Would you buy a refurbished monitor?

[Zukatah]

I can buy a refurbished Dell 21" monitor at a good price or the P990 (19") at 229$ CAN. Is it worth it? Should I stay away from refurbished monitors and get a cheap 19" instead?

Thanks for your help guys

 

[cholley]

refurbished dosn't always mean repaired
it could have been returned for many reasons and cant be sold as new, if it is a good price from a trusted source you should be fine
i have bought many and never had any trouble
one thing you could do is find out exactly who the manufacturer is, find out the model number and research if that one is prone to any problems

 

[MasterHoss]

Just like I would never buy a used car or wear someone else's boxers... I would never consider buying a used or refurbished monitor.

 

[Zukatah]

The monitor is straight from Dell's site

 

[dexvx]

Just like I would never buy a used car or wear someone else's boxers

I dont really think wearing someone else's boxers really correlates to a used monitor (I guess you are the type that wont borrow pens/pencils from other people either?).

But the last 2 monitors I had were refurbed and they caused me no problem.

 

[Prfstrkr]

I dunno much about this...but I know a dude who bought a refurbished SONY E200 from UBID.com. Everything went okay(except for several noticeable scratches on the screen). 3 months later it turned pink from time to time, and now he has to set resolution to 60HZ @ 1024X748 in order to get it to work!!! UBID.com claimed that the monitor was straight from SONY warehouse.

 

[cholley]

i'm sure dell has a good warrenty, it could be one that was returned with a whole system and just as good as new

 

[JohnnyPC]

<< Just like I would never buy a used car or wear someone else's boxers... I would never consider buying a used or refurbished monitor. >>



Well then you're missing out on some good deals! Just like Cholley said, refurbed doesn't always mean repaired. I wouldn't even think that a defective return repaired to good constitutes even a small percentage of the "regurb" products we see. au contrar I would venture a guess to say that the majority are simply customer returns because they ended not wanting for whatever reason. Ask yourself if you can really believe there's a guy in the back room at Newegg fixing video cards, hard drives etc. Unless it comes from the factory as a refurb, I don't think that anybody has spent any more time than it takes to plug it in a see if the led comes on...if that much...

So considering this point of view if I ordered a monitor, recieved it from UPS, found it wouldn't fit into my hutch, returned it as unused and the vendor sold it as a refurb - you wouldn't buy it for 25% off?

Moral of what I'm trying to say is don't always think a refurb was broken at one point and that somebody actually had to fix something to get it working again...that's probably a very small percentage of what actually happens....

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Umm not only would I buy one I did buy one. I have had thei referb for 2 years and its the best thing I have purchased. I got an HP1100 for $500 bucks, 21" 1600 res 25mm dot pitch. Its also a Trinitron tube. This monitor brand new was over $1100 at the time I got it.

 

[odog]

what is it a 30, or 90 day warranty?

 

[ElFenix]

i got a 17LS monitor refurbed 5 years ago, still works fine. so does the computer i bought it with.

 

[Zukatah]

Thank you very much !

I can sell my old 17" Viewsonic E771 in the newspaper for like 30-40$ less than a refurbished 19"... I think I'll do that

 

[ChefJoe]

got to be careful where you buy from. I found a cheap mag trinetron 17" monitor that was refurb and it was sent to me. i noticed a slight scratch on the glass (inside I think) which wasn't so bad, but in the three years I've had it, it's been fuzzy. I haven't been able to adjust the synching to fix it at all, and didn't really realize how fuzzy it was until I put a kds 19" next to it in dual monitor setup. Anyways, the place I bought from was a simple looking website that only gave a 30 day warranty on the refurb monitors and I think that buying from a real big vendor will help.

 

[tenoc]

The refurbs on Dell's finance site are returned from lease. If they've been
running fine for two or three years they'll probably run forever.

For a lot of electronic gear, if it's going to screw up, it does it early in life.

Got a Viewsonic P220f refurb from factorydirect.ca and am very pleased.

btw, all the 21" onthe Dell site are gone and only one P990 shows available.

 

[Zukatah]

How's Factorydirect.ca? There's a 21" from Dell there and I want to know if it's a good place and how do they ship?

Thanks

 

[rbaibich]

In my university all student PC's have refurb monitors and none of them have any problem at all. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[anthrax]

I would say the moniter is the most urealiable part of PCs today...make sure you get a decent warranty..

 

[desy]

I buy from factory direct all the time.
Ask for Sukhi
Some the stuff they get in is good and some is crap, I've just bought the Viewsonics and Phillips from there and all have been excellent.
I have bought some Sony trinitrons from there and was dissappointed .
I couldn't comment on the Dell though, my guess is its old, and if you are a prefferred customer like me you get another 5-10% off of what the web site shows.
Usually If they are going to warranty it for a year its pretty good. Ifs its 90 days not as good .

 

[Zukatah]

I can't go to the store because it's way too far from my house, I'd get it shipped so I don't know what I'm really buying... Generally speaking, are those monitors in good shape?

 

[majewski9]

I wouldnt personally buy a refurbed monitor, but I dont think you would have any problems.

I have had the same 15 inch monitor for 4 years so I would like a nice new monitor.