Counterpoint: refurbished smartphone market beats expectations to grow 15% in 2021
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- Bog Dan
- Mbx
- 27 Apr 2022
Same here: since a couple of years now I am buying refurbished here in Romania. We have a site (flip) which sells refurbished with 1 year warranty and this is great for me - change my phone yearly with a 2 generations old one - S20FE 5G bought at ~300EUR. Waiting for S23 to buy the S21 and so on. Same for my wife (but with 2 years time frame), for Christmas I'll get her the iPhone 12PRO - 680EUR currently.
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- Trollhammeren
- ajg
- 26 Apr 2022
1 or 2 year old Flagships still make better phones then even the best midrangers ...
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- Kuba
- EU0
- 26 Apr 2022
Bought new Samsung S22 - very bad battery life, returned it to Samsung. Now have refurbished S20 and it's a perfect phone with great battery.
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- Anonymous
- 7X0
- 25 Apr 2022
I usually buy refurbished flagship phones 1 - 2 maybe even 3 years old to get for cheap. Yes they may no longer be supported in Software Updates but I pick those that have Custom Rom support.
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- Geo.21
- StN
- 25 Apr 2022
Since new phones are getting more and more expensive, the refurbished phone will take the lead, in the past the most expensive phone from Samsung was the note series, like note 5 started like 500$ now an S series starting price is 1200$ a huge difference
- Koishi Komeiji
- Kir
- 24 Apr 2022
lmao, online market called Shopee also selling "refurbished" old phone (distribution product) which many people buys alot likely sold than 10k phones. funny thing while IMEI was valid, you can go check IMEI.info and see result as realme imei, and others. also checking specs with aida64 result gone wrong as expectation
I've seen worst ratings some people have complained about refurbished old phone issues. don't waste your money if you don't want to buy refurbished old phone.
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- Darknoor
- m4y
- 23 Apr 2022
kek, 21 Apr 2022Where's KSA? or rather what does that means? Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- smartwatchguy
- Y7A
- 22 Apr 2022
Anonymous, 22 Apr 2022no matter what brand refurbished phone can last only 1 year... moregot the 4a new 2 years ago and have only used refurbished from amazon before that and all work to rhis day.
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- Adul Al Salami Kebab
- gx}
- 22 Apr 2022
Anonymous, 22 Apr 2022no matter what brand refurbished phone can last only 1 year... moreQuality parts are hard to find for "cheap" true enough but some are on par or better especially for older iPhone models, new iPhones my advice is go to authorized repair unless you MOST keep the data...
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- Anonymous
- Kxf
- 22 Apr 2022
no matter what brand refurbished phone can last only 1 year or worst only 2 month.
except they are all using 100% genuine part.. unfortunately that didn't happen . because you know how expensive genuine parts is...some part they are used not genuine, in my country they called "oem" "kw" "ori99"
- GregLu
- nRd
- 22 Apr 2022
Ali2020, 21 Apr 2022New phones are getting too expensive, even the Xiaomi 12 pr... moreFor a very small difference, even small compared to the previous gen or in some cases, when the previous gen was better at a lower price! Inflation and all, well ... That will suck for more and more unfortunately.
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- AnonD-875568
- Iwh
- 21 Apr 2022
iphone refurbish is still good compare original and price cheap...only battery life on iphone its not good for me rather than sony xz1 compact
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- Anonymous
- 63x
- 21 Apr 2022
Some people still don't see the need to buy newer models, so it's easily understandable why refurbs are popular. Also, some older models are far better than the newer ones (I'm looking at you, Samsung and Xiaomi).
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- Anonymous
- YUU
- 21 Apr 2022
[deleted post]I'll bet you can't even buy refurbished iPhone hence why you're salty and laughing at people who bought refurbished iPhone. FYI, refurbished iPhone is still expensive for normal people. Did you think refurbished iPhone is the same price as refurbished Android phones?? LOL 🤣🤣
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- -Trix-
- nSW
- 21 Apr 2022
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Right.. :D
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- Ali2020
- 2IG
- 21 Apr 2022
New phones are getting too expensive, even the Xiaomi 12 pro it's a €1050, that's just crazy. Also the market is glossed with midrange phones, upper midrange phones and budget phones. In my opinion that tremendous amount of midrange phones make flagships more expensive.
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- Anonymous
- YUU
- 21 Apr 2022
Funny how Apple is the lead in second hand/refurbished phones. I have to admit, that's true. In my country, refurbished iPhone still selling like a hot cakes 😅
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- -Trix-
- nSW
- 21 Apr 2022
joe nodden, 21 Apr 2022Well no duh. Of course refurbished phones are gonna sell be... moreNo they aren't, if you think they are overpriced, you just don't need or value the stuff these phones have.
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- Anonymous
- I@a
- 21 Apr 2022
joe nodden, 21 Apr 2022Well no duh. Of course refurbished phones are gonna sell be... moreAnd has terrible chipsets and cams compared to the older phones.
- joe nodden
- j5{
- 21 Apr 2022
Well no duh. Of course refurbished phones are gonna sell better when every new phone is absurdly overpriced.