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F.O.A.D.

On 5/18/13 9:21 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 18 May 2013 18:08:40 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

How the hell would either of you know how much it costs to ship a barrel
full of broken iphones to wherever they go for repair. The phones are
repaired, because Apple frequently offers "refurbs" with new phone
warranties.

Maybe because I was in the computer hardware biz for 30 years?

Most "refurbs" are returned *working* products that are just not
factory fresh (missing original packaging etc) or products that just
needed a software reload. You are not "fixing" much on these machine
soldered boards with SMT components.

I know IBM sold monitors for over $400 and our cost was ~$39 FOB in
Korea.
You couldn't pay a guy making $20 an hour to do anything with a flaky
one for that kind of money. We chucked them in the recycle

The stuff actually being refurbed is shipped back to China and refurbed
in the same factory that built it to begin with, according to some Apple
guys who seem to know all, see all, and post all.