Quality Refurbished GPS Products Are Great Deals
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Subscribe To Our Feed
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, automotive GPS navigation units are wildly popular and demand for them is going to be high, especially if they are cheap.
What are the reasons behind this deluge of cheap 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. Here is a list of some of the common reasons why electronics can get marked as “refurbished” by their manufacturer:
1. The person who originally wanted the product brought it back to the store, indicating that there was some motivation on the part of the owner of the product to get their money back. 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. A product could find itself “over stocked” and the company could be looking for ways to unload inventory. 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; once the company that made the product get it, the manufacturer will, in come cases, label the product “refurbished”, and then distribute the devices out again at greatly reduced prices. In some cases these “refurbed” products will have never been opened, meaning that the discount is for no reason at all.
3. It could be that the unit is left over because it was a “display model”. When this is the case, the product eventually gets sent back to the manufacturer; the factory then inspects the product, makes any necessary changes, and ships it back out under the refurbished label.
4. The product was opened. 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. There was a defect in the product. How common this is depends largely on the product and how many mistake the manufacturer made in creating the product. 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 they can find fault with and fix they do; 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 electronics outlets; this is due to the fact that refurbished products under go very extensive testing.
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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