![]() ![]() It’s time to open your spreadsheet of choice. Now you won’t be seeing what someone dreams they’re going to get, you’re going to see what people have actually paid for this same item. Scroll down on the left-hand side and look for “Show only” and check the box that says Sold listings. You can type into the search field the device you’re selling, but don’t get too excited by what you find, we need to do some refinement first. My next step is to go to eBay to figure out what the device is worth. That’s going to hurt sales, but it does tell me to market this as a device to maybe use as a camera and nothing else. I can see from the Software tab of Mactracker that the maximum OS is iOS 9.3.5. In my example, one of the reasons my mother-in-law wanted to get rid of her iPad was because it can’t be upgraded to get the latest security updates. Remember I said that we have almost enough info to sell our device? The last bit we need is to know what the maximum operating system the device can take. This cellular capability is worth noting because it may have higher resale value. In my example, on the Chip and Memory tab, I can now see that this iPad is an iPad 2 with Wifi and 3G CDMA (aka Verizon). Pop open Mactracker and simply drop the model number into the search window. We’ll use Mactracker to crack to code on that MC985LL/A nonsense. If you haven’t ever heard of it, it’s a donationware app for the Mac and iOS that will tell you everything you need to know about anything ever sold by Apple.Ībout This Mac gave us just about everything we need to know about the Mac, but the iOS devices are a little more cryptic. Now that we have some clues about our devices, we need to bring out a long time favorite tool in the Mac community: Mactracker from mactracker.ca. If you see a goofy number like that, round up to the nearest 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256GB. On a 3-year-old iPhone 6 it clearly says 64GB, but on the iPad I’m selling it says 12.8GB for capacity. ![]() This number is critical in sales value but often hard to decipher. Next look for Capacity in the About list. We’re going to need some help deciphering what that means. In the long list of information about the device, you’ll find Model and it will be just a set of letters and numbers. On the device, open Settings, and scroll down to General and select About. ![]() I’m actually selling my mother-in-law’s old iPad, so I’ll use that as an example. Let’s walk through how to do the same thing on an iOS device. Now we know the Model, size, processor, memory, and disk. In my example it says 2.3GHz GHz i7, and 16GB of memory. For example, my 2013 MacBook Pro says, MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013). Right below the operating system you have installed it will tell you all about your system. On a Mac, select the Apple Logo in the upper left and pull down to About This Mac. To figure out what device I’m trying to sell, I use two tools. We might need to be a bit more specific than that. I said, “what iPhone do you have?” She smiled and said, “A PINK one!” A while ago, my son’s girlfriend had an iPhone she wanted me to sell for her. The first thing to do is figure out exactly what device you have. Maybe I’ve convinced you to sell it yourself, or at least you’re still paying attention. We’ll circle back to eBay in a little bit. While you’ll make more if you sell it through eBay, setting up an account to sell and getting a good reputation there is time-consuming, and maybe not worth it if you only need to sell something every year or two. You could go to one of the resellers like Gazelle or Sell Your Mac, but they’re only buying it so they can resell it for more, so you won’t get anywhere near the value you’ll get if you sell it yourself. If you do the trade-in deal, you get the new hotness every year but you’re actually losing a couple hundred dollars every time you do it because Apple (or your carrier) gets the still highly available sales value of the used iPhone. In my analysis, I explained that a phone that cost $600 new will sell for around $400 one year later and $200 when it’s two years old. I illustrated the value of selling your own Apple gear when I did a spreadsheet analyzing all the different ways you could buy an iPhone from a 2-year subsidized contract, to paying outright, to trading in your phone every year, to buying on one of these free loans they’re offering in the US right now. Apple products retain their value really well, which I’m sure you’ve noticed if you’ve ever tried to find a “cheap, used MacBook”. ![]() One of the ways to justify spending money on Apple gear is to sell your used Apple devices when you’re done with him. ![]()
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