Member-only story

Brand New iPhone Vs Certified Refurbished iPhone!

Simple Alpaca
3 min readNov 28, 2021

--

Welcome back everyone, I went and purchased a refurbished iPhone straight from Apple, so let’s compare it against a brand new iPhone! Now, these are the same exact iPhones, an iPhone XR, and they were purchased at the exact same time as well. At the time of purchasing, the certified refurbished iPhone was $499, however, I did buy a higher storage certified model, if compare those costs the brand new one would cost $549 and the refurbished one cost $469, so there is definitely a price difference between these two models.

The main difference I saw immediately were the boxes, the brand new iPhone box has a much better-looking front to it, the certified refurbished one definitely looks a bit more dated, but a big thing to keep in mind is that you won’t really be using the box all of the time.

The unboxing process was very interesting, it was pretty much the exact same thing between them, there weren’t really any differences in my opinion. They both had the charging cable, pamphlets, and stickers as well.

--

--

No responses yet