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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/19\/23033038\/apple-homepod-appreciate-price-ebay-used-box<\/a>
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I thought it was really strange when Apple kept selling the original $299 HomePod<\/a> months after it got discontinued<\/a>. But now, it\u2019s starting to make sense \u2014 not only are some people still willing to pay a premium for the somewhat smart speaker, they\u2019re willing to pay more than Apple charged for it<\/em>. <\/p>\n

We took a look at eBay sales numbers after spotting 9to5Mac editor-in-chief Chance Miller\u2019s tweet<\/a>, and we soon discovered it wasn\u2019t just a joke: on average, an Apple HomePod fetched $375 this past week. That\u2019s 25 percent more than Apple charged. <\/p>\n

Of course, some HomePods are worth more than others \u2014 a used speaker with no box might only net you $220 before eBay fees, but we\u2019ve seen a few factory sealed non-refurbished HomePods sell for over $500. In fact, some sellers are boasting that they got Apple to replace their old HomePods with brand-new units just so they could flip them. <\/p>\n

When I filtered out expensive sealed-box outliers, the average sale price was more like $350 this past week. That\u2019s still $50 more than they cost brand-new!<\/p>\n

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Note that prices might dip if Verge readers flood the market.<\/em><\/figcaption>eBay screenshot by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge<\/cite><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s subtle, but you can see in the eBay chart above that the value of a HomePod has<\/em> been appreciating over the past year since it got discontinued. That\u2019s practically unheard of for gadgets like these, save for scalping situations like we\u2019ve recently seen with consoles and GPUs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why the HomePod? That\u2019s a good question. It\u2019s a piece of Apple history, perhaps; you need two of them for stereo or more for whole-home audio; and unlike its more affordable successor the HomePod Mini<\/a>, it\u2019s acoustically quite good. My colleague Jen Tuohy has also explained that the smart home is one of the few places where Siri actually excels<\/a>. She thinks people are realizing it\u2019s the only other option besides the worse-sounding HomePod Mini. <\/p>\n

So that\u2019s a working theory for now.<\/p>\n