Thread: Refurb Kindle 4 from Woot can't login to Amazon
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Old 01-17-2019, 10:13 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
I've bought a couple of refurb Kindles from Woot and they actually had factory firmware (several versions older than what's available on website).

Maybe they never had a factory image of the latest firmware version for the Kindle 4 since it was already discontinued by the time the firmware update was released?
Not having the latest customer firmware can be a good thing, but if the device won't talk to the store and there is an update which will enable it to talk to the store, and it is to be sold as refurbished, it should either be updated or there should be a warning that it can not connect to the store.

Just how extensive is refurb testing anyway?
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