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What about the new phone? It's always been a difficult problem to solve. You want to sell it, but you're afraid you won't be able to protect your privacy. WANTS TO SELL to a legitimate recycling company, but doesn't know which ones are legitimate.
On April 3, the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission announced the first batch of 13 pilot units to build a new recycling system for waste electrical and electronic equipment, many of which have mobile phone recycling operations. Through these enterprises, citizens can safely sell their updated mobile phones and other electronic products. Is it convenient and safe to sell used mobile phones through these companies after the first list is published? The reporter carried out an investigation. A pile of old cell phones everyone pressed bottom, if the 1990s "big brother" cell phone is only a few people have, into the new century, the cell phone has been a hand, or even a few people. Since the popularity of smartphones, mobile phone users have been switching to new phones more and more frequently in the last decade. Little Cheung, a resident living outside Guang'anmen, recently took the opportunity of home renovation to thoroughly clean up his room. From the big box under the bed, he pulled out all the cell phones he had ever used. From the earliest Nokia flat-panel phones, to the Samsung flip color screen phones in 2003, to the 2007 slide phone, and later 3G, 4g phones. Since the advent of smartphones, Zhang has changed phones more and more frequently -- HTC, Sony, apple, Samsung, he's used almost all of them. Every cell phone is a memory. Xiao Zhang is a careful person. Each old mobile phone is packed in a transparent plastic bag. This time, find out, charging, many mobile phones can be turned on, there are still reluctant to delete the text messages, as well as old friends have long been used phone number. He's never sold an old phone, but it's not like he didn't want to. "when you buy a new phone, it's actually worth a lot of money. " Xiao Zhang said that every time he went to a mobile phone store to buy a new phone, scalpers at the door asked him whether "old phones are for sale. " Text messages and wechat records can be stored online, he didn't need to leave his phone in order to leave a message, as he had in the past, but Zhang didn't sell it. He didn't feel safe. "Will it be like those Hong Kong and Taiwan Stars who fix computers after they sell them? " Said Xiao, who has a large supermarket near his home. "personal details are copied and put on the Internet for jokes. ". Next to the Toiletries Aisle, TV ads blared the phrase "sell, sell, find love recycle. ". Love recycling is an online mobile phone recycling business. Every time I go to the supermarket, Xiao Zhang is almost brainwashed by this kind of advertising sound. When I go home, I still have that slogan in my head, and I can almost sing along to the tune. He also had a thought: "Go online and sell your old phone. " "trade in old phones for new ones" a new way of recycling used phones involves both privacy and environmental issues. Apple, a leading smartphone maker, releases its annual environmental responsibility report in English every year. In its 2017 annual report, apple said that for every 100,000 apple iphone 6 phones, 1,900 kg of aluminum, 800 kg of copper, 0.3 kg of gold, 7 kg of silver and 55 kg of tin could be recycled. Apple offers a trade-in service, but discounts on old phones are limited to new iphones purchased in apple stores. Similarly, the same is true of Xiaomi. Xiaomi is one of 13 recycling companies announced by Beijing's Development and Reform Commission. According to the public recycling steps, the reporter logged on to the company's official website, there is a "trade-in" page, click into, can be used to mobile phones, tablets, laptops valuation. The reporter clicks to choose an Apple iphone 6 handset, the storage capacity is 16G, the channel is the mainland country line. After selecting the appearance of the equipment, the estimated recovery price is 635 yuan. Recycling of tablets and laptops is similar, with estimates based on models, usage, and so on. The estimated price will be paid with a "new cash coupon, " which means you can only use the coupon to buy Xiaomi's phones, tablets, laptops and other products. You can not buy any other brand products, and you can not exchange the coupon for cash. More recyclers are offering to sell old phones directly for cash, rather than buying new ones at a discount. The above-mentioned Supermarket Advertising "Love Recycling" company, the reporter logged on to its official website, found the same type of Iphone 6 with the same degree of use, the same price is 635 yuan, but can be paid in cash. Regular recycling doesn't give away privacy, and for many consumers, it's not how much money they can sell their old phones that matters, but whether they can be sold safely. According to the announcement of the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, in 2017 the commission, together with the Municipal Administration Commission, the Municipal Commerce Commission and the Municipal Economic and Credit Commission, launched the pilot construction of a new type of recycling system for waste electrical and electronic equipment in this municipality, and for the community to collect waste electronic products recycling pilot, the announcement of 13 pilot is one of a certain number of representative enterprises. For the 13 pilot enterprises, reporters contact inquiries one by one, some of which do not have mobile phone recycling business. For example, gree electric store, only the old air conditioning recycling for new business, does not involve mobile phones. The "Green House" on the streets of Jinsong, Chaoyang District, mainly deals with used clothes, newspapers and so on. There is no recycling business.Among the 13 companies, some that can recycle mobile phones told reporters that the number of users calling for advice has increased significantly since the announcement of the list by the Beijing Municipal Development and Reform Commission. While the number of recalls has not increased significantly, it will increase in the coming weeks. The number of recycled mobile phones has increased month by month in the past year, one company said.
Reporter telephone contacted 13 enterprises in the "easy to buy back" Company, which is a company from Shenzhen. Staff told the reporter that users log on to the website or mobile phone client, can online estimates to sell the mobile phone price. This pattern is similar to other ways of recycling networks. After the estimate is successful, the user sends the mobile phone to the company by express delivery, the express delivery fee is paid by the company. The day after receiving the phone, or the next day, the company will confirm the phone model, product phase. As long as the phone is in line with network estimates, the company will pay users immediately via wechat. Regarding the security problem, the staff said that the suggestion user before sending out the handset, only uses the system to restore the factory setting function, this may completely clear the handset the personal privacy information. After receiving the phone, the company's technical department will also use technology again to ensure that personal information is completely removed from the phone.
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