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> Personally I’d be shocked if Apple allows an independent repair provider to provide both OEM and third party parts.

How exactly would they know? Just run two corporate entities out of one shop, with the grey-market one registered to a nearby PO box.

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“Hello, how much to replace the screen on an iPhone X?”

Just because it's not easily enforceable doesn't mean shops will accept knowingly breaking their terms with Apple.

And, as mentioned in a sibling comment, there are ways to do it, like an auditor posing as a customer, or simply compelling them to say under oath if they are doing this or not (in which case the situation goes from breach of contract to lying under oath).

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