Comments on: Refurbished Handhelds Now Available from Palm

In a follow-up to the article we ran last month on refurbished devices being sold by Palm Inc., their website actually now has a few for sale. They are offering the Palm III for $100 and the Palm VII for $280. Neither are available new.

They are sold with a 90-day warranty and come in a white box with all the usual stuff: manual, CD, cradle, etc. They also come with Palm's reassurance that "Reconditioned handhelds are as good as new, cosmetically and electronically."

 Reconditioned - No Problem

PFloyd @ 1/4/2001 10:24:59 AM #

I've had four reconditioned Palms and have had no problems at all with them. I believe the screens have all been new. The digitizers looked perfect in any case. I've had more problems with new Palms than reconditioned.
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 RE: Reconditioned - No Problem

Ed @ 1/5/2001 9:51:59 AM #

Where did you buy these reconditioned Palms?

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 RE: Reconditioned - No Problem

Admin @ 1/5/2001 11:43:20 AM #

I've been through 2 reconditioned Palms myself,
a III and my current Vx. My old Vx went on the fritz and it's flash ram was corrupted, the other I got when I broke the glass on my old III.

When you send a palm in to support for repair they give you the option of waiting for your unit to be repaired or you can have a refurb sent to you.

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 RE: Reconditioned - No Problem

PFloyd @ 1/5/2001 2:37:17 PM #

Same for me. Bad power switch. Dropped one. One just went mad, etc.

 reconditioned palms for sale

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/4/2001 10:50:53 AM #

It would be nicer if they were selling reconditioned 8 meg devices instead of 2 meg ones.

 RE: reconditioned palms for sale

I.M. Anonymous @ 1/5/2001 2:22:28 PM #

Uhh, but Palm is not stuipd. Why would you buy a new (read overpriced) palm when you could buy a refirb for much less? Palm has no desire to cut into their own market.

 reconditioned treo

Danodob @ 7/27/2008 9:57:50 AM #

I am on my fourth treo 700w from sprint and one store said it was new and another store said it was reconditioned with over 7 million minutes. How can I check this on my own? I have about given up on this phone.

Dan

 RE: reconditioned treo

SeldomVisitor @ 7/27/2008 12:15:19 PM #

> ...another store said it was reconditioned with over 7 million minutes...

Hey, that's only 13 solid years of use - like new!