RecommerceIQ

RecommerceIQ — RecommerceIQ Market Index — a dual-sided price panel for the secondary electronics market. It publishes a resale index (what refurbished devices clear for) and a buyback index (what operators pay to acquire them) at the level of model, storage variant, condition grade, and geography, aggregated across recommerce platforms including Back Market, Amazon Renewed, eBay, Swappa, and direct operator sites. Its core intellectual property is a condition-normalisation mapping that translates each platform's proprietary grade labels onto a single common scale so prices are comparable, pl…

RecommerceIQ offers (Alternative, Price, Supply Chain) — est. thousands to tens of thousands of index observations per year: the panel spans active handset and device models multiplied by storage variants, condition grades, and geographies, tracked continuously across five-plus platforms. Coverage breadth is driven by the model-variant-grade-geography grid rather than by listing volume, and the site's 16-plus discovered pages of methodology and use-case documentation indicate a mature product surface..

The buyback index is the scarce asset: recommerce operators setting trade-in offers use it to avoid overpaying at intake, while the resale-to-buyback spread directly measures achievable margin. Beyond operator pricing, it supports carrier and OEM trade-in programme budgeting, device insurance and gadget-cover claims valuation, IT asset disposition recovery-rate benchmarking and lease-end write-downs, refurbished inventory valuation and write-down timing for marketplaces, residual-value model calibration for handset makers, and launch-cycle impact measurement given the page's stated observation that prior-generation values can fall 15 to 25 percent within 72 hours of an announcement.

Coverage spans US, Other; Internet & Direct Marketing Retail, IT Services; alternative, price, supply_chain; equities.