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| Exchange phone on amazon |
We all keep buying new phones. We often exchange old phones on Amazon. So the question that must have come to your mind is, what does Amazon do with phones in these exchanges?
So first of all, we will talk about smartphones, which for some reason are returned to Amazon within a week after the order. These smartphones are goes back to their brands. Where these smartphones go to the inspection team for checking.
The inspection team separates the faulty smartphones from the working ones. Working smartphones go for repackaging and selling. Defective smartphones go to the repair team. Where these smartphones go for resale after repair.
Now the question is, what does Amazon do with the old phones get on the exchange? What Amazon will do with these old phones depends on which phone it is? What is its condition? How old is it?
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| Smartphone Refurbishment |
If the phone is a few months or a year old and in good condition, It will go to repair. It will sell as a refurbished phone. Who will purchase these phones? Big corporate companies buy these phones.
Corporates need a lot of phones for their employees. But if they buy brand new smartphones, it will be expensive. So corporates buy these refurbished phones for cost-cutting. Sometimes people buy these phones due to a lack of budget.
Now we will talk about the phones, which are very old and there is no point in refurbishing them. These kinds of phones go for disassembling. Where their reusable components send back to the repair team, the rest goes to recycling.
Many precious metals are extracted from the phone during recycling. These precious metals include rare earth metals and gold etc.