[olug] [OT] What is a fair price for an iPhone 3GS? Or where to purchase used and working electronics?

Jon Larsen jon at jonlarsen.us
Mon Oct 17 14:18:05 UTC 2011


Or maybe a Samsung Galaxy 4.0 player.....

On 10/17/2011 07:59 AM, Craig Wolf wrote:
> If he does not want the phone portion, get an iPod Touch.  Same thing without the phone portion.
>
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>>>> Dan Linder  10/16/11 8:18 PM>>>
> My dad is looking at getting an Apple iPod/iPhone use as a
> PDA/MP3/Web-browsing, but he doesn't want the extra expense of the phone
> service (he likes his simple Motorola flip-phone that's 5+ years old).
>
> In the wake of the 4S announcement, my sister and her husband are upgrading
> their iPhone (3GS-32GB IIRC).  I'm suggesting he offer to buy one from them,
> but just use the WiFi and don't activate it with AT&T.
>
> His question to me was "What's a fair price to offer to buy them?" and I
> don't really know a good price.
>
> Gazelle.com will pay $140 each, and I see them for sale on eBay for $220 (I
> don't think my sister wants to sell on eBay...).
>
> Maybe this is the better question - since he does't want a phone, where do
> others on the list buy working/used electronics devices?  (I know of
> Tech4Less.com, but that's the end of my list...)
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>




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