In Russia are actively selling restored iPhone 5s with a storage capacity of 32 GB. Retailers and experts say the high demand for reconditioned smartphones Apple.
Restored models are discounted – “M. Video” offers the iPhone 5s with 32 GB for 26 000. rubles., and “the Messenger” – 29 000 rubles. The official price for a new iPhone 5s with 32 GB of memory is 41 000 rubles.
Under the restored iPhone means pre-owned smartphones, which in the factories Apple replace the casing, screen and worn parts and check for serviceability. Their return to the company in connection with defects, and exchange programmes, which are implemented in some countries and suggest that users will get a discount on the purchase of a new machine, if you return the old one. Warranty for rebuilt machines is one year.
In the “Connected” see a positive reaction to the news. The company believes that this is due to the fact that the buyer is seeing in the product card description of the gadget or getting advice on the device in the store, understand that buying a new device at a more affordable price. “On the item card iPhone 5s “like new” describes in detail what is this device, completely describes the process that hosts the gadget before it even reaches the store shelf,” – said the press service.
According to Svyaznoy, the iPhone 5s “as new” is one of the best-selling smartphones in Russia as a whole and is among the ten most popular models of smart phones in the country at the end of each month since the start of sales of such gadgets in June of the current year.
“The customer gets, in essence, a new device with all the benefits and guarantees Apple, but at a significantly reduced price. For example, iPhone 5s space grey “as new” proposed in the “Connected” 7,000 cheaper than the iPhone 5s depending on the color of the solution is about 25% lower,” the company said.
Analyst TelecomDaily Ilya Shatilin agrees that restored the iPhone sold very well, they are very popular because of low price. Among the shortcomings of such proposals analyst noted that this is not the flagship solution, their productivity may be lower.
