The difference between mobile phone licensed goods and parallel imports:

Licensed goods: nationwide joint warranty, domestic production. Supply through layers of agents and manufacturers. Sold in legal sales areas.

Parallel imports: does not necessarily refer to fakes, they are also produced by regular manufacturers. It is possible not to sell in the agent area, but to sell in the non-legal agent area through other channels, without charging additional fees. But it may also be a refurbished second-hand phone, or an unpacked phone. General parallel imports cannot access the Internet, but they can access the Internet after refreshing the system. And the accessories may not be original. The risk is relatively high. Maintenance trouble.

The reason why Samsung mobile phones are expensive in China is because there are no production sites in China. There are manufacturers in European countries, so generally Samsung parallel imports are illegally sold in mainland China through zero-tariff channels in Europe.

Original imports are parallel imports, and Hong Kong licensed products are also parallel imports. Only mainland products are licensed products, but parallel imports are all relative. For example, mainland products licensed in Hong Kong are parallel imports! On the contrary, Hong Kong products are licensed products in Hong Kong. If you want to buy licensed products, you don’t need to authenticate them. Just go to Suning or Gome. It must be licensed products, or go to a larger local mall in your area, but the price is more expensive than other places. If you want to ask how to tell, the Samsung mobile phone sold in mainland China does not have a 3G video camera on the front, so it is parallel import. The Anycall logo on the front of the Samsung mobile phone sold in mainland China is also the same as the one in Hong Kong. The one in other places is directly SAMSUNG!

SAMSUNG is a registered trademark of Samsung in South Korea, and ANYCALL is a registered trademark in China, so ANYCALL is licensed in China.

Original imported water is generally called European water. It generally has the lowest price, which is much different from the price of licensed products, but it cannot be accessed online. However, you can access the Internet after flashing the phone

Hong Kong licensed products are of better quality than parallel imports in all aspects, but the price will not be too different from licensed products.

The advantage of licensed products in mainland China is that they come with an after-sales warranty

The Samsung logo on the European water phone is sumsung, while the logo on the Hong Kong version and licensed products is anycall

After you get the phone You can also use the following method to identify parallel imports:

Enter *#1234#

For example, "x108zcxc1" is the first edition of x108 Asia in March 2004.

1. x108=mobile phone model, T18=T108, and so on.

2. Region:

XX - Western Europe

XE - Eastern Europe

ZC - China

ZJ——Asia

DC——Unknown

AI——Unknown

3. Year:

X=2004

W=2003

V=2002

U=2001

Four. Month:

A=January

B=February

C=March

And so on

5. Which edition of the month:

A1=First edition in January

A2=First edition in February

C1=First edition in March

And so on

Too many people are confused about the concept of parallel imports and licensed imports. I would like to take this opportunity to explain it clearly to everyone.

1. First of all, make sure that whether it is parallel imports or licensed products, they are all produced by regular manufacturers.

Parallel imports do not mean that the product is adulterated and fake. Don’t regard parallel imports as counterfeits. The technological integration of mobile phones has not yet fallen behind enough to allow people to copy them, unless they are OEM products. For example, Kejian and Samsung, Lenovo and LG, Capitel and Nokia, etc., but those are also formal property rights transfers. Therefore, there is no essential difference between parallel imports and licensed products. They are rooted in the same roots. You should not regard parallel imports as inferior or bad.

2． So what is the difference between parallel imports and licensed imports? The answer mainly lies in the differences in regional sales and services.

The so-called parallel import concept is just a regional sales concept, or you can roughly and mainly regard it as a service concept accompanying regional sales, rather than an essential concept.

In fact, when buying, we can see that a valuable service from the manufacturer is invisibly bundled in the branch of the product sales area. Whether you need it or not, as for the cost, it is a matter of opinion.

When it comes to this, I have to mention that everyone should not take this distinction lightly. It is true that this difference between parallel imports and licensed products leads to a considerable price difference, but this comes at a cost. I will analyze it one by one for you, and first talk about why there is a price difference. Because of this difference, the headquarters has different strategies for each market region (here it only covers production, publicity, sales, service, R&D, etc.) or the requirements of the market regions are different, so the mobile phone itself and its bundling The value of our services also varies across market regions. Of course, the price reflected by the value is even more different, and it must be affected by factors such as supply and demand. Specific examples are mentioned below.

You don’t really think there is any difference between parallel imports and licensed products, so let me give you the most common example to talk about how this difference manifests itself in real life. The T68i you bought from Hong Kong broke down, and you asked customer service in mainland China for repair. The lady refused because your T68i was a parallel import. You said no? When I bought it in Hong Kong, it was obviously licensed. Could it be that the store deceived me? In fact, you are not being cheated. Your T68i is indeed licensed in Hong Kong, but because your T68i is not sold in mainland China, you have not paid the service fee to the customer service in mainland China (or your service fee has been bundled). Customer service in Hong Kong), so customer service in mainland China is not obligated to repair it for you. Obviously, the difference becomes clear in this case. Your Hong Kong licensed T68i is a so-called parallel import compared to the licensed T68i sold in mainland China.

As for the price, I think the biggest price for buying parallel imports is this, and I believe everyone will agree.

There are also some big and small differences and costs, which I will mention later.

3. Continuing with the example above. You thought of a way, you said I can give you money, but that doesn't work, the lady said we don't even have this power.

The headquarters has strict divisions and requirements for the activities carried out by regional branches. Any cross-department and cross-regional activities carried out within non-regulations will only disrupt the entire market order. If the lady promises to repair it for you, then everyone will go to Hong Kong to buy a mobile phone. Who doesn’t know that mobile phones are cheap in Hong Kong? At least the service fee I subsidize is less than the price difference of parallel imports. Why not come to Hong Kong for fun?

Hong Kong’s tariffs are low, and the cost of incoming goods is also low; products generally come from foreign factories with advanced production technology and large-scale production, and the quality is guaranteed, unlike those in China who simply assemble them with materials. I know that they will fall apart if dropped; the local department has an effective management system, one lady does the work of three people, while in mainland China, three girls do the work of one person (I have some evidence, what I have seen is that one person answers the phone to inquire, There is one person who types out the computer registration information, and there is also one person who takes the defective machines to the computer room for training). The above are specific examples of price differences.

Moreover, despite the huge price difference between Hong Kong and mainland China, you can still enjoy the same service (leaving aside the quality of the service here), the consequences can be imagined.

Then we at least know that although parallel imports and licensed products are of the same origin, the treatment is definitely different. Do you want to buy parallel imports to take advantage of the price, or buy licensed products to enjoy the convenience of service? Let everyone decide. .

By the way, this is actually a kind of discrimination, I personally think it. Why are our market prices in mainland China always more expensive than others? Why do we in mainland China always use new phones slower than others when we get them, or when they are already someone else's trash? Why do we still use them as treasures? Why do our mainland Chinese markets always fail to enjoy services that are in line with international standards? Of course, we also have our own shortcomings, our own institutional problems, our own communication problems, etc. But beyond that, what else do we see? It’s just that our market in mainland China has not been taken seriously. Those foreign manufacturers will say that mainland China is a big market with great potential, and we attach great importance to such nonsense, but in fact it seems to be the case. Really? I personally think that foreign manufacturers only attach great importance to profits in the mainland Chinese market (of course this is for sure) but do not pay attention to the further development of profits in the mainland Chinese market.

Foreign manufacturers will only sell their products in China, and will not try hard to make us buy them again in the future, nor will they serve us wholeheartedly (this is another reason why the state enforces the three guarantees). Our level is limited. For the time being, domestic products are not popular enough to compete with foreign products. We still have to buy foreign products. The profits are there and we are just waiting for foreign manufacturers to collect them. Therefore, foreign manufacturers do not have any reason to do so. of. Not to mention other versions, different accessories, etc., but Alcatel’s Bluetooth incident, Panasonic’s machine recycling, Ericsson’s quality issues, etc., these are enough to destroy a product no matter how powerful it is in the world, as long as it is not The monopoly company incident occurred in our mainland Chinese market, and it just passed away like a minor incident. This is no longer a general lack of attention, but contempt and discrimination. What do we think of our mainland Chinese market? Proving ground! If there is anything wrong, change it immediately to avoid damage to other markets. I don't mean to say that you will no longer buy products from foreign manufacturers. Now the domestic market is getting more and more attention. This is a good thing. And everyone should also pay attention to their own rights and interests and update their consumption concepts. What's wrong with that? We should seek legal channels to solve the problem (the method used by Wuhan to smash Daben is useless, Mercedes-Benz just ignores it), and inform everyone so that no one else will be deceived. I also believe that we ourselves will definitely get stronger as soon as possible.

4． Let’s get back to the point. In addition to the big differences and prices mentioned above, there are some big or small differences and prices between parallel imports and licensed products that everyone should pay attention to. The machine is the same, but the accessories are not necessarily the same. For example, the accessories are different, some have a base, a cover, a cord, an extra battery, etc., but those in other regions may not have them. You should first understand the differences before buying, and it is not too late to make a decision after weighing it carefully.

5. I believe everyone now has a clearer impression of what is parallel import and what is licensed import, what is good and what is bad, what should be paid attention to, etc. But I think it is still necessary for everyone to understand where parallel imports come from. After all, this issue involves adulteration of parallel imports.

Let me give you a problem that everyone is familiar with. Everyone likes Samsung phones, but they are very expensive (compared to the Chinese market). Why? Because Samsung does not have a factory in mainland China, all mobile phones are produced directly from South Korea and then imported to China. The cost also includes tariffs and shipping costs, which makes it much more expensive, but at least the quality is guaranteed. But not everyone can afford such a price. Some unscrupulous businessmen have begun to have bad ideas, smuggling some mobile phones back from abroad (usually Europe, because Samsung has the most factories in Europe), changing the system to Chinese, and parallel imports. The licensed hardware is basically the same. If the software is changed to Chinese, it will be the same as licensed products.

Here is a good way to identify parallel Samsung products. I can’t explain it well. Think about it, Samsung phones in the Chinese mainland market generally do not have SAMSUNG printed on the screen border but Anycall printed on it. , if there is SANSUNG, there is a 90% chance that it will be parallel imports. Each model has different methods, so I won’t describe them one by one.

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1) Licensed products. The licensed products we refer to refer to licensed products from mainland China.

What is domestic licensed product?

Domestic licensed products are products that have been approved by the manufacturer and have been authorized by a certain merchant to be an agent or sold directly by branches of the manufacturer

in a designated area. , the price of licensed products is often relatively high, but

Because of the formal local agents, product warranty and after-sales service are often more guaranteed.

Domestic licensed products warranty:

Warranty service provided by the manufacturer’s customer service center

The assured purchase index is: 9

Reason: After-sales service is average Neither is very good, so I give it a 9.

2) Cross-selling goods. Cross-border goods are also a type of licensed goods, and people in the industry call them speculators. Cross-selling exists in various countries and regions

Let’s just say this (I haven’t been to other countries, but there must be one in China, because that’s what I do). Because licensed goods have to pay a lot of taxes, the price is relatively high, and the consumption level in each region is different, which led to the eventual emergence of cross-selling.

Today's cross-border trade is no longer a simple south-to-north water diversion project. It can be said to be very dark and corrupt! ~

After-sales guarantee, just like licensed products. Because the goods you get from some regular stores may have passed through my hands.

The assured purchase index is: 8

Reason: The key point is that people who are stringing things together may not be able to carefully check it.

For example, last time I sent 200 1100 mobile phones to a customer, I told them they were unlocked, but they shipped them without inspecting them

Later I found out that it was not unlocked at all. This is still a trivial matter. It would be depressing if it were a clone machine. So

Give me an 8.

3) Parallel imports. To put it simply, it is a mobile phone smuggled in from other countries and regions without going through customs.

This term refers to a wide range of parallel imports, including European versions, Hong Kong and other licensed products from other countries and regions, cross-selling products, recharge of new phones, cloning, refurbishing, etc. It may be easier to understand that it is smuggling all kinds of goods from our mainland to the United States. The United States will call all these goods parallel imports. Parallel imports generally do not come with warranty.

Except for capable merchants, they will undertake the warranty themselves. I would like to add that the previous parallel import refers to the European version.

Purchase with confidence index: No evaluation

Reason: Parallel imports include many varieties. Cannot generalize

4) Hong Kong Bank, I guess everyone’s eyes will be brightened by it. To be honest, so am I. Hong Kong banks are licensed products from Hong Kong,

the same as licensed products from China. The quality will be better than that from mainland China. There are a lot of traditional Chinese characters that need to be messed up, and I personally feel that they are harmful to the computer. All in all Hong Kong is good. Although Hong Kong and Guangzhou are very close, it is troublesome to go back and forth. Therefore, many merchants simply waive the warranty for Hong Kong companies. NOKIA said it is a nationwide joint warranty, but that is just what NOKIA

said. Do you think the mainland dealers are willing to repair it for you? In other words, there is a gap in after-sales service, and the official

charges for upgrades!

Purchase with confidence index: 7

Reason: No after-sales service, rinsing the machine may cause harm to the machine. But its quality should be better than that produced in mainland China.

5) European version. In fact, this is the real parallel import (because Hong Kong is also a part of China, but it can also be regarded as smuggling. Alas, China's tragedy). The definition for the European version should be like this. A mobile phone produced in place A is to be shipped to place B. Someone evades the tariffs through some channel and enters the Chinese domestic market.

Mobile phones for sale. So, the European version is licensed in a certain region. What about the warranty? The warranty can only be provided by some merchants.

Purchase with confidence index: 7

Reason: No after-sales service, rinsing the machine may cause harm to the machine. But its quality should be better than those from mainland China and Hong Kong.

But it is also divided into specific places of origin. So giving a 7 means that it is almost the same as the Hong Kong bank.

6) Refurbished phone: According to the mobile phone industry, this kind of phone is made by cleaning some recovered second-hand mobile phones with chemical liquid

, replacing the casing, installing the battery, and charging If the device (counterfeit) and packaging are sold as new, it is a refurbished machine.

Generally speaking, China often sends these goods abroad. So it is not difficult to imagine that other countries will do the same.

This is why some people have prejudices against the European version and the Hong Kong version. No warranty. Some merchants generally promise repairs in one month. What's disgusting is that many JS machines are sold to you as new machines.

Buy with confidence index: 2

Reason: Although they are fakes, the motherboards are all original. It's okay for friends who use it together.

It's okay.

7) Recharge a new phone. This kind of mobile phone is a very new mobile phone that some mobile phone dealers have taken back, or some mobile phones that are sent to the Internet by some telecommunications companies in Hong Kong

or other countries. The mobile phones sent are used by many people in those areas.

It will be sold as a second-hand phone and then smuggled in for sale. In short, the concept of recharging a new phone is this kind of phone

The phone is almost the same as a new phone, without any damage or damage. scratches. In fact, the distinction is very simple. Some machines that are not sold in mainland China are available in Hong Kong (such as Sagem).

Purchase with confidence index: 5

Reason: These goods can be said to be second-hand from Hong Kong. The affordability is relatively high because there are more players in Hong Kong.

8) Trigger. The board machine is also called the assembly machine. The concept of board machine is very vague to everyone, but in popular terms, it is a machine board that is assembled from non-original motherboards, repaired motherboards, or useful parts removed from scrapped machines. Board

, install the casing yourself, add the battery, and repackage the mobile phones sold after collectively called board. Triggers are the most harmful

and may explode!

Buy with confidence index: 0

Reason: There is no need for a reason, don’t make fun of your life.

9) Cloning machine, you will know what it means just by looking at the name, it means COPYing the licensed serial number and a series of DD

. Copy to another machine. The original cloning machines were relatively poor, and some of the current cloning machines are so fake that even the maintenance workers don't know whether they are genuine or fake. But most of them can be identified. No warranty.

Purchase with confidence index: I don’t know how to evaluate it

Reason: No one will buy a clone machine on purpose. Generally, they are just fooled.

Licensed products are genuine - that is, they come from normal channels (then you have to pay my country's customs duties, which are more expensive accordingly)

Parallel imports are Smuggled goods - privately smuggled goods from other low-tariff areas will be much cheaper.

But the quality is not guaranteed.

If the quality meets the prescribed standards, it is called genuine. Or genuine, otherwise it is called defective or fake.

It should be noted that the definition of parallel import has nothing to do with the production area, but is related to the sales area. For example, even if a laptop is produced in China, but the original sales place is a foreign country, this machine is in China. It's also parallel import.

Some European mobile phones support 3G networks, WIFI, and other high technologies, and standards such as electromagnetic radiation of mobile phones are strictly controlled. Mobile phones sold in China do not have these technologies, and electromagnetic radiation and other Most of them are not up to standard. To sum up, the European version is of better quality than the mobile phones sold in China.