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Old 03-20-2004, 12:17 AM   #1 (permalink)
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New Egg "Refurbished" 9800

Greetings All,
I was surfing over at Newegg.com ogling the 9800s when I came across a link for a refurbished 9800:

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...02-268R&depa=0

What does that mean? Is to be avoided? I know the normal price is just over $200 but fifty dollars is a lot of money to a starving grad. student. Thanks and cheers
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Old 03-20-2004, 04:41 AM   #2 (permalink)
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It was once defective, but is now "fixed" by the manufacture.

Technically perfectly ok now, but I dont always feel safe about buying somthing that was once bad.

Btw, thats not in stock in case you didnt notice.
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Old 03-20-2004, 05:19 AM   #3 (permalink)
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It was broken when it came off the assembly line, fixed by the manufacturer, then resold to the public.
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Old 03-20-2004, 07:05 AM   #4 (permalink)
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sometimes the warranty is reduced on reman parts. I tend to avoid it, they don't usually save you more than 10% or so, and I'd rather pay that extra to get the full warranty. Especially with ATI products, which are excellent, but the drivers are so damn twitchy that sometimes there's just no way to get it to work on certain machines.
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Old 03-20-2004, 07:08 AM   #5 (permalink)
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"Refurbished" basically means some one bought the product, wasn't satisfied with it, returned it, and the company "fixed the problem" (if any) and is reselling it. Sometimes there never was a problem to begin with.

It's a 50/50 chance on whether not the piece of hardware is gonna perform.

The full definition of "refurbished" varies from company to company. I know some companies sell "refurbished monitors." Means that some white collar worker used it for a year, and upgraded to an LCD. Now you are buying the used monitor.
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Old 03-20-2004, 08:55 AM   #6 (permalink)
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It's a 50/50 chance on whether not the piece of hardware is gonna perform.
50/50? That's a bit steep. I've never had any problems with refurbished items, and I've had my fair share.
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Old 03-20-2004, 10:25 AM   #7 (permalink)
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The Radeon 9000 I have is from NewEgg, and it's a refurb, functions perfectly fine. Well ok, maybe the S-Video input doesn't work, but I don't need it anyway. *shrug*
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Old 03-20-2004, 11:38 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I recently bought a refurb Asus A7V8X (nforce 2 chipset)
and it works well. I also bought a refurb speeze fan that doesnt work (hey it was only $5 free shipping)

I guess it depends on the company
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Old 03-20-2004, 11:46 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I woulbe more apt to buy something refurb from newegg than say mycomputers.com also was the item refurb by ATI or by saphyre?


most ati products are either powere by ATI which means the ATI chipset on another companies board or built by ATI which is all ATI chipset board etc all are made by ATI.

I would also much rather buy something built by ATI as refurb than some other comapny with the powered by ATI logo on it refurbbing it, but all in all theres not really anything wrong with refurb i have purchased quite a few things refurb in my time and had little or no problems out of the ordinary
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Old 03-20-2004, 01:05 PM   #10 (permalink)
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50/50? That's a bit steep. I've never had any problems with refurbished items, and I've had my fair share.
I don't mean 50/50 literally, I mean it as like "well, it may be fine, or it may not be fine, who knows"
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