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So how much money can someone make buying cracked phones, fixing them, and reselling? I guess it only takes one person doing this to normalize the price of a cr
by lincolnq 15y ago
So how much money can someone make buying cracked phones, fixing them, and reselling? I guess it only takes one person doing this to normalize the price of a cracked phone.
- cperciva 15y agoAt the end of the article: "There is entire ecosystem that takes broken phones and makes them whole again, so prices of broken phones aren’t even that low."
- midas 15y agoI'm not sure, but I love that the ratio of the price to fix a cracked screen vs the value created by doing that is roughly the same across all model of iPhones. Put differently, it makes sense that you can always make a little money by fixing up iPhones. You'd expect people to value that more than just the cost of doing it (no uncertainty, not having to look around, etc).
- mdda 15y agoThe opposite is also true : There's a pretty fixed mark-up for 'cracked' Apple TV 2s. I imagine people are buying used ATV2s, rooting and reselling...
- cbr 15y agoThere are already places fixing phones more cheaply than the iCracked prices listed in the article: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mob/2854654904.html http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/mob/2854654904.html Not sure about quality, though.
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- mehuln 15y agoMy bad guys - did not realize that article mentions iCracked. I will delete my other comment.