How Difficult Has It Been To Buy An iPhone From Abroad From Year To Year?

With the Official Gazette dated July 7, 2023, new VAT rates and IMEI registration increases that will go down in Turkey’s history were announced. While the VAT hike will take effect on July 15, 2023 new IMEI registration feeIt will be valid from tomorrow.

Along with the utopian IMEI fees of 20 thousand TL, the issue of purchasing phones from abroad was also on the agenda. We have calculated this separately for you in this content. Well, the “logic” level of buying a phone from abroad, How much has it changed over the years?

Before we move on to our content, let’s explain how we did our calculations:

• Dollar exchange rate, from the closing rate on July 7 of each year (If 7th July is coming to the weekend, last weekday closing).
• iPhone prices are the same as the dollar rate prices on the 7th of July of each year taken as.
• iPhone prices in dollars, from launch prices receipt.
• IMEI fees, Fees effective on 7 July of each year covers. For example, in 2019, the IMEI fee increased to 1,500 TL on 19 July. However, on July 7, it was 618 TL.
• Each year is based on the most current base iPhone model of that year.

With this data, the table was formed as follows:

2018 – iPhone X

2019 – iPhone Xs

2020 – iPhone 11

2021 – iPhone 12

2022 – iPhone 13

2023 – iPhone 14

If we leave the iPhone Xs and iPhone 13 aside, there is a difference between buying other iPhone models from abroad or from Turkey. There is no significant difference on a percentage basis. we can see. Of course, when you consider the difference as a unit, you will see that the numbers increase, but it should not be forgotten that the TL depreciates as the numbers grow.

What happened on July 7, 2023: