Trading Mobile Phones in the Streets. Hong Kong
Some streets in Hong Kong are full of people offering to buy from you second hand mobile phones or many other kind of electronics. They are buyers, not sellers.
A particular street in Causeway Bay is full of them, but you can see them in other streets as well.
A particular street in Causeway Bay is full of them, but you can see them in other streets as well.
They look kind of funny, always calculating and chatting and ready to pay cash to the approaching customer.
Where do the acquired phones end up ? Almost all the stuff that these people buy is recycled and sold to Africa through a cavernous shopping mall in Kowloon, Chungking Mansions.
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The arcade at street level of Chung King mansions is not really a shopping mall, but more a business and wholesale centre recycling second hands goods from the market of the Indian Subcontinent and Africa.
Chinese University of Hong Kong anthropologist Prof. Gordon Mathews estimated in 2007 that up to 20 percent of the mobile phones recently in use in sub-Saharan Africa had passed through Chungking Mansions at some point.
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