This is a short post just want to show what A Grade used iPhone looks like in our company.
Every customer tell us many times they want Absolute A Grade used iPhone at the first beginning. The phone can not be refurbished and must look clean as new. Every time it drives me crazy. How it is possible to find used phone like new without refurbishment??? Just check the phones you use now. Do you think it can meet the standard of like new? I know most answers are NO!
But many sellers on used iPhone will tell you yes. It is really paradoxical. MOST A Grade Used iPhone is refurbished devices actually. This is the only methods to have so much A Grade iPhone in stocks. We have to face a fact that only a few percent of people will sell their new iPhone in couple of days. Most people sell their used iPhone when new model coming out or they have quality issues. Do you think it is possible that many used iPhone can look like NEW at the moment when they were sold by their owners???
We starts from used phone purchase. We buys used phones in PTG or Untested stocks. We really understand the percentage of A Grade, B Grade, C Grade, and D Grade iPhone in one lot. For a lot with quantity 1000 , it is lucky to have 10% A Grade in it. The mostly cases are that 100% B/C/D/E Grade mixed.
If you are lucky enough to get A Grade used iPhone like new, you may want to ask whether there is any method to separate used iPhone and refurbished iPhone? Unfortunately, The answer is negative. Only experienced technicians can find out the difference in some ways. Most common people can not find out the difference.
If you are looking for 100% original used iPhone A Grade, please accept their minor defects in the housing. It might be a slight scratches, it might be a dings, a nicks. The minor defects are very small.
Mostly used phones have some kinds of signs of use, such as scratches, dents, dings, nicks, even worse cracks. In the used phones market, we pick up the ones with very light use signs to sell as AB Grade directly. Others with heavy signs will be refurbished for better look. If you want to buy good quality used phones, you have to accept there are some light defects on the appearance. If you want the phones look like new, you have to accept it refurbished. If you can not accept both, why not consider brand new phones?
We get some Mixed Grade iPhone 8 Today, and they look very beautiful as below. Even they are some small defects in the housing after very close observation, they are still very high grade used phones based on its model and its never repaired status.
