Thank you Newegg for stopping the clearance of these dead items!
I'm not sure why the previous thread was locked but just wanted to let those who are still thinking about buying any of those items that are left to stay away.
They truly should have stuck with the first description they had which said "Dead" but then changed them to "Some good, some bad"
As promised, I am getting back with those who were interested in the condition of this ongoing sale:
I haven't had time to check each and every component but here's my initial assessment:
Three monitors- All busted to pieces- (ok, I knew it was a fat chance) $105 wasted
PIII chips(a couple of PGA and 3 slot 1 450mhz to 866mhz)- not sure yet, I don't have a PIII board to try them but it doesn't look good based on the handwritten notes attached to each of them.
10 floppy drives- ancient with notes that don't sound so good on each one
3 hardrives - Ancient, 5" bay drives, with bad notes on them.
4 CDRW- again older models, 4x mostly and 1- 8x with tags indicating they won't work
5 DVDs- Same modus operandi
10 cpu fans with heatsinks, really small, looks like system pulls from 486's. But these actually could be used as chipset fans since they are small.
I still have a bunch of power supplies, a few cases, a few pIII boards , and a few keyboards coming.
They cancelled my order for 8 -Smart media's (64-128mb) and 4- MSI GF2 Pro 64mb video cards. (Hmmm, mysteriously dissappeared, employees perhaps?) I was really counting on getting these.
I sure hope there are at least a few success stories otherwise Newegg intentionally changed the description from "Dead" when they weren't selling to "Some good, some bad" just to unload this crap on idiots like me.
And for you guys who like to jump in and say this should be posted in the Moan section, I am doing this as feedback for this "Refurbished" sale that is still ongoing on at Newegg.
I'm not sure why the previous thread was locked but just wanted to let those who are still thinking about buying any of those items that are left to stay away.
They truly should have stuck with the first description they had which said "Dead" but then changed them to "Some good, some bad"
As promised, I am getting back with those who were interested in the condition of this ongoing sale:
I haven't had time to check each and every component but here's my initial assessment:
Three monitors- All busted to pieces- (ok, I knew it was a fat chance) $105 wasted
PIII chips(a couple of PGA and 3 slot 1 450mhz to 866mhz)- not sure yet, I don't have a PIII board to try them but it doesn't look good based on the handwritten notes attached to each of them.
10 floppy drives- ancient with notes that don't sound so good on each one
3 hardrives - Ancient, 5" bay drives, with bad notes on them.
4 CDRW- again older models, 4x mostly and 1- 8x with tags indicating they won't work
5 DVDs- Same modus operandi
10 cpu fans with heatsinks, really small, looks like system pulls from 486's. But these actually could be used as chipset fans since they are small.
I still have a bunch of power supplies, a few cases, a few pIII boards , and a few keyboards coming.
They cancelled my order for 8 -Smart media's (64-128mb) and 4- MSI GF2 Pro 64mb video cards. (Hmmm, mysteriously dissappeared, employees perhaps?) I was really counting on getting these.
I sure hope there are at least a few success stories otherwise Newegg intentionally changed the description from "Dead" when they weren't selling to "Some good, some bad" just to unload this crap on idiots like me.
And for you guys who like to jump in and say this should be posted in the Moan section, I am doing this as feedback for this "Refurbished" sale that is still ongoing on at Newegg.