What does "refurbished" mean? Camera-Wise ?

Question

If a camera is "refurbished" is it okay to buy it ? From a professional camera store ?

Answer 1

It can be anything from someone purchased it & returned it for no reason other then they changed their mind... or it was malfunctioning and the manufacturer repaired it. Either way make sure it comes with warranty.

Answer 2

Refurbished means either it was repaired, or returned back to the company under warranty or it was used as a demo model which is being sold. The demo models are normally sold when a new model is being launched. So they replace the manuals, do some cleaning etc and sell it as refurbished.



Yes it is ok to buy it from a professional camera store. You will get the warranty.

Answer 3

It's often like buying a "demo" car. It should come with a manufacturer's warranty, even though it's a refurb. The warranty may be for 90 days instead of a year, but you will save quite a bit of money. A refurb Nikon D50 is about $200-250 cheaper than a new one. You can get an aftermarket warranty for refurbs costing only about $30 for a five year warranty, so ask about that. If it makes the difference between buying the camera you really want or settling for one that you think will be "good enough," I'd say to go ahead and buy the refurb. You generally will not be able to tell it from a new camera.

Answer 4

Everything that is manufactured has a small percentages of defects. The refurbished items were purchased, the defect discovered, returned to the factory where the defect was fixed. Many times these items (cameras) are tested much better than the ones coming off the line. I would buy a refurbished camera

Answer 5

Refurbished is perfectly fine to buy. Anytime an electronic is sold and then returned it automatically goes back to the factory. They in turn sell it as refurbished. It's possible that the camera had a defect and was fixed by the manufacturer. It's also possible that someone opened the box and then realized it wasn't what they had wanted and returned it. The company is not allowed to sell it as "new" so they sell it as refurbished.



I have a refurbished digital camera. I had it for 4 years and it worked fabulously. I have since upgraded to a newer one (with more memory) but my sister uses my old camera now and absolutely loves it. My son took it to Punta Cana and took a butt load of pictures with it... and I have 3 kids... trust me, many many pictures were taken with that camera.



Go for it.

Answer 6

A lot of things are sold "refurbished" but I would not buy a refurbished camera. It means that something serious went wrong with it and they fixed it but I'd be suspicious that the same things would go wrong after I bought it or that it's a model that had a lot of bugs not worked out.

Answer 7

Wassup, G? I've been working on this serpent thing for a while now. Get this... What I've found out is that ''serpent'' was a metaphor for either ''wise man,'' ''wizard,'' or ''being of light'' back when the Book of Genesis was written. This symbol had to have still been in use in Jewish culture by the time Jesus came. So there's your answer for the serpent part. ''Be wise men. Know your surroundings. Know when to strike and when to stay cool.'' I really don't think Satan disguised himself as a snake in the garden. I think he manifested himself as either a person or a ''being of light'' (St. Paul wrote a verse about Satan sometimes disguising himself as the latter, though I can't name the verse or even the book. I just remember reading it in one of the epistles). When God tells him ''on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life,'' (Gen. 3:14, NKJV) I think this is also heavy symbolism, meaning ''you will be lowly in My sight and bow down to Me, begging, just to eat the scraps from My table.'' In verse 15, ''He will bruise your head'' means ''Jesus is gonna mess you up in a bad bad way, and the wound you sustain will damage the seat of your intellect and your abilty to control people.'' The next part, the phrase ''you shall bruise His heel'' means ''you will impair His flesh for a short time, but He will be able to recover easily. After three days and three nights, He will rise again.'' Also, being under one's heel is a position of inferiority (1 Kings 5:3, Lamentations 3:34, Malachi 4:3, Romans 16:20, 1 Corinthians 15:25). To this day, if man in the Middle East shows another man the bottom of his foot- even unintentionally, while sitting down with his legs crossed- it's taken as a sign of disrespect. It's taken as an insult. ''You're beneath me.'' We see the serpent reference again in Mark 16:18, when Jesus tells about His believers. We don't hear anything about the apostles picking up snakes, but a certain sorcerer named Simon is mentioned in Acts 8:9, when he is ''taken up,'' or ''converted'' by the church. So all this is part of my new and improved (and probably heretical) Drewish theory. Sorry about all the extra stuff you had to read, but I hadn't shared this with anyone else yet. Now as for the dove, it's just a symbol of peace. Nothing too complicated about it. The dove is a harmless animal. It's not predatory. It never attacks other creatures, besides worms and bugs, possibly (I have no idea what doves eat. LOL). I don't have any good scriptural references, other than the ones you already know about the Holy Spirit descending upon Jesus like a dove, right before He was baptized, or the one from the story of the Great Flood, or sacrificial animals in the Old Testament. It's just a universal sign of peace and passivity. Love, peace, and chicken grease, Drew

Answer 8

This means that all the worn out parts have been replaced, and that it functions the way it should. Usually, refurbished equipment is given at least a 6 month warranty.

Answer 9

Basically,it's a "second-hand" camera that had a problem,needed to be repaired and now is being sold as refurbished.

Answer 10

Refurbished - An electronic item, computer, game system, mp3 player, camera that has been repaired/cleaned up

Answer 11

If it's refurbished, it's already broken and fixed. Which means it's not good as a completely new one.

Answer 12

Usually they take a used camera and fix and replace all parts that are needed and then resell it. If you trust the store, then go ahead.

Answer 13

Someone bought it new, then return it to the shop.



The shop sent it back to factory for repair or retest. The factory repackage it and send it back to stores with label of refurbuish.



That's my understanding.



Very much like certified used-car.

Answer 14

I'm pretty sure it means like sent in to the company for a problem, fixed then returned for someone to purchase.

Answer 15

it mean USED, than some one returned to the store or it was broken and returned to the factory fix and now is being re-sold i would get a warranty just in case!!

Answer 16

It just means that it's used. I would ask for some type of warranty ( or guarantee ) before buying it though.

Answer 17

It usually means its been in some fat perverts butt, don't buy one. Even some shady places, which I will not mention for fear of libel, even sell their refurbs as new. Make sure you smell the prodct your buying. If it has "that smell", corn chunks, or various other vegetables that don't digest well, on it, don't buy it.

Answer 18

refurbished items are normally items that broke, but they fix them and resell

Answer 19

It means they wiped off the previous owner's fingerprints and smudge marks.

Answer 20

were at some point and time it was broke and has been fix so it can be resold normally at a cheaper value

Answer 21

redone, redid, fixed, changed. Depends if you cant take it back then no other wise go for it and if you dont like it take it back!

Answer 22

it means that it has been repaired, if they offer a warranty i would buy it!

Answer 23

it was used before.

Answer 24

obviously u don't have a Websters over there?