This spring, Yandex Market launched a section Resale – the opportunity to buy discounted, showcase and stored goods, and also to sell your things. It all started with smartphones, and in recent months a dozen other categories have been added. Among them are laptops and tablets.
The idea of selling used goods and equipment online in services is not new in itself: sites with buyouts and analogues for gadgets have long been. Yandex Market simply collected these disparate projects in one place.
It became interesting to me how the process works from the “outside” from the inside. So I talked to the Market, got answers to important questions and tried to understand if there is any benefit in this story for you and me.
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▪ What is Resale on Yandex Market
▪ Where do smartphones get to Resale on the Market
▪ What a used smartphone looks like- 1. Valuation and redemption
2. Check and restore
3. Placement and sale
4. Service and Warranty▪ Which iPhones are currently sold by Resale on Yandex Market
▪ Resale as a way to buy or sell equipment profitably
What is Resale on Yandex Market
This is what it looks like iPhone sale page through Resale on Yandex Market.
Resale – this is section on the Yandex Market websitewhere you can buy delayed and discounted goods, and sell your own.
If you want to sell a product: the choice of assessment, responds to its condition and the final assessment of the issues of redemption without bargaining and unnecessary communication. For many categories subsequently multiple sellers. Prices and terms of redemption from them can be comparable – the cost of goods is purchased by a reseller partner.
Each Yandex partner is at risk, first of all, what should be allowed to the service. Therefore, the risk of fraud and any danger in time are excluded.
So far, the service for the purchase of goods works in Moscow for many categories. But, for example, children’s designers can be sold for every taste in Russia.
If you want to buy a product: the process is almost no different from buying a new product on Yandex Market. For example, the same iPhones are simply marked as “Resale”. The condition of the device is described in detail in the card and description – gradations from several, from perfect (“like new”) to options with traces of use (“good”). The price also depends on the condition.
Registration, payment and delivery are available in the usual way and does not matter from the purchase of a new product on the Market. The warranty, however, is subject to terms and conditions that vary by category, ranging from 15 to 90 days.
I think it makes no sense to think why now these services are never relevant. But how is it arranged from the inside? Yandex Market and one of the partners in the purchase of equipment.
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Where do smartphones get to Resale on the Market
Submit items to Resale Any seller who has passed a preliminary check can be on Yandex Market.
Let’s take the same used iPhones as an example. Previously, these devices were purchased under the trade-in program throughout Russia and the CIS countries, including through the Resale.
According to the representative of Yandex Market, each such smartphone is checked, cleaned and disinfected, quality controlled, and only after that it is put up on the marketplace as a product ready for sale.
For each item displayed in Resale worth a specific seller. For example, it can be a trade-in operator working with other stores in the country, as is the case with Telecominvest LLC. Quoting a representative:
We are a trading operator and we provide an opportunity for our partners, retail stores, retailers and online stores to redeem old devices of their customers in order to instantly count the amount of this redemption for issuing a discount on the purchase of a new one.
– Telecominvest LLC
For these sellers Resale on Yandex Market becomes a convenient showcase for implementation devices. And for the buyer of Yandex Market, as an additional guarantor of the quality of the goods and the receipt of the purchase process, you can buy, say, the iPhone of the desired model and condition at economic prices with delivery and payment.
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What does the path of the delayed smartphone look like from the previous owner to the new one?
In short, the path looks like this: ransom, examination, sale. Well serviceif necessary.
The idea to take a used iPhone or Macbook out of the hands of several intermediaries in a row is my personal raised a lot of questions. I asked them later one of the partner sellers Resale – the most important thing for Telecominvest. Here are their answers with some editing and universal formatting.
Photos from the office LLC “Telecominvest”.
1. Valuation and redemption
Regardless of the preview on the page Resale or in other sources, used devices are additionally checked before redemption. According to a representative of Telecominvest, when evaluating a device, they check the IMEI by closing and analyzing the database and blacklisting. It is also noticed that the device is untied from Apple and Google accounts, and the screen lock key is removed.
If everything is in order, the seller decides on the contract of sale, in which he established that the device was acquired legally, and take legal responsibility for this.
After the purchase, the device is delivered to the distribution center, where it is re-checked with video recording according to a strict checklist, fixing visible and technical defects. Then it is sent either for analysis or for restoration for resale.
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Photo from the office of Telecominvest LLC.
2. Check and restore
Almost all stored equipment has minimal traces of operation, and sometimes design or technical flaws. The incoming stream of gadgets is screened out several times by the degree of reduction for resale in that other form.
Equipment that is inappropriate for restoration is dismantled: unusable spare parts are disposed of, and the remaining components, after health diagnostics, turned out to be used as “donors”.
Devices in a repairable condition go to the technical department. Here, engineers repair devices and carry out their pre-sale preparation. According to a Telecominvest representative, only original components are used during the repair work, obtained thanks to “authorization from a number of brands”, as well as “cooperation with partner service centers”.
For example, displays and cameras, again according to the representatives, are taken from the original devices – the same “donors”, that is, previously sent for disassembly of stored devices. If it is necessary to supply spare parts, “order spare parts through partner service centers”.
After that, they go through the final checklist and then get to the Yandex Market showcase – the same section Resale. Their history, including repairs, as well as all the nuances of reflection in the description, so you do not buy a pig in a poke.
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Photo from the office of Telecominvest LLC.
3. Placement and sale
Showcase Resale Yandex Market most often produces devices that have already been purchased in perfect condition and do not require additional repairs. They go through a quality check first.
For example, a broken screen leads to its replacement, and then sale through Resale. Also, devices with “minor or subtle visual defects” are released to the “showcase”.
It turns out that used gadgets matter to new patients with a lower price, while remaining fully edible. Many iPhone models, for example, have been out of production for a long time, and most of them on the secondary market are not only used, but also repaired without any objective guarantees.
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4. Service and Warranty
Purchase via Resale on Yandex Market gives an additional level of danger and quality of device service. The seller will not be able to subsequently completely “evaporate”, and you will be the one to whom the claim is made (if necessary). For example, the iPhone comes with a 90-day warranty.
During the warranty period, we are fully responsible for the technical characteristics of the device.
For example, if you began to work worse with a microphone or speaker, we began to hear such cases. Further, either the repaired device, or consideration of replacing the device by prior agreement with the buyer.
In the event of a phone breakdown, the client can call the multi-channel phone of our call center, fill out the warranty repair request form on our website or make a return through the form on Yandex Market.
– Telecominvest LLC
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Which iPhone is currently selling Resale on Yandex Market. Five examples
Product card – stored iPhone in the section Resale on Yandex Market.
Counted over 50 iPhone-only options available for purchase through Resale on Yandex Market. On average, the price of such devices is really lower by 20-40% than that of completely new ones. This difference is highly model and condition dependent.
▪ iPhone 8 64 GB, excellent condition: 12,490 rubles
▪ iPhone Xr 128 GB, like new: 23,990 rubles
▪ iPhone 11 128 GB, good condition: 30,490 rubles
▪ iPhone 11 Pro Max 64 GB, excellent condition: 39,990 rubles
▪ iPhone 12 Pro 128 GB, excellent condition: 51,790 rubles
In addition to the iPhone, from gadgets to Resale MacBooks, iPads, as well as equipment from a number of other manufacturers are sold – for example, smartphones xiaomi.
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Resale is another way to profitably buy or sell equipment in Russia
Now everyone is waiting for the price three times, especially the price of gadgets. Time is like that. so in stock Resale I see only pluses on Yandex Market. The more options people have to buy an iPhone inexpensively, the better for everyone.
Instead of a conclusion, I will quote the standard description from the iPhone product cards – that is, what is worth waiting for when buying a product on Resale on Yandex Market.
Communication with neighbors. There are barely visible marks. Rostest. Cosmetic condition is excellent. Included: smartphone, box. There is no charger. Passed full mechanical and computer load. No faults found. There are no accounts. The system has been restored to factory settings. Cleaned up all explosions.
Is everything taken? Then forward to Resale, shop. Or sell yours.
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