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Sonos abandons ‘Recycle Mode’ on old speakers after much backlash

Thursday, March 5, 2020 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Sonos abandons ‘Recycle Mode’ on old speakers after much backlash

Back in October, Sonos introduced a new ‘trade up‘ program that offers existing Sonos users a 30 percent discount to buy a new speaker if they recycle an eligible older model. Problem was, qualifying for the program required users to put their old devices in a new ‘Recycle Mode’ which would permanently prevent the devices from working. This did not go over well. While it seemed like a fairly innocuous move at first glance, it meant that users were limited in how they could dispose of the device. Sonos has now decided to do away with the controversial program, according to…

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Authored by Piyush Suthar
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