Apple now selling used products online in China

Apple announced Tuesday it has opened an online store selling used products in China in an effort to expand its business there, according to a Reuters report.

The new store is offering discounts of up to 22 percent on various refurbished products. Apple said on its Web site that the products had been previously sold, then returned, and had undergone quality tests, Reuters reported.

An Apple representative in China would not say how many products are available on the site. But the store was featuring such items as an iPod shuffle for 308 yuan ($45) and an iMac for 14,000 yuan, according to Reuters.

Apple has launched an online store in China to sell used products, including iPod shuffles.

(Credit: Apple )

[Chris Grayson]

I don't know what part of this merits it being "news". Apple has been selling used/refurbished products on their U.S. website for years. I've bought many things there myself:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals

[Perry_Clease]

I guess news is that the Apple online store selling used items to Chinese.

[jscott418]

Apple has a eal problem getting consumers outside of the US as interested in their products as the US consumer. Most of it of course has to do with much less disposable income. I am not sure Apple's typical discounts are going to do the trick? But I do see their sales hitting a brick wall even in the US because they have tended to market to the wealthier community. iPods have been the exception but I do not think buyer's of iPods have attracted enough to switch to other Apple products.

[nicmart]

iPods are the exception because Apple produces models at price points acceptable to the average buyers. It has always refused to produce full-featured Macs near the most popular price point for PC buyers. Most computer buyers are happy with what they get on a $700 fully loaded system, which Apple is nowhere near. Apple's iPod marketing strategy has worked far better than its Mac strategy, but it doesn't seem to have taken the hint.

[eggwgwg]

"We don?t know how to make a $500 machine that?s not a piece of junk, and our DNA won?t let us do it.", Steve Jobs said.

[nicmart]

Steve says many things that aren't true. Apple doesn't use components that are better than other major PC makers, and it isn't more reliable. Consumer Reports surveys readers about the reliability of the computers. In the most recent survey Apple laptops finished dead last in reliability, though all brands were about the same.

[AppleSuxLeo]

I heard a certain someone is shopping for a used liver , on the cheap in China.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Parts is Parts. Apple just charges 2-3 times as much as the competition.

[Chris Grayson]

Yep, there's no difference in a Chevy and a BMW. It's all the same. A car's a car.

[arindamtech]

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