gray market

Known here as "shanzhai ji" , or bandit phones, China's gray market handset industry was virtually non-existent just a few years ago.

Thomas: Let's just say that he takes full advantage of a free market and there's nothing wrong with the gray market.

This will launch a pattern where gray-market handsets continue to decrease in unit shipments for the next four years, IHS indicated.

In part, that's because many consumers purchase HTC phones that have been imported from outside China and sold on the country's gray market.

Deep discounts on new watches are also available on the gray market (dealers who do business over the Internet).

This helps protect a company's investment from gray market device threats and complements conditional access and DRM systems.

There's a whole gray market for Lego, thousands of home-based businesses.

Many builders barely broke stride. They turned to underground banks that are part of China's thriving gray market.

This difference allows gray market vendors to price their products lower than Apple, while still earning a profit, Sun said.

To the extent that a red market is restricted and a black market is suppressed, a gray market will emerge.

China has a long history of gray-market financing flowing from small, informal and unregulated groups, to sectors not well covered by banks.

Mr. Gao returned after some gray market creditors allegedly kidnapped his daughter for three days.

Finally, will there be a resurgence in gray-market lending activity?

Now, Tesco has started buying cheap Levi's from the so-called "gray market" in other EU countries and selling them on.

But 49% those devices were sold through China's gray market, where products are bought from overseas and then resold by local vendors.

The surging gray market has certainly affected impacted sales of the iPhone in China as well.

The gray market has already completely captured the market of tech-savvy mobile users.

They turned to underground banks that are part of China's thriving gray market.

People can show off gray market phones while avoiding minimum monthly fees .

Several said they'd held out for years to buy it because they worried there would be quality problems if they purchased gray-market iPhones.

Before Apple products are released officially in China, a limited number are smuggled in through a vast gray market.

But it's less than the price Chinese users have been paying to buy gray-market iPads, where they sell for as much as $1, 000.

Our company is losing a lot of money to kindred products existence sold on the gray market.

The gray market activity is another negative factor.

There are two types of gray-market iPhone 4s for sale: the locked U. S. model and an unlocked British version.

What it has done is to replace the high interest rate financing in the gray market.

Bing: We could, but wouldn't we be taking a risk that the gray market would undercut us?

Of course in China, the gray market for smuggled and pirated phones drives most sales, blurring official statistics.

The term used by marketing people to describe potential buyers of old-age. They gray market buy a lot of viagra.

The research firm iSuppli expects China's gray-market mobile phone shipments to rise to 255 million this year, up 12% from 2010.

Formal channels can not buy a lot of supply at high prices on gray market sales.

Still, in Hong Kong's unofficial 'gray market, ' AgBank's H shares have been trading hands at a 2% to 3% premium to the IPO price.

When inquired about the reason, an employee whispered that the iPhones are Hong Kong licensed and procured through the gray market.

Before then, the primary way for Chinese to buy Apple products was at gray-market retailers selling merchandise smuggled from Hong Kong.

There are 2 types of gray-market iPhone 4s for sale: the locked US model ($1, 135-1, 394) and an unlocked British version ($2, 168-3, 096).

Apple's Hong Kong spokeswoman Jill Tan declined to comment on the gray-market iPhone 4s.

At the same time, some Hong Kong sellers in a gray market are earning a handsome profit before the device's official debut.

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