Trading Your iPhone 4 for Someone's 4S?

[sidgriffey]

This question is separate from the other thread about "trade-in value." Say someone buys an iPhone 4S and is willing to accept your iPhone 4 plus a sum of cash in a trade. Say also that you are about halfway through your AT&T contract. Is this simply a matter of restoring the two phones, swapping our the sim cards and activating them? Or is it a problem for the person who is under contract already on the original iPhone 4? Would the respective contracts be unaffected?

 

[Yumunum]

You are correct sir, it's the first situation. Very simple!

But one thing... Why would the person you'd trade with, not just get an iPhone 4 for $99?

 

[amann76]

desperate huh... i'll trade you my 4s box for your 4

 

[sidgriffey]

You are correct sir, it's the first situation. Very simple!

But one thing... Why would the person you'd trade with, not just get an iPhone 4 for $99?

It's not likely, but only in the event that craigslist starts to see volume and someone decides, for example, that they would rather have my 32gb iphone 4 and $250 cash than their 16GB iphone 4s. Again, not uber likely. But you never know.