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I've noticed a lot of Re-furbished items being sold lately.....
hypernova:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 24, 2012, 01:33:56 pm ---Also keep in mind there is refurbished and remanufactured. Totally different.
Refurbished means that somebody bought a product and returned it. They may or may not have used it (so you might see dings and scratches ect) but when it was returned the manufacturer found it to be in perfect working order, so they re-packaged it for resale.
Remanufactured is when somebody returns something because it broke or it didn't work, it gets sent back to the factory and "repaired". This is what you want to avoid. Generally when something is sent back because it doesn't work there was a manufacturing defect somewhere and no amount of repairs is going to stop it from being a crappy product.
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I've never seen the term "remanufactured" on merchandise. It's always "refurbished". While refurbished generally connotes cosmetic and other aesthetic properties that don't affect the product itself, I would wager that some companies use the term to denote stuff that's repaired because of some actual defect that affected the functioning of it.
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on September 24, 2012, 05:27:36 pm ---Just don't buy a Gamestop "refurb"... They're not. I was a manager there for years and I'd say about half of the systems that corp sent us from the "Refurbishment Center" were dead out of the box. Red Ringed xboxes, yellow light PS3's, controllers with broken sticks, etc. Junk.
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Gamestop being unscrupulous? Perish the thought! :D
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: hypernova on September 24, 2012, 05:51:57 pm ---I've never seen the term "remanufactured" on merchandise. It's always "refurbished". While refurbished generally connotes cosmetic and other aesthetic properties that don't affect the product itself, I would wager that some companies use the term to denote stuff that's repaired because of some actual defect that affected the functioning of it.
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That's kind of the point. I'm pretty sure they are required by law to let you know if the product has been remanufactured, but they sure try to hide it.
Real world example:
I saw a cricut in a Big Lots ad a while back claiming to be refurbished. It was like 60% off or something so I thought I would check it out. I get there and indeed it has one of those big "refurbished" stickers on it. It also had a bit of text added on in really small print. The first line was something like "This product has been remanufactured" with a small paragraph of text explaining what that means. They try to pass remanufactured stuff off as refurbished all the time. You need to look very carefully, especially at your local closeout store.
Gray_Area:
Mmmmmm. That all is what I figured.
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 25, 2012, 02:22:27 pm ---cricut
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Off topic, but a Cricut with the Sure-cuts-a-lot software is an awesome thing. :applaud:
ChadTower:
I had never heard of Cricut before. Looks pretty cool. :)
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