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Reser said:
Ok to make it easier for you.

If they had updated in March

I would have had my iPad a year. my old iPad would sell for around £469, and it would cost me around £100 to upgrade.

Now I either have to pay £100 to upgrade after just 6-7 months, OR I wait till the next upgrade by which pont my iPad will be worth about £100-£200 less then it would have been worth if they had not just upgraded it. So it will then cost me £200-£300 to upgrade instead of the USUAL £100.

Meaning I would be out an 'extra' £100-£200 in the 'SAME' time period I usually am only out £100. Hence I am down money about £100-£200 to be exact.
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You're not down anything. No one is making you upgrade. That's your choice. You made an investment, you may get less cash back then you originally expected but you're still getting a better resale value then any other Manufactures products on the market.

You have to pay a little bit more to upgrade to the latest and greatest? First world problems much? :rolleyes:
 
Reser said:
When will you idiots realise it is NOTHING to do with the spec bump, it is the fact that it dramatically devalues something that we just bought.

When I buy an iPad I sell it when the next one comes out so I pay about £100 for the upgrade.

Now if I choose to wait till iPad 5 it will cost me £200-£300 to upgrade due to the devaluation, if I upgrade now I am paying out money just 6 months after for slightley better specs. Either way I am ****ed.
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++1 to this.
 
New IPad

Apple may well loose me and others who purchased a new IPad in the last month or two. Introducing a new full sized model less than a year after the last release is infuriating. No warning, no consideration, only a company moving products with a total lack of concern for individuals who are now stuck with an outdated IPad.
 
billel said:
Apple may well loose me and others who purchased a new IPad in the last month or two. Introducing a new full sized model less than a year after the last release is infuriating. No warning, no consideration, only a company moving products with a total lack of concern for individuals who are now stuck with an outdated IPad.
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Really? because you don't get a year with the latest and greatest and you thought you would, or do you have a resale scheme in mind that they upset. I so don't get this mentality. Not saying you all are bad people, i just don't get the emotion around that.

What is causing them to "loose" you exactly?
 
You know these kids aren't going to stop crying. It happens every Apple event but yet they still buy the products.
 
Reser said:
Ok to make it easier for you.

If they had updated in March

I would have had my iPad a year. my old iPad would sell for around £469, and it would cost me around £100 to upgrade.

Now I either have to pay £100 to upgrade after just 6-7 months, OR I wait till the next upgrade by which pont my iPad will be worth about £100-£200 less then it would have been worth if they had not just upgraded it. So it will then cost me £200-£300 to upgrade instead of the USUAL £100.

Meaning I would be out an 'extra' £100-£200 in the 'SAME' time period I usually am only out £100. Hence I am now down money about £100-£200 to be exact.
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Maybe you should really reevaluate your upgrade plan if an extra $100 is going to ruin the rest of your year. Like others have said, you don't have to upgrade every time they push out something new. You could use it till it breaks, then upgrade - then you won't be able to get anything for it so you won't have to fret over this.

Also, why not just buy it and return it every month within 30 days so you would be able to upgrade with zero penalty? The only thing you'd lose is your dignity and time.
 
billel said:
Apple may well loose me and others who purchased a new IPad in the last month or two. Introducing a new full sized model less than a year after the last release is infuriating. No warning, no consideration, only a company moving products with a total lack of concern for individuals who are now stuck with an outdated IPad.
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You're right, Tim Cook should have personally called or emailed you to make sure it was ok for them to release a new product.

Get out of this mind state that you "lost" something and you're now "out dated". It's simply not true.
 
kappaknight said:
Maybe you should really reevaluate your upgrade plan if an extra $100 is going to ruin the rest of your year. Like others have said, you don't have to upgrade every time they push out something new. You could use it till it breaks, then upgrade - then you won't be able to get anything for it so you won't have to fret over this.

Also, why not just buy it and return it every month within 30 days so you would be able to upgrade with zero penalty? The only thing you'd lose is your dignity and time.
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*£100-£200

Since you are American and find it hard to figure out the difference , that is $160-$320. A lot more then $100 thankyou.
 
Reser said:
In the UK getting 70-80% value on Apple products (Before/as they are replaced) is easy street. I sold my iPhone 4S for £305 to a recycle store who buy everything offered.
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I wish I could offload my 4s for that much, the most any recyclers will offer is around 230 pounds and I can't seem to sell it privately
 
It's not hard to see why people are upset that they refreshed the iPad so quickly but c'mon people, get over yourselves. A lot of you sound like self entitled pansies that act as if Apple owes you something for such a quick update. Did we forget that Apple is a publicly owned company that answers to share holders? Bottom line is king, sure it might be a little messed up that those of us who bought the iPad 3rd generation just a few months ago but IMO who cares really, our iPads will still work the same and chances are we are getting no less enjoyment out of them now that they've announced the update.
 
Markyboy81 said:
I wish I could offload my 4s for that much, the most any recyclers will offer is around 230 pounds and I can't seem to sell it privately
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I sold mine to O2recycle. I put in the sale order day before the conference, you then get 14 days to send them the phone and get that price. I sent them my phone 1 week after I got my iPhone 5.

You have to get the order in before the launch or just after.
 
Reser said:
I sold mine to O2recycle. I put in the sale order day before the conference, you then get 14 days to send them the phone and get that price. I sent them my phone 1 week after I got my iPhone 5.

You have to get the order in before the launch or just after.
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That's what I should've done, I've only had the phone 7 months and was hoping I wouldn't lose quite so much on it
 
I am probably more shocked at the fact that someone upgrades ipads religiously every year regardless of change. I prefer to skip a generation instead of buying every iteration unless they add some new feature that you just can't do on the old one.

If they had introduced the ipad4 next March we would be talking about the upgrade being 6 months behind technology like everyone loves to say about iphone.

by the way the math is wrong as if you now keep the ipad until next october until lets say Ipad5 your product will surely devaluate but you will have used it for 18 months instead of 12 which makes you get a better return on your investment in terms of how much use you got out of it.
 
I wonder if Android fans will be this upset if they release that Nexus 7 32gb for $249 bump the 16 down to $199 and 8gb lower
 
Reser said:
Ok to make it easier for you.

If they had updated in March

I would have had my iPad a year. my old iPad would sell for around £469, and it would cost me around £100 to upgrade.

Now I either have to pay £100 to upgrade after just 6-7 months, OR I wait till the next upgrade by which pont my iPad will be worth about £100-£200 less then it would have been worth if they had not just upgraded it. So it will then cost me £200-£300 to upgrade instead of the USUAL £100.

Meaning I would be out an 'extra' £100-£200 in the 'SAME' time period I usually am only out £100. Hence I am now down money about £100-£200 to be exact.
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Reser said:
*£100-£200

Since you are American and find it hard to figure out the difference , that is $160-$320. A lot more then $100 thankyou.
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For argument's sake, let's say it's a $320 additional loss over a 6 month period.
That's $54/month ($26/month at the low end of your range). That's 11 days worth of coffee per month for a lot of people.

Seriously, that's worth getting all worked up about? For someone who is able to afford such a device, I would think there's more stuff in life worth getting upset about than a $50/month hit for a luxury device that many would kill to be able to afford.
 
Reser said:
When will you idiots realise it is NOTHING to do with the spec bump, it is the fact that it dramatically devalues something that we just bought.

When I buy an iPad I sell it when the next one comes out so I pay about £100 for the upgrade.

Now if I choose to wait till iPad 5 it will cost me £200-£300 to upgrade due to the devaluation, if I upgrade now I am paying out money just 6 months after for slightley better specs. Either way I am ****ed.
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Apple have never made any promises about only upgrading products every year. They didn't enter a contract with you which promised your iPad would be the latest and greatest for a year.

Get over it.
 
robanga said:
Yikes what kind of trouble were you going through to resale Apple products at such a high price before?...maybe is a VAT or currency thing, that makes resale such a deal in the UK.

Don't upgrade every year or pay more to do it i guess.

Personally getting any high resale value out of my old stuff is too much trouble, ebay, craigslist is too much time and headache. Gazelle is my new go to and they just offered me $350 for my 64B LTE iPad 3 :D I can only pass so much stuff down to family members.
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Any experience with Gazelle? I was watching the keynote, saw the 4th Gen, went immediately to them and got a $400 offer for my 32GB 3rd Gen! It's complete, got my email, account setup, etc.

AFAIK, once they've given you a price, it's locked for 30 days, regardless of what else happens in the market.

I still need to read all the fine print as I'm not sure they can't simply receive it and make a much lower counter offer.
 
D.T. said:
Any experience with Gazelle? I was watching the keynote, saw the 4th Gen, went immediately to them and got a $400 offer for my 32GB 3rd Gen! It's complete, got my email, account setup, etc.

AFAIK, once they've given you a price, it's locked for 30 days, regardless of what else happens in the market.

I still need to read all the fine print as I'm not sure they can't simply receive it and make a much lower counter offer.
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Wow i think i only got a $350 offer for my 64GB LTE. Maybe 32GB is more popular. :) I wonder if they dynamically price offers. If you are a new customer they give you more to hook you.
 
Lindsford said:
I'm just surprised Tim Cook didn't call down on all iPad 3 Owners and take their feelings into consideration. :rolleyes:
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They could do an app where everyone had to vote on whether to allow them to release new products. Business as a democracy that works.
 
Lindsford said:
It's a minor spec bump. Big deal, go ahead and tell me it has a 2x faster CPU. Cool, but what's that really amount to in Real-World usage for what the majority of you actually use your iPad for? My 3rd gen works just fine. I'm glad they updated it with the new dock connectors. It needed to be done. Like it or not. What better time than before the holidays where people buy a ton of them. It's a good move. Angry Birds and Safari will still work on your iPad 3. Videos will look just as good as before, and the world will keep turning.
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This should sum it all up


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjNgNDZzH5o
 
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