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It also promotes sales and therefore manufacturing of more new phones, often unnecessarily. Yes, they are really selfless and ardent friends of the planet.
Yes, this ad is about selling you refurbished phones but they also buy up phones that probably don’t need to be replaced in the first place. Malls and shopping centers now have machines where you insert your phone and get instant payment. Perfect for stimulating unnecessary new phone sales. And perfect for data collection.