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Inside China’s ‘stolen iPhone building’

We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold in a single district in Shenzhen

In any other neighbourhood, the Feiyang Times building, a drab grey-and-brown tower in southern China, would be most notable for the gaudy, propaganda-plastered columns that line its forecourt.

But like many of the electronics markets in the labyrinthine malls of Huaqiangbei, the fourth floor of the building has its own specialism: selling second hand iPhones from Europe and the US.

Many of the phones sold here are legitimate trade-ins, returned by western consumers to network operators or phone shops when upgrading to the latest models.

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