Absurd for THEM. Why? Because if they had a decent trade-in value on the cell phones, I probably would have traded in our cell phones to BUY new cell phones. But without a good trade in value we are better off hanging on to our current cell phones for an extra year or two BEYOND when we were planning to buy new cell phones at the three year mark.
But maybe they figured that wasn’t a good deal for THEM. Maybe there were still enough people exchanging their old phones for new ones that they made more money giving less for a trade in.
I’m sure they thought about the pros and cons of their new policy more than you did.
And if they find out that the higher trade in amount made them more money they can easily go back to it. Have they changed back?