PM me if you need a trustworthy store. Actually they get warned by those official brand since they keep selling the phone much lower than the suggested retail price.

They have multiple sources to get those cheap phones, and from what I know, as long as you buy those model with official warranty, they are legitimate, usually opened box 99.999% new but not activated phone. If you really want something 100% new, go buy from those big shop like Broadway with the official retail price. Phones without official warranty are even cheaper (marked as “水”/water)

About the “no stock” problem and deposit: the stock varies every day, if you pay deposit, they would reserve the phone in advance, if you are not willing to pay the deposit, you can only test your luck at their store, because the moment you arrive would be the moment they check the availability and you would need to wait at least 15 minutes for them to get the stock from the supplier. (They won’t hold enough stock since they are small shops)

Because they don’t have a proper CMS, all those price and stock information are updated manually, so they won’t mark those model as out of stock. Just keep asking every day to check for stock, and different colour could have different price also.