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Apple Begins Selling Refurbished iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Models (macrumors.com)
Apple today has added refurbished iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus models to its online store for the first time in the United States. MacRumors reports: iPhone 7 models are available in all three storage capacities, including 32GB for $499, 128GB for $589, and 256GB for $679, reflecting savings of 10 percent off Apple's current prices for brand new models. All five colors are currently in stock, including Black, Jet Black, Silver, Gold, and Rose Gold. iPhone 7 Plus models with 32GB or 128GB of storage are available for $599 and $689 respectively, which is also 10 percent off. There are no 256GB models in stock. Available colors include Black, Gold, and Rose Gold. Apple says all refurbished iPhone models are thoroughly inspected, tested, cleaned, and repackaged with a new white box and all manuals and accessories. Apple also installs a new battery and replaces the outer shell, making it nearly impossible to distinguish between a refurbished and brand new iPhone. Any refurbished iPhone model comes with Apple's standard one-year warranty effective on the date the device is delivered. The warranty can be extended to up to two years from the original purchase date with AppleCare+, at a cost of $129 for the iPhone 7 and $149 for the iPhone 7 Plus in the United States.
Yeah but how many write cycles on the flash memory?
"Hey, this 2 year old car has only 60,000 miles on the odometer. We replaced the tires, gave it an oil change and shampooed the interior so it's as good as new. Yours for only 90% of the price of a 2018 model."
Any refurbished iPhone model comes with Apple's standard one-year warranty effective on the date the device is delivered.
Except that the minimum warranty is two years many places, also for refurbished goods, with up to five years redress rights for phones. Depending on your location, the one year warranty is only valid if it offers something above and beyond that.
Here is a marketplace that Apple Inc control 'wholeheartedly'. Not just Off-The-Shelf, but Off-Someone-Elses.
In doing so they have greatly helped create and maintain the 2nd hand depreciation market that almost all other markets and things suffer directly by.
Car markets, for example, are ingrained with 50% drive off the lot problem, sprouted by the car dealerships themselves (This I was told exactly last week when looking for a car) for literally moving the car 1meter from the dealership. This makes the economy greatly disposable and highly lossy.
Take pride (read as "courage") and back your product in ways that defy market "practice" and create ones own modus operandi for OTHERS to follow as Apple have done. Who knows, it may also reduce waste in the long term in other markets.
there is a sucker born every minute ;) and they will make a bundle ;)
;)
Just my 2 cents
10% off? Hahahaha. Apple is one of the best idiot taxes around...
We rightfully make fun of Apple, but they've taken the Veblen good and ran with it like they stole it.
Hear, heaR! (infinitesimal cap lock fail)
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Market forces determine prices. This applies even to Apple. If Apple thinks that they can move refurbished products with only a 10% discount then they'd be idiots for going any lower on price.
If you believe buying Apple products is just paying an "idiot tax" then you need to brush up on some basic economics. Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world right now. Maybe all their customers are idiots. If so, then that just means catering to idiots is a genius business plan.
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" 32GB for $499, 128GB for $589, and 256GB for $679,"
A million bucks for the Brooklyn bridge seems cheap.
Really, what does it do that a 2 year old, $100 on Swappa (iThing or cybernetic something) doesn't?
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They are effectively a new phone, there's even plastic back on the front to tear off.
That being said,... 10% saving? Just 10? Good lord that's stingy. Cmon 15/20% for goodness sakes, plus it's an older model now.
Yeah, no, no thanks.
iP7/7+ are crippled with the same mechanical/physical issues that the iP6+ touch disease is caused by. In the 7/7+ it manifests in a different location (audio chip typically) and makes the phone become exceedingly laggy.
Overall the 7/7+ has not been a good phone for durability, the new alloy used for the chassis does a very good job at resisting damage to itself compared to the original 6/6+ but the consequence of that is that the shock is now being transferred to the PCB and we're seeing a lot of board failures from impacts; previously the 6/6+ chassis would be the crumple-zone and the boards would survive surprisingly well.
The iP6S/6S+ at this stage still represents the ideal balance of durability, repairability, cost, performance.
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Boycott everyone that ends a price in 9 and where do you plan on buying anything?
Talk about a petty grievance. Why not stop buying gasoline that ends in .9 while you are at it.
Walmart didn't invent pricing that ended in a 9, go look at an old Sears ad from 60+ years ago.
They have at least given them brand new batteries!
Be nice; he's gay.
Talk about a petty grievance. Why not stop buying gasoline that ends in .9 while you are at it.
Hear, hear; that disingenous tenth-of-a-cent shit needs to stop. (Sorry if I grabbed your poor analogy and ran the other direction with it). ;)
Sorry, can you point to where I said this was a new thing? I guess you must be one of the stupid shoppers. Keep going to Walmart, you are very welcome there.
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Not to doubt you, but "Apple customers aren't usually stupid." Buys new phone because of "OOOHHH! Shiney!" Defends Apple with the same devotion of a radical Muslim. Allows Apple to absolutely treat them like a redheaded stepchild. ...What color is the sky in your world?
Lots of illiterates at this site. Can't read a short comment and retain any sense of its content. Please point out the part where: "Defends Apple with the same devotion of a radical Muslim" appears in my words.
OK, you are an Apple hater. In your mind nobody has ever benefited by buying or using an Apple product. You probably think of Apple as a criminal organization. Many like you exist on Slashdot. Haters of all sorts. It's not unlike FB, Twitter, Reddit and other places. Better to hate at Slashdot than at home and at work where you have to look people in the eye, huh?
Difficult to find intelligent discourse here.
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None of that was directed at you. As you think it was,. I failed to make myself clear. My apologies. You don't have to be concerned with it happening again.
Well I went over the top too. Sorry about the angry tone.
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