Last month Amazon started selling refurbished Kindle Voyages, but at the time they only had the 3G model for $219, which is $50 off the regular price of a new one.
Now Amazon has also started selling the cheaper non-3G model as well. It costs $169, and is the refurbished Special Offers Kindle Voyage. Special Offers means it has ads on the homescreen and on the sleep screen, but they can be permanently removed for an extra $20.
At $30 off the regular price of a new Voyage, this is the cheapest a Kindle Voyage has ever been. Amazon has yet to put them on sale even once.
So if you’ve been holding out to purchase a Kindle Voyage because of the high price, getting a refurbished one is one way to save some money.
Refurbished Kindles have been tested and certified to look and work like new, and they come with the same 1 year warranty as a new Kindle, so they’re a pretty safe bet.
It’s surprising that it’s taken Amazon this long to start selling refurbished Kindle Voyages considering that the device had been out for almost 1 year now.
There’s no evidence yet, but most people assume that Amazon is going to release a new updated Kindle Voyage soon. Amazon is known to release new models each year, and they certainly aren’t replacing the Kindle Paperwhite 3 since it was just released a couple months ago. The price of the original Kindle Voyage might go down even more over the next few months.
While they haven’t put them on sale across the board, last month they gave some customers discounts via coupon codes, ranging from $10 to $50 off. I was offered $10 off myself, which wasn’t enough to convince me to bite.
Interesting… Hadn’t heard about that kind of offer for the Voyage before.
I bought one of those and sent it back the same day.
It had multiple (I found at least 4) tiny bright spots in the top display layer, it was very uneven lit and the auto brightness did not work at all.