iPhone 7 makes the customers go to noticeboards and buyers-up
The owners of old iPhones started to get rid of them en masse, beating down the market price
After the availability of iPhone 7, the Kazan owners of Apple devices, released a few years earlier, have begun to get rid of their old iPhones. It mostly concerns iPhone 4 and iPhone 5, which now can be sold at a modest price – about 3 thousand rubles for iPhone 4 and 8 thousand rubles for iPhone 5. You can even find the last year's latest being sold on the Internet — iPhone 6s.
'People take me the old models 6+, 6 the third day in a row...'
After availability of new models of iPhone, the websites of free ads and the social networks began to be full of messages on the sale of older Apple devices. For example, a well-known entrepreneur Maks Vernik, who calls himself 'a man you can sell anything', wrote in his microblog the following: 'iPhone 7 has been released, and the third day in a row people are taking me the old models 6+, 6s, even 5. Two meetings in the morning, and all for buying Apple.' If you look on the website Avito, you'll find that just today it has been published a few dozen of ads on the sale of older iPhone models in Kazan.
Tatarstan service centers that are engaged in repair and purchase of used iPhones have not noticed any rush, but still they tell about an increase in the number of customers who want to get rid of the 'fours', 'fives' or 'sixes' after the release of iPhone 7.
According to the manager of the Altyn service center Bulat Khamidullin, now it is quite a typical situation: 'When any new model of iPhone is released, the older models fall in price on Avito, on noticeboards, they are sold to friends and acquaintances. And this is not surprising.'
'Due to the fact that iPhone 7 is released, the price for older models has fallen, and people began to update – those, who had iPhone 5 they buy iPhone 6; those who had iPhone 6, they have began to buy IPhone 6s, iPhone 6s to iPhone 7,' says Khamidullin.
The head of the Today-Computer service center Timur Galimov says that in general people who had 4th and 5th models buy 7th model, the owners of the iPhone 6 are in no hurry to upgrade gadgets. However, his counterpart from AppleXL Yury Polyakov holds different view.
'In general, if a device is good, unrestored, if it works stably, they do not sell it, it is an essential tool, which people got used to it. Especially if we're talking about iPhone 5, which is smaller in size and more convenient — it is much more used than large models, plus, they are much cheaper than iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and, of course, iPhone 7. So, people do not sell them,' said Polyakov.
Moreover, there is a separate category of 'iphonephiles' who do not sell iPhones, despite a year of their release — instead, they collect the entire collection.
'Many customers come and show them. They have the very first iPhone, still in mint condition unpacked that recently have been sold on eBay for 10 thousand dollars,' said Polyakov.
3 thousand rubles for iPhone 4
The employees of the service centers are mostly attracted not by the fact that people sell their phones but how much the prices have changed after the release of te new iPhone models. The manager of the Altyn service center Bulat Khamidullin calls the price jump quite dramatic because almost in a week the cost of the gadgets have fallen by about 10-15%.
'After the availability of the iPhone 7, the iPhone 5 lost its relevance, that is, it can be found on the noticeboards for 8 thousand rubles. 5s' usual price was 15 thousand rubles a month ago, and now it is 12-13 thousand rubles. As for the 6th, the price has also fallen, even for the European models,' says Khamidullin. 'There are also advantages — just a month ago you could buy for 30 thousand rubles only the 6th IPhone, but over 30 days, and you can now buy a model higher for the same price.'
Yury Polyakov gives the following figures: iPhone 6 now you can sell about 20 thousand rubles, iPhone 6s — for 28 thousand rubles (it is about the models with the least amount of memory). If you take the iPhone 6 Plus, the price can reach 30-35 thousand rubles. The iPhone 4, according to Timur Galimov from Today-Computer, now, these models can be sold at 3 thousand rubles.