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Now I realise why you have posted so many 5 word messages today in so many threads. Your trying to get marketplace acsess.
I was beginning to think you were a bot!
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why can't i sell my apple watch?
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I was beginning to think you were a bot!
Tamagotchi
macrumors 6502
People who wanted the watch bought it over a year ago. Now people are waiting for the next Apple Watch.
do you think that if no new apple watched is announced at the conference next week, there will be a resurgence of apple watch interest?
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
No, because the people who are interested in the watch have bought them. Apple cut the price a few months ago which presumably helped drive more sales. There's no further motivation or action (other then another price cut) to see a spike in sales on a watch that is over a year old and people are expecting a new model.
zhenya
macrumors 604
The other issue is that unless you happen upon exactly the right buyer, the price floor is really set by the cheapest someone can buy the Sport model, not the SS model, because the vast majority of people looking to buy new are by definition price conscious. This is why iPhones and iPads with anything more than the base storage bring very little extra on the second-hand market.
yeah, that's a really good point. i'm positive there are some people out there that would find this a bargain, the tricky thing is actually finding them
yikes, maybe i should be looking to stay in a hostel instead of a room on airbnb, then
The iPad Air 2 is, what, two years old? 50% of the original value is about pretty much normal. One-year-old iPhones also sell at 50% of original price. You'd get far less, if not basically nothing, if they weren't Apple products.
Mac 128
macrumors 603
Well for most of the world, the Watch is not even 6 months old. Add to the fact that Apple only just started selling the watch in Target and Wal-Mart stores about 6 months ago. Add to that, Apple has recently launched a huge billboard marketing campaign for the watch.
I'm willing to bet very few people in the market for an Watch are actually talking about whether there's a second model coming soon. For many people worldwide, the watch has only recently come into their consciousness.
It seems clear to me that at is point Apple has managed to put the watch in front of most of its potential customers (iPhone owners), and those customers aren't interested -- not because they think there's a new watch due any time now.
That's not to say there won't be a spike when the second gen watch is due, if not just from many of the original watch owners who will jump at the improved experience they are already enthusiastic about. And, there will most definitely be a smaller subset of new customers who have been sitting back to see what the second gen watch brings after liking, but passing on what the original watch offers. But overall, not encouraging for stimulating a lot of growth for Apple, especially at the current retail prices.
That's like saying after one year of the iPad, Apple has managed to put the iPad in front of most of its potential customers and those customers aren't interested. It's a fact that they've sold more AWs after one year compared to the iPad, and it can only go up from there.
Mac 128
macrumors 603
Sorry, I must have missed the official Apple press release announcing the total number of Watches sold, unlike Steve Jobs specific announcements of iPad numbers shipped during its first year.
Of course in 2010, there were also a lot fewer iPhones in the world (in the hundreds of millions I think).
And last I checked, what goes up must come down. Apple's iPhone sales have gone down for the last quarter year over year. And the iPad has been in decline for years. So clearly, sales can't only go up for an Apple product. In fact there doesn't even seem to be a correlation as to when in a typical product's life cycle they will go down.
So nice try to discredit an opposing viewpoint, but without actual facts, I guess we'll both just have to agree to disagree and see what happens.
You know perfectly well we have extrapolated numbers available to us, and they didn't merely pull these out of their butts. Apparently you think a 'flop' sold twice as fast as iPhone in its first year, and you're no different from all the other pundits who unrealistically deem the first generation AW a flop because it didn't sell in as many numbers as the iPhone, which has been around for nearly 10 years.
Spink10
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Most people didn't even know that WWDC happened today...so nothing really changed.
good point, i'm still hopeful i can get 400 for the thing. that's still a good bit cheaper then the best buy deal
the only texts i've had from craigslist are people wanting me to send it to their grandma in nigeria, so many fakes. posted it on a local garage sale board on facebook, too, but nada there either
NovemberWhiskey
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Newtons Apple
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You need to look at other sales on CList and if you really want to sell, you need to cut the retail price in half.
so 325? nope, that is way too low. people seriously can't expect to pay that little for a sealed device
Newtons Apple
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If you will go and look at Craig's List you will see they "can" and expect to pay even less.
Do you not know that Apple doesn't allow you to post here? You can get your employment terminated and seeing that your case is very specific I don't think its very hard for Apple to track you down. So are you sure you wanna risk that?
It was the first thing that we were told at the Apple training (I no longer work for Apple so I'm fine 🙂 ).
So, is this thread worth the risk?