HEK
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Or better yet donate the excess phones to kids less fortunate. After all what kid actually needs five phones. 😕 Be a good life lesson to impart.
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iPhone XR Stop me from ordering....
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I really don't see what one has to do with another. The safety of meeting strangers in a large city to cell an expensive item for cash....is something that as a female even I have concerns about doing and I am 40 years old. I am old enough to buy all my own phones. I haven't sold them because I don't like the hassle and it hardly ever feels safe when I do it. What age should I feel safe doing it and then be old enough to have multiple phones?
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Thanks. We do donate to people less fortunate. And he did earn some of them on his own... so he has been taught a lot about life lessons.
Let's see if I'm keeping track of the story:
- Your kid had "some phones you had to sell" - so you've sold "some" phones (i.e. 3 or more);
- Your kid has a very ****ed up 6S he uses for school, and 2 other late-model iPhones he "has at home";
That's 6 phones right there. For a high school kid. I think you're full of BS.
If you're not, then you should spend all of that spare money you have to buy your kid some sick Supreme Streewear clothes (or whatever kids are wearing these days), a shiny new Mustang V8, and an iPhone XS Max in gold to boot. Plus a Dubai vacation.
What good does it do to have all that money and still be the loser at school with a broken old iPhone?
- Your kid had "some phones you had to sell" - so you've sold "some" phones (i.e. 3 or more);
- Your kid has a very ****ed up 6S he uses for school, and 2 other late-model iPhones he "has at home";
That's 6 phones right there. For a high school kid. I think you're full of BS.
If you're not, then you should spend all of that spare money you have to buy your kid some sick Supreme Streewear clothes (or whatever kids are wearing these days), a shiny new Mustang V8, and an iPhone XS Max in gold to boot. Plus a Dubai vacation.
What good does it do to have all that money and still be the loser at school with a broken old iPhone?
Lol. You have some things mixed up. We aren’t super fancy and aren’t into brand names things like Supreme clothes...and if I were getting my kid a car it would be based upon safety...not speed...and it would be something they can handle better than a mustang.
He takes a cheap phone to school bc he might lose it and it is the first phone he has been allowed to have activated. I am not going to let him have a test run with a Xs max.
HEK
macrumors 68040
Should you decide to sell to stranger at some point, may I suggest the safest place to do so is in lobby of police or sheriff office.
Arranging the police station as transaction spot goes long way to discouraging anyone planning on doing something illegal. If all of a sudden the other party doesn’t like that location, it’s a big clue not to deal with them.
Yes... I believe our sheriff station has a set up for this luckily.... but surprisingly... people still try to get away with stuff there... for example... someone tried to rob the library which is the entrance right next to the sheriff station. LOL! So odd! People are surprisingly dim and I guess desperate! But you are right! That would be a good place to meet. I should remember that once I list the phones.
KeepCalmPeople
macrumors 65816
You have the same mindset I do, and you need to resist.
I buy tech for my family mainly to satisfy my own desire to see my family with the latest tech, not because they actually care about the latest tech.
In 10 years of buying Apple iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs, not once has a family member of mine said "Thanks - this is exactly what I was hoping you'd get me".
I blame myself.
I buy tech for my family mainly to satisfy my own desire to see my family with the latest tech, not because they actually care about the latest tech.
In 10 years of buying Apple iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs, not once has a family member of mine said "Thanks - this is exactly what I was hoping you'd get me".
I blame myself.
I think the real question is why the hell does your kid have like 3 phones, one for home on wifi only (wtf?), one for school, and one for god knows what else?
Be a parent and parent, if it were my kid they'd have ONE older phone that works.
Not sure why you need to bring your kid who doesn't even want a new phone into a discussion about YOU wanting a new Xr.
Be a parent and parent, if it were my kid they'd have ONE older phone that works.
Not sure why you need to bring your kid who doesn't even want a new phone into a discussion about YOU wanting a new Xr.
I don't really get who you're buying all these phones for. For your son or for yourself? Because in your original post it was about your son and now you're saying "old enough to buy all my own phones" and that you "haven't sold them because [you] don't like the hassle and it hardly ever feels safe when [you] do it."
What I also don't understand is how you're concerned about your son selling the phones but not concerned about a young(?) boy running around with devices that are that expensive. As if criminals only steal phones in situations where people wanna sell them but not when some kid walks around with them.
Maybe you didn’t read along. I wrote about which ones he uses at home and which one he takes out. And about the selling part.
OneMike
macrumors 603
Yes. Thank you. You get it. He’s always grateful when he gets a new phone but he isn’t as thrilled as I am. I just want an Xr and have no need so I am trying to find someone to buy it for so I can have one and get rid of his 6s.
bpeeps
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Yes, people are surprisingly dim. And desperate for things they really don't need.
If you want the phone for yourself and can afford it, buy it. There's no need to use your son as an excuse. Although it does sound like he could use a lesson in responsibility if he is one to lose his phones. Sadly I don't know who's going to teach him that lesson.
On WiFi...he plays video games etc on his X. He asked for it for Christmas and I was supposed to sell his 7 plus to cover part of it but I never did.
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He hasn’t lost a phone yet! Knock on wood!! We did a test worth a cheaper phone to see how he would do.
Or you simply don't make it clear enough and ignore the points I'm making. But since you were asking people to stop you from ordering: don't order. Repair the 6S for your son, sell the rest and spend/save the money for more important things since he doesn't care what phone he has anyway.
Pipper99
macrumors 68040
This thread is weird but entertaining.
So, you want to buy the Xr, give it to the child, and then you'll use it rather than buy it for yourself because you don't need it and because he doesn't need it (or really want it), and you just want it, but only occasionally?
My question was poorly worded, convoluted, and confusing, but in this case, I think, appropriate. 🙂
So, you want to buy the Xr, give it to the child, and then you'll use it rather than buy it for yourself because you don't need it and because he doesn't need it (or really want it), and you just want it, but only occasionally?
My question was poorly worded, convoluted, and confusing, but in this case, I think, appropriate. 🙂
Your posts are barely coherent.
Step back and think about how your posting appears to us. You are a supposed 40 year old adult who currently has a son whom you've given 4 (!) phones to for all sorts of various pointless reasons and need validation from us to buy yourself an Xr, under the guise that for some reason you must buy it for your son and not for yourself, and then there's a lot of side drivel about selling phones and not selling phones and how you are supposed to do this that and the other for your son. I know teenagers with more sense than what your discombobulated stories and twisted justifications convey.
If you want an Xr, buy an Xr and be done with the thread. Why do you need validation and justification from us when you don't listen to anyone anyway and tell people they can't read, when it's you who cannot write?
Apple_Robert
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OP, if you want the phone, buy it for yourself, instead of using your son as the excuse. He has plenty of phones already.
I'm not spending money to fix the 6s. It has a bright spot in the display... as though a pencil is pressing through from the back. I don't know how it got there but it was that way when my mom gave it to him when she was done using the phone. There is no damage on exterior of the phone.
What if he forgets his school phone, his bus phone runs out of battery, his WiFi phone gets stuck in a long iOS update, and he doesn't feel like using his emergency backup backup iPhone? Be considerate!
pdxmatts
macrumors 68000
Thank you for exactly putting into word what I wanted to tell OP but couldn't since I'm not a native english speaker.
Brandonjr36
macrumors 68000
Yeah I understand but with it being a kid I think i would just get a case anyway. The X is better in certain areas. Such as the screen.
FilmIndustryGuy
macrumors 6502a
dude buy the Xr for yourself. I'm an adult who can afford any phone i desire and i downgraded to a new SE and love it. The SE runs super fast so that means his 6s runs fast. im so confused by all these parents telling me how they are buying their kid this car and this new iphone. What's the matter with you people? make the kid work all summer to buy his own phone. Also you are destroying the kid by making him a low attention span zombie anyways. if anything take away the 6s and give him a flip phone and tell him to earn his way to an iphone.
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