Flipkart Launches Sell Back Programme to Purchase Used Smartphones

Flipkart has introduced a brand new Sell Back programme that lets its clients promote their used smartphones on the platform. The new programme will initially begin off with smartphones and finally embody different classes of merchandise supplied on Flipkart. The announcement Sell Back follows Flipkart’s acquisition of electronics re-commerce agency Yaantra. The new buyback programme by Flipkart is stay in main Indian cities, throughout greater than 1,500 pin codes. A current survey by IDC reveals that Indians traded solely 20 million smartphones out of the 125 million used smartphones in circulation.

Through a press launch, Flipkart introduced on February 14 that it’s launching a brand new Sell Back programme. As per the corporate, the brand new programme may be accessed through the Flipkart app, marked by a brand new possibility on the app’s backside bar. However, the operate was not seen to Gadgets 360 on the time of writing. The e-commerce platform introduced that the brand new buyback programme will probably be out there for smartphones initially and can embrace different classes later this yr.

Flipkart’s Sell Back will probably be relevant for all smartphones — whether or not bought from Flipkart or elsewhere. The new programme is stay in round 1,700 pin codes throughout main cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Patna, and extra. When clients promote their used smartphones on Flipkart, they may get an e-voucher from the e-commerce platform, which the corporate claims will probably be of the “right buy-back value.”

Customers will probably be proven a worth for his or her smartphone, based mostly on the solutions for 3 easy questions, as per the corporate. Once the shopper confirms, Flipkart says its executives will choose up the smartphone inside 48 hours. After the e-commerce platform has verified the product, it would ship an e-voucher to the shopper in return for the smartphone.

As talked about, the brand new buy-back programme follows the current acquisition of Yaantra — an electronics re-commerce agency. The acquisition is an effort by Flipkart to strengthen its re-commerce enterprise and improve after-sale choices for its clients within the smartphones section. Yaantra was integrated in 2013 and it repairs and sells refurbished client tech merchandise corresponding to smartphones and laptops.

A current IDC survey shows that roughly 125 million used smartphones are in circulation in India every year. Out of those, solely 20 million smartphones attain the second-hand market. The remaining variety of used smartphones quantities to in depth e-waste.