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A few articles last week explored the dirty secret around retail returns: Most don’t make it back to the selling floor.
Instead, many find their way after a lengthy process to pawnshops, dollar stores, flea markets and, sometimes, landfills.
Some aren’t returned to the selling floor because they’re unsellable in their returned condition. Fixing or repackaging an item — even for a broken seal — often takes too long for the product to find its way back to the selling floor.
Today, it’s typical for a smartphone to have three to four different owners over its functional life. OEMs, carriers, business buyers, processors, and other facilitators, like B-Stock, each play a part in the thriving secondary market that moves these devices…
B-Stock recently launched its Mobile Insights tool, a first-to-market offering that provides our wireless customers — which include top OEMs, wireless retailers, and buyback companies — on-demand visibility into current and future pricing trends across makes and models to better…
B-Stock’s Mobile Insights tool is a first-to-market offering that enables an automated and easy way to access and review historical, current and future average selling price (ASP), and depreciation data across device models. In this one pager, you’ll learn how…