the Nexus 6P is a gorgeous beautiful phone. I have the gray one. Its stunning, never used a case, and its full of scratches and dents and even chips. Dropped it multiple times on concrete and other surfaces, and its still beautiful (has a more industrial look). If you own a case it will keep it pristine and as new, but guess what? it also makes it ugly and you will forever look at a ugly phone not knowing the joy of having a beautiful artistic piece of tech, its like those guys that collect toys and never open the box to enjoy them, but unlike those guys, mine and yours will devalue by the next year, it will worth a fraction of what we paid for it. So does it still worth keeping a case knowing that in 12 month your brand new looking nexus 6p will worth only 20 - 30 $ more than my beaten up one, and if you subtract what you paid for the cover will be basically the same price. And also none of us will care, we will be the owners of brand new Lenovo Nexus 6PJ
I never have nor will I ever use a case on any of my phones. My belief, if I can't afford to replace it after a catastrophic drop, then I shouldn't even be using it in the first place. Haven't seen people walking around with their Rolex in a case on their wrist either.... products are meant to be used in doing so they become worn and torn and then you get a new one. The idea of re-sale value honestly comes down to how you count your money. If you count your money in shekels, then by all means I think you need a case so can get an extra $20 two years from now (rubbing hands together quickly while sniveling with a hunched back).
As the OP, my issue was not that there was a scratch on my phone, it was that there was a scratch on my brand new phone from the factory. If I am to have scratches, dents, cracks on my phone then I want to be the one that put them there. Also, it is common knowledge that these phones, after the first batch go out, have a high rate of return. They have dedicated crews that sit there and inspect, polish, air clean and repackage these phones and sell again as new. There is NO law that says a returned item cannot be re-sold as new, as long as it has gone back to the original manufacturer and inspected. Best Buy cannot take a returned phone, repackage it and put it back on the shelf and sell as new, however when Best Buy sends a returned item back to the manufacturer, then the manufacturer can put that item back through QC and then sell as new again. Now here comes the tricky part... some of these returned phones DO have flaws... some from the factory and some from the person that returned it but the person accepting the return did not see the flaw as it was inconspicuous. Either way, they have a certain amount of known phones with minor flaws that they DO send out as a new purchase in the hope that no one will notice or perhaps not care to send it back. That is part of the business. Car dealerships do the same to brand new cars with a tiny touch up to a rock chipped paint... never letting the new owner know that it was touched up... perfectly legal.
For me, I like to just do a quick once over anything I buy looking for obvious stuff. This particular scuff was noticeable right away and so it was too much to ignore. If it were a 50 dollar item then fine, but for close to 500 bucks... then yes, I do end up counting in sheckles
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