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The PDA-less PunditA used Treo 600 gets big bucks on EBay; or, how to finance your next tech toy by selling your last one.Yardena Arar, PC World
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I'm between PDAs, which makes writing a column on them more of a challenge than usual. So this month I'll talk about what can happen when you sell a PDA.
If, like me, you like your gadgets to be fresh and relatively new, selling a handheld while it's still reasonably current can be a good way to finance your habit--or at least, keep your tech budget from becoming ruinous.
I'd heard of this strategy (selling cameras and other tech toys when they are only a year old to help finance the purchase of a brand-new model) from others, but I'd never tried it myself until a couple of weeks ago. That's when, anticipating that I'd want to spring for one of the new crop of preholiday handhelds, I put my beloved PalmOne Treo 600 for sale on EBay. It was an amazing experience.
To educate myself on the market for PalmOne's popular PDA-cell phone hybrid, I checked out the EBay listings for other Treos. Many touted brand-new phones, but most of those were GSM devices. My...