The title is slightly misleading, but the idea is the same. While looking in a second hand mobile shop called CEX I spotted a Palm Pre for £110. It was in grade C condition, but a closer inspection showed that the phone itself was fine. The headphones were missing and everything else looked OK to me. With a 12 month warranty this is an exceptional price. It would need to be unlocked from O2 if you use another network, but the comparison was stark compared to other phones available in the same store-
A grade C BlackBerry 8320 was £100
A first generation iPhone locked to O2 (also grade C) was £210
An HTC S740 (grade C) was £100
My point is that these three phones are quite old now and none of them are spectacularly good, but they have held their value much better than the Pre.
Also of note was the sheer volume of Palm Pres available in this one store- they had twelve in stock, one HTC Desire and no iPhone 4′s.
Wow, did you buy it? If not, tell me where it is
It’s in the beautiful historic city of… Crawley:)
http://uk.webuy.com/phones/product.php?mastersku=SPALPRE
The Palm Pre is a great phone, its OS is second only to iOS in my view
Shaun, I’m near a shop like CEX tomorrow so will haveva look.
Might buy one, so I can laugh at the build quality. Web os is fine.
Hi Shaun, nice article about comparison of residual market values. Anyway, I’m not used to the term “grade c”. What does it stand for?
I asked this in a CEX shop the other day. I can’t remember all the details but the gist is:
Grade A is brand new and unopened
Grade B is in very good condition with all the accessories (and I think the box)
Grade C is without all the accessories
Grade C should be in good nick. I tried to sell a Sony k850 but they wouldn’t accept it because of a tiny crack in the back case which I could barely see