Personal Refurbished GPS systems Are Great Deals
Posted in GPS by Korprit Zombie on June 25th, 2009 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.
Why are there so many cheap refurbished GPS out there? There are actually a slew of reasons why companies are either forced or willingly choose to mark their GPS products as refurbished. Oddly enough, some of the refurbished GPS devices have actually never even had a problem at all, and in some cases, they are still brand new, literally still factory sealed. Take a look at these reasons why any product could labeled as “refurbished”:
1. The product was a “return” by the customer that purchased it, which means that they returned the item to the store that they bought it from within 30 days of the purchase date. There could have been some defect in the GPS, but this can also not the case; the person who purchased it just ends up not wanting it.
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. At that point the retailer will put the product back on the shelves at a marked down price, or deliver the unit to it source; when the product is sent back to the manufacturer, the manufacturer will, in come cases, label the product “refurbished”, and then put the units back out on the market at a marked down price. The funny part about this is the simple fact that the product is still literally brand new, and has never even been opened at all.
3. Another reason could be that the product was the one on display in the store. Devices used as display models generally get shipped back to the factory; the factory then inspects the product, makes any necessary changes, and ships it back out under the refurbished label.
4. The device’s packaging was opened by a customer. If this happens and the store doesn’t want to deal with the unit themselves they send it back to the manufacturer who reseals it and labels it refurbished.
5. Shipping damage. When this happens, it usually just means that only the box that the product was in got damaged, but if anything other than the product was damaged (accessories, or the actual unit), it is completely fixed or replaced by the manufacturer.
6. And finally, a reason for a product to be labeled refurbished is that there was an actual defect in the unit. This is can be a rare scenario. When a product has a defect or cosmetic damage it is sent back to the manufacturer for repair, and if they are able to repair the item’s cosmetic or mechanical problem they do so; whn all this is over the product is going to work just like it was new, and some might argue it is now actually less likely to become defective than the non refurbished products sitting on the shelves of Staples; 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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