10.79 euros. That was the whole gap, on 3 September 2026, at one single retailer, between a 128 GB iPhone 13 graded “Gut” (good) and the same model with the same storage graded “Sehr gut” (very good). Not fifty euros. Not eighty. Ten euros and some change.
€20,700. That's the average cost of one child's entire school career in Germany, from the first day to graduation, according to an idealo study published in 2017. A laptop for students is one single line in that total. But it's probably the line where a family can shift several hundred euros...
On 13.08.2026, the gap between the lowest and the highest cash offer for the same iPhone 13 came to exactly 33,28 €. For a phone buyback comparison, that's small, roughly 17.6 percent. And that is the point: German buyback sites price within a whisker of each other, while their vocabulary does...
Scroll through the laptop listings at Refurbed, Back Market or Rebuy. The same model families keep showing up: ThinkPad T series, EliteBook 800s, Latitude 5000s. Plenty of German shops put "Leasingrückläufer" right in the category description. So an ex-lease laptop is nothing unusual here. The...
How are phones refurbished? The honest answer starts by pointing out that the question contains a mistake. It assumes there's a pipeline. A chain of stations with a device on a shelf at the end of it. There isn't one. What happens to a returned smartphone depends first on the seller's business...
On 13 August 2026 the refurbed marketplace listed 31 offers for one identical configuration: Apple iPhone 13, 128 GB, green, dual SIM, cosmetic grade "Sehr gut" (very good), battery grade "Optimal". Same configuration ID, same grade, same stated box contents. The cheapest sat at €274.00, the...
Bring up a refurbished phone's carbon footprint and most people jump straight to packaging, shipping and recycling. The real lever sits elsewhere: on a factory floor. Making one new smartphone releases roughly 47 kg of CO2 according to the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) (as...
Nice for this customer. But does that help you? Not really. Because among 319,000+ reviews, there's also the flip side: "Dead after 6 weeks. Never again." Which experience will you get? That's what matters.
The battery indicator read 78%. My iPhone sent its usual warning: "Your battery's maximum capacity has declined." Three years old, already approaching end of life. A problem that led me directly to the question: Shiftphone vs Fairphone – which sustainable smartphone suits me?
Last month I faced a decision: I needed three devices. An iPhone for myself, a MacBook for home office, a Samsung for my daughter. The question was simple: Should I buy new or refurbished?
I spent €1,400 to find out which refurbished seller actually delivers on their promises. Three platforms (Back Market, Refurbed, and Rebuy), three identical iPhone 13 orders. For anyone looking for a refurbished phone or reconditioned iPhone: the results surprised me.
July 2025. My old laptop dies. Right in the middle of a video call with my boss. Screen goes black, audio cuts out, everything crashes. Perfect timing. Not really.
Showing 12 of 12 posts
