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After the Nexus 4 sold out in super-fast time yesterday, it’s unsurprising how many versions of it swamped eBay. What is surprising, though, is the sheer amount of money some suckers are willing to put down for a phone where the main appeal is price.
Take this for an example – £509.99, plus shipping mind you, for a phone that you can get for £279 if you’re willing to wait a bit. That’s just plain insane. It’s not limited to the 16GB version, either – people are paying way over the odds for the 8GB as well. Granted, these are on the higher ends; ballpark figures at the moment are around £340 for the 8GB and £380-400 for the 16GB. Even then, it’s still silly.
I sorta, vaguely at the back of my mind can understand why people are willing to pay this sort of premium for a flagship phone, as some people are just willing to pay for the best. But the selling point of the Nexus 4 isn’t that it’s pushing the absolute limits of technology, it’s pushing the absolute limits of price. Remove that, and there’s nothing really amazing about it – and sure as hell not for £510! Still, each to their own….
Thanks, Pete!
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Suits for those imbeciles who can’t seem to wait until available stock..bit sad really
Fool & money …
After i bought the Galaxy Nexus on release, costing a stupid amount of money. I said soon after I wouldn’t be doing it again, especially as a year down the line, and its almost half price. NO, I said to myself, I will not be getting another phone as soon as it comes out…
But now google has released this, for less than half the price of the GNex at release, I may have to reconsider.
Balls
3 Months is the best time for phones in general, I find – about half price if you shop around, but you’ll still get 12-18 months before it fades into obscurity. Although, I’m half tempted to only cling onto my S3 until its 1 year warranty runs out, then just swap it for the next Nexus phone (If it’s still this cheap)
Samsung warranty on mobile phones/devices in UK is 2 years, This is regulated by EU where all products should have 2 years warranty (check apple case in Italy for example)
And so that I dont make sh!t up:
http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/warranty/warrantyInformation.do?page=POLICY.WARRANTY
Here is the link to the EU directive http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=31999L0044&model=guichett
The UK hasn’t implemented the 2yr guarantee as the Sale Of Goods Act meets or exceeds the minimum requirements of the EU Directive 1999/44/EC, so it takes precedent. The SOGA requires three things: the goods must be as described; they must be of satisfactory quality, which is determined by description, price, durability, freedom from minor defects; and they must be fit for purpose.
The SOGA provides cover for goods bought for up to six years – in England and Wales. This means if a TV fails after 13 months, you still have rights. Assuming the item has failed through no fault of yours, and it was “reasonable” to expect it to last longer – given its cost/quality – you should demand, under the Sale of Goods Act, that it be replaced or repaired by the retailer, not the manufacturer. Once the item is six months old, the onus is on you, the consumer, to show the item failed as a result of a manufacturing fault.
Fair enough!
At 500 it is still cheaper than some of the other high end phones in the market and it also has the appeal to be pure Android, if Google was selling it for 500 I would buy it, but then again, they are selling it for 279 so I would wait for them to get it back in stock.
Thanks to Darrell I don’t have to wait
Is it?
For an extra £20-30 you could have a Galaxy Note II or iPhone 5. Aren’t the retail outlets selling them sim free for £389?
Fools with too much money in my opinion.
Is the Galaxy Note II really £389 sim free?
No it’s like £470 Sim Free.
That’s what I thought.
Yea, O2 sell the 8GB (I guess) for £399.00 and they are still in stock, people musnt know O2 are selling them.
I’m going to wait till Google have it back in stock.
You’re more than welcome Bro. Another sign that top of the range androids have reached parity with the iPhone is the number of people willing to pay stupid money to have the phone on release and the number of people willing to exploit that need. If this phone had been released at 500 quid like the gnex I would have had second thoughts about getting it as internally it isn’t a huge bump on its predecessor. But the price was more than enough to drag me in.
if i couldnt get one straight away i would just wait, only stupid people would buy one for the money people are selling them on ebay, its not like its a rare item and they wont be making more.
I would want one because it’s only £280 for the 16GB which is a bargain compared to like £530 of the iPhone 5 unlocked and sim free. However 16gb just doesn’t cut it these days, I want either a 32GB model or a Micro SD slot.
Remember you’ll only get getting like 11GB of actual storage and like 25GB on the 32GB model. I mean 11GB is my music and then I have no room for anything else lol. All well and good using cloud storage but then you have to keep downloading and deleting stuff and then if you have a small data cap or no Wifi access it is useless.
I just don’t understand why they’d release 8GB and 16GB in this day and age.
Because not everyone is you, and for most smartphone users that much storage is more than enough.
It really isn’t I mean casual users use more space than people who actually know what they’re doing. My mother for example always phones me up wondering why her phone is full and it’s because she is a woman and takes lots of photos and video. My friends who are advanced users too use more space than 11GB.
I mean I downloaded a game once from the store and it was over 2GB alone and with better graphics and more memory game size will only get bigger.
I just think it is crazy not releasing a 32GB model and in polls the 32GB and 16GB models are the most popular with 8GB having no one voting for.
Again Why 8GB as the base model with no Micro SD? I mean seriously you’ll end up with like 6GB usable :\
For £12 on giffgaff, you get unlimited internet and texts, and 250 mins. Google Music gives you 20,000 free song streams (once you’ve uploaded/matched with it).
With how competent and comprehensive cloud services are becoming, having 8GB storage really isn’t much of a problem.
Yeh I agree there, a lot of folk on XDA who had the 8gb N7 are wishing they had got the 16gb or 32gb. I waited and got the 32gb and its more than enough for my needs but 16gb isnt loads. What really pisses me off is them advertising it as 16gb, 8gb, 32gb when you dont actually get that full amount
I’m going to print out a certificate and stick a ‘Limited Edition’ with a unique number on them both and sell mine when it arrives for thousands as a ‘Collectors Edition’
(I’m not really, I’m going to video it in a blender!)
I imagine must people paying this money aren’t people who just want this phone for themselves. If you are a reviewer, tester, developer then it may be worth a few hundred quid to get this model ASAP.
People talk about this device like it isn’t competing with any of the other flagships, but I fail to see any serious shortfalls (except MAYBE storage, but Google are encouraging us more and more to embrace their many cloud services which reduces internal storage dependence). Its biggest virtue is the price, correct, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have other merits.
i reckon because it hasn’t got LTE they reckon its a bad thing, but for me that’s a bonus
For most people that should be a bonus – if the US models are anything to go by, LTE phones drain battery markedly quicker.
The price was the big factor for me. Still really annoyed by the way google have and are handling for it. I just want to place an order and forget about it and not have this constant hassle of checking the nexus 4 page.