Marketplace Tech · Thursday, October 29, 2026
As new device prices climb, brands are looking to repurpose components like memory from existing devices into new products. According to Garrett Schneeman, this practice reduces the inventory that reaches the refurbished market.
“And a lot of these brands' are starting to think about how can we repurpose components, especially memory, from existing devices and repackage them into our new devices. So there is less inventory that actually reaches kind of that refurbished market and goes to the consumer.”