Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!
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Assuming they buy it new. If you buy it used, no helping Google.
Wouldn't it create an incentive for the other person (the seller) to buy another phone from google?
Like if someone had to keep all my past phones, would they buy as many new phone?
I don't know a lot of people who wait to sell an old phone before they get a new one. Usually, they decide to sell after they already have the new phone set up.
Usually people calculate/justify the cost. Like if a new phone costs 1000 and the old phone can be sold for 750 (selling it before the new purchase or after doesn't matter) then the actual cost of the new phone will be 250.
But if we stop buying old phones from them, then they will have to bear the full cost (1000) and they won't be justifying their purchase like this.
You know what i mean right?
True, however the justification to buy a new phone while already using a 'perfectly good but older model', is that they know they will be able to sell the 'perfectly good but older model' for a good enough price.
Thus, this idea that buying a second hand pixel mean money does not go google is flawed.