Family Sees No Value In Old iPhone Beyond $900

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FL — An iPhone 10 sitting on the kitchen counter is of no financial value to the Silverman family beyond $900.

"I know it's an old model, but Apple's pitching the iPhone 15 Pro for $999! What else can we do with it?" said Dad Eli Silverman, who said the old phone had been gathering dust and Uber Eats receipts for "about a year." "I'm already in a bit of a pickle after smashing my watch last week. Can't take any chances costing us $999 again."

Other comparable offers for secondhand iPhone 10 units average about $133 midway through September 2023.

"Look. My hand is still intact after the issue with the last phone," explained Eli while accessing the parenting app from his garage workstation to enable an 8:45 bedtime for his four-year-old. Other family members noted secondhand iPhone 10 prices may vary based on memory capacity and model, although high and low-end handsets were rarely priced any lower than $900. "My wife will hate me if I pay retail again. I can't lose."

"It's fine. Just put the phone away and stay off the road," his wife said before moving to the junk drawer to fit a broken slaw grater alongside the phone apple sleeve. "I think we'll probably just get it replaced for free a few blocks over, right? Isn't the other store better about that?"

At publishing time, Dad Eli had reassured his wife at least five times that he was headed to the fractionally better Apple Store half a mile away.