Used Smartphone: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Its Price

Abstract

In Japan, policies for lowering mobile phone charges have been debated since 2015.
In the policy discussion, one of the issues examined was the promotion of used smartphone distribution.
In this research, we conducted an empirical analysis using hedonic approach for purchase and sale data of used smartphone posted on EC site and Consumer-To-Consumer (C2C) EC site collected by Web scraping.
As a result, the following two points were suggested. Firstly, businesses highly evaluate scratches and dirty smartphones more than consumers, secondly, while operators highly appreciate smartphones with SIM-unlocked, consumers do not consider too much about it.