Thursday, July 06, 2006

Hefei. Cellphones.

Still in Hefei, safe and sound, and looking forward to a 4 day trip with a tour group around Huang Shan (黄山).

In big cities like Shanghai many people are using their third to fourth cell phones. Other than the fact that new models proliferate, their are plenty of other reason why a secondary market for cell phones are developing: The decoupled nature of carrier and the handsets; people's willingness to irrationally overspend on this particular product; and theft are among top reasons, I would imagine.

In streets of Hefei (and probably all over China), there are many one man shops that make this market, that is, a man with a stool and a sign that reads something like 高价收购手机 (Handset Buyback). Today, I've seen more than 10 in the same block. Must be a pretty good business.

Saw this on a 招商加盟网 (merchant/franchise seeking website) today:

How this thing makes money? http://www.myzx365.com/Advertise/u88.aspx

The battleground for existing ideas have room to grow but is getting fierce. It's nice to see something interesting for a change (or is this a rip off from a Korean/Japanese product?).

1 comment:

Sheep said...

是用來替手機加入自己個性的嗎?