As far as i know B-stock is anything that does not cut it when it comes to quality control. Say a reciever comes out and it has a bubble on the clear plastic cover on the display, they will replace that plastic face and sell it as B-stock because that actual unit had a defect, even though the defect might have been replaced.
I dont think they can legally sell any unit with an individual serial number that has any type of repair done or any type of blemish or malfunctioning parts as "A" stock, regardless to weather or not the problem was repaired, it has to be categorized differently in order to protect the consumer from buying a piece of gear that was faulty when constructed and then repaired. A company labels this as B-stock which notifys that the unit failed its initial quality control inspection and may or may not have been fixed. They are not legally allowed to sell repaired equipment as "A" stock
With the example of the reciever with the bubble in the plastic, if it is to be repaired, and afterwards does not have the origional plastic part, it then can not be sold as "A" stock because an actual process of repair had been done on that particular unit.
weather or not the repair is to be done largely depends on the amount of work to correct it.
If the unit had a bad volume control, it might be a quick low cost replacement, however, if the chassis is scratched they might opt to sell it as is without replacing the chassis.
Most b-stock items are perfectly good units. You may find some with a blemish that the manufacturer opted not to take care of due to cost of replacement.
Most b-stock items have had the minor problems fixed and are just as good as the A-stock
If you can get ti with a warranty, and find there are no cosmetic issues, there should be no fear in purchasing b-stock
I dont think they can legally sell any unit with an individual serial number that has any type of repair done or any type of blemish or malfunctioning parts as "A" stock, regardless to weather or not the problem was repaired, it has to be categorized differently in order to protect the consumer from buying a piece of gear that was faulty when constructed and then repaired. A company labels this as B-stock which notifys that the unit failed its initial quality control inspection and may or may not have been fixed. They are not legally allowed to sell repaired equipment as "A" stock
With the example of the reciever with the bubble in the plastic, if it is to be repaired, and afterwards does not have the origional plastic part, it then can not be sold as "A" stock because an actual process of repair had been done on that particular unit.
weather or not the repair is to be done largely depends on the amount of work to correct it.
If the unit had a bad volume control, it might be a quick low cost replacement, however, if the chassis is scratched they might opt to sell it as is without replacing the chassis.
Most b-stock items are perfectly good units. You may find some with a blemish that the manufacturer opted not to take care of due to cost of replacement.
Most b-stock items have had the minor problems fixed and are just as good as the A-stock
If you can get ti with a warranty, and find there are no cosmetic issues, there should be no fear in purchasing b-stock
