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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 10 months agoWhy such an obsession with used Pixels? While $300 for mine was expensive, it wasn’t a lottery when buying at least, and its battery didn’t come pre-worn. Also I had no trouble buying it in cash.
Because no one should give Google any more money! Buying second hand/refurbished is the only way it makes sense for me to get a device by a large corporation like that.
I’ve had a couple of refurbished pixel phones and they’ve each worked well for years. The battery health was at about 95% when I bought them I think.
But by that logic, the unofficial reseller I buy from has also already paid Google for the phones they’re selling now…
they didn’t mean to buy from a reseller, but to buy from people who had it and are selling it now.
Yeah but you have no control over how other people spend their money. That second hand phone would still be there whether you buy it or not. But if you buy a new one you’re giving google more money.
Ideally there would be no second hand google phones because nobody would buy them new, but that’s not happening
Google do Google stuff not because they are evil. They do it because they can , which is true for any company in this system. If another takes the position it will do the same.
MXX53@programming.dev 10 months ago
Why would I buy brand new when I could provide life to a phone that might otherwise end up in a landfill?