When is a good time to buy an used Iphone 4s?

I have been wanting an iphone for a long time. The time was never right to get it directly from my cell phone provider, seeing as how I have T-mobile.

I'm tired of carrying 1 personal phone, 1 company phone and 1 ipod touch everywhere I go. I would like to take the number down to 2 devices.

Since the iphone 5 just came out, I would like to buy an used iphone 4s.

How long do I have to wait for the price of the 4s to go down to a more reasonable price?

It is currently selling for 400-500 for 4s 32gb on ebay. I'm willing to pay around 350.

4s iphone are selling on craigslist for $200-$275

Well, this might be the best time to get it because everyone is rushing to sell there phone so they can get the iPhone 5, there so desperate that they'll lower the price quickly and by a lot. So just continue to look and wait on eBay (look everyday) for the next for weeks. If you look later then a month, the people who are selling there iPhones are hard to let it go, so the chances of them lowering the price is low.

Right Now! Yeah now will be a good time because the Iphone 5 was just released. But i would wait a few weeks before going on ebay. So that the prices drop. You can also get them cheaper from apple:
http://store.apple.com/...e/iphone4s

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