Isn't it strange how there seems to have been an explosion of refurbished GPS devices on the market, in just about every online retailer that you can find? This makes total sense, considering the popularity of the hand held refurbished devices, and especially the automotive GPS devices.
So why are there literally thousands, if not 10's of thousands of inexpensive refurbished GPS devices on the market? There are actually a lot of different reasons why a unit is going to marked as refurbished by a manufacturer or retailer. Interestingly enough, some units are marked as refurbished even though they have never even been opened. Here is a list of some of the common reasons why electronics can get marked as "refurbished" by their manufacturer:
1. For one reason or another the product was sent back to the place of purchase, this generally indicates that the original owner of the product took advantage of the store's return policy for one reason or another. There could have been some defect in the GPS, but this can also not the case; buyers remorse sets in and they decide they need to return the product.
2. The product sat on the store shelf too long and became "overstock". Here a store could simply mark down the product since it was opened and put it back out for customers to purchase, or send the product back to the manufacturer; once the company that made the product get it, the company has to decide what to do with the product - sometimes they just label it as refurbished after making sure it works, and then distribute the devices out again at greatly reduced prices. There is a small chance that the product has not even been opened.
3. Another reason could be that the product was the one on display in the store. When this is the case, the product eventually gets sent back to the manufacturer; the manufacturer then inspects (and repairs, if necessary) the product, and labels it as refurbished.
4. The original owner of the product opened it but returned it because they didn't like it. When this is the case, there is nothing wrong with the product, other than it needs to be sent back to the manufacturer to be repackaged, in which case, oddly enough, it is then labeled as "refurbished".
5. Shipping damage. Sometime boxes get crushed or dropped by shipping personnel, if the damage is major or minor, components or just cosmetic, the unit is shipped back and labeled refurbished.
6. The last reason why a GPS might be labeled in this way is that it didn't work as promised. How common this is depends largely on the product and how many mistake the manufacturer made in creating the product. The problems could be cosmetic, like a scratch on the display, or they could be mechanical, like a broken part, and anything that they can find fault with and fix they do; when the process is complete, the product is literally brand new again, and some might content it is now actually less likely to become defective than the non refurbished products sitting on the shelves of the retail stores; they argue this because refurbished devices generally undergo a battery of tests.
In examining all these reasons we can see that refurbished GPS devices are probably just as good as "new" devices. Not every device out there is going to be great, but there are a lot of excellent units just waiting to be purchased at rock bottom prices.
So why are there literally thousands, if not 10's of thousands of inexpensive refurbished GPS devices on the market? There are actually a lot of different reasons why a unit is going to marked as refurbished by a manufacturer or retailer. Interestingly enough, some units are marked as refurbished even though they have never even been opened. Here is a list of some of the common reasons why electronics can get marked as "refurbished" by their manufacturer:
1. For one reason or another the product was sent back to the place of purchase, this generally indicates that the original owner of the product took advantage of the store's return policy for one reason or another. There could have been some defect in the GPS, but this can also not the case; buyers remorse sets in and they decide they need to return the product.
2. The product sat on the store shelf too long and became "overstock". Here a store could simply mark down the product since it was opened and put it back out for customers to purchase, or send the product back to the manufacturer; once the company that made the product get it, the company has to decide what to do with the product - sometimes they just label it as refurbished after making sure it works, and then distribute the devices out again at greatly reduced prices. There is a small chance that the product has not even been opened.
3. Another reason could be that the product was the one on display in the store. When this is the case, the product eventually gets sent back to the manufacturer; the manufacturer then inspects (and repairs, if necessary) the product, and labels it as refurbished.
4. The original owner of the product opened it but returned it because they didn't like it. When this is the case, there is nothing wrong with the product, other than it needs to be sent back to the manufacturer to be repackaged, in which case, oddly enough, it is then labeled as "refurbished".
5. Shipping damage. Sometime boxes get crushed or dropped by shipping personnel, if the damage is major or minor, components or just cosmetic, the unit is shipped back and labeled refurbished.
6. The last reason why a GPS might be labeled in this way is that it didn't work as promised. How common this is depends largely on the product and how many mistake the manufacturer made in creating the product. The problems could be cosmetic, like a scratch on the display, or they could be mechanical, like a broken part, and anything that they can find fault with and fix they do; when the process is complete, the product is literally brand new again, and some might content it is now actually less likely to become defective than the non refurbished products sitting on the shelves of the retail stores; they argue this because refurbished devices generally undergo a battery of tests.
In examining all these reasons we can see that refurbished GPS devices are probably just as good as "new" devices. Not every device out there is going to be great, but there are a lot of excellent units just waiting to be purchased at rock bottom prices.
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