This article is going to help you avoid many mistakes while buying mobile phones in Shenzhen Mobile Phone Markets or Digital Market which is located in Huaqiang North.

Huaqiang North mainly has the following major digital markets, and the rest of the large and small markets are only for supporting those markets.

1. Yuanwang Digital Market & Manha Digital Market

This market is not particularly obvious, but plays a role that can affect the direction of the mobile phone industry across the country. Take an example: If there are 100 people using smuggled phones or Hong Kong version of mobile phones on the mainland, then at least 90 of those mobile phones were purchased from this market.

People who have lived in Shenzhen for years may not even have heard of this market. Everyone only knows that if you need to buy a mobile phone, you go to a Digital Market. But they don’t know which market exactly to go.

The first half of the first floor is mainly for retail. There are countless large and small mobile phone counters. But they don’t have any mobiles in stock. They just display mobile phone molds on the counters. When a customer comes, they will show the molds to the customer. If the customer is fine with the design and price. They would tell the customer that they need to go to the warehouse to get the goods. But actually they will go to the second floor to get mobile phone from wholesalers directly.

You will never know if the quality is good or bad. It all depends on the price you guys agreed. But this market also has big wholesalers of refurbished mobile phones.

The second half of the first floor is mainly for the wholesale of various mobile phone accessories. You can find all kinds of mobile phone covers and protectors over here.

The third floor is mostly for wholesale of domestic brands of mobile phones. Yuanwang and Manha market are actually developed by the same owner, so they are basically the same.

On the third floor, you will easily get lost. So, if you don’t have a sense of direction, I don’t suggest you go shopping there alone. Even If you have to go, you will definitely get prices much higher than the wholesale price. People who have been selling in the market for a long time can basically distinguish whether you are a retail customer or a shipper.

The second floor is divided into two parts together with Manha market. The first half of the second floor of Yuanwang is also mainly for retail, and it also has many refurbished machines, so be super alert to NOT be fooled. The second floor is completely transparent. You can look at the second floor from a certain distance.

The second half of the second floor is mainly to wholesale all kinds of smuggled brand-name mobile phone and Hong Kong genuine phones. They say they are wholesalers, but actually they are speculators.

The real big wholesalers are more cautious and often change stalls to avoid inspection. Each big wholesaler normally has a lot of stalls responsible for different links, the first is to quote the price of the bill (this stall does not display the mobile phones. It is only responsible for reporting prices, billing, collect funds), and then the stall for storing mobile phones. then the accessory stall, and finally the packaging stall.

In a word, if you want to go to a big wholesaler, you will end up being extremely exhausting by running here and there. And that is the reason why those speculators exist in the market. Of course, the price of the mobile phones from speculators will be higher than the wholesaler.

The first half of the second floor of Manha market is mainly for the wholesale of the mainland genuine products, The latter part is mainly for selling accessories.

2. Mingtong Digital Market

Although there is nothing much to say about Mingtong Digital City, its position in the national mobile phone industry is not small either. There are also a large number of speculators in this market. If you want to find the head agency of a mobile phone, It is an almost impossible task if you don’t have any acquaintance to guide you. This digital market is like a vegetable market, and the four floors of the two buildings are crowded with people. If you want to buy a duplicate phone, go to this market. You can find what you want there.

3. Feiyang Shidai Telecom Market

This market is possibly one of the most hated markets for all Chinese people. In fact, it is not the fault of the market. This market is simply selling second-hand mobile phones, and does not directly sell finished refurbished mobile phones. If they want to blame, blame those business people that buy second-handed phones from this market.

There is no need to mention about the first and second floor of this market. They mix a bit of everything there. The third and fourth floor are for selling second-hand mobile phones. There are many second-hand laptops, digital cameras, luxury watches and so on.

If your budget if low and want to buy a mobile phone or a laptop, you can go to this market to source goods. The premise is that you must be professional, otherwise it is easy to receive the problematic machines. The people who open the stalls here are almost all over the country. Each stall has a group of people in their hometown to collect second-hand mobile phones for them, and then send them here to sell them.

Objectively speaking, this market still has its reasons for existence. Everything can’t just look at one-sidedness.

Although this is the source of refurbished machines, if there is no such market, the various types of second-hand mobile phones left over from the country will not be processed. Large numbers are a big problem for environmental protection. Without the existence of this group of people, the garbage pollution in every city in China will be more serious.

4. Tongtiandi and Longsheng

In fact, there was no Feiyang shidai market in the early days. The old phones were sold in Tongtian, and later they slowly transfered to Feiyang shidai. Therefore, the reputation of Tongtiandi is famous throughout the country.

I still can’t tell the difference between Tongtian and Longsheng because they are all connected. Now this market is mainly for operating second-hand mobile phone accessories, which are good components that removed from old mobile phones, such as the main chip, display screen, cable and so on. There are also new parts sold, but the price is naturally much more expensive than the disassembled ones. All the accessories needed for mobile phone repair shops across the country alld get goods from here.

5. SEG Electronics Market

It is the tallest building you can see in Huaqiang North . It is also the third tallest building in Shenzhen.

SEG mainly operates various computer accessories. Even the Pacific Ocean in Xujiahui, Shanghai is not comparable to SEG. In fact, many products in the Pacific Ocean were from SEG.

If you want to buy the computer, go to SEG to buy the accessories yourself to assemble a host, I can guarantee that the price of the whole machine will definitely be a few hundred RMB less than the quote on the network.

1-3 floor of SEG you basically do not have to go shopping, it is nothing more than selling power cords and gadgets, and some are pulling customers around to help install the computer, these people could be very tricky, don’t be fooled.

4-6th floor are wholesalers of branded accessories.

6. Cyber Digital Plaza

It is not worth to go shopping in the first floor to the fourth floor. These four floors are all for assembling computers. They also need to go buy those components from other markets, which will waste much of your time. It would be more reasonable and cheaper to buy from SEG directly by yourself.

The fifth floor is mainly for wholesale digital cameras. These cameras are basically from Hong Kong.

7. Sunda Electronic Communication Market

This market is sort of tragic. When smuggled phones and notebooks were rampant, this market once reached to a glorious peak. They occupied 98% of smuggled phones market. In fact, the main purpose of Sunda is after-sales.

Almost all sellers of smuggled phones have after-sales maintenance department in this market. When smuggled phones were rampant back then, there were more people go for after-service than people who went to buy smuggled phones.

Nowadays that the smuggled phone market is not as popular as before, so the business in Sunda market is not as good as before either. However, its geographical location is also a major reason.

Summary:

In many markets, you can’t just look at its surface. Almost all markets are for retailing on the first floor. What is retail? The purpose of retailing is to earn as much as they could from you. This is why many people already know that mobile phones from Shenzhen mobile phone markets are cheap but they still can’t find any cheap mobile phones.

If you only shop around those retailing counters, you cannot get any low-priced mobile phones. Real wholesalers don’t sell them on the first or second floor. One reason is that the rent in the first floor is very high. Another reason is that they don’t want to get enquiries daily from too many average customers. The market transparency will be much higher and It will affect the entire sales chain.