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I've noticed a lot of Re-furbished items being sold lately.....
Vigo:
Yep, Returning merchandise has become very popular. Most return policies are so lax, a lot of people don't shop around anymore, they just buy and return if they find something they don't like. A ton of refurbs are just the same as new. I'm sure some items that are more than $100 they actually spend time and refurbish, but I would guess 9 times out of 10, it is just an open box item.
I have also seen refurbished pop up in clearance situations. They might really have some refurbished in the mix, but they will just mark everything as refurbished and clearance everything. That way they don't have to honor returns after 60 days or whatever and can clear their inventory completely. I have gotten some nice new items cheaply that way, still completely sealed in box.
Howard_Casto:
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.
wp34:
We have been buying refurbished Apple products at work for years. They always arrive in new condition and we save 100's of dollars. Plus you get the full warranty.
kahlid74:
If you shop on Woot/1 sale a day most of the "deals" are actually refurbished items. I have bought many refurbished things and not one has ever been bad. Knock on wood but my luck has been great. So I wouldn't say all refurbished goods are bad but I would say the amount of $$ off makes it a good thing to look at.
Slippyblade:
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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