TAIPEI, Taiwan — Foxconn is the major OEM partner of Apple, now the Taiwanese OEM giant has a even more closer relationship with Apple by means of selling the second-hand iPhone, officially. Started from April 15, users hooked up to the Fulianwang (flnet.com), an e-commerce platform that is affiliated to Foxconn will see “get a second-hand iPhone with good conditon in a low price” at the front page.
“Engineer Teams from Foxconn will test and repair the used devices by strictly following the firms’ original standards,” said Hu Guo-hui, a person affiliated with Foxconn.
However, it was all the rage that resulted in the website has changed its sales model from selling the second-hand iPhone online into face-to-face, physical sales on April 25, but the authorized stores and when will it hit the market have not been confirmed yet.
At the same time, iPhone users in China can recycle their used models to the 18 Apple stores to get the coupon subject to getting discount of new iPhone 6. Furthermore, Apple collected those old handsets, and gave it to Foxconn in a bid to fix it and sell it through Foxconn authorized stores with one-year warranty.
Moreover, Foxconn joined hands with Apple China on its “reuse and recycling program” also in light of making the best use of its manpower. Foxconn has hired a lot of employees for assembling iPhone 6, and even Quanta Computer borrowed employees from Foxconn that proves the problem of overabundance manpower.
By joining this program, Foxconn can easily solve its overabundance of manpower, and the company again proves that it is the best partner of Apple because Foxconn’s rivals like Pegatron and Wistron Co. haven’t had a hand in dealing with the second-hand iPhone.
