“iPhone owners last month were more willing than ever to trade in their older devices for top value leading up to — and immediately following — the iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s unveilings, according to Gazelle,” Kevin Bostic reports for AppleInsider.
“The nation’s top trade-in service told AppleInsider that iPhone trade-ins for cash payouts during September rose 53% compared to the same period during last September’s iPhone 5 launch,” Bostic reports for AppleInsider. “When compared to the same period in 2011, trade-ins rose nearly eighteenfold.”
Bostic reports, “It wasn’t just iPhones that Gazelle users were trading in, either: The company also reported a surge in non-iPhone device trades. ‘Our higher trade-in values show an increase of new devices like the… Samsung Galaxy S III and S4,’ said Gazelle’s Chief Gadget Officer Anthony Scarsella.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
No doubt folks were trading their G3 and G4 for the new Note 3 and the new Sony ZL. The 5s is no doubt moving lots of 4 and 4s owners which is not a surprise. Short of the deeply influenced Apple followers most iPhone 5 owners are hanging tight for the 6. Nothing to see here.
Yeah, and nothing intelligent to read either.
Yeah if apple has only 9 million “deeply influenced “followers” you wouldn’t be trolling this site seeking validation for your 2nd and 3rd rate alternatives.
Gazelle reports surge in tradeins of Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 during iPhone 5s launch.
Now that’s pure Gold!
Or champagne…
Gazelle gave me $325 for my iPhone 5 and I replaced it with a Nexus 4 that does not look like Fisher-Price got into the phone business. Gave up LTE for HSPA+ on the phone, but it doesn’t make a big difference as I have both an AT&T and Verizon 4G LTE hotspot.
iOS7 is what moved me off of the iPhone. Away from the Fanboi, hipster and Metrosexual crowds there is significant buyer’s remorse over Jony andTim’s Frankenstein OS.
You sad little prick, go awsy.
suicide
Did gazelle mail you back your toy oven for the half baked Fragmadroid Sourdough update? Haha. So sad.
Have you ever seen a Fisher-Price phone? I have because I have a 3 year old and I can tell you for certain that the iPhone 5S and 5C do not look anything like A Fisher-Price phone or any other toy phone for that matter. You might want to choose a better comparison because your current one makes you look like a dick.
Don’t let the screen door…
Buh, bye!
Oh yes! And we all believe that you aren’t just a forum troll astroturfing for samsung.
/s
You ‘turfers have recently gone from sad, to totally pathetic, and now on to borderline absurd.
Samsung must be very afraid at this point. Their “flagship” S4 can’t even mach the performance of last years iPhone 5 and now is generations (years) behind the new 64bit iPhone 5s
So fear at samsung so they have turned up their army of bloggers and astroturfers and begun the ultimately very risky option to try to to cheat customers by engineering their phones falsely represent benchmarks.
Since you accused me of being a troll…
Mr Doofus,
I am writing this on a Mac Pro with an LED Cinema Display, connected to an Airport Extreme Dual Band. Next to my desk is my iPad, on my desk is an iPod touch streaming an online radio program through a Focal USB speaker set with iPod/iPhone dock.
I am an Apple shareholder and have been since 2001 when the pre-split price was less than $10/share. The car in my driveway was purchased with the proceeds from the sale of a small block of Apple stock at about $400/share- most of which had been purchase for less than $50/share.
My 1st Apple was an Apple II (][ for snobs) and my first Mac was purchased in 1985 at the Stuttgart PX at Robinson Barracks back in my Army days. The first Apple I used was an Apple II taking a programming course in college in 1979.
I never switched from Apple and was one of many in line on opening day at one of the first Apple Stores (Saddle Creek, Germantown)- long before the hipsters, wannabes and hangers on ever thought it was cool to own anything by Apple. I imagine about that time you were enjoying your Windows 98 or WIndows ME beige box.
Ronald Reagan famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party- the party left him. I dropped the iPhone as Apple is aggressively pushing users to iOS 7 and it’s form over function, foo-foo, bullshit interface. It is hard on my eyes, sucks battery life and wrecks many things that were not broken in iOS 6.
I am sure the engineering underneath is great. The problem is that the human interface is a train-wreck and the fonts are unfriendly to eyes past the age of 40. Some day you too will be over 40 and might understand.
Cook & Ive have thrown out a perfectly functional mobile OS User interface for a trend chasing festival of visual cheez-whiz.
Samshit – if you can’t beat them spam them.
I’m stunned shocked speechless can you tell how surprised I am? Zzzzz….. Ok more important more surprising news : grass is still green!!