. I kind of had my doubts, but it's for real - people do buy them for that kind of money. I do sometimes wonder if those people buying them have any regrets after a few months. It seems like there are better devices out there for XMBC, etc.
I wonder if there's a high traffic blog site or something because it really does beggar belief.
There's always been much better (performance, cost, no messing about, etc) solutions and now, you'd be crazy to even consider getting one over the multitude of alternatives.
agreed I like my rook 3 much better than my apple tv 2 and 3.
its just a better user experience. I don't understand why apple has waited soon long to open up the iTunes store and 3rd party apps for apple tv. I guess they are waiting for the home kit stuff. They are behind the times on the apple tv.
Sure, maybe in your US dollars... but the OP is talking UK pounds and on ebay UK some jailbroken aTV 2's are still going for between £200-250, that's about $300+.
