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A total of 14 Yurbuds earbuds are available in refurbished condition for $10 per pair, and with free shipping for the Continental USA at Tech Rabbit. Lines participating include Ironman, Inspire, and Leap (bluetooth). They come with a 1-year warranty as well (does not state whether the warranty is by Yurbuds or TechRabbit).
PS: Yurbuds too will soon be part of Samsung, since Samsung bought Harman, which owns JBL which owns Yurbuds 🙂
I jinxed them! As of late 12/1/16, the prices went up up up and away…
Lost among the many on-ear models, Sol Republic also has over-ear models, and their Master Tracks model with a 3-button remote are available for $50 with free shipping in new condition (gunmetal or blue), or for $40 with free shipping in refurbished condition (gunmetal) at TechRabbit. They get a 1-year warranty regardless.
The closed-back over-ear Sony MDR-100AAP are available in five distinct unicolors. Four of those colors are available in refurbished condition with a 90-day warranty by Secondipity thru Amazon. This listing shows you the lowest price per color.
To see detailed listings, click on the “See all offers for this product” link next to each color. For example, for the black color scheme, these are its detailed listings.
PS: the five colors make it easier to buy these are gifts for kids or siblings or grand kids or roommates or relatives or co-workers. The distinct colors makes it easier for them to tell theirs apart 🙂
UPDATE: these November 2016 sales ENDED. I am keeping the prices below for reference so you can compare them to future sales…
UPDATE: authorized dealer Adorama.com is having their own Audeze Black Friday sale and some of their new condition prices meet or even beat Audeze’s own B-stock sales below, so price-check before buying. I will break down the above later today…
ORIGINAL POST
We go high and low on this blog, from free-ish earbuds to the Audeze B-Stock sale, sold directly by Audeze, which includes the following:
The sale ends on November 30 in 2016, or earlier for any models that sell out before that point. Their refurbished B-stock headphones come with a full warranty. Note however that you can’t select which headband and earpad materials you want, they will send you what they have available.
This refurbished lightning deal expired…
As of a late 11/25/16 PM recheck, this sold out at this price. It’s hard for something like this to stay “hidden” on Black Friday 🙂 The closed-back over-ear Sony MDR-1A, in the silver color scheme, is available for $130 with free shipping in manufacturer refurbished condition with a 90-day warranty by Secondipity through Amazon Warehouse Deals. It ships directly from Secondipity (in brown box packaging), and it is not Prime eligible.
Clearance-specialist Tanga is offering various options of the Yurbuds Ironman earbuds in refurbished condition (“B Grade” they describe it with a 90 day warranty) for $7 with free shipping.
This daily deal expired, but things typically keep returning at Woot until they are really sold out… One of the Tuesday daily deals at Woot is a sale on two refurbished Bose Quiet Comfort headphones with active noise cancellation. These are older models, powered by AAA batteries, so it becomes a pro/con depending on your disposition towards built-in versus customer-changeable batteries.
The two models are the refurbished QC25 over-ears for $215, and the refurbished QC15 on-ears for $200. Limit three of each per customer. They come with a 90-day warranty covered by Woot, not Bose. Shipping is $5 flat regardless of how many things you buy from Woot during a particular calendar day (in the Central time zone).
This offer ends on Wednesday at 1am ET or earlier if sold out…
PS: I have no idea what the battery charger is doing in that page. Maybe a “deal stray”? 🙂
This limited time sale ended but it is recurring every few weeks/months (YMMV)… Manufacturer-refurbished products are the lowest risk of the non-new products, so if you are not totally risk-averse, you can save some by going the manufacturer refurbished route for the closed-back over-ear planar-magnetic Audeze EL-8 headphones. You can get them for $350 with free shipping for a limited time at authorized dealer Adorama.com with a one year Audeze warranty.
This daily deal expired, but most of the A4C offers are recurring, so if you missed it, fear not, it will likely return in the next few days/weeks (other things equal)…
One of the A4C daily deals for Thursday 11/17/16 is the refurbished Jabra Step Bluetooth Earbuds offered for $15 with free shipping. They come with a 90-day replacement-warranty by A4C, not the seller. Limit two (was one) per customer. Check the pictures to see how they hang on to your ears. The battery/tech part is in the earshells, not the cable.
The SOL Republic Master Tracks Over-Ear closed-back headphones are available for $60 with free shipping at two different retailers in slightly different conditions but both get a 90-day warranty. You can get them in open-box condition at Tanga.com, or you can get them in certified refurbished condition by Tech Union with the order fulfilled by Amazon.
These daily offers expired…
One more used offer that surfaced while I was checking the various headphones in the Headphone Tracker, it is the closed-back over-ear Sony MDR-100AP headphone, part of their “h.ear” line-up, available in manufacturer refurbished condition in either black color scheme or yellow color scheme for $100 with free shipping by Secondipity thru Amazon. It ships directly from Secondipity, so it is not Prime eligible. It comes with a 90-day warranty (being manufacturer refurbished) and a 30-day Secondipity guarantee. They ship in a brown box with standard accessories.
We mentioned earlier that the new condition Bowers and Wilkins P3 are going for $77 to $90, but if you want to get them and pay under $50, and you are willing to go double-used, then there are two options at Amazon Warehouse Deals. What I mean by “double used” is that these are used condition headphones of the recertified models. In other words, someone bought the recertified from Amazon, then returned them or traded them in, and now Amazon Warehouse Deals is selling the recertified models in used condition. Not as mind-bending as Looper, but getting there 😉
Two of the colors are available under $50 in “used recertified” condition at Amazon Warehouse Deals, the black color scheme goes for $45 in “Used – Good” and $48 in “Used – Very Good” or $51 in “Used – Like New”. They have multiple listings, so there is the possibility of price pressure bringing them further down.
Meanwhile the white color scheme is available in “Used – Good” condition for $45. The blue color scheme goes for $52 in “Used – Very Good” condition and they multiple listings, which could put more price pressure on them.
The new condition MEE Audio Matrix 2 AF-62 bluetooth headphones go for $61 in new condition at recognizable dealers (eg amazon.com), but if you prefer to save some more, you can get it for $50 with free shipping in manufacturer refurbished condition with a 90 day warranty by the official MEE Audio eBay store. Limit five units per customer.
These are bluetooth 4.0 headphones with AAC and apt-X codecs, with NFC (handy for easier pairing if you mix and match multiple sources and headsets in the same vicinity). It has a built-in battery and can also play music via standard 3.5mm audio cables.
Your whole world does not begin to Zoom, it begins to …Zune if you purchase this eBay listing: eBay seller “Digital Outlet” (99.4%, Northern California) is offering the manufacturer refurbished 16GB Microsoft Zune HD for $60 with free shipping. It comes with a cable but no headset. It is covered by a 60 day warranty. Limit 50 units per customer. Over 1700 of these Zunes got sold according to the in-page eBay statistics over there.
This had an OLED screen before it was cool 🙂 It also plays DRM’ed WMA music files being in close proximity with Microsoft. It is really sad this got yanked out, Zune was just finding its legs right as they killed it. Also cancelled along with the Zune was the entertaining Zune podcast.
Among the Woot daily deals good until 1am ET on Thursday are the refurbished Sony MDR-XB450AP/B Extra Bass headphones going for $30 plus $5 flat shipping. Limit three units per customer. You only pay five bucks for shipping no matter how many things you buy from Woot on a particular calendar day (in the Central time zone). They come with a 90-day Woot warranty per the listing. These are closed, wired, on-ears.
They are back in-stock in the black/silver color scheme, on the fashionable bluetooth/ANC front, if you are comfortable with manufacturer refurbished items, the black/silver color scheme of the Bohm Bluetooth and Active Noise Cancelling on-ear headphones are on sale for $38 with free shipping by A4C on eBay. Both Bluetooth and ANC are utilitarian features, so these types of headphones are best used in situations where Bluetooth and/or ANC is necessary/needed. Over 1400 units got sold so far from this particular offer per the statistics shown on the eBay listing over there.
If you buy two or more of these (or other participating items from the A4C eBay store), for a limited time, they have a 5% discount on the whole purchase. 5% off in this case drops it to $36 per headphone.
One of the latest featured deals at A4C is the refurbished 16Gb iPod Touch 4 music player for $70 [was $65] with free shipping with a limit of two units per customer. It comes with a 90-day replacement-warranty from A4C (not from Apple). Note that this is an older device, iOS 6 is the highest it can go. This is a 30-pin device (not Lightning). On the plus side of an older device, the accessories are dirt cheap (if you can find them when you need them) 🙂
It’s almost Nanu-Nanu at A4C, one of their latest featured daily-deals is the refurbished 64GB iPod Nano (7th Generation) available in four different color options (blue, pink, silver, black) for $75 [was $70] with free shipping. It comes with a 90-day replacement warranty from A4C (warranty not from Apple)… CORRECTION: this is 16GB, I’m not sure where I saw 64GB originally…
If you like the Double Bs (Bass and Bluetooth), the new condition Sony XB950/BT Extra Bass is on sale, in new condition, for $128 with free shipping by “Video and Audio Center” (aka VAC in SoCal) through Amazon.com. The red color scheme is fulfilled by Amazon so it gets Prime shipping, while the black and blue colors ship directly from VAC, so no Prime shipping. The headphones average 4.3 out of 5 based on nearly 1100 customer reviews, and have 650+ questions answered, both indicators of consumer interest in “bass” and “bluetooth” 🙂
On the other hand, if you are comfortable with certified refurbished, the red goes for $100, and the other two colors for $110 by Secondipity thru Amazon. They ship from Secondipity, so they are not Prime eligible. The refurbished too are popular, they average 4.3 out of 5 based on 350+ customer reviews (interesting how they have the same average, wisdom of the masses in effect?) and have 90 questions peer-answered.
More eBay action, the BuyDig eBay store is offering the certified Klipsch refurbished with a 90-day warranty Klipsch R6i Earphones with an iOS mic/remote combo for $27 with free shipping. Over 530 units have been sold so far according to the eBay page over there. Some of the remote functions works on non-iOS devices, but typically Volume Up/Down only work on iOS.
It looks like I jinxed them, as of 9/30/16 AM, both colors are sold out and cannot be ordered…
This offer ended, it looks like it sold out before the 6-hours were up…
As of 9/30/16 AM, this is sold-out and the price increased from $55 to $60…
This offer expired…
These are SOLD OUT as of 9/30/16 AM re-checking…
They are back in the spotlight sale rotation again, it’s a front page deal by seller A4C (aka All 4 Cellular), they are offering the refurbished Harman Kardon Soho-A On-Ears for $40 with free shipping. Refurbished items come with a 90-day replacement warranty from A4C, not the manufacturer.
NOTE: when shopping there, pay attention to the individual listing. They sell a mix of new condition, refurbished, and use products. Everything there gets free shipping, even the $3 generic earbuds 🙂
This sale ended as well… The closed-back AUDEZE EL-8 Planar-magnetic headphones are currently offered in refurbished condition with a 1-year manufacturer warranty for $350 with free shipping at Adorama.com, good until 9/28/16 or earlier if sold out.
Sennheiser launched new consumer headphones at IFA 2016 in what used to be the HD 2xx and 4xx line-ups, but if you don’t want to wait or don’t want to pay “latest model” prices, the older closed-back on-ear “HD 219 S” (S for mic/remote) are available in refurbished condition with a 30-day warranty by seller “Ocean Reef Electronics” through Amazon Warehouse Deals. They ship directly from Ocean, so they are not Prime eligible.
I am not becoming certifiably certifiable, the reason you see a string of certified refurbished items is because I am going through the list of 150+ certified refurbished headphones at Amazon, and among them is the Sony XB 600 Extra Bass folding headphones going for $40 by DealFisher thru Amazon, so they are Prime eligible.
They include the original accessories and a 90-day warranty. “Certified Refurbished” appears to be an Amazon term for products that fit certain requirements, a highlighted screenshot of that segment below.
As you can see, these can be manufacturer refurbisher or other-party refurbished, as long as they fulfill the above requirements.
These are not wireless but they are powered headphones, they take two AA batteries to activate JBL’s proprietary “Live Stage” technology-marketing. They are the closed-back over-ear JBL Synchros Slate going for $40 with free shipping in two different options:
+ open-box by All 4 Cellular (A4C) directly
+ certified refurbished by A4C fulfilled by Amazon (Prime eligible)
Online seller A4C (aka All 4 Cellular) specializes in clearance/refurbished items, but even they have rotating daily deals on the front page of their website that are often discounted compared to their regular discounted prices. Among them at the moment is the refurbished Harman Kardon Soho-A On-Ears going for $40 with free shipping. Refurbished items come with a 90-day replacement warranty from A4C, not the manufacturer.
NOTE: when shopping there, pay attention to the individual listing. They sell a mix of new condition, refurbished, and use products. Everything there gets free shipping, even the $3 generic earbuds 🙂
The Photive BTH3 closed-back over-ear Bluetooths range from $40 to $50 in new condition, but if you are comfortable with refurbished, you can get them in certified refurbished for $30 with the order fulfilled by Amazon. Free shipping for Prime members or with a $49+ order for non-members.
The refurbished average 4.2 out of 5 based on 69 customer reviews, but if you need more reviews, the new condition model has over 3500 customer reviews.
As of 9/12/16 recheck, these sold out in refurbished condition…
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