What you should know before buying refurbished gadgets
by Cameron Faulkner from The Verge - All Posts on (#53H6H)
Gadgets get a second life when you buy refurbished. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Most people know that buying a refurbished tech product will save you money compared to buying it new. It also gives a device a second life instead of sending it off to be recycled. Even though demand isn't as high for gadgets as it was during the height of the pandemic, buying refurbished is sometimes a clever workaround for finding new or tough-to-find products at a lower price. If you're gifting tech for the holidays (and perhaps you want to avoid the Black Friday and Cyber Monday rush), it's not a bad idea to see what kinds of stuff you can find refurbished across the web.
Those are all good things - yet refurbished" is still a loaded word for a lot of people. New means new, a product that nobody else has used. On the other hand,...