The average American makes money on a brand new iPhone 14 Pro for 1.1 weeksRussian for 2.9 monthsTurk for 4.5 months. This is if we take the median salary in each individual country.
It turns out that way, because certified for a smartphone of this model is already 134,400 rubles for 128 GB, and for a volume of 512 GB they ask 161,000 rubles as in the main photo. At the same time, buying a “gray” unofficial iPhone makes little sense because of the entertainment.
Supported goods platform for most modern ways to get a working phone for adequate money.
It’s better not to go to physical animals on the same beloved ones, we don’t like conditional ones on lovers pink salmon: Lots of scams, fakes, Frankensteins with details from donor phones.
In Turkey, the most reliable way to buy used is, oddly enough, a classifieds platform. Studied the features of the proposals, compared with prices in Russia (it’s 2 times higher) and figured out why he wanted to this situation get rich awaiting collapse.
There is an Avito here
It’s called Sahibinden. The site is published in sections that include real estate, cars, used and new goods, pets, services repair, training, nannies and others. Even solar panels and agricultural machinery are bought here.
At the same time, it works on the part of sellers, including as Ozon or Yandex Market, that is, the company opens its stores and sells on behalf of organizations, not private traders.
As on Avito, while entering the search service, it translates which model you are looking for. There is a structure with sections for each iPhone. The issue shows a photo of the device, the title of the ad, the price, a link to the publication, and the area of sale.
The request is filtered based on the detected options, which are available for some iPhones. For example, the iPhone 13 Pro shows four storage options ranging from 128GB to 1TB and colors from silver to green.
So learning the sentence was easy.
🇹🇷 Prices possible (🇷🇺 gray used in Russia):
▪ iPhone 7 🇹🇷 10,400 rubles (🇬🇧 5000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 7 Plus 🇹🇷 17,600 rubles (🇬🇧 7000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 8 🇹🇷 20,000 rubles (🇬🇧 10,500 rubles)
▪ iPhone 8 Plus 🇹🇷 26,000 rubles (🇬🇧 13 500 rubles)
▪ iPhone X 🇹🇷 27,650 rubles (🇬🇧 15,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone XR 🇹🇷 30 150 rubles (🇬🇧 15,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone XS 🇹🇷 33,500 rubles (🇬🇧 16 500 rubles)
▪ iPhone XS Max 🇹🇷 40,000 rubles (🇬🇧 19 000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 11 🇹🇷 41,900 rubles (🇬🇧 22 000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 11 Pro 🇹🇷 50,000 rubles (🇬🇧 28,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 11 Pro Max 🇹🇷 62,000 rubles (🇬🇧 30,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 12 🇹🇷 65 300 rubles (🇬🇧 32,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 12 Pro 🇹🇷 77,000 rubles (🇬🇧 42,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 12 Pro Max 🇹🇷 87,000 rubles (🇬🇧 48,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 13 🇹🇷 78,750 rubles (🇬🇧 43 000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 13 mini 🇹🇷 70 400 rubles (🇬🇧 41,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 13 Pro 🇹🇷 107,000 rubles (🇬🇧 57,000 rubles)
▪ iPhone 13 Pro Max 🇹🇷 117,300 rubles (🇬🇧 65,000 rubles)
From such a table made interesting answers.
one. Used iPhone 13 in Turkey are sold than new ones at the start of sales in Russia.
2. The entire line of iPhone 12 in the price category of Russian used iPhone 14.
3. For the price of a used Turkish iPhone 12 on Avito, you can even get a new iPhone 14 Plus.
4. You can buy iPhone XS from us cheaper than iPhone 7 Plus in Turkey. Add 1500 rubles to the price of the old sevens, and in Russia there will be enough for the iPhone XS Max.
5. But, as in Russia, the cost from models to models grows proportionally, there are no unusual gaps or excesses.
The site looks fair. It is easy to see that a smartphone is for sale in a store by profile and photo. Private ads with low prices also do not arouse suspicion, because there are dangerous restrictions (more on them below).
Announcement of the sale of the iPhone 11. Below is a brief description with battery life (written as “82’dir”), on the right, the necessary information about the model
It is easy to understand that they are selling the original, obtained by the state of the battery. Sellers have a very pleasant habit of writing it honestly, so it’s easy to believe an ad for the sale of the iPhone 11 for 12,250 liras or 41,200 rubles, where they directly talk about the remaining resource of 81%. You believe even more when you see the next two ads for the following money: 12,600 lira and 79% of the charge, 12,750 lira and 82% of the charge.
On the newest mobile devices, you can find more than one year of official warranty, since foreign manufacturers service devices for 24 months.
Interestingly, finding falling phones turned out to be more difficult. Here is a broken iPhone 12 Pro with a web on the back cover for 9850 lire or 33,000 rubles. Well, quite a gift after the rest for 77,000 rubles, of course, – I put on a cover and went. But this woman has another serious flaw.
He came from other countries.
Models not from Turkey are half the price. Expensive and difficult to use
We take two similar iPhone 12 Pro Max with 128 GB of memory, published for sale in December 2022 in Istanbul.
Condition with parents 5, battery 84%, color Pacific blue, both originals, but one costs 46,000 rubles (as in Russia), the second 86,000 rubles, that is twice for the same in terms of usage.
The difference between them is that the first was bought in Europe, and the second in Turkey. This means not only the lack of a guarantee for one and another 5 months for another, but also the impossibility of using mobile communications on a more than cheap one without registering its IMEI in the database of the Turkish regulator.
I wrote more about it here. In short, 4 months after the first connection of the SIM card in the smartphone, the communication module is blocked by IMEI and allowed to use it again only after paying a tax of 2,732 lira (9,200 rubles). And from January 2023, the tax will increase to 6,090 lira, or 20,500 rubles.
Without registering in the database, you are essentially buying a very expensive iPod that can connect to Wi-Fi. But the problems do not end with activation, after it has imposed a number of restrictions.
▻ Firstly, SIM cards from other countries do not work for some, even if everything worked after arrival. This is due to the fact that activation is tied to a potential number.
▻ Second, after the departure and return is unlocked is reset. Not everyone, but there were no cases.
▻ Thirdly, activation is temporary, that is, it will be reset when the residence permit or other document expires, on the basis of which you carried the phone to the base.
All these cases of the triad are observed “with an asterisk”, that is, it does not happen, but no one bothers you after paying a gigantic tax. As my friends said, Turkish error. Departments are not working in the most scrupulous way, this also applies to technical application.
And there is one iron settlement. If you buy a cheap used smartphone not from Turkey and even pay tax, register for yourself, next time you will only be able to do the same 3 years later.
Samsung Galaxy A04s in the store costs 16,800 rubles, in Svyaznoy 12,999 rubles, used in Turkey 10,700 rubles. This is for those wishing not to be taxed, but to remain with mobile communications
The information was confirmed to me in the Apple Store.
The employee said that when buying a smartphone in another country, you have to go through all these procedures. But second-hand, you can safely buy an officially imported iPhone. Yes, it was observed, but it was registered in the economy on imports, so you don’t have to go through this unpleasant situation even after resale.
And, yes, she was surprised with me that in Turkey the content is very different from the rest of the world.
You can’t bring your own, buy local
Two-storey Apple Store in Zorlu Center Istanbul
Ultimately, the state of health in general is similar to our state. everything is 2 times higher. Local taxes turn the officially imported iPhone into an even greater luxury item than it seemed to us in Russia.
For example, used iPhone 13 Pro Max 128 GB here costs 117,300 rubles. This is its average price, and not taken from ceiling.
Models from other countries are freely sold at the usual prices. But the work of mobile communications in them needs to be activated by paying a tax of 10,000 rubles now and 20,000 rubles starting from 2023. And this will not give you guarantees that after leaving Turkey and returning to the country, the Internet will continue to work.
The main site trusts more than Avito, precisely because in large price tags, sellers write the state of the battery and other sources of income, all contacts are in business accounts.
It will not work to pass off an iPhone as a local one in order to sell it on the way. If there was no activation, either the SIM will not work, or an SMS will arrive on how long the mobile connection is turned off. If activation has been done, there will be no internet and conversations on your SIM card, because the link was to a different number. Moreover, such businessmen do not have the opportunity to register brought smartphones more often than once every 3 years per person, which makes the idea even more useless.
Therefore, the market for purchased iPhones here is not that much different, but those who want to buy a phone need to mentally prepare for the fact that at the Russian price of a used iPhone 13 Pro Max for 65,000 rubles in Turkey, only the base iPhone 12 will turn out.
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Source: Iphones RU
