10 ways not to screw it up by buying a smartphone with a hand

Check seller profile

Products on Avito sell ordinary people (individuals) and companies. Learn their profiles to see if they can be trusted.

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• Look how long the seller is Avito, whether he has the completed transaction, review ratings and reviews. If the profile is less than four "stars" and there are negative comments, with informative, and not just emotional, it is better not to get involved.
• Be wary of sellers who have registered a couple of days ago, and offer just one product. It can be not only ordinary people but also bots or representatives of companies that create a lot of accounts to avoid paying for Avito services.
• Note that if a seller, acting as a private person in a profile more similar products, such as 30 smartphone. It is likely middleman: hardly a man at the same time decides to sell three dozen of their own gadgets.

Consider whether the price is adequate

Price smartphone with hands - the first selection criterion. On Avito conveniently view products in a certain value range. For example, iPhone XR with a different size of the memory can be found in the region 30 000-40 000. These smartphones officially imported to Russia and passed the quality certification Rostest (PCT). This means that they will work in a network of any Russian operator.

If you are offered much cheaper gadget "average hospital" looking for the catch. Or smartphone will be blocked for use outside the United States, he or seriously damaged or sunk, or stolen. Finally, it may be a Chinese copy.

Last year's iPhone XR on Apple website and from authorized retailers worth from 49 990 rubles. On Avito we found an option for 37,000 rubles. This phone has been used for only six months, it is not blocked by a particular operator and to keep a good presentation. A seller is not suspicious: he signed up for a long time, and it has good reviews.

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The older the model, the better it can be bought. But for older smartphones more difficult to find spare parts, covers, protective glasses. Yes, and firmware updates for their produce rare.

If the budget for the purchase of a small, better to take the "brand-name China» - Xiaomi, for example. So, hit Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Avito can be found for 10 000-11 000 rubles, or even a little cheaper.

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Perform troubleshooting in advance

Couple scratches behind does not matter. But the chips on the screen, iron fault, worn out battery - a problem more serious.

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• Ask the large photo ends and sides of your smartphone. Often they can see traces of the autopsy.
• Test the battery of the declared capacity - for example, ask the seller to set AccuBattery application or similar and make screenshots of the test results.
• Offer to hold the smartphone owner diagnostics program like TestM and drop screenshots from the test results. Honest sellers respond to such requests properly.
• Check for e warranty by serial number. This service is at Samsung and many other manufacturers.

Evaluate whether the photos are real

If the price or appearance in doubt, look closely to the pictures. Perhaps pictures Seller have little relation to the goods which it offers, or smartphone him at all.

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• See photos from the manufacturer, overview videos, images of similar devices in other ads. Thoroughly examine the location and shape of the buttons, logo, joints of elements - this will help you recognize a fake.
• Try to find a photo of the ads on the Internet. The famous search engines you need to go to the tab "Images" and click in the search bar on the camera icon - will form the image search. If you see that this image has previously housed on other sites, with sellers with different names, give up the purchase.
• Be careful! Fraudsters are used in the ad smartfona the original image, and in person to replace its Chinese forgery. How it works: the seller gives you hold the gadget in hand, check the software, and then takes under some pretext. For example, to show how the device is placed in a pocket, or rub the screen t-shirt. After that is a copy or a smartphone, but with injuries to his hands.

Compare Features

There are manufacturers who got the hand forging expensive smart phones, and so that suspected fake is difficult not only in photo but also in reality.

Chinese iPhone c shell in the style of iOS-based Android is not uncommon. Dear Android-gadgets too fake - and usually have copies of another processor, less memory, lower battery capacity.

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• Look in device parameters. To do this, ask the seller to go to settings and make screenshots. For Android, you can use special applications: AIDA64, System Info Droid. These compare with the information on the official website of the manufacturer.

Do not pay in advance

Scammers often ask for an advance payment, and then disappear. Here are just a few examples of tricky pretexts under which they try to steal from you the full amount or part of it:

• "We urgently need money. Product popularity, the contenders for his many, many, selling the one who first translated by an advance payment to the phone number. "
• "So many want to buy! Who translated the maximum advance payment for a smartphone that and selling. "
• "I sent the goods on delivery. But to get to the dispatch service and make sure that you really want to buy, I need money.

Arrange a personal meeting with the seller. or use Avito delivery. It is convenient, profitable and safe.

The cost of services is calculated prior to purchase and will not change in the course of delivery. Seller will not take you more than you need. Upon receipt, you will be able to inspect the goods. If you will not work, he would be sent back to the seller - with you will not take a penny. Pay for goods and delivery can be card. The seller gets the money only when you take away the smartphone.

To see only those gadgets that are available with delivery from Avito tick in the right box under the search box.

Be careful with the couriers

It would seem that a common thing: the seller is offering to send a courier to your smartphone. But at the last moment he says that this person is working the second day and not credible. Therefore it is necessary to wait for the courier to inspect smartphone and if things work, to transfer money to the card directly to the seller.

Then begins the fraud. Courier arrives, you view the smartphone, transfer the money to the seller. He calls to the courier and said that payment failed. Courier takes the smartphone and leaves. That is, you remain without money, and without purchase.

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• Theoretically, you can call the bank and report the fraud. But attackers are buying stolen card to darknet, or accept payment in the phone number. And then outputs to other cards or accounts. So, even if the bank will block the account or card to which you transferred money, you is not going to help. Therefore, courier delivery is best avoided.

Look in your neighborhood

The smartphone is definitely worth seeing before buying. Residents of large cities can find options in your area and meet the seller in person. At the same time and save on shipping.

On Avito can search for products in the relevant areas, in a certain radius from the point on the map, and in Moscow and near specific metro stations (you can select one or more). Search within a radius available after you select the region in the subway - after selecting the city.

Check IMEI before buying

IMEI - a unique device identifier. It can be seen in the screenshot to the settings or on the box. With this number you can find out if this is the original smartphone, whether it was stolen, and in some cases - as it is new.

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• If you are lucky and have a smartphone "native" package, make sure that the IMEI on the box and on the device are the same. If the numbers are different, then the gadget or stolen, or fails to flash after reconstruction. Check IMEI is possible, for example, on the website SNDeepInfo or similar. Service will model on the IMEI, find out whether your smartphone stolen base. However, it bases not all of these gadgets. Many manufacturers have their own inspection services of these identifiers. For example, Samsung and Apple.
• In the case of the iPhone by IMEI can be found when it was activated. To do this, go to the Apple website, enter the IMEI and a verification code, read the paragraph "Right on maintenance and repair." Activation Date iPhone - one year less one day less than specified. Example: if the service ends October 31, 2019, the iPhone was activated Nov. 1, 2018. If your smartphone is not activated, it means that it is new and has never been included: Apple servers, it is not recorded.

If the seller does not want to give you the IMEI, then for some reason he is afraid of such checks.

Do not buy faulty smartphones

We do not recommend to buy such a model. Most often, you will have much to spend on repairs. The low price is deceptive devices. Of course, spider web cracks easily close the cover. But this smartphone may have hidden damage inside, and many of breakage from falls are not immediate.

Some sellers just write that you want to replace, and even referred to the cost of repair. But they come from the bottom plank of cost of works in the remote service center and non-original spare parts. The authorized service center'll be many times more expensive.

Will renovated smartphone run like new again? Do you sell it later for adequate money? It is difficult to predict in advance, so do not risk it.

You may not know that you are buying a defective smart phone if a dishonest seller will not have. So you need to very carefully examine the gadget before you transfer the money.

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When viewed from a smartphone note:

• external damage;
• Choose boxes, proprietary charger warranty card;
• build quality (if fitted elements unevenly, it hints at poor-quality repair);
• whether the previous owner came out of the Apple ID (for iPhone);
• sound quality for calls;
• port status and contacts for charging tray for SIM-cards;
• state cameras - this can be checked by making a photo of the white sheet, shot in bright light in the darkness;
• the state of the screen - here to help applications like Display Tester, Yet Another MultiTouch Test;
• support for Wi-Fi and GPS (if the network finds satellites quickly and, if correctly indicates the location).

Avito actively fights fraud on the platform. On special page regularly discusses new ways of cheating. Moreover, intelligent algorithms and manual moderation help to find cheaters, and block them.