The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Q Interesting. Okay, cool. So grow smart. So again, each repair is, let's just call it a hundred bucks to make the math easy. It sounds like you're probably most of your costs that are above the line and above the gross margin, I imagine are like the screen you have to buy from Apple to repair the phone with. Is that right?

A And you would be surprised. So there's a common misconception. Apple does not actually sell repair parts. So there is an entire interesting, mostly underground network of distributors from China all over the United States that sell parts. So basically what happens is let's say you have an iPhone six and you break the screen on it. So, but the colors are still showing through the screen. You're just breaking the glass on top. So what happens is we will repair that for you. And then there are companies that buy those broken screens back. They ship them back to China where factories in China will put new glass on the screens, test them, make sure they're working and ship them back to us. So what you're seeing in the iPhone repair market is a lot of parts that get recycled and refurbished and sent back over and over again as new. So they're tested and sold as new to us and to other distributors. And that's, it's How every iPhone repair company other than the Apple store gets their parts.

AI assessment note: “Apple does not actually sell repair parts. So there is an entire interesting, mostly underground network”

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