{"id":1015575,"date":"2026-06-19T08:56:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015575"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T03:30:31","slug":"as-new-phones-cars-get-costlier-indians-turn-to-second-hand-market-in-droves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/19\/as-new-phones-cars-get-costlier-indians-turn-to-second-hand-market-in-droves\/","title":{"rendered":"As new phones, cars get costlier, Indians turn to second-hand market in droves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata | New Delhi: Repeated price hikes in smartphones and passenger vehicles are driving many consumers towards refurbished and second-hand products. <\/p>\n<p>According to mobile phone sales tracker Counterpoint Research, refurbished and pre-owned devices accounted for more than a quarter (26%) of total smartphone unit sales during January-May this year, up from about 23% in the same period a year earlier. The research firm said the segment is expanding at its fastest pace, aside from the Covid disruption period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata | New Delhi: Repeated price hikes in smartphones and passenger vehicles are driving many consumers towards refurbished and second-hand products. According to mobile phone sales tracker Counterpoint Research, refurbished and pre-owned devices accounted for more than a quarter (26%) of total smartphone unit sales during January-May this year, up from about 23% in the same period a year earlier. The research firm said the segment is expanding at its fastest pace, aside from the Covid disruption period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015596,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015575\/revisions\/1015596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}