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Originally Posted by Blossom
I believe the R stands for Refurbished but yeah. I think my unit was new but just a bad LEDs. The reason I know it was new was because the first time I turned it on I got that wonderful New Smell you get when you first turn on a LED or LCD display for the first time. It went away after while but both my monitor and HDTV smelled like that when I first got it.
My third one will be Thursday. I am hoping it this is the last one!  |
Returned and refurbished are probably much the same when it comes to Kindles. I suspect they take the returned Kindles/Fires, turn them on to make sure they work, do a factory reset, then repackage them as a Refurbished item. At that point they are more like a recycled item. If they turn on and are capable of being reset to factory settings, they most likely don't undergo any more scrutiny. If they show obvious signs of defects, they probably get worked on and truly refurbished, or just tossed if really bad.