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The B-Stock Mobile Insider: Q3, 2025
Some of the world’s largest wireless OEMs, carriers, and trade-in companies leverage B-Stock’s B2B marketplace to maximize their profits on trade-in mobile devices and accessories. Get insight into secondary market trends to fetch the highest prices for your devices.
The Rapid Rise of Refurbished Phones and What It Means for the Mobile Industry
Global demand for used smartphones has never been greater. In 2024, the pre-owned mobile device market was valued at $77 billion with its rate of growth outpacing brand new device sales. What’s more, as a standalone, the used market ranks…
Analysis: The Impact of Tariffs on the Pre-owned Mobile Market
The global mobile secondary market is booming, reaching an estimated value of $77 billion in 2024 with growth outpacing the primary mobile phone market. With over 208 million used phones shipped worldwide last year, how will tariffs and shifting trade…
Sophistication and Scale: How The Pre-owned Mobile Market is Evolving in 2025
The smartphone industry is in constant motion, shaped by the latest technology launches, shifting supply chains, and a mix of global economic factors. These changes don’t just impact new device sales, they have a direct effect on the thriving secondary…
Tracking the Lifecycle of a Mobile Device
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…
Forecasting mobile pricing with Mobile Insights: a Q&A with Sean Cleland
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…
Understanding Industry Benchmarks for Mobile Pricing
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…
B-Stock Launches Mobile Insights Tool, Enabling Visibility Into Current and Future Pricing Trends for Pre Owned Devices
First-to-market offering provides an automated way to access and review historical, current and future pricing, and depreciation data across device models SAN MATEO, Calif., February 3, 2025 – B-Stock, the leading B2B recommerce platform and system of record for…
A Buyer’s Guide to Mobile Storefronts on B-Stock
The mobile secondary market is thriving, valued at $80 billion as of 2024. The growing demand for affordable, preowned devices and the cyclical nature of new smartphone model releases adds to this rapid growth. As more quality and budget-friendly options…
A Look into GameStop’s Automated Mobile Device Grading Program
For over a decade, GameStop has worked with B-Stock to sell bulk quantities of trade-in mobile devices, tablets, and wearables through its B2B marketplace GameStop Wholesale. Since its inception, the marketplace has facilitated the sale of tens of millions of…