Dreaming of owning an iPhone, but the heavy price tags is scary? If you are sailing on the same boat, then it’s time for you to jump on the bandwagon and try something different to get your dream come true.

Here are two ways to buy an iPhone at lower prices.

Discounts and Flash Sales

Discounts and flash sales are the easiest way for online markets to bag more sales of any specific product or item. People keep waiting for the flash sales that are rolled out occasionally during the festive or special days of a particular market.

These sales will not last for longer than a week, sometimes for hours too. Most of the times the deals are ephemeral, popping up and gone quickly. These deals are proposed with a motive of making sales of something which interest’s people but are expensive.

So, on such occasions of flash sales and discounts, people make some decent deals and buy the products while saving some money.

In case of iPhones, there are many online markets that hold contests, flash sales and more for the latest models of iPhones, to offer an opportunity to the customers to own it at a slightly lesser price than the retail price.

Usually, the flash sales and discounts are held on the additional items or accessories of the iPhone and not on the phone itself until the occasion of the flash sale is big. So, this way of buying an iPhone at a lower price might require long waits and still be an unsuccessful one to get your hands on the iPhone at lower prices.

Looking forward to the next option you have in order to buy an iPhone at a lower price is buying refurbished iPhone.

Refurbished Models

Before moving on to “how to buy the refurbished iPhones?” let’s get ourselves clear about the concept of refurbished models.

The refurbished models in simple words can be defined as the used models that are in good condition or say, renovated models.

Refurbished iPhone is another way to buy an iPhone at lower prices, or say it is the last refuge for those who seek the iPhone at lower prices.

Refurbished iPhones can be bought in two ways:

From fellow person

This is where you meet the seller in person, discuss the deal and make the deal. When you buy an iPhone from a fellow person, you might not have full-proof confidentiality of the deal you made, and, also if you face any kind of issues with the iPhone within a few days of you buying, the seller won’t be much concerned about it.

So, this can be quite risky, as there are many chances of frauds and scams when you make such deals, especially for a flagship phone such as an iPhone.

Person-to-person market (online)

This is nothing but an online market again, where you buy the items from a particular store or seller without meeting them in person. The same happens when you buy your iPhone from the person-to-person market, you will not be able to meet the seller in person but the deal made remains confidential.

If you wonder, “How?”, then the online markets take up a few measures to make sure that their customers aren’t falling trap to scams or frauds. These online markets verify the product’s originality and its condition before listing it for sale, which is called as “Refurbishing certification”, and if the product is successfully verified, the product is tagged as “Certified Refurbished”.

In case of iPhones, the ESN is verified, the iPhone is checked with the cellular networks to know if it is fully paid or is it a stolen one and also if its available for activation. Once the verification is successfully and satisfactorily done, then the iPhone is checked for its condition.

It is important for it to be in a well-maintained and good condition to get tagged as a “Certified Refurbished”. After all this, the seller is asked to reset the device, as a fresh setup is requiredfor the verification photos to prove ownership.

Bottom Line

When both the above-mentioned ways of buying an iPhone at a low price aretaken into account, it can be said that buying “Refurbished iPhones” from the online market is the best way to own an iPhone at a low price instantly and safely. What’s more! You get an amazingly good conditioned iPhone at a lower price than usual.