Pavel Jelic If you have ever been on the eBay portal or one of the Chinese marketplaces, you entered a word in the search iPhone, so you must have noticed quite a few great offers. iPhones and often other Apple devices can look really cheap and tempting on these portals. But the truth is that nobody gives you anything for free these days, and if something is suspiciously cheap, there is usually a catch. Therefore, you should be extremely careful when purchasing devices from similar portals. Even if the description says that the iPhone is still wrapped, this is not necessarily true. Putting the unpacked iPhone package back into the foil is definitely not a problem these days.
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If you have seen an iPhone on eBay or another similar portal that looks great, is still packaged according to the description, and has a very low price, then be smart. In most cases, there is something wrong with such a phone. In this way, many sellers on eBay sell refurbished phones that do not match the original quality. On such iPhones, the display or battery is often replaced, part of the motherboard or any other component can also be changed. Of course, it doesn't matter if the iPhone is repaired, or if the battery has been replaced, for example. It's more about how this repair is done. These sellers on eBay are primarily concerned with profit, so all repairs are carried out very quickly and this results in, for example, the fact that some component or screw is completely missing from the iPhone. For more profit, sellers are then able to use spare parts of very poor quality - for example, a display with low-quality colors or the entire device chassis with a peeling Apple logo on the back.
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Well-known YouTuber Hugh Jeffreys drew attention to how such devices are sold on eBay. A few days ago, he published a video on his channel in which he repairs an iPhone that his friend bought from one of the dubious sellers on eBay. Of course, at first glance, the device looked like new after unpacking, but all defects only begin to show over time. But the best way to recognize a poorly repaired device is to look at it from the inside. In his video, Hugh Jeffreys points out what such a poorly repaired iPhone looks like. The use of a non-original battery, a replaced display, missing screws and even a fake box - even this can look like an iPhone that is presented on eBay as new and unwrapped. If you want to see such an iPhone with your own eyes, you just have to watch the video below from the very beginning to the end. Of course, I am not "throwing" all sellers into the same bag - honor to the exceptions.
