Man, these really good stories are temping me. I have ordered 2 refurb boards from Newegg with sorry results. The first one, an Epox 8KTA3, would not overclock. When I tried to update the bios, it hanged, but Newegg took it back. Then I ordered an Iwill kk266 reburb, and it looked new in the retail box. It seemed fine at first, but once I got everything hooked up (after the 30 days, of course), I discovered that there was something wrong with the USB controller. Turns out that you couldn't plug more than one device in at a time!!! My costs then went up when I had to get a separate PCI USB controller.
I trying to stay away from refurbs, but this is tempting!!