The brand new iPhone rented from the rental platform is sold right after it is sold?

In the previous article, Digital Rice has talked about the iPhone with related problems [A large number of customized iPhones for enterprises appeared, which cannot be activated normally and are 100% locked! Avoid them!], and especially emphasized that a lot of cheap new iPhones appeared on a second-hand platform, which could not be activated normally and were easily locked.

This article is also a reminder to consumers or peers who like to pick up cheap mobile phones. Recently, there seems to be a batch of seemingly brand new, unactivated iPhones entering the market. Those who don't know about it are also being cheated. Many people think that there is no pitfall in unlocked, brand new, unactivated mobile phones. Some peers even found such machines and resold them to others without knowing it. After all, brand new and sealed phones can be sold at a higher price than disassembled phones. Unexpectedly, they ended up losing money.

Are these machines assembled or modified by Huaqiangbei? Of course not. They are brand new and sealed iPhones, but with configuration locks (also called enterprise machines, regulatory locks, etc.). These iPhones with regulatory locks are generally customized by companies from Apple. All machines are supervised by the company and the company has the right to lock the machine model, prohibit access to the network, and perform a series of operations.

Merchants and peers cannot find any clues when recycling and selling such mobile phones. No abnormalities can be found by checking the serial number, activation date, origin, warranty, etc. It is only when they suddenly stop working one day that we know something is wrong. In the past, Digital Gaifan still strongly recommends that you buy some such machines. After all, they are cheap. The most important thing is that most of the previous regulatory lock machines come from large companies or overseas, and the probability of the machine being locked is very small. But now it is different. With the rise of new rental platforms on the Internet, many iPhones come from rental platforms.

For example, in order to make money, some users choose to rent mobile phones on online rental platforms, including Taobao, which has similar services. A mobile phone worth about 9,000 yuan, as long as your integrity meets the requirements, sometimes you only need to pay a basic fee of 700-800 to get it (the market has just emerged, and there are many benefits to encourage you to rent. In addition, companies also know that mobile phones can be recovered through regulatory agencies, and the threshold is not high), and then they can be sold for more than 8,000 yuan.

Note: Why do some users dare to do this? Because some mobile phone rental platforms are not included in the credit report, which is a rental business, not a loan. However, some formal platforms have gradually changed, but there are always people who don’t care whether they are an illegal account or a deadbeat for a few thousand yuan.

Of course, there are also some gangs that make money by illegally buying and selling a full set of personal user information. They borrow money, take out loans, and rent mobile phones on major platforms to make a lot of money, and then continue to buy the next person's information. In this way, a large number of regulated models flow into the retail market, and merchants who have never come into contact with this type of model are also happy to accept these phones.