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Have you seen all the refurbished GPS devices for sale, within just about any given ecommerce store that can be found by doing a google search? This makes total sense, considering the popularity of the hand held refurbished devices, and especially the automotive GPS devices.

What are the reasons behind this deluge of refurbished GPS units on the market? 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. For one reason or another the product was sent back to the place of purchase, indicating that there was some motivation on the part of the owner of the product to get their money back. In some circumstances the reason behind this return has nothing to do with the functionality or quality of the product; 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. Here a store could simply mark down the product since it was opened and put it back out for customers to purchase, 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 distribute the devices out again at greatly reduced prices. 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. It could be that the unit is left over because it was a “display model”. Display models almost always get sent back to the unit maker; 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. 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. Once the defective GPS is in the hands of the manufacturer they test it to see what exactly is wrong with it, and if they are able to repair the item’s cosmetic or mechanical problem they do so; when the process is complete, the product is literally brand new again, and some might say it is now actually less likely to become defective than the non refurbished products sitting on the shelves of Best Buy; this is due to the fact that refurbished products under go very extensive testing.

As you can see, the reasons for a GPS to be refurbished are varied. 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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