A Short Review of Amazon Renewed
Let’s just cut to the chase, eh? Here’s Amazon’s own words on what this thing IS:
Amazon Renewed is your trusted destination for pre-owned, refurbished products. Products sold on Amazon Renewed are professionally inspected and tested to work as expected by an Amazon qualified and performance-managed supplier. If we source products from a third-party seller, the third-party seller tests and inspects the product.
You like that? You like me just dishing the details right away?! To be honest, it’s not a bad way to start a blog, but since I know you might not want to click here to more information, I can lay it out for you, no questions asked.
Some Insights
The products you’re buying on Amazon Renewed are items that were returned for one reason or another, and hence cannot be sold as new, even if they legitimately ARE. A phone could have been returned for having damaged packaging, a keyboard could have needed repairs to some components. These products are fixed, inspected, and paired with fresh packaging.
Here’s what kind of physical quality you can expect:
Some more knowledge for you- you get that 90-day guarantee, regardless of the product, but Amazon-specific items like Kindles and Fires get a one year guarantee instead. While some new products will have longer warranty periods of two years or more, newer could obviously be more expensive.
Also of note are the reviews. Since Amazon Renewed has its own portal, the reviews are specific to renewed products as well. And while the product images will not show noticeable refurbishments (these are supposed to be like-new products, after all), the reviews still mention the refurbishments AND show the real products.
But, of course there’s a but, when it comes to third-party sellers on Amazon, whether new or “renewed,” you never know if you’re going to get quality or you’re going to get burned. Sometimes the same listing will have winners and losers in the reviews, some glad and some scammed. That’s where the 90-day guarantee comes in, friends.
