As for technological purchases, a truly advantageous way of saving is to buy a refurbished or refurbished product if you are buying online on a foreign site. For example, it is possible to find for sale an iPhone 5S, officially no longer for sale, sold as new, but refurbished, at a clearly lower price than it cost when it was new, at a price practically equivalent to that of a used iPhone 5S .
But a refurbished phone or PC is not
To be easy to understand, an electronic device, such as a computer or smartphone, if it is sold as "refurbished" or refurbished ", is to be understood as if it were a zero kilometer car.
It is not said, therefore, that it is a used product, but rather a "renewed" device, sold as if it were new even if in reality it is not.
What exactly, reconditioned "> reconditioned" means, and not even for the English term " Refurbished ".
When you find something for sale with this label, it could mean one of the following:
- New product with a defect that has been corrected by the manufacturer after an initial sales period
- New item which has been damaged in transportation and has since been repaired.
- New item that had been purchased and then immediately returned using the right of withdrawal (usually within 7 or 30 days).
- Product that was purchased and returned due to a defect, then corrected.
- Used item that was returned to the manufacturer under warranty due to some problem, then solved by the manufacturer and resold.
- Used item that was sold as used to a seller or shop which then restored it aesthetically, renewed and also repackaged.
It is difficult to trace the reason why an object has been reconditioned, so everything lies in the reliability of the seller and, above all, in the presence of a guarantee on the product, especially in the case of a mobile phone, a computer or an electronic component.
Without a doubt the best of the stores that sell refurbished technological devices is Amazon Warehouse Deals, both for the lowered prices, and rather for the one-year warranty offered to these products.
Even better is the Amazon Renewed section to buy Amazon certified refurbished products, tested and double checked.
To answer the question of whether it is better or not to buy a refurbished smartphone, I could say that perhaps yes, it is convenient, especially if it is no longer a new phone for sale, which are therefore resold with very low prices.
For example, I personally bought a refurbished iPhone 5S almost a year ago, which came to me as if it were new, in its original packaging.
I don't know if that iPhone had previously been used, but both in appearance and functionality it looked like new.
To make other examples of technological objects sold as reconditioned, we can talk about assembled computers, including portable ones, mobile devices such as tablets, components such as CPUs, SSD disks, graphics cards, all objects that can hardly be damaged in a short time if they do not have defects factory.
For example, a refurbished Mac can be purchased directly on the Apple website and being under warranty it can certainly represent a convenient opportunity.
A different discussion can be made for TVs or monitors, which may have been returned by previous buyers because they have some defective pixels.
In the case of online purchases, it can happen that a refurbished product has signs of wear or minor aesthetic imperfections but, usually, they are also difficult to see and do not represent a problem.
The exceptions can still happen and, in the case of Amazon Warehouse Deals, there is a percentage of users who are dissatisfied as the product described as in excellent condition was, in reality, in a very bad state.
This type of problem is easily solved, however, since with the Amazon guarantee you can return a product at no cost and get a full refund.
