So, I'm an idiot. This is 100% my fault.

Apple stopped making 64gb Iphones for the Iphone 7. My previous model was a iphone 6, 64gb. I now have a 32gb Iphone7.

Typically, I don't use that much space, before I had "unlimited" (since I didn't come close to filling it) space, I would pull everything off every week. Once I got the bigger phone, I didn't worry about it.

Well, I went and got a new phone, and my Iphone6 backup is too big. I've spent the whole day driving to the Apple store and 4 other phone places trying to find a place that would let me put my Iphone 6 backup on a test phone, then delete all my photos/videos (they're all on my laptop) then re-do the backup and put it on my iphone 7.

Apple care TOLD me that the apple store would do this, the guy only tried to sell me a 128gb phone and couldn't/wouldn't do anything else. All the phone places didn't have a 64gb phone to even use.

Anyone have any suggestions? In reality, I only want my contacts which for whatever reason aren't updated/saved to the cloud. I got what was there, as well as my gmail contacts, but I'm missing about 25 contacts and have old info for about 15.

It would be nice to have the whole backup, but I'm really only concerned with contacts. Anyone have a suggestion?

My understanding is that Apple doesn't have restock fees for any of their products, even if opened and used, as long as they returned in like-new condition within 14 days - Please correct me if I'm wrong.

My question here is - did Apple make a mistake by not implementing a minor, but painful-enough, restock fee of say 5%, to dissuade the many people that are buying them with no intention of keeping them ?

I think the product looks amazing and will be a huge success, but I've got to think their return numbers around day 13 are going to be (relatively) huge - like 20 thousand plus. (Returns will likely continue at a much lower % once the initial must-try-it people are done, but the return rate of people who ordered on day 1 are likely to be higher than normal, I bet)

It will be interesting to see how quickly Apple starts selling them as 'certified' or whatever they call it.

If I purchase an open box Apple Watch ultra and I find that I either don’t care for the fit or the watch is not as described is there a restocking fee of $45.00?

The new 2023 model is open box in "excellent condition" near me for $1760 - so, basically $200 off retail (I could get it brand new @ Costco for $1949).

I'm wondering if $200 in savings is worth the gamble that no damage was done to it. I feel like most likely it was a customer return that may not have even gotten much usage, but just curious if anyone had any input or opinions on whether it's worth the gamble for that amount of savings, or if I should just buy it new from Costco?