A reconditioned mobile, what is it?
If you want to save money on the purchase of your next mobile phone, it is imperative that you look at refurbished phones. This allows you to access models of any range, but at reduced prices. You can acquire a mobile with the best technology, the most advanced components, in a reduced budget and without compromising its reliability over time. Let's explore together what a refurbished mobile means.
Refurbished Mobiles: What are they and where do they come from?
Reconditioned phones are phones that have been reconditioned and tested by a professional refurbisher to be put on sale again.
These must go through a series of requirements to validate their optimal performance. Refurbishing includes diagnosis, repair when needed, cleaning, erasing personal data and updating the operational system, among others. They can also have different traces of use, which is defined by the "aesthetic grade".
Where do those telephones come from? Well, one of the sources is the failure before commissioning, as a result of accidents occurring during the transport, storage or manipulation of the devices, mistreating one of its components, even before its first placing on the market. They can also come from occasions when the customer is simply not satisfied with his purchase and decides to send it back to the seller. But also, used phones that are resold by their former owner to be reconditioned or recycled.
Advantages of reconditioned mobiles: price and warranty of the seller
No doubt: by buying a refurbished phone you save money! The cost of a mobile is between 30 and 60% cheaper than a new one!
These phones have the advantage of being guaranteed between 6 and 12 months, which allows you to ensure that the device will work properly, and in case of failure, you can always ask the seller a solution under the agreements guarantee: no nasty surprises!
Refurbished = Ecological
The growth of the pre-owned sector is estimated at 20% per year by 2020 *, it is mainly related to the approval of the population to this mode of consumption and the increased demand for this type of phones by the public.
Each year, these devices gain confidence and it is no coincidence that, in the vast majority of cases, they work perfectly. In addition, they help to reduce the impact of the mobile phone sector on the environment.
* University of Salamanca - May 2019