Originally posted by: Vonkhan
AIW 9700Pro refurbed at newegg, need I say more?
Plus there is a chance card is defective and you won't find that out immediately. It happened to me with 8500. Plus there is no warranty on this.The added cost of having to buy all the missing components would kinda offset the deal....
Originally posted by: Jwyatt
Newegg calls these refurbs for what reason? Hell i dont know. IMO all they do is take a return and tag it refurbed. Its alot cheaper for them to have the customer...YOU... troubleshoot and figure out its good or not. If they were to pay a tech to actually test all returned merchandise it would be to costly.
Originally posted by: Kwad Guy
Newegg and their so-called "refurbs" (a complete misnomer, since the junk they sell is NOT refurbished...just taken as a return and sent out to the next sucker, er, customer)...Sigh...people never learn.
Parts refurbished by the manufacturer are one thing. Someone else's returned defective junk thrown in a box and sent out as a "refurb" is another beast entirely.
And consider this: These places do NOT have the easiest return policies. We are not talking Costco here. If they took it as a return in the first place, the customer had to jump through a few hoops and "prove" there was a problem (or else take a financial hit) to send it back. So those returns are probably returns for a good reason in most cases.
You might get lucky. This is the point in the story where someone will chirp in about how they bought something and it was great and they saved 78 cents on their motherboard by buying a refurb. But I personally wouldn't bother unless the refurbs are DIRT cheap...
Kwad
Originally posted by: Kwad Guy
Newegg and their so-called "refurbs" (a complete misnomer, since the junk they sell is NOT refurbished...just taken as a return and sent out to the next sucker, er, customer)...Sigh...people never learn. Parts refurbished by the manufacturer are one thing. Someone else's returned defective junk thrown in a box and sent out as a "refurb" is another beast entirely. And consider this: These places do NOT have the easiest return policies. We are not talking Costco here. If they took it as a return in the first place, the customer had to jump through a few hoops and "prove" there was a problem (or else take a financial hit) to send it back. So those returns are probably returns for a good reason in most cases. You might get lucky. This is the point in the story where someone will chirp in about how they bought something and it was great and they saved 78 cents on their motherboard by buying a refurb. But I personally wouldn't bother unless the refurbs are DIRT cheap... Kwad