Low resell value (2nd hand prices) of Diamond?

[wywywywy]

Hi all,

Just picked up an as-new Diamond for only £180, and I am pretty chuffed. But this makes me wonder, why is the second hand price of the Diamond so low? This phone hasn't even been available en mass for 6 months, and is still the latest model. I would have thought it would be more like £250 second hand rather than £180?

Thoughts?

Oh it is a very nice upgrade from the Polaris by the way :) Slimmer and loving the VGA screen. Just that the battery isn't really up to it.

Thanks.

[winwiz]

At a guess probably because the Touch HD and X1 are around the corner.....

[wywywywy]

X1 I can understand.
But HD is targetted at different customers surely?

Slim/style = Diamond (used to be Polaris)
Keyboard = Pro (used to be Kaiser)
Fully featured = HD (used to be Athena???)

[PJ6363]

suggest you have a close look at the Touch HD...I think you might find that its way superior specs (including screen acerage, SD card, battery!) outway the downside of a slightly bigger device

....my humble opinion of course :D


er, btw, never seen a modile phone/PDA hold its price for more than 3mnths...only as good as the next released model :rolleyes:

[PaulusUK]

I think the resale price is determined by one key factor ... the Diamond is a bit crap

[Vector-SS]

All it takes for the price of the Diamond to drop is for people to visit these forums. I mean come on, why wouldn't the price drop when they all overheat and most of them have screen/display issues?

[Davey101]

As already mentioned, the fact that the HD is in the pipeline will be having an impact, plus many people are selling because the Diamond wasn't what they had wanted or hoped for. I've heard more than one story outside of this forum. ;)

WM is a bit of a shock to be honest compared to the reliability and functionality of a Nokia - or even the iphone. IMO, HTC haven't helped things by rolling out a set of half-finished software which manages to suck while pushing the hardware a little too hard.

I'm talking about TF3D here, with its poor, inflexible homescreen and badly limited program launcher. It's unable to display landscape so they decided to disable landscape mode entirely and I just don't believe that the photo contacts tab was originally intended to display just 15 people. :rolleyes: Then there's the dialer bloatware (with its handy pocket-unlocking feature) and the bugs in the implementation of Opera! :D

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with my Diamond now that I've flashed, re-flashed and gone with 3rd-party today plugins. I love what it can do given its compact size but I know many people will have been disappointed and that will inevitably knock down the resale price. :)