Motorola to prevent secondhand AURA sales on eBay?

by Darren Murph posted Nov 3rd 2008 at 12:31PM

We'll be completely straight-up with you: we don't believe this for a second. Okay, maybe for a nanosecond, but not a full-on second. An unnamed source close to Motorola has reportedly informed Register Hardware that in order to maintain the AURA's appearance of exclusivity, buyers will be required to "sign into a contract that states they can't sell it on eBay." As if that wasn't preposterous enough, this so-called "source" also added that "if an AURA owner wants to sell their phone after they've bought it then they'll only have one option: to sell it back to the manufacturer." Even if this does miraculously prove true, we can't imagine Moto actually doing anything should someone decide to sell, and besides, there's always ~~Yahoo! Auctions~~ the flea market, right?

Filed under: Motorola

Tags: auction, AURA, contract, eBay, handset, luxury, moto, motorola, resell

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Richard @ Nov 3rd 2008 1:36PM

What is the big deal about this phone for anyone other than the most ardent of Erte' fans?

http://www.erte.com/

I mean, it looks like it is from the early part of the last century, it doesn't do much (it IS a MOTO after all) and no one is going to actually read their email on that screen regardless of said device's ability to retrieve it.

Please explain the attraction.

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MIKE @ Nov 3rd 2008 6:03PM

what happens if you buy the thing, and then 6 months later you want to sell it but Motos out of business by then. who you gonna sell it to then?

Even if motos still around then do you think they would have enough money in the bank to buy the phone back?

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