Key takeaways
- Aikon is a closed network for registered electronics-trading companies, no individual consumers.
- Companies post buy offers and sell offers. Other companies browse, filter, and find them.
- Every offer has five structured fields: title, category, type (buy or sell), visibility (public or private), and stock location, plus a free-form description.
- Public offers carry the poster's company identity and WhatsApp contact. Private offers are anonymous and use in-app chat only.
- Once two companies match, they talk in-platform. Where the deal goes from there (price, payment, shipping) is between the two trading companies.
- Available on iOS, Android, and web at web.aikon.app. Registration happens through the app.
Short answer. Aikon is the discovery layer for wholesale electronics trading. Registered companies post what they want to buy or sell. Other registered companies browse the offers, filter by category, region and stock location, and reach out to the ones that match. Conversations happen in the app or on WhatsApp depending on the offer's visibility setting. The trade itself is bilateral between the two companies, the same way wholesale electronics trades have always closed.
The piece of the wholesale trade that Aikon owns
Wholesale electronics trading has always had the same shape. A trader has stock to move, or stock to find. They send messages into WhatsApp groups, post into Telegram channels, email contacts from old trade shows, and wait. The price negotiation, the purchase order, the wire transfer, the courier booking, the IMEI verification on delivery. Those parts are well understood and have been for years. What has never worked well is the first step: finding the right counterparty in the first place.
Aikon is the platform for that first step. The discovery and the first contact. Not the negotiation, not the payment, not the shipping. Trading companies already know how to handle the rest. They have been doing it for decades. What they have not had is a structured place to find each other where the noise is filtered out.
How an offer gets posted
Every offer on Aikon has five structured fields plus a free-form description. The structure is what makes filtering possible:
- Title. The headline. "500 iPhone 14 Pro Max Grade A unlocked", "Wanted: PS5 Disc Edition, EU spec, 200+ units".
- Category. One of six: New Phones, Used Phones, Accessories, Laptops, Gaming Consoles, or Others.
- Type. Buying or Selling. The two halves of the marketplace.
- Visibility. Public or Private. Public offers show your company name and let buyers reach you on WhatsApp. Private offers stay anonymous and route every conversation through in-app chat.
- Stock location. Where the goods sit or where the buyer wants them delivered. Hong Kong, Dubai, Miami, Shenzhen, Singapore, Mumbai, Istanbul, Lagos, and so on.
The free-form description is whatever a trader would normally type into a WhatsApp group message: grade rubric, lock status, packaging, payment terms preferences, lead time, anything. The five structured fields make the post findable. The description makes it human.
Public versus private offers
Public offers are the default. They show the poster's company name on the offer card, and a buyer can tap to message on WhatsApp using the phone number on the company profile. Private offers are anonymous: the company name and contact details are not visible, and every conversation runs through in-app chat. Private posting is the feature that lets a trading company test the market for a sensitive deal, a large lot, a price the company would not want competitors to see, a buy intent that might leak into the wider market if posted under the company's own name. The visibility toggle is set per offer, not per account.
How a buyer finds a seller (and vice versa)
A buyer opens Aikon, picks a category (say Used Phones), filters by stock location (say Hong Kong + Dubai), and scrolls the sell offers. Each offer shows the title, the company name (or "Private" for anonymous posts), the stock location, and the description. The buyer taps an offer that fits, reads the full description, and reaches out: WhatsApp button for a public offer, in-app chat for a private one.
A seller does the mirror image. They post a sell offer with their inventory, and buy-side companies who want that SKU find it through the same filtered feed. Buy offers also exist in their own right: a company can post "Wanted: 1,000 Samsung S24 Ultra EU spec" and let sellers come to them.
What happens after first contact
Aikon's role ends where the trade conversation begins. From the first message onwards, the two trading companies handle everything between them: pricing, IMEI sample lists, sample units, the purchase order, the wire transfer or letter of credit, the courier booking, customs paperwork, IMEI verification on receipt. None of that runs through Aikon. It runs the way the wholesale trade has always run, between two trading companies who have agreed to do business with each other.
That is the design. Trading companies already have the tooling, the contracts, the banking, and the operational know-how to close a deal once they have the right counterparty in front of them. The thing they did not have was a structured way to find the right counterparty without scrolling through hundreds of WhatsApp messages or chasing cold contacts at trade shows. Aikon is that.
Who is on Aikon
Aikon is designed for registered companies that operate in the consumer electronics and mobile phone trade: importers, exporters, distributors, wholesalers, refurbishers, IT-asset disposition (ITAD) operators, mobile network operators (MNOs) and mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) sourcing handset inventory, retail chains clearing overstock, specialist traders in niche or end-of-life SKUs. Individual consumers are not the audience. Registration is done through the iOS or Android app; once a company is registered it can also use the web version at web.aikon.app.
Company details on the profile (name, country, trade focus, revenue range) are self-declared. Aikon does not currently run a formal legal-verification step on every company. The platform is built for businesses, and the in-app due-diligence tooling and trader-reported feedback signal which companies are active and serious. Buyers and sellers are expected to do their own due diligence on a counterparty before agreeing terms, the same discipline that applies to any wholesale electronics trade, whether the introduction came through Aikon, a WhatsApp group, or a trade-show handshake.
What Aikon looks like across surfaces
- iOS app: apps.apple.com/us/app/aikon/id6541762807
- Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.aikon.business
- Web app: web.aikon.app (requires registering through the mobile app first)
- Public site: aikon.app, what you are reading now
The feed of offers, the in-app chat, the post-an-offer flow, and the company profile all live in the apps. The website is for orientation, research, the blog, and the free tools (IMEI Check, Bulk IMEI Check, GSMA Status Decoder).
In one sentence
Aikon is where wholesale electronics trading companies find each other, so the trade itself can happen the way it always has: directly, between two companies who decided to do business.
Frequently asked questions
What is Aikon in one sentence?
Aikon is the closed B2B network where registered electronics-trading companies post buy and sell offers, find each other, and start the conversation in-platform.
Who can use Aikon?
Registered companies in the consumer electronics and mobile phone trade: importers, exporters, distributors, wholesalers, refurbishers, ITAD operators, MVNOs sourcing handset inventory, retail chains clearing overstock, and specialist traders. Individual consumers are not the audience.
How does an offer get posted on Aikon?
Every offer has five structured fields plus a free-form description. The structured fields are title, category (New Phones, Used Phones, Accessories, Laptops, Gaming Consoles, Others), type (buying or selling), visibility (public or private), and stock location. The free-form description is whatever a trader would normally put in a WhatsApp group message.
What is the difference between a public offer and a private offer on Aikon?
Public offers show the poster's company name and allow WhatsApp contact using the phone number on the company profile. Private offers are anonymous: company name and contact details are hidden, and every conversation runs through in-app chat. Visibility is set per offer, not per account.
How do two companies find each other on Aikon?
A trader filters the offer feed by category, type and stock location, opens offers that match, and reaches out via WhatsApp (for public offers) or in-app chat (for private offers). Buy-side and sell-side offers both exist, so the discovery works in both directions.
Where is Aikon available?
Aikon is available on iOS, Android, and the web at web.aikon.app. Registration is done through the mobile apps. The web version requires registering through the app first.
Trade on the structured layer
Aikon is free for verified companies. Post buy and sell offers, browse a live feed of vetted counterparties, and connect across iOS, Android and the web.
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