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Want an iPhone 5? Sell Your Old iPhone Now

Sold my iphone few minutes back:) Now will share a bite off icecream sandwich of android for some time before switching back to apple:apple:
 
not all of us have problems with cash flow... i'll be buying the new iphone off tariff with cash
 
KJmoon117 said:
Prices also rebound after about a month from the announcement date. So those who are trying to get a better value (not max) should just wait till after the announcement as well I think.

But I do agree that the prices have been dropping these days. The iPhone market is saturated to the point where prices aren't as high as they were.
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I suspect this would only be true if it was another 'S' upgrade. People sell their phones in anticipation of a big announcement, and flood the market, then when it's a 4S type announcement people stop selling and supply decreases. I don't think that will happen with the 5, people will be all over it I suspect.
 
Hermes Monster said:
I suspect this would only be true if it was another 'S' upgrade. People sell their phones in anticipation of a big announcement, and flood the market, then when it's a 4S type announcement people stop selling and supply decreases. I don't think that will happen with the 5, people will be all over it I suspect.
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I got ~$450 for both iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (jailbroken and unlocked 32GB) when ebaying them roughly the same time (about a month or so) after the next generation iPhone streeted.
 
I sold off my wife 16gb iPhone 4s to amazon 2 weeks ago. Got $415 amazon credit. Easy. Sent it off Tuesday. For some reason it was supposed to arrive in NH on Friday but didn't. It still didn't arrive on Momday. I got concerned.

But Bamm. Looked at my amazon account and $415 credit had been applied.

I gave my wife the 32gb iPhone 4s I was using since she can't live without iPhone. I used Nokia lumia 900 for 2 weeks (got it off eBay for $220). My sister in Maryland had old iPhone 4 laying around so when my mother visited me in Florida (mother lives in Maryland also). She brought down iPhone 4 so I am bacj to iPhone 4.

Just sold my Nokia lumia 900 on Craigslist for $220 so didn't lose any money on that deal.

The best resell value are away the lowest GB models. $415 for 16gb vs $455 for 32GB. Considering we spent $100 more for the 32GB. It made more sense to trade in 16GB. Plus my wife was always running close to using up all of her storage space with HD videos and pics (she only had Garmin app (2.2GB) and no music and a few small apps like Facebook.
 
Can someone explain to me why people are panicking about the resale value of their phones dropping? Go on eBay, you can get a 2 year old iPhone 4 in new condition for $400, chill out everyone
 
You'll save like $85-$100 if you sell now.

But then again you'll be out of an iPhone for 6 weeks.

You decide if it's worth it.
 
Hermes Monster said:
I suspect this would only be true if it was another 'S' upgrade. People sell their phones in anticipation of a big announcement, and flood the market, then when it's a 4S type announcement people stop selling and supply decreases. I don't think that will happen with the 5, people will be all over it I suspect.
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It pretty much is; or "T" (for taller). I don't see the new one having some revolutionary new feature that the previous two iPhones don't have. I could be wrong though. Then again last year's revolutionary feature was Siri....and that definitely wasn't worth it. And people ate up the 4s as well before realizing they weren't getting much else than a newer iPhone 4.

iPhone 4's are still getting 350-400 on amazon used. iPhone prices may take a hit initially but I think that'll be more due to phones saturating the market and sellers trying to stay competitive, but prices surely will rebound
 
yeah, the market in DC/MD/VA is swamped with people unloading 4s and 4 from anywhere between $175-500

I think I can manage getting around $300 hopefully $350, but it all comes down to what sprint will charge me for picking up a new iphone, Ive had the 4s for less then a year on sprint



*should have stayed with ATT
 
Well, I found a way to work within Amazon's trade in program to keep my 4s as long as possible.

I submitted my $455 trade in and had 7 days to ship the item. This is printed on their support page: "You can't change your trade-in after it has been submitted. However, you can cancel and re-submit another trade-in."

So basically on my 6th day I can check to make sure the offer is still $455 and then cancel the current one and get 7 additional days with a new one. Rinse and repeat until the price drops.
 
saud0488 said:
It pretty much is; or "T" (for taller). I don't see the new one having some revolutionary new feature that the previous two iPhones don't have. I could be wrong though. Then again last year's revolutionary feature was Siri....and that definitely wasn't worth it. And people ate up the 4s as well before realizing they weren't getting much else than a newer iPhone 4.

iPhone 4's are still getting 350-400 on amazon used. iPhone prices may take a hit initially but I think that'll be more due to phones saturating the market and sellers trying to stay competitive, but prices surely will rebound
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Considering the iPhone 4 had a manufacturering defect in sensor placement (not antenna gate). I just came back to the 4 after selling my 4S. Using my sisters 4. Dropped call on first day back on the 4. The sensor sucks.

Plus camera is slower and worst quality than 4S. Def slower also.

So 4S fixed the sensor issues. Camera better and overall faster. 4S is a rock solid phone compared to the 4 even though they look the same.

iPhone 4 real selling prices are in mid 250s 16Gb for gsm version and closer to $200 for Verizon CDMA. Listing prices vs selling prices are two independent things.
 
I am planning on keeping my 4 unlocked as a backup if anything ever happens to my new iPhone.
 
aneftp said:
Considering the iPhone 4 had a manufacturering defect in sensor placement (not antenna gate). I just came back to the 4 after selling my 4S. Using my sisters 4. Dropped call on first day back on the 4. The sensor sucks.

Plus camera is slower and worst quality than 4S. Def slower also.

So 4S fixed the sensor issues. Camera better and overall faster. 4S is a rock solid phone compared to the 4 even though they look the same.

iPhone 4 real selling prices are in mid 250s 16Gb for gsm version and closer to $200 for Verizon CDMA. Listing prices vs selling prices are two independent things.
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Are you talking about the proximity sensor? That was fixed via an update. Dropped calls happen with every phone, especially iPhones, and the 4s is no exception. I went back to a 4 yesterday and while it's a bit slower it's nothing to burn an upgrade for. This is especially true considering the terrible battery of the 4s.

Camera is slower and "worse" quality, but not much of a difference from 4s. 250 is for locked and used. 200 for CDMA would be giving up a lot. Trust me, I'm someone that would know the difference. The 4 and 4s really aren't that much of different phones. Let me put it to you like this: this would be an upgrade that an Android series of phones would have made over a course of 3-4 months, not 16 months.
 
saud0488 said:
Are you talking about the proximity sensor? That was fixed via an update. Dropped calls happen with every phone, especially iPhones, and the 4s is no exception. I went back to a 4 yesterday and while it's a bit slower it's nothing to burn an upgrade for. This is especially true considering the terrible battery of the 4s.

Camera is slower and "worse" quality, but not much of a difference from 4s. 250 is for locked and used. 200 for CDMA would be giving up a lot. Trust me, I'm someone that would know the difference. The 4 and 4s really aren't that much of different phones. Let me put it to you like this: this would be an upgrade that an Android series of phones would have made over a course of 3-4 months, not 16 months.
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Yes. Talking about prox sensor. Of course I know update long time ago should have fixed problem. But in reality it never especially for users like me who like to multi task when I am on phone. Sometimes I gotta juggle holding phone with my right shoulder while typing something on computer and bam the phone ends the phone call. It's not the network.

I know it's the iPhone 4's prox sensor. Cause it never happened (me talking with phone being held up by right shoulder with the 4S that i owned).

Now back to the iPhone 4. Starting to experience multiple dropped calls when it's in right shoulder position. If I hold it like a normal person and don't try to type on computer keyboard than no dropped calls on the 4.

The 4S fixed all this.

It's like 3G had weak wifi and crappy gps chip and 3GS was rock solid wifi and gps. Same thing with 4 vs 4s.

On a different level since I am phone junkie. Galaxy S had horrible gps and S2 fixed GPS problems.

Same thing apple did with the prox sensor with the 4 vs 4s.
 
The way I look at it, is that the cost of the phone relative to the price you pay per month for the contract is insignificant.

I'd rather have an iPhone for a month and take the $25-50 hit for selling my used iPhone, than go through the hassle of buying a dumb phone and using that for a month.

Plus, on Ebay, you could easily sell your 4S for $400+ IMO, even after the new iPhone is released. That's more than you could "trade in" to a third party vendor, even today!
 
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