Before you sink nearly a grand, as in $949 for an iPhone 6, read up on how a damaged iPhone may lose $835 of its total resale value. According to a new study by uSell.com, the fact is a new iPhone 6 may easily bend or break in your pocket, losing 88 percent of its resale value!

Based on the current price for a contract-free iPhone 6 Plus with 128 GB of storage ($949), this represents as an average loss to consumers of $835 for a bent or damaged iPhone.

Instead of delivering a phone that was harder to damage, Apple may have inadvertently done the opposite!

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