How did your old digital devices handle it? Official recycling? Idle fish for sale? Or spare it for your family or yourself? The above situation may not be uncommon, and the second-hand return of blood is a common thing for friends who like to update digital devices.
In the past, if you want to return the blood of the second-hand, you often trade second-hand through forums such as Tieba and other forums, and then there are second-hand trading platforms such as idle fish, and then a lot of third-party recycling platforms have emerged to directly recycle products at a certain price, avoiding the problem of disputes between sellers and individual buyers.
In addition, there are offline recycling stores, which are accompanied by the development of the electronic digital market to today, which is the earliest system of digital product recycling system. After the emergence of the e-commerce platform, some offline physical stores have also opened online recycling business, allowing sellers to mail the products to be sold to the store, and then pay the recycling price to the seller according to the actual situation of the products after testing.
From a convenience and safety perspective, large third-party and official recycling platforms are the best choice, but recycling prices are often the lowest. For example, a friend of Xiao Lei's 20 MacBook Pros, which cost 14,000 yuan to buy, has recently recovered less than 4,000 yuan on Apple's official website, while the second-hand price of idle fish is generally 7500-8000 yuan.
Therefore, in order to get a higher selling price, some sellers will choose idle fish or a separate third-party recycling business. While getting higher returns, these two trading methods also face higher risks, such as hand knives (buyers bargain after receiving goods), similar situations can only be regarded as "common" among individual buyers, and nine out of ten third-party recycling merchants may be habitual offenders.
You may think that Xiao Lei is alarmist, in fact, there are already quite a few people in the second-hand trading market.
Apple's official website actually sells "demolition and repair" machines?
Open Taobao search for "second-hand recycling" can see a large number of related stores, the scope and industry involved is also quite complete, from ordinary mobile phones to professional equipment, as long as you want to sell and not illegal products, then you can find the corresponding recycling merchants in Taobao.
Among them, the recycling business of common digital products such as mobile phones is the most popular, because in digital products, mobile phones are undoubtedly the most popular and high unit price products, and the replacement speed is extremely fast, and the replacement frequency of users is higher than that of other digital products.
The strong demand for the sale of second-hand mobile phones also allows these merchants to have more opportunities, after all, compared with the recycling business of some professional equipment, users who will sell mobile phones on Taobao are often not aware of this industry, and these users can be said to be the best fools.
The relevant recycling stores on Taobao basically use large fonts to mark "high-priced recycling" in conspicuous places on the cover, and at the same time there are words such as "refuse to undercut prices", "same day payment", "integrity management" and so on, and often match various professional pictures on the product introduction page, and use various professional terms to create a professional, honest and safe impression for sellers.
Xiao Lei randomly selected a store to inquire about the recycling price of the iPhone 13 mini, xiao Lei gave the mobile phone parameters are 256G National Bank red version, more than 90% of the new no demolition repair, the store customer service gave the recovery price of 5000 yuan. In contrast, the offer given by the official recycling platform of Idle Fish is 3844 yuan, and the difference between the two is more than 1000 yuan, which is quite tempting for the seller to give the price given by the third-party store.
However, if you keep an eye on idle fish to search the price of the second-hand iPhone 13 mini 256G version, you will find something wrong, in the second-hand trading platform such as idle fish, the price of the iPhone 13 mini is about 4500-4700 yuan, and there are not many sellers for sale.
Another way of thinking, we directly on the idle fish to buy the iPhone 13 mini, and then sell to Taobao recycling merchants can make a few hundred yuan, after all, if according to the merchant's publicity recycling does not reduce the price, to sell 5,000 yuan we will inevitably make a steady profit.
So the question is, why don't these recycling merchants go directly to the idle fish to sweep the goods? Obviously, the high price of 5,000 yuan is just a means to attract sellers, so that you mistakenly think that you have encountered a "wronged head" recycler, and when you send your mobile phone, the subsequent trend of events is not something you can control.
Xiao Lei once watched a video of a UP master "player pot" at station B, who bought a brand new iPhone from Jingdong, and sent it directly to Taobao's second-hand recycling store through a new courier without opening it, and the price negotiated before sending it was 8900 yuan, even higher than the price purchased by the UP master.
After receiving the goods from the recycling store, the seller is contacted directly by telephone to claim that the mobile phone sent by the other party is not originally brand new, but the post-sealing machine (referring to the mobile phone that is unsealed and then packaged), and the packaging is not the original packaging and the mobile phone has been activated. UP owner asked how they know, the store replied that the dismantling inspection, and bluntly said that the official new machine of the UP owner is a dismantling and repairing machine, not only no waterproof glue but also a gap, can only be recycled as a second-hand dismantling and repairing machine, and the price given is 5100 yuan.
In the follow-up negotiations, when the UP owner said that he wanted to take back the mobile phone, the store said that the mobile phone has been disassembled into a part state, and they need to wait for the next year for them to work before arranging assembly and shipment, and repeatedly "prompt" that the up owner will be lower after the New Year, and the second-hand mobile phone is not easy to sell, and even expressed willingness to be a "good person" plus 100 yuan to recycle the UP master's mobile phone.
Finally, after difficult negotiations, the UP owner finally succeeded in getting back his iPhone, during which the recycling store has been trying to make the UP owner "admit it", while saying that the mobile phone line is very deep, and the UP owner will not meet their such a good talking business next time. A UP owner who is deeply involved in the digital field is difficult to overcome when facing these merchants, and if ordinary sellers encounter this situation, it is likely to be fooled and sell mobile phones at low prices.
From the video, it can be seen that many of the statements of the recycling store are inconsistent, such as the initial claim that the packaging is not the original packaging, and then said that the packaging is true, but it cannot match the IME code of the mobile phone itself, and I want to show that the mobile phone is not original.
And the mobile phones sold on Apple's official website are brand new, there can be no unpackaged mobile phones, this type of mobile phone is called the official refurbished machine in Apple's sales system, only in a few countries the official website is sold and the price will be much lower than the new machine, which does not include the official website of the Chinese mainland.
In fact, no matter what kind of mobile phone, as long as it is purchased on the official website or official self-operated channels, the possibility of encountering second-hand dismantling and repairing machines is basically 0, and it is at most seven days of returned products without reason. Because in the manufacturing system of these mobile phone brands, the second-hand recycled mobile phones are basically dismantled into parts for use as after-sales spare parts, and few of them flow out to the market.
Taobao second-hand recycling chaos
In fact, Taobao's second-hand recycling has been a very poor reputation among digital enthusiasts, and even has the saying that "it is better to sell friends than Taobao", and the electronic digital products sold to recycling stores not only face the risk of being priced, but also face the risk of being dismantled and replaced by private disassembly. Taking the screen as an example, the price gap between the official original screen and the third-party screen is very obvious, and there is a terrible profit margin.
The most common statement of Taobao recycling merchants to reduce prices is that after testing your mobile phone has a lot of problems, which is not in line with your previous description, so the new offer we give is xxx yuan, if you agree, we can pay immediately. If you feel that the price is too low to accept, if you are lucky, you can get your phone back, and if you are unlucky, you will encounter further routines.
If the seller does not agree to recycling, some unscrupulous merchants will intimidate the seller that the mobile phone has been dismantled and tested, and other problems may occur when they are put back, and these problems are irresponsible to their stores, and when the seller questions, they will tell them that this is the necessary process of recycling, and it is necessary to test whether it is an original accessory.
Second-hand recycling must be dismantled and tested? Naturally, it is impossible, because in the mobile phone recycling market, there will be a clear difference between the price of dismantled and undefeated mobile phones, and the difference is often 10%-20% of the second-hand price. Therefore, the platform for recycling the mobile phone in the case of non-essential will not be dismantled and tested, only need to detect the configuration of the mobile phone through professional software, and then cooperate with the visual inspection to give the actual color report.
Secondly, private dismantling and repair of mobile phones will also make the mobile phone lose its official warranty qualifications, which will also lead to a decline in the price of second-hand transactions of mobile phones, especially the iPhone, which is not open to third-party unqualified merchants to repair mobile phones, and the consequences of losing official maintenance are more serious.
In addition to intimidation, recycling merchants also tend to use delaying tactics, such as delaying the return time of mobile phones on the grounds that your mobile phone is queuing, detecting, leaving the warehouse, etc. Sellers who generally do not have a spare machine will agree to sell at a low price after carrying it for a few days.
If the seller insists on returning, the mobile phone that may be returned to your hand has been removed from the original accessories such as the screen and replaced with other inferior hardware, and there is no shortage of cases for similar things, and online communities such as Tieba can often see netizens who seek help after being deceived.
Not only mobile phones, in recent years, the fire of independent graphics cards has also become the hardest hit area of recycling fraud, fraud words basically copied the set of recycled mobile phones, claiming that the seller's graphics card can not pass the test, there are obvious traces of use, test temperature is too high and other issues to reduce the price.
And there are also the seller's normal graphics card to adjust the package to a high loss state of the graphics card, as long as the relevant bar code is replaced, the general seller will not find the abnormality, only after a period of use may be found, at this time the merchant will be for various reasons to clear the relationship, claiming that the seller's graphics card itself has a problem, at this time the seller even if the application for Taobao intervention will not get any good results.
It can be said that Taobao merchants are invincible at the beginning, no matter how the seller tosses and finally loses the seller, even if it is reported by a large number of netizens and the store is closed, they can quickly reopen the store through some gray means, with almost no sunk costs.
Therefore, Xiao Lei advises everyone here that if you really want to sell second-hand products, the first choice is the major professional recycling platforms, such as Jingdong, Idle Fish, etc. The second is the sale of idle fish, as long as the buyer is carefully screened (the number of transactions is too much omitted, the credit is too low to skip), then you can avoid most of the unreliable buyers, but also you can choose to sell under the line and the idle fish guarantee, the reliability is much higher than Taobao's second-hand recycling stores.
At least until Taobao solves the second-hand recycling chaos, the vast majority of Taobao's recycling stores are not trustworthy. However, there are also many difficulties in changing this chaos, first of all, Taobao customer service can not determine the seller's product status, and it is impossible to enter the buyer's store to supervise the other party's testing process, naturally it is impossible to supervise the problems that occur, unless the seller shoots a complete test and packing process before sending, otherwise it is difficult to become evidence.
However, Taobao may be able to refer to the idle fish paid inspection transaction method to make a guarantee for the kind of trading behavior, the seller will send the mobile phone to the Taobao designated inspection center after placing an order, and then use the inspection report given by the inspection center to discuss the price with the buyer, once the price is determined, it will no longer accept the subsequent price reduction, if the buyer has objections, he will directly check with the inspection center, and the subsequent troubles can be handed over to Taobao to deal with.