China’s Apple fans can now order refurbished iPods and iMacs for discounts up to 22 percent retail, the Cupertino, Calif. company announced Tuesday.
An iPod shuffle returned and inspected by Apple sells in China for $44, according to Reuters.
The move echos similar refurbished Macs Apple sells in the U.S. and elsewhere. Best Buy began selling returned iPhones for a $50 discount.
Apple refused to say how many refurbished products have been sold to China.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
