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A B-Stock Mobile Expert Weighs in on Secondary Market Trends
Each year, mobile device sales ebb and flow: new technologies find their way into handsets, supply chain, and production slowdowns or improvements play out, and other economic factors—major and minor—influence the mobile landscape. Naturally, there is a trickle-down effect to…
How Predictive Analytics Demystify the iPhone 15’s Impact on the Secondary Mobile Market
Apple’s latest iPhone debuted early September and, as usual, started launching shipping shortly after that announcement. This time around, the release consisted of a standard and Pro version, each of which are available in two sizes, and various memory configurations.…
How Demand for Used Devices Shapes the Secondary Mobile Market
Explore the evolution of the smartphone market—past, present, and future—through the lenses of design, pricing, and innovation. Examine how these factors are shaping the secondary market and the new solution for businesses entering the mobile circular economy.
GameStop Grows Buyer Base and Accelerates Sales Cycle for Trade-in Mobile Devices
GameStop was once comfortable selling large volumes of traded-in mobile phones to a small group of buyers for pre-negotiated prices, but when this trade-in business grew, it became clear they would need a more scalable solution. To achieve GameStop’s goals—increase…
B-Stock & CTIA Set Grading Standards for Pre-owned Mobile Devices
Years ago several different organizations in the preowned mobile space independently observed a problem: The secondary market for these trade-in, returned, and unsold mobile devices lacked a standardized grading system, leading to disputes and mistrust between buyers and sellers, and,…
Get Top Dollar for Your Trade-In Mobile Devices
As new models continue to launch, an unending flow of pre-owned mobile devices is powering a growing secondary market. In order to focus on their core businesses, large carriers and OEMs have moved away from handling these devices themselves. Learn…
B-Stock & CTIA Certification Set Grading Standards, Energize the Secondary Mobile Market
Rules and standards are more important to selling trade-in mobile devices on the secondary market than you may think. Here we’ll explore how B-Stock, the world’s leading B2B auction platform, joined an important standardization initiative, and wound up improving sales…
Meet Steve Ranna: The mobile wholesaler whose summer job stuck
Cellify Distributors, a mobile wholesale company, is owned by Steve Ranna. Steve eased into the cell phone industry about 25 years ago, with some pit stops along the way. On and off since then, he’s worked as a stockbroker, financial…