Consumers dumping Samsung phones

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Customers of Samsung have been dumping their Android products on at least one major resale site. Gazelle.com reports a 50% increase in Samsung smartphones over the past three days, which has led to a 10% drop in prices for those devices. “Consumers seem to be jumping ship,” says Anthony Scarsella, chief gadget officer at Gazelle.com. “We expect this trend to continue, especially with this latest verdict.”


  • http://twitter.com/weycoolhan WeyHan Ng

    One have to wonder are those dumping Samsung’s phone the same customers that were fooled into thinking they bought an iPhone.

  • Mattlol

    uh… why?

  • wolfcat

    How does people selling old phones equal them jumping platform?

    Which specific device is being sold, are people selling old devices to enable an upgrade to a new device eg selling and SII to buy an SIII for example.

    Correlation != Causation.

    • JohnDoey

      New iPhones are going to be announced in 2 weeks.

      September is iPhone month. These fake iPhones are being sold so the user can buy a real iPhone this generation.

      Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

      • MacsenMcBain

        The new iPhone isn’t scheduled to ship for about 3 weeks- what do they use in the meantime? I suspect these are people upgrading to a non-iPhone, and not switchers.

        • Rambic

          Gazelle gives you an offer good for 30 days. So, if you ask for a price today you can still get your new iPhone before you have to send them your old phone. Check it out.

  • http://twitter.com/weycoolhan WeyHan Ng

    “Most Android phones use the Adobe Flash Player for videos, since they use Google’s operating system; the iPhone doesn’t.”

    Looks like the author did not get the memo from Adobe.

  • http://twitter.com/shycophante Shyco Phante

    Nope.

  • JohnDoey

    These are people who thought they had iPhones.

    Computer nerds don’t get this, but regular people think that if 2 devices look alike, then they are alike. So they go shopping for an iPhone, and at the store they see a selection of iPhones and buy a Samsung iPhone. They don’t realize that the Samsung has 1% of the functionality. There are whole categories of apps that Samsung phones don’t have, and you don’t get improved software or AirPlay.

    If you follow this trial, then you realize an “iPhone” is not a generic thing like a DVD player that has limited, standardized functionality. Rather, iPhone is the opposite of that. Samsung just dressed up its generic DVD player -like phone to look like iPhone to take advantage of consumers. So the increase in people selling their Samsung phones are at least in part people who are recognizing they got snowed.

    • Sam

      You think that people that don’t know the difference between an iPhone and Samsung are going to use AirPlay?

    • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

      Not to mention the subset of Android users who were told “it’s just as good as/better than the iPhone” by any number of carrier-store sales people. I’ve spoken to a few non-nerd folks about this who’ve expressed disappointment in how Android works and were looking to switch as soon as their contract permitted.

      I wonder, though, whether many of these consumers heard about the verdict and realized they’d likely bought a knockoff.

      • http://www.tumblr.com/blog/his-divine-shadow His Shadow

        carrier-store sales

        At first glance I read that as “carrier whore”.

        • http://twitter.com/Moeskido Moeskido

          That works, too. Unless it brings down the wrath of one of them upon us, say, defending the virtue of AT&T as a champion of consumers.

  • http://twitter.com/johncarneyau John Carney

    I’m with wolfcat on this. I can’t see how the Apple vs Samsung verdict would suddenly make people want to offload their Samsung devices. A far more likely explanation is maybe a lot of Samsung handsets were sold on contract 18-24 months ago and now those contracts are expiring.

  • rwitt

    Why would people dump their Samsungs just because of the verdict? Those phones never get updated or supported anyway. The verdict doesn’t change anything.

    Makes no sense.

  • Chris

    Or, you know, it could be because the galaxy note 2 is being announced today.

  • QUEENNIP

    PURCHASED IN 7/3/12 THE SAMSUNG SGHi7I7 GALAXY NOTE BOOK.. BATTERY OVER HEATS, BURNED OUT CHARGER AND PHONE WHILE ON A SURGE PROTECTOR. OVER HEATS WHILE PLAYING GAMES ON IT.AT&T NO LONGER CARRIES THE PHONE, I ASKED FOR INSURANCE ON THIS PHONE THE NEVER ADDED TO MY ACCOUNT $800. PHONE NO INSURANCE WHO DOES THAT?