How I did on those Apple Pride watch bands

Introduction

A reader had tipped me off that Apple had discontinued their Apple Pride watch bands back in September and was a nice flip. Since you could only buy these at Apple stores, it was pretty hard to procure.  I’m lazy these days and I didn’t rush out to all the Apple stores around me.  Instead, when my wife and I happened to be at the mall, I’d stop in and ask if they had any.  I think I went to 2 stores and was able to get 5 bands total.  Since these are FBA gated, to Ebay they went.

 

Selling them on Ebay

I was in no rush to move them, especially coming up on Christmas shopping, so I priced them fairly high at $100 a piece.  Remember they were $50+tax each.  After fees and shipping, I netted around $90 a piece, so a $35 profit per band.  After 5 bands, I made about $165 for them.  I don’t consider any additional time and effort costs since a) I was already at the mall and b) I consider the time packing and shipping out the product in my pajamas as very minimal.

 

Lessons Learned

Pay attention to Apple product discontinuations.

6 comments on “How I did on those Apple Pride watch bands

      1. I think I sold about 2 for $170, then raised the price to $180 and sold another few, then raised the price to $194.99 for the last few.

        1. very impressive indeed. was this on fba or ebay? cuz even at $100, it was slow moving for me. i had 38mm bands; not 42mm.

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