Someone bought the phone the first time and gave their money to Google, and you reimbursed part of that money to that buyer. In the end, Google gets your money. Maybe not full brand-new retail price, but what you paid for your second-hand phone goes indirectly into Google’s coffers.
Buying anything Google, second-hand or not, supports Google’s business. Given the choice, I refuse to support Google in any way, shape or form.
Say I buy a pack of gum at the supermarket. The supermarket got my $2. Then I resell the pack of gum to my neighbor for $1.50. Who do you think has my neighbor’s $1.50 in his pocket? Me or the supermarket?
Hint: it’s not me. I’m still down $0.50 from the moment before I bought the pack of gum. And even if I had sold it to my neighbor full price because it’s new and unopened, it’d like I never bought it in the first place and my neighbor did.
usually used or refurbished devices are from ppl who would have bought it anyway (be it for their private or business use) and decided to buy new/different phones (for whatever reason).
I’m not talking about resellers who buy new devices and just, well, resell them. But about pre-used ones.
tl;dr: your money does not go to Google and the ppl you get it from would have purchased it anyway. The device just ends up in your hands instead of the land fill or being recycled
tl;dr: your money does not go to Google and the ppl you get it from would have purchased it anyway. The device just ends up in your hands instead of the land fill or being recycled
It all depends on how you look at it. You choose to see it as your money saving an object from the landfill, and I choose to follow the trail of my money going all the way to Google’s pocket ultimately.
But those two outlooks are not incompatible: they both hold true. You just choose to disregard the latter while I can’t get past it.
I get what you mean, although I don’t think that I choose to ignore it.
My argument being: the devices would have been bought anyway so buying used/refurbished doesn’t give Google any additional money
The option of buying used or refurbished seems to be incomprehensible to some for whatever reason…
If you buy second-hand, you give money to Google.
Someone bought the phone the first time and gave their money to Google, and you reimbursed part of that money to that buyer. In the end, Google gets your money. Maybe not full brand-new retail price, but what you paid for your second-hand phone goes indirectly into Google’s coffers.
Buying anything Google, second-hand or not, supports Google’s business. Given the choice, I refuse to support Google in any way, shape or form.
I’m sorry, what? That does not make sense to me.
Really?
Say I buy a pack of gum at the supermarket. The supermarket got my $2. Then I resell the pack of gum to my neighbor for $1.50. Who do you think has my neighbor’s $1.50 in his pocket? Me or the supermarket?
Hint: it’s not me. I’m still down $0.50 from the moment before I bought the pack of gum. And even if I had sold it to my neighbor full price because it’s new and unopened, it’d like I never bought it in the first place and my neighbor did.
The mental gymnastics in this one lol
usually used or refurbished devices are from ppl who would have bought it anyway (be it for their private or business use) and decided to buy new/different phones (for whatever reason).
I’m not talking about resellers who buy new devices and just, well, resell them. But about pre-used ones.
tl;dr: your money does not go to Google and the ppl you get it from would have purchased it anyway. The device just ends up in your hands instead of the land fill or being recycled
It all depends on how you look at it. You choose to see it as your money saving an object from the landfill, and I choose to follow the trail of my money going all the way to Google’s pocket ultimately.
But those two outlooks are not incompatible: they both hold true. You just choose to disregard the latter while I can’t get past it.
I get what you mean, although I don’t think that I choose to ignore it.
My argument being: the devices would have been bought anyway so buying used/refurbished doesn’t give Google any additional money
You don’t think resale value affects purchasing choices at all?