Newest trend in gadgets? Buybacks

You know that shiny smartphone you bought six months ago? There's an even better one hitting the market right about now. Or how about that flat-panel TV you bought last year. Now they come in 3-D. Dale Rogers, a logistics and supply chain expert and professor at Rutgers University, estimates that the secondary market for consumer electronics is worth about $13 billion in annual sales — or about 10 percent of the total consumer electronics market in the United States. 

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