Refurbished products owned by the French 2018
sometimes at prohibitive costs.
Refurbished products slowly but surely managed to get lot of traction in France. In 2018, almost half of the French population indeed declared that they had already owned a refurbished smartphone, and 11 percent a refurbished tablet. Refurbishment consists in the distribution of products, mostly electronics, that have been returned to the manufacturer before being tested, repaired if necessary and then resold. These second-hand products offer a cheaper alternative in the current ever-changing technological landscape, encouraging launches to follow one another at an increasingly frenetic pace,