Roikins
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Check your IMEI number online, see if you can get some info about it
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Early build date = built on same assembly line as new.
Later build date as in a week ago = refurbished.
You're under the impression they're not still building phones? Unless they stopped making and shipping phones to keep up with the demand, your assumption doesn't show anything.
Did you ask if the phone was refurbed? If it is I would ask for another phone.
Yeap, this should be your first question!
Anyway, I believe it is too soon to refurnish iPhone 6's ... How about calling them??
You quoted a comment from October 29th.
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Omg you are right. thanx for that :S
I know this thread is old and done already but just wanted to add the following some of which has already been said by others I case someone else uses this in the future.
I've had about half a dozen iPhones replaced in the Apple Store over the years for varying degrees of issues. I've always been told the replacements are Service Level iPhones meaning they "can" contain reused parts like cables and connectors however the battery and screen are always brand new. They come in the small white pack instead of the retail box as others have said because their replacements are set aside for this purpose and do not come out of their sales iPhone stock. In the past I've had my iphone replaced in an Apple Store at a time when all new iPhones were out of stock to buy and there was a long wait but of course they did have some for replacements as these are not part of the sales stock and can only be used for replacements. They don't come in the retail packaging purely as there's no need! When you replace your iPhone due to an issue its just the iphone that is swapped not the earphones and other accessories so it would cost Apple to hand out all these extras for no reason. Plus it saves on shipping weight and physical space to store them.
I exchanged my launch day iPhone 6 after about two weeks of owning. The Apple Store guy said I was their first iphone 6 replacement in that store so it's not like they had hundreds of returns to then start reusing on service level iPhones. He said it's quite a few months until they normally start getting the reused parts iPhones as they send out an amount of stock for exchanges and of course the stores need to go through this first.
Either way the replacement iPhones be it brand new or service grade ones are identical and technically there's no difference as the parts they reuse would never have been touched by anyone other than the person or machine assembling them in the factory so it makes no difference.
I got my Iphone 6 replaced 2 days ago at the Apple store. I was very surprised when i saw the apple guy came out with a small white box, a non retail box, i was thinking wtf is THAT? Then i was thinking oh maybe its just new from the factory not being packed in a retail box yet. But now im not sure whats going on here...
So is there a was to check if the phone i got i refurbished or not? I paid for a new phone and got second hand crap??
I got my Iphone 6 replaced 2 days ago at the Apple store. I was very surprised when i saw the apple guy came out with a small white box, a non retail box, i was thinking wtf is THAT? Then i was thinking oh maybe its just new from the factory not being packed in a retail box yet. But now im not sure whats going on here...
So is there a was to check if the phone i got i refurbished or not? I paid for a new phone and got second hand crap??
Ur not alone! I got i6 and i did not checked the phone condition while at the store.when i got home and about to set it up, i notice a dead pixel.after 12hrs i return the phone from point of origin, they give me diffrent i6 phone, yes it has no box, just the plastic cover on it.it looks new to me, but then again when i got home, i checked the serial number, and also i contacted apple support, and yes its comfirmed its refurb iphone.