Portable Refurbished GPS Products Are Great Deals

Have you ever noticed that there seems to be a huge abundance of 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, automotive GPS navigation units are wildly popular and demand for them is going to be high, especially if they are cheap.

So why are there literally thousands, if not 10’s of thousands of 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. Interestingly enough, some units are marked as refurbished even though they have never even been opened. Take a look at these reasons why any product could labeled as “refurbished”:

1. For one reason or another the product was sent back to the place of purchase, which means that they returned the item to the store that they bought it from within 30 days of the purchase date. More often than not, there is literally nothing even wrong with the product; sometimes people just don’t want the product that they bought.

2. The product sat on the store shelf too long and became “overstock”. At that point the retailer will put the product back on the shelves at a marked down price, or ship the GPS back to TomTom, Garmin, or Magellan; once the company that made the product get it, 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. 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 producer checks out the navigation unit for any defects or damage and then sends it back out to be sold as a refurbished GPS.

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. 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. The last reason why a GPS might be labeled in this way is that it didn’t work as promised. 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 anything that was broken or defective is replaced with brand new parts; when the process is complete, the product is literally brand new again, and some might content 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.

Refurbished GPS units represent a value to consumers that they should take advantage of. 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.