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Anyone else here into refurbished electronics?
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Topic: Anyone else here into refurbished electronics?
I love refurbished electronics. I am still looking for a refurbished Macbook to purchase. Refurbished products usually have minor glitches or the client never opened the box and sent them back because they no longer wanted the product.
If it's in the minor glitch category it's put through tests, fixed and repackaged for sale. If it's just sent back because no one wanted the product it's just repackaged.
Would you guys purchase a refurbished product?
Re: Anyone else here into refurbished electronics?
Where do you find the refurbished products? I'd be interested in purchasing a new Macbook that was refurbished. My sister has purchased refurbished Ipods and had no problems with them.
Re: Anyone else here into refurbished electronics?
You can purchase refurbished Macbooks and other mac products directly from their website. Just do a simple Goggle search or do a search for refurbs on Apple's website.
Alot of the electronic manufacturers are allowing people to purchase refurbs directly from their website now as they see the huge value in this service, rather than letting all that business go to a third party vendor.
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I've never used refurbished products, but when it comes to electronics, I'm less likely to use them. Buying other things secondhand is something I'm comfortable with, but for some stuff I'd rather buy new.
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I disagree, Alana. Refurbished products can often be nicer equipped than the original products. Often, they also come with warranties that guarantee that they will work well.
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They aren't technically second hand as only products that have been returned within the 30 day refund period, or even less for other companies, are sold as refurbished, as far as I know. Oh, and display units in shops as well.
I love refurbished products for the simple reason that I have proven to myself that electronics are no longer made to last. Whether new or refurbished it will still break down after a year or two. I would rather something I paid half-price for break down rather than something new. Such as my brand new vacuum cleaner that went belly up after one year. I live alone in a one bedroom flat, there wasn't that much vacuuming to be done lol
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Exactly Lily, I went to school a techy school with lots of software and computer engineers who always told me how chips and parts in computers were designed to fail within a number of years. These companies want you to come back and buy more products.
I am still waiting to get lucky with a Mac refurb. I know if someone ordered one with additional customized software & hardware, you still get the computer at the refurbished price with the upgraded software & hardware that person purchased.
Re: Anyone else here into refurbished electronics?
Exactly Lily, I went to school a techy school with lots of software and computer engineers who always told me how chips and parts in computers were designed to fail within a number of years. These companies want you to come back and buy more products.
I've heard the same thing about products as well, whether they are computers/electronic products or other products such as cars and appliances. It's most definitely a consumption-driven market.
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I can give you a certified example. My sister has a Toshiba laptop which stopped working after about a year. We took it to Toshiba and they told us it would cost $800 to fix because the motherboard broke down. So, we took it to a small company that repairs computers and laptops and they told us that Toshiba builds a switch thingie into their laptops so that within at most 2 years the laptop breaks down and you have to buy another. They fixed it for her at a third of the price.
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