Roughly four months after officially discontinuing the 2016-released iPhone SE, Apple surprisingly brought the 4-incher back from the dead to sell leftover inventory at a marked-down price of $249 and up. Several "clearance" sales followed, but ultimately, the Cupertino-based tech giant ran out of stock for good.

The same cannot be said about carriers like AT&T and Simple Mobile, not to mention a bunch of top-rated eBay vendors which are currently racing to the bottom in terms of refurbished iPhone SE pricing. Mere days after telling you about a killer deal allowing you to ...