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Apple apparently opens refurbished outlet on eBay

Chris Meadows — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:04:05 +0000

It’s not clear whether Apple is doing this or it’s just someone who’s cut a deal with them (both 9to5Mac and CNet asked Apple for clarification, but the company apparently hasn’t responded yet), but an eBay store entitled “refurbished outlet” has opened up, selling factory-refurbished Apple products at the same prices (including some 4th-gen iPod [...]

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Refurbished 4th generation iPod Touch on bargain sale

Chris Meadows — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 02:15:00 +0000

If you’re looking for a handily pocketable e-reader and wouldn’t feel dirty giving money to Apple, CNet points out that Apple is running a pretty good deal on refurbished 4th-generation (the model from two years ago) iPod Touch units. The 8 GB version is available for $129 shipped (it costs $199 new), the 32 GB [...]

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Refurbished Kindles available cheap at Best Buy

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:53:47 +0000

If you’re currently in the market for a Kindle but happen to be on a strict budget at the same time, head on over to The Digital Reader immediately, where our friend Chris Meadows has a tip on budget-priced refurbished models currently being sold at select Best Buy locations in the United States. Chris says he tracked down [...]

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4th-generation iPod Touch sees refurbishment discount

Chris Meadows — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:30:09 +0000

CNet has a piece about what a good deal the newly-discounted refurbished 4th-gen iPod Touches available at the Apple Store currently are: 8 gig discounted $30 to $169, 32 gig discounted $50 to $249, and 64-gig discounted $60 to $339. These are the models that have the double-resolution Retina Display, and would make great e-readers. [...]

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B&N offers refurbished Nook Color + Simple Touch bundle for $149

Chris Meadows — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:44:08 +0000

Barnes & Noble is offering an amazing deal via eBay, that I would grab up in a heartbeat if I weren’t $80 overdrawn at the moment: a refurbished Nook Color (the first-generation tablet, not the Nook Tablet) for $129, plus a refurbished Nook Simple Touch for $20 more. It’s not clear how long this deal [...]

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Kobo sells refurbished Kobo Wi Fi for $49

Chris Meadows — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:48:11 +0000

eBookNewser reports that Kobo is selling $49 refurbished units of its Kobo Wi Fi reader, the non-touch-capable e-ink reader that it sold before the Kobo Touch. That’s a savings of $40 over list price. The reader appears to come with Kobo’s one-year standard warranty. I bought one of these readers when it was $60 at [...]

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Amazon slashes prices on refurbished Kindles; new model probably on the way

Chris Meadows — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 04:20:37 +0000

In the last few days, Amazon has quietly dropped the price of its refurbished Kindle 3 models. The wi-fi-only ad-free version now sells at $99.99, and the 3G ad-free version at $129.99. That’s a price drop of $30 and $50, respectively. The wi-fi ad-supported Kindle is still $114 new, which means that refurb is starting [...]

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Woot offers $265 no-contract Galaxy Tab refurb

Chris Meadows — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:46:47 +0000

And speaking of tablet deals, Woot has a refurbished Samsung 7” Galaxy Tab Android tablet for $259.99 + $5 for shipping. Of course, you can buy the same tablet for $199.99 with a two-year contract from Sprint, but the refurb is entirely contract-free meaning you can stick with wi-fi or pay for 3G if you [...]

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Geeks.com offers refurbished iPad deal

Chris Meadows — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:33:27 +0000

Another e-reader bargain has popped up. Geeks.com is offering a one-day deal on a refurbished 64GB first-gen iPad Wi-Fi/3G tablet, marking it down $50 to $579.99 and throwing in free shipping. But caveat emptor: it only comes with a 60-day warranty, not Apple’s 1-year version. Just goes to show: if you’re buying refurbished, the best [...]

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Barnes & Noble to launch next-generation Nook May24th

Chris Meadows — Thu, 05 May 2011 04:31:16 +0000

Engadget reports based on an SEC filing that Barnes & Noble will be making an announcement on May 24th “regarding the launch of a new eReader device”. That would explain why they’ve been putting refurbished Nooks on sale on eBay so often lately. Of course, given that all the SEC filing said was that B&N [...]

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Could the Kindle be free by the end of the year?

Chris Meadows — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:29:04 +0000

Could Amazon be offering the Kindle free by the end of the year? Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, thinks so. He points out that an analyst charted the decreases in the Kindle’s price over the last two years and projected that it could be marked down to nothing by November of this year. Kelly [...]

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Refurbished Apple products can be a great deal

Chris Meadows — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:07:38 +0000

On our sister blog Appletell, Charles Moore has a great article on why buying refurbished goods from Apple is actually a pretty good idea. I’ve long suspected this—I got my first iPod Touch as an Apple refurb—but it’s interesting to see it fully explained. Moore explains that refurbished products actually go through a more extensive [...]

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Refurbished Nook Wi-Fi: $79.99, today only

Chris Meadows — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:54:59 +0000

1 Sale a Day is currently offering a refurbished Nook Wi-Fi reader for $79.99 for about twelve more hours. It comes with a 1 year warranty and 90-day free phone support. This is the lowest price yet for a refurbished Nook, and seems like a good enough deal to tempt even me (even if it [...]

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$89 Black Friday Kindles sold out in seconds

Chris Meadows — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:31:30 +0000

Blog Kindle reports on the “aftermath” of the Black Friday $89 Amazon Kindle deal. As might reasonably be expected, the Kindles sold out so fast that some people accused Amazon of not actually having them at all. Not that it’s too surprising, given how popular Amazon is; the blog notes that between Twitter and Facebook, [...]

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Barnes & Noble lists ‘refurbished’ Nooks for $99.99, $119.99 on eBay for rest of year

Chris Meadows — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 22:54:38 +0000

Nate the Great at The Digital Reader notes that one of his readers reported that Barnes and Noble listed refurbished Wi-Fi Nooks on eBay for $79.99 today; it sold 3,590 of them at that price before the listing ended, but has relisted them for $99.99 (and the 3G + WiFi Nook for $119.99) for the [...]

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