Comparing Note 9 Smartphone Prices on Allegro: Understanding Cost Variations

Hello

I'm about to buy a new phone. It will be Note 9. I looked at several offers on Allegro and I have this question. Why such a big difference in the price of the same new phone? You can buy it for 3799, but also for 3079, 3499. As probably everyone, I care about the lowest price. Where is the catch with these much cheaper phones?

Feel the exact description of the auction. It can be a foreign version from a private import, a post-exhibition version, turned on once to check ... there are many possibilities.

The basis whether it is fv or vat margin
the latter indicates secondary circulation
In general, I'm distrustful and I certainly wouldn't buy online - unless it's a personal collection.

It can also be refurbished sold as new

Provide specific links and we'll try to suggest something.

I bought the third phone from Allegro, but as my colleagues write: you have to carefully read the offer and look for a store. I also had a criterion that the store had to be within 200 km, so that in case of problems you could drive there. I was looking for stores that bring phones in "containers" The price is slightly higher than from China, and yet more reliable, safer transport and easier to file a complaint.

These two offers (I hope I won't lose my head for posting links to Allegro):

https://allegro.pl/oferta/samsung-galaxy-note-9-black-fv23-7568782445

https://allegro.pl/oferta/samsung-galaxy-note-9-dual-sim-6-128gb-n960f-nfc-7501281391

Cheaper offers are usually "I issue an invoice without VAT"

Both offer seems fair and I would buy it.

music wrote:

Cheaper offers are usually "I issue an invoice without VAT"

Well, here you have one, much cheaper https://allegro.pl/oferta/samsung-note-9-blac...3Mi00MDMxLTkzYjItNzdmYzU4ZDNkNDFlAA&bi_t=ape& referrer=proxy&emission_unit_id=549986dd-d4c0-447e- b8d2-afc0413e4fb9

leonov wrote:

music wrote:

Cheaper offers are usually "I issue an invoice without VAT"

Well, here you have one, much cheaper https://allegro.pl/oferta/samsung-note-9-blac...3Mi00MDMxLTkzYjItNzdmYzU4ZDNkNDFlAA&bi_t=ape& referrer=proxy&emission_unit_id=549986dd-d4c0-447e- b8d2-afc0413e4fb9

Exactly. And what's with this phone?

Most likely a pawn shop

music wrote:

Exactly. And what's with this phone?

This is also fine as long as the seller attaches the receipt or the original purchase invoice. Otherwise, there may be a problem with a possible warranty.

tino2003 wrote:

or original purchase invoice

Worse than an invoice from a T-mobile or Orange salon and someone who bought it stops paying the installments, then the operator will block the phone. Although in the auction description, it is "100% new and original, from official European distribution".

Therefore, people who are looking for something cheaper are good that they ask here and do not buy in emotions and then zonk.
We live in times where there is a catch at every turn.

leonov wrote:

tino2003 wrote:

or original purchase invoice

Worse than an invoice from a T-mobile or Orange salon

T-Mobile or Plus. Orange and Play do not use such tricks so far.

Well, my mistake.

@music The offer 7501281391 is from x-kom, and this is a powerful seller on the Polish market. I recently bought a Kindle from them myself, but I did it in a showroom in my city. Maybe they have an outlet somewhere in your city. You will not risk damage by the courier.

freebsd wrote:

@music The offer 7501281391 is from x-kom, and this is a powerful seller on the Polish market. I recently bought a Kindle from them myself, but I did it in a showroom in my city. Maybe they have an outlet somewhere in your city. You will not risk damage by the courier.

Yes. I know X-Kom is a big seller. However, they have one of the higher prices for this phone model. I was specifically interested in why smaller sellers have lower prices and where is the catch.
For now, thank you all for your comments. I more or less know where I stand.

Dear forum users, the system is simple.

Large stores issue 23% VAT invoices, sell goods from Polish distribution, have stores in larger cities throughout Poland. The price is high, because you have to feed the corporation, marketing, etc.

When it comes to commissions, they usually sell on the margin procedure (VAT-margin). A telephone purchased from an individual customer under a purchase and sale agreement or commission agreement, and then resold. An individual customer usually has such a phone call from the operator (Play, Oragne, T-Mobile, Plus), or from abroad also from the operator. Market price.

Pawnshops accept goods as collateral (loan) for 30-60% of the market value from the same customer as the second-hand shop. In my opinion, someone who "gives back" goods for less than 50% is by definition and experience more suspicious and such a purchase is burdened with a greater risk.

P.S
As the previous speakers have already written
Plus and T-mobile block phones if their original owner does not pay the bills (subscription/installments) for the equipment.