iPhone 8, launched a month ago, is being sold by fans who bought it, but wanted it iPhone X, they are now buying the new Apple phone, which is also available in Romania, in this page. In the US, Apple customers who bought the iPhone 8 in September are now selling their phones to buy the iPhone X, the phone they really wanted, losing some money in the process, but probably not much.
iPhone 8 that's enough at buy-back websites in very large quantities for a phone that has just been launched, according to a website specialized in this field of business with mobile phones. iPhone 8 phones that are now being sent for buy-back are generating $400-$450 in revenue for the 64GB models, much lower than the standard price, but fans will do anything for the iPhone X.
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus represented 7% of the thousands of mobile phones that this company bought in the last month, the percentage being huge compared to the models from previous years. In the case of the iPhone 7 series, the percentage was only 1%, so we are talking about a 7-fold increase in the number of customers of a new iPhone model who sell their phones, and the iPhone X determined the entire situation in which the iPhone 8 finds itself.
iPhone 8 is sold in mass by fans who wanted iPhone X
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus have buy-back prices that are up to 30% lower than the initial sale prices, so a model with 256 GB of storage space has a price of 350 dollars lower. Despite the loss of a serious amount of money, those who bought the iPhone 8 recover part of the amount to be able to buy the iPhone X, if they have not already bought it from Apple.
"We thought it would be just iPhone 7 [for trade-in], but it seems people aren't necessarily satisfied with the iPhone 8. This just doesn't happen. We never have that many iPhones within the month of the release. The site says 7% of thousands of the iPhones it bought in the past month were iPhone 8s, while in the same period last year the percentage of then-released iPhone 7 was only 1%."
iPhone 8 had poor sales anyway because of iPhone X, and now we find out that a good part of those who bought it rush to sell it with a serious loss of money just to get rid of it. The desire to have the iPhone X is so great for some of Apple's customers that they are willing to lose hundreds of dollars by giving up the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, and that says a lot about the state of the phones.
iPhone 8 was not and will never be the phone desired by Apple fans, and that's because iPhone X, despite the high price, is much more popular and sought after globally. Considering this situation, we can expect that iPhone 8 sales will continue to decrease as iPhone X sales will increase in the next period, but not only in the US, but also around the world.
