2009, Spet 15th: Get $189 Refurbished Kindle 2s at Amazon. Also, price of the refurbished kindle (first generation) has been dropped to $149.
2009, July 16th update: Get $199 Refurbished Kindles at Amazon. This is a price cut from the earlier $249 price and offered via Amazon’s warehouse deals.
Dec 11th 5:01 pm – Refurbished Kindles for $329 currently available at Amazon. Sold out in 3 or so hours.
9:30 pm – Out of Stock. 4:11 pm Dec 3rd – .
12:18am Dec 3rd – Out of stock again. Up and down.
11:30 pm Dec 2nd – Refurbished Kindles for $329 available again at Amazon.
Refurbished Kindles for $329 are available again at Amazon.Current as of 3:56 pm Dec 2nd. best of luck getting one. Dec 2nd 6:35 pm update – again sold out
Noticed this morning that refurbished Kindles are now sold out, and that there are a bunch of used Kindles available for $559. Refurbished Kindles back in stock Dec 2nd. I’m not going to link to them because I think that’s outrageous and you should just wait around till refurbished kindles are back. Also, I think Amazon should not let people sell refurbished kindles through amazon marketplace – it’s just crazy that people bought a refurbished kindle yesterday and are selling it today (for $700 no less).
At ebay, people are selling various flavors of Kindle -
- Official Amazon refurbished Kindles for $399, and for $599. Everyone is welcome to their own moral structure – however, I personally think it’s rather unsporting to buy one just to sell on eBay. Amazon should restrict it to 1 refurbished Kindle sold per person – especially given how quickly they sold out.
- Used Kindles for around $549.
- New ones for $750 to $1050. There are ones starting from $600 – however, those haven’t had bidding start – some of them have Buy It Now prices around $650.
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I agree. I think there are lots of people who brought a refurb just to turn around and sell them on eBay. I was hoping that the refurbs would stick around and drive the prices down on eBay but I don’t think that is going to happen.
On the one hand it is nice to see that there is still a good demand for Kindles. On the other I don’t think Amazon is helping itself by underestimating demand over and over again. They better make sure they have plenty of Kindle 2.0s ready when they launch…
If you look at the Amazon Sales policies, Amazon gets to double dip on refurb Kindle sales: They make their cash on the first sale, then they take a 15% “fee” for any new/used/refurbished sales on Kindles that are resold in the Amazon store. 15% of $559, $700, or whatever.
If I were Amazon, I’d let people sell the refurb units.
@ Chris – didn’t know about the 15%. thanks for pointing that out. however, i think amazon would rather that there wasn’t this price gouging going on.
@Damaso – I wonder how they’re going to meet demand for kindle 2.0 – I think the major hold-up is in number of eInk screens available and I doubt eInk can ramp up their manufacturing capacity enough. And they have Sony, Bookeen, and two other companies that they supply. Also, Sony has gone global and is definitely asking for more screens too.
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