Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Followup: iPad resale increases by the minute

Ender Wiggin reported on MacWeekend that because the cost of used iPad sales dropped so much it was a sign that people were selling off their "old" iPads to get ready for the new.

Credit to Dan Gallagher/MarketWatch

It appears he was absolutely correct in his assessment.  Market Watch (www.marketwatch.com) put out an article today saying that there were 700% more devices put up for sale on Tuesday than the amount put up on Monday.  The single most common model put up for sale?  The 3rd-gen iPad.  The 32gb 3rd-gen iPad is the single most popular device being traded on Gazelle currently.

Consumers have a really unique decision here.  Market Watch said they have seen users getting up to as much as $495 for the 3rd-gen.  That means someone could pocket $160 and get the mini.  Or for a bit more out of pocket they can get the 4th-gen iPad.

The only sure thing is that Ender was right.  The iPad sales numbers are going to be extremely high.  People are selling off their "old" iPads at a really high rate in order to get ready for the new release.

1 comment:

  1. I was first in line to sell mine in preparation for my iPad 4!

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