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Perhaps at Christmas you received a refurbished device, that is to say used, but refurbished. This is the big trend right now, because it costs less. But you still have to choose it well. How not to be mistaken? Are these devices as reliable as those that left the factory?
You may have several sleeping in the back of your drawers. Used phones, but not necessarily out of order, which could be repaired and resold, sometimes at reduced prices on the market, to live a second life. In recent years, the madness of refurbished devices has seized the French, it represents 15% of phone sales this year.
Before reaching the supermarket shelves, the devices are repaired in a workshop near Nantes, where 15,000 smartphones, tablets, user computers arrive each month, bought back at low prices from individuals or wholesalers. After a first sorting, all the functionalities are examined. The smartphone is then boned, each deficient part is changed. The company hopes to repair twice as many smartphones this year, with attractive prices between 30 and 50% cheaper than new ones on average. A third of French people plan to buy their refurbished devices.