Apple Not Allowed To Sell Refurbished iPhones In India

[Mr.DK_FTW]

India has rejected Apple Inc.’s request to import and sell refurbished iPhones to the world’s second largest mobile population, a telecommunications ministry official said Tuesday.

 

Sources:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-03/india-thwarts-apple-s-plan-to-sell-cheaper-refurbished-iphones

 

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/155880/20160504/apple-not-allowed-to-sell-refurbished-iphones-in-india-report.htm

 

 

[GoZone]

Weird but kinda makes since because of eWaste being so bad over there.

[AlTech]

4 minutes ago, Mr.DK_FTW said:

India has rejected Apple Inc.’s request to import and sell refurbished iPhones to the world’s second largest mobile population, a telecommunications ministry official said Tuesday.

 

Sources:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-03/india-thwarts-apple-s-plan-to-sell-cheaper-refurbished-iphones

 

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/155880/20160504/apple-not-allowed-to-sell-refurbished-iphones-in-india-report.htm

 

 

This is primarily because Samsung, Intel and Google formed a group in Emerging markets such as India and because it's Apple they disapprove.

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, GoZone said:

Weird but kinda makes since because of eWaste being so bad over there.

Apple is saying that a refurbished iPhone should last as long as a regular iPhone. So no additional waste really.

[GoodBytes]

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[GoodBytes]

19 minutes ago, gFrenken97 said:

What a bunch of BS, why would they reject this? It's a potential gold mine, they are cheaper than new iPhones and have the same quality and durability as a new one.

Apple was selling refurbished iPhone to India. So basically all the returned phones for warranty repair that they got from Europe, China, North America, etc.. they fix them, and sell them as new in India (albeit lower price), and not really new iPhones.

So basically people pay higher for an refurbished phone, without knowing it is refurbished.

 

Consumer discovered that their new iPhone were previously used as the phone is refurbished, so you had stuff like scratches and stuff still present, and undetected/unreported issues from the faulty unit  to fix, pay a higher price than what they would normally get from getting refurbished there. So they complained to the government as Apple played the deny game, and and so the government took action.