The second-hand market of iPhones has melted away

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In order not to not lose too much money, many owners of the iPhone 4 who had before the 3G or the 3GS resold them either via eBay or on specialized sites. In the beginning it was easy to obtain a reasonable price for the models in perfect state, however things since have soured.

Like all markets, things work on the basis of supply and demand, the multitude of tens or hundreds of thousands of second hand iPhones ended up breaking down the cost of these iPhones. Today the Gazelle site that buys the iPhones offers nothing no more than $168 for a 3GS of 32 Go in perfect state, half of the price that they offered a little time before the release of V4.

The iPhone is certainly the only mobile phone to have life expectancy of second or third hand. Fortunately for Apple, version 4 of iOS made obsolete the first models and runs much slower on the 3G and this has pushed the customers to change.