“Some consumers haven’t been so quick to move away from one of last year’s hot gifts: the iPod mini. Even though Apple discontinued the mini in September and replaced it with the nano, these fans have been reluctant to take the mini off their gift lists — and they’re willing to pay top dollar to nab one,” Michelle Meyers reports for CNET News. “Patrick McHenry of Eerie, Pennsylvania, for example, just bought a pink 4GB mini, which holds 1,000 songs, on eBay for $275 (£155). That’s $76 over the original $199 price tag. But it’s also less than McHenry would have paid at Compu-America — one of the few electronics retailers with the mini in stock. The store is selling the same model for $349. And sellers on Amazon are listing prices for the 4GB mini at more than $400.”
“So why would anyone pay so much for a mini when they could buy the smaller and (most would say) technologically superior 4GB nano for $249, or even the new 30GB video iPod, which holds 7,500 songs, for $299? In McHenry’s case, it was to fulfill the Christmas wish of his friend’s girlfriend. ‘She had her heart set on an iPod mini mainly because they are discontinued, so not many people would have them,’ he said,” Meyers reports.
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