We just had a major storm in the midwest and many areas lost power for 3 to 5 days. Someone mentioned they bought a large generator, used it for 3 days and returned it for a refund.
My question is what does the stores do with the used equiptment? They can’t sell it as new. I am interested in seeing the prices they are offering for a basically new generator, reconditioned or used. Any one have an insite?
most of these stores know that people buy things all the time with the full intention of returning them
such as lawn mowers just to mow for the weekend
in many cases the store does simply clean it and resell it if it still looks new … after all it still has the full warrenty
but somethings get scratched in the process
so those things get sent in for "refurbishing"
once it is determined they are in good working order they are returned to the store with a refurbished marking and sold for about half price and carry only a LIMITED warrenty
over half the power equiptment i have for my remodeling company came from home depot at less then one third the price as refurbs
because of people buying things they know they are not keeping
gotta love people that take advantage of store policies
of course what most people dont know is that every return is recorded ( hence the ‘may i see your drivers license’ line that comes up in any return process)and only three returns in a year are allowed anything after three and they are stuck with it no matter what happens to it
so choose which items you need to return wisely
they would probably send it back to the manufacture, or put it back on sale as new, i would doubt that they knew he used it and it wasn’t a unused return or broken…..sounds like he screwed them over