Refurbished GPS Units Are Great Deals
Have you seen all the refurbished GPS devices for sale, especially at the big online retailers like Amazon.com, Buy.com, and Ebay.com? This makes total sense, automotive GPS navigation units are wildly popular and demand for them is going to be high, especially if they are cheap.
Why are there so many refurbished GPS out on the market right now? There are actually a slew of reasons why companies are either forced or willingly choose to mark their GPS products as refurbished. Interestingly enough, some units are marked as refurbished even though they have never even been opened. The most common reasons for electronics based products (IE: GPS devices) becoming “refurbished” are:
1. The person who originally wanted the product brought it back to the store, which means that they returned the item to the store that they bought it from within 30 days of the purchase date. In some circumstances the reason behind this return has nothing to do with the functionality or quality of the product; sometimes people just don’t want the product that they bought.
2. The manufacturer created too many of the specific model and needs to get ride of some of their inventory to make room for more. When this happens, the store will either sell the product for a clearance price, or deliver the unit to it source; when the product is sent back to the manufacturer, a business decision needs to be made about how to best handle the new inventory, this sometimes has the outcome of the device getting labeled “refurbished”, and then put the units back out on the market at a marked down price. In some cases these “refurbed” products will have never been opened, meaning that the discount is for no reason at all.
3. Another reason could be that the product was the one on display in the store. Display models almost always get sent back to the unit maker; the factory then inspects the product, makes any necessary changes, and ships it back out under the refurbished label.
4. The product was opened. 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. There was a defect in the product. This can be pretty common depending on the batch of GPS navigation units. Once the defective GPS is in the hands of the manufacturer they test it to see what exactly is wrong with it, and anything that was broken or defective is replaced with brand new parts; once the repair is done the GPS is as good as new, and some might argue 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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