Recently, the mobile phone market has set off a wave of new machines, and the new machines listed on the old models have also ushered in a lot of price drops, so many people plan to buy a new machine to treat themselves for a year of hard work. After choosing the model, I began to struggle again: should I buy it online or from a physical store? I once asked a friend who opened a mobile phone store owner, and he smiled slightly and said that the gap was really quite large.
There is no difference in quality but different standards
First of all, online and offline buy mobile phones, as long as it is a formal channel, as long as it is a new unopened mobile phone, no matter from which channel, the quality of the mobile phone bought is no difference, the same model does not exist what "online special supply machine" This statement. However, some individual models, in order to ensure the profits of offline stores, often only sell the top version of 12GB+256GB offline, but there are more cost-effective 8+256GB versions available online.
In addition, the criteria for selecting mobile phones from online and offline are not the same. Buying a mobile phone online is very easy to "parameter theory", but many experiences are parameters that cannot be reflected at all, such as the price of Neo5 falling to less than 2000, Snapdragon 870 + IMX598 + unique chip really fragrant! However, after getting to hand, it was found that the addition of plastic brackets made the whole machine texture general, and the strobe under the low brightness of the screen was more eye-catching, and these advantages and disadvantages could only be experienced if they really got started.
Go to the offline mobile phone store, often pay attention to the feel, appearance, texture, and photo powder of the mobile phone, triggering impulsive consumption, thus ignoring the lack of mobile phone hardware, such as poor performance, no NFC, poor battery life and so on. So I recommend that you choose some cost-effective mobile phones from the Internet, and then purposefully go to the physical store to experience the real machine and choose the most suitable mobile phone for yourself.
Price difference
In terms of price, do not blindly superstitious "online price is cheap" this statement, in fact, each mobile phone brand will carry out omni-channel price control, online and physical store prices are similar, even like many of the main offline brands, often physical stores will have additional discounts. Many netizens have had similar experiences, just for reference.
However, in the double 11, 618 such activities, the price of the internet is definitely not a small advantage, such as double 12 blue iPhone 13 the lowest time on the whole network fell to 4999, I started the white as long as 5200 or so, cheaper than the price of the physical store, safe to get off, really fragrant.
Differences in return and exchange policies
Many people will ignore that buying mobile phones online and in physical stores, the return and exchange policies are very different! Taking the iPhone as an example, the official channels of the iPhone include the official website, the Apple Store and a cat official store, and the others are all unofficial channels.
The official website and the Apple Store directly operated store support 14 days without reason to return, which means that even if you buy it for 13 days, the product appearance is intact, you can also refund the return without reason. A cat is a 7-day return service. Like other channels including a certain East self-operated, generally speaking, it is not returned, even if the mobile phone is found to have problems after unpacking, it must also be issued by Apple after-sales to prove that the product is really problematic, in order to return, which is quite troublesome.
Physical store return and exchange policy is more varied, in short, before buying must understand the policy of return and exchange, in case you really do not want to return, can only be sold and lose hundreds of pieces.
Finally, in fact, after-sales service is also different, as long as the official purchase official will certainly be responsible for after-sales, but in some large channels to start, the channel itself will also have a certain guarantee. For example, a friend in a certain east to start a domestic brand mobile phone, after the problem is returned to a certain east, it is not repaired and directly replaced. Compared with the roadside shops, it is obvious that the large channels are more secure.
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