“Many iPhone users have a simple incentive to upgrade to the latest model once their two-year contract expires: They can sell the old model for roughly the cost of the new one,” Quentin Fottrell reports for MarketWatch. “Here’s the surprising thing: iPad owners, who aren’t on two-year contracts, and don’t have the same incentives, are upgrading even more often.”
“Apple just announced its new iPad Air,” Fottrell reports. “But many of the people offering their current models up for sale on resale sites only purchased their devices in the past 12 to 18 months, according to new research by resale sites Gazelle and NextWorth.”
“After Apple sent out invitations to the launch, the most recent two iPad upgrades (from 2012) made up 64% of all iPad trade-ins at Gazelle,” Fottrell reports. “The latest iPad models released in November 2012 comprised 34% of the models traded in, while the March 2012 iPad made up less than that (30%). Last year’s iPads made up 54% of all trade-ins on NextWorth, more than half of which were the iPad 4 and iPad Mini… Used 32 gigabyte iPad 4s are currently selling on eBay for approximately $450 versus $599 for a new version.”
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I’ll do the good Dad thing and give my daughter my iPad mini so I can get the new mini. Poor me!
Lol, poor you indeed :d these dedication is not happening in the Microsoft camp, their surface 1 with kick stand took a 900$ million loss 😀
Treat yourself to an Air. I was going to get the RD iPad mini, but at 1 lb., I’m going for the larger form factor. My biggest gripe about the previous iPad, was the weight. Plus they ran a bit on the warm side. Holding one for extended periods wasn’t practical. Way to go Apple. Going to order an iPad WIFI w/64 GB’s memory as soon as I can.
Something’s wrong, why is the price of Apple stock up….the announcement, Tim Cook spoke, Apple did not release a whole bunch of stuff that whore street analysts and jouranalysts are not writing that Apple is doomed.
Have we entered the twilight Zone.
The trolls are hibernated, they will come out in full force bashing Apple when they ready. We all know that they are addicted to Apple to the points they are running out of inks.
Just listed mine on kijiji
I’m surprised there are any iPads left to trade in after that splendid MS Surface offer a couple of weeks back.
I sold two 32GB iPad minis to a friend over the weekend for $300 each. I’m looking to replace them with 32Gb iPad AIRs – the new one handed iPad!
Even though I have great patience, the wait for my new iPad mini will be agonizing.
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