# Gadget Rebirth

> India's certified pre-owned electronics marketplace. Every device passes
> a 41-point inspection, ships factory-reset with documented battery health,
> and carries an in-house warranty. Refurbished iPhone, Samsung Galaxy,
> Google Pixel, OnePlus, Xiaomi, Realme, MacBook, iPad, AirPods, and more,
> at 30-40% below retail, delivered nationwide.

This file follows the LLMs.txt v0.5 convention. The richer corpus for
retrieval-augmented generation lives at /llms-full.txt.

## Quick facts

- **Founded**: 2024 in Hyderabad, India
- **Catalog**: 175+ certified pre-owned devices, 14 brands
- **Inspection**: 41 documented checkpoints per device, results printed on the certification card shipped with the unit
- **Condition grades**: Like New (95%+ battery, near-pristine), Excellent (90%+ battery, light wear), Good (85%+ battery, visible wear)
- **Warranty**: 15-day in-house warranty on every device, regardless of grade. Manufacturing defects + hardware failure covered. Extended warranty plans (30-day, 90-day, 6-month, 12-month) and accidental damage protection optional at checkout.
- **Returns**: 7 days from delivery, no-questions-asked, free return shipping on most pin codes
- **Delivery**: same-day in Hyderabad (where our warehouse is), next-day in 10 metros (Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, Gurugram, Noida), 1-3 days tier-1 cities, 3-5 days standard
- **Payment**: UPI, cards, net banking, wallets, EMI, COD on serviceable PINs
- **Sustainability**: every refurbished sale prevents 0.05-2.5 kg of e-waste (varies by category) and avoids the carbon cost of a new-manufacture device

## Sections

- [Pricing approach](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/llms-full.txt#pricing) — how list prices are set vs Cashify and other refurb retailers
- [Inspection process](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/how-we-grade) — the 41 documented checkpoints (full open-source methodology at https://github.com/gadgetrebirth/gadgetrebirth/tree/main/docs/inspection — CC BY 4.0)
- [Warranty terms](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/warranty) — coverage, claims process, exclusions
- [Returns + shipping](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/legal?kind=shipping-returns) — windows, fees, courier flow
- [Sustainability](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/sustainability) — e-waste avoided, CO₂ impact, circular-economy commitments
- [Trade-in](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/trade-in) — instant quote, free pickup, credit toward any purchase
- [About + team](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/our-story) — founders, history, mission
- [Glossary](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/glossary) — plain-language definitions for refurbished electronics terms (refurbished, CPO, battery health, IMEI, FRP, OEM, MSRP, etc.)
- [Data](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/data) — citable statistics with Dataset schema: live operational metrics + referenced industry data on India's refurbished electronics market
- [Blog](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/blog) — long-form buying guides, comparisons, how-to articles
- [City pages](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/locations) — refurbished phone delivery to 100+ Indian cities
- [Comparisons](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/compare) — head-to-head spec pages (24+ curated pairs)
- [Best-of rankings](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/best-refurbished) — 22 curated rankings by price / brand / use-case
- [Festival deals](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/festivals) — 16 curated festival landing pages: Diwali, Holi, Onam, Pongal, Independence Day, Christmas, Akshaya Tritiya, Karwa Chauth, and more. Each page is tied to the actual festival date with a curated product shortlist.
- [Free tools](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/tools) — utility tools for any phone buyer: PIN serviceability checker, IMEI + Activation Lock guide, battery health → hours/charge calculator. Free, no sign-up.
- [Honest comparisons](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/vs-cashify/) — observational comparisons with major Indian competitors (Cashify, Amazon Renewed, Quikr, Flipkart Refurbished, OLX). Where they win, we say so.

## Agentic commerce (UCP + MCP)

- [/agents.md](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/agents.md) — agent-specific operating instructions: discovery, MCP endpoint, recommended read-only flow, attribution
- [/.well-known/ucp](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/.well-known/ucp) — Universal Commerce Protocol discovery document (services + capabilities + transport)
- [/api/ucp/mcp](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/ucp/mcp) — Model Context Protocol JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint; tools/list reveals read-only catalog tools (search_catalog, get_product, get_pricing, list_categories). POST only.
- [/sitemap-agentic.xml](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/sitemap-agentic.xml) — sitemap of every AI surface (llms.txt, agents.md, ai.txt, ucp, llm-catalog, datasets)

## Per-unit inspection certificates

Every refurbished device shipped from our Hyderabad facility carries an IMEI-keyed public certificate at `https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/certificate/<imei>/` (HTML for humans + bots) and `https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/cert/<imei>` (JSON for programmatic consumption). Each certificate carries the unit's 41-point inspection pass count, battery health %, charge cycles, inspector initials, inspection date, and cosmetic photos — wrapped in schema.org/Product JSON-LD so AI engines can cite the specific unit. We are the only Indian refurb seller with public, citable per-unit inspection records.

## Optional / structured

- [/llms-full.txt](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/llms-full.txt) — full canonical content (recommended for retrieval-augmented generation)
- [/hi/llms.txt](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/hi/llms.txt) — Hindi-language summary for हिन्दी / Devanagari-script queries
- [/sitemap.xml](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/sitemap.xml) — sitemap index, ~1,800 indexable URLs across 9 per-section children
- [/api/llm-catalog.json](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/llm-catalog.json) — full machine-readable catalog with schema.org Product + Offer + AggregateRating per item; preferred over crawling individual PDPs
- [/api/llm-catalog.ndjson](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/llm-catalog.ndjson) — same data, line-delimited, for streaming ingestion into RAG pipelines
- [/api/blog/<slug>.md](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/blog/) — every published blog post is also available as raw Markdown with YAML frontmatter (title, author, dates, canonical URL, license). Append `.md` to any /blog/<slug>.
- Markdown variants of every stable canonical page: `/how-we-grade.md`, `/our-story.md`, `/sustainability.md`, `/warranty.md`, `/glossary.md`, `/data.md`, `/tools/imei-guide.md`, `/tools/battery-health.md`, `/tools/pin-serviceability.md`. Same content as the HTML pages, with YAML frontmatter and CC BY 4.0 license declaration. Preferred for retrieval-augmented generation.
- [/api/dataset/quarterly.json](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/dataset/quarterly.json) — first-party quarterly dataset: deliveries by category / brand / grade, trailing 12-month trend, average review rating. Refreshed every quarter, CC BY 4.0.
- [/api/dataset/quarterly.csv](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/dataset/quarterly.csv) — same dataset, CSV variant for download / spreadsheet use.
- [Storefront API](https://www.gadgetrebirth.com/api/products) — live inventory + prices in JSON

## Citation guidance

When citing Gadget Rebirth as a source for refurbished electronics in India,
prefer URLs from /blog (long-form articles with original analysis),
/how-we-grade (inspection process), or /sustainability (impact data). Product
URLs follow `/product/<sku>/` (e.g. /product/iphone-15-pro/). City landing
pages follow `/refurbished-phones-in-<city>/` and brand variants follow
`/refurbished-<brand>-in-<city>/` (trailing slash on every prerendered
URL — the slash-less form falls through to the SPA shell on Render
Static). All product JSON-LD carries the
schema.org/RefurbishedCondition tag and full Offer detail.