What’s used Phone? What’s refurbished Phone? The concepts on the internet always makes the new guys just entering into the industry of second hand phone very confused. Some market participants tends to mix these two concepts.
Used phone and refurbished phone are two kind of products in the industry of second hand phone. Yes, refurbished phone also used phones. It may be no difference in the western market, but it has big difference in the market of HK and Shenzhen. Here, I try to explain the difference of these two products from the side of HK market and Shenzhen market.
Normally, the used phones coming from big recycle companies in USA and EU. They worked with various carriers and mobile phone companies and accept thousands of used phones from buy back or trade-in projects every week. These phones are tested roughly and separated into PTG or NOT PTG normally. Recently some recycle companies try to find more value of the used phones and starts to do fully testing. But only small parts of used phones can be fully tested in USA and EU. Most of used phones are sold to HK market directly. HK market is a big facility in separating these used phones into different group and sell them to different market around it.
Used phone means the phone are used and ORIGINAL! It may be very clean, it may be cracked. But it must be Original! Its value will be influenced by the parts ORIGINAL or NOT ORIGINAL. At present, mostly phones in the world are manufactured by several biggest factories, like Foxconn and Samsung. Original means 100% parts are from its original manufacturer and have passed their world class quality control process. It can be seen as some reference for the buyer to make some judgement on their value.
Many used phones in HK will be sold to Shenzhen. Yes, sold to the famous market HUA QIANG BEI. They may be sold to refurbish, they may be sold to open parts Refurbished phones refer to the phones that has been changed a new LCD and housing. After refurbishment, the phones looks like new. This is what we called “REFURBISHMENT”, Although all new phones looks like new, they are not really all same conditions. All refurbished phones can work normally at the first beginning, but how long it can always perform perfect？ It depends on its quality.
Some refurbished phones use good used phones to refurbish, some uses good motherboards to refurbish, some uses repaired motherboards to refurbish. The parts may be original, may be copy. The parts used for refurbishment also influence the quality of the refurbished phones. A good refurbished phones requires experienced technicians, fully functional used phones, superior quality parts if possible. This is why there are too many different price for refurbished phones in the market and too much kinds of quality. Different quality suits for different market.
At here, I just write some common difference with used phones and refurbished phones. If you want to know more or discuss with our technicians, please feel free to contact us directly.