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  • Do your market research before selling 7 year old iPad Mini

    From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 11 15:48:03 2024
    Had an iPad 4 mini, 16 GB, cellular that was getting pretty much 0 use
    so decided to sell it.

    Hot off of getting a good price for an antique end table, I quickly
    ginned up a sales offer.

    Cable and power block not included.

    I decided (having a few years ago sold a full sized iPad with more
    memory, including the cable and power block for $100 and struggling to
    get that price) that $40 would do it and I'd probably have to wait even
    to get that.

    Posted at 18:03.
    By 18:10 had 5 "is that still for sale" and questions about it.
    By 18:20 it was 7.
    By 18:25 was sold.
    By 19:00 it was out the door.

    Next time I'll look at offered prices before setting a price.

    (And no, I have not looked, don't want to know what I left on the table).

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Alan Browne on Thu Jul 11 20:30:03 2024
    On 2024-07-11, Alan Browne <[email protected]> wrote:

    Had an iPad 4 mini, 16 GB, cellular that was getting pretty much 0 use
    so decided to sell it.

    Hot off of getting a good price for an antique end table, I quickly
    ginned up a sales offer.

    Cable and power block not included.

    I decided (having a few years ago sold a full sized iPad with more
    memory, including the cable and power block for $100 and struggling to
    get that price) that $40 would do it and I'd probably have to wait even
    to get that.

    Posted at 18:03.
    By 18:10 had 5 "is that still for sale" and questions about it.
    By 18:20 it was 7.
    By 18:25 was sold.
    By 19:00 it was out the door.

    Next time I'll look at offered prices before setting a price.

    Was this on eBay, or?

    (And no, I have not looked, don't want to know what I left on the table).

    Your offer was a good one. 😁

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  • From Alan Browne@21:1/5 to Jolly Roger on Thu Jul 11 17:49:07 2024
    On 2024-07-11 16:30, Jolly Roger wrote:
    On 2024-07-11, Alan Browne <[email protected]> wrote:

    Had an iPad 4 mini, 16 GB, cellular that was getting pretty much 0 use
    so decided to sell it.

    Hot off of getting a good price for an antique end table, I quickly
    ginned up a sales offer.

    Cable and power block not included.

    I decided (having a few years ago sold a full sized iPad with more
    memory, including the cable and power block for $100 and struggling to
    get that price) that $40 would do it and I'd probably have to wait even
    to get that.

    Posted at 18:03.
    By 18:10 had 5 "is that still for sale" and questions about it.
    By 18:20 it was 7.
    By 18:25 was sold.
    By 19:00 it was out the door.

    Next time I'll look at offered prices before setting a price.

    Was this on eBay, or?

    FB Marketplace - usually the "best" around here, though Kijiji, LesPac
    and Craigslist are good too (in that order).


    (And no, I have not looked, don't want to know what I left on the table).

    Your offer was a good one. 😁

    Finally went and looked - I was at the bottom but not by that much.
    prices get higher with memory (duh) with 128 GB Mini 4s being in the
    sweet spot ($150 ..$200).

    A 16 GB Mini 4 with updated OS doesn't have much room left, alas.

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    the culture and independence of the ancient States of Europe."
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  • From Andrew@21:1/5 to Alan Browne on Thu Jul 11 22:18:32 2024
    Alan Browne wrote on Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:49:07 -0400 :

    Finally went and looked - I was at the bottom but not by that much.
    prices get higher with memory (duh) with 128 GB Mini 4s being in the
    sweet spot ($150 ..$200).

    A 16 GB Mini 4 with updated OS doesn't have much room left, alas.

    I love to study you strange religious zealots who forget that you paid, oh, let's just rough things out, about $1000 for a $200 tablet, where just the sales tax alone ($100 in California) is half the real worth of the tablet.

    Then, in the end, when the entire $1000 was lost to depreciation (since
    Apple devices depreciate far faster than any other common devices do),
    you're happy to get the sales tax alone out of selling it.

    Had that been an Android tablet, at about $200 plus about $20 tax, you
    would have thrown it away and lost the *entire* amount.

    You strange zealots feel that getting 10% of your costs back and losing
    $1000 in the process for a substandard device, is BETTER than losing the
    entire $220 on a far superior device in terms of capabilities.

    You don't understand math.

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