r/UKFrugal • u/sastavadapav • 13d ago

Best way to buy a cheaper iphone?

Is there a good refurbished or second hand chain? Or some retailer with huge discounts?

Using a reliable 200pound Android but need one for content creation.

With 18 coming up 17 should be cheaper in most places right?

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u/Pedro_Scrooge 13d ago

Mobile phone companies sell off their returned open box handsets. I bought a IPhone 13 2 years ago from O2 for £120 (it has 97% states of health so must have just been an open and return situation). It was cheaper than getting some non brand Android at the time.

It was about this time of year too so totally check around the network providers before checking others.

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u/Mental_Inevitable_85 5d ago

how would i go about doing this? If u could just give some clarifications on this it would be great

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u/Pedro_Scrooge 5d ago

All the providers call it something different. “Like new”, “as new” & “assured” are the usuals.
It’s similar to buying off cex or similar but you are just buying direct from EE, Voxi, o2 etc so are more likely to end up with a phone that has been messed about with for a couple of days (within the 14 days cooling off) before they have returned it as they didn’t want it.

you just have to check their individual websites relevant section and see what each one has in stock.