26 Mar
2021
26 Mar
'21
9:23 a.m.
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Ali via cctalk
Sent: 26 March 2021 15:14
To: 'Richard Pope' <mechanic_2 at charter.net>; 'General Discussion:
On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts' <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious
Yes, that is my suspicion that they don't do anything at all, that is why one day I am
going to take the time to ask them what they do to refurbish them, just to see what they
say. I seem to remember asking once and not getting a reply, hardly surprising!
Regards
Rob
Rob,
Could it be that they get identical drives that don't work. Some
of the drives have bad platters or heads and other drives have bad
interface cards but the platters and heads are ok. So they take the
good cards and put them on the drives with the good platters and heads
and then label the drive as being refurbished?
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I feel that around $300 USD is on high side unless they plan on
hand delivering the item to the client!
No,
Refurbished to these guys means "let's roll the dice". 95% of the time
things
will work (HDD being much more risk of course but boards, etc. generally
work). If it works great they just made enough money to cover their entire
inventory of refurbished "whatever". If it doesn't they are just out the
cost
of the shipping which as someone pointed out was about 7 Euros.
Sometimes they try to get clever. I bought two Seagate HDDs (ST32550Ns I
believe) form a seller in northern California "refurbished and guaranteed" off
of eBay. Each drive cost $10. Shipping to southern California was at $35 for
UPS ground. Given that the total price (price + S&H) was ok for me I went
ahead. Both drives arrived DOA. Seller tried refunding just the price of the
drives and tried to keep the S&H. Pretty clever scam and would work on
most people as the seller refunded the cost of the item and S&H is "non-
refundable". S&H was probably under $10 so they would have made $25 to
have me dispose of their junk. Again thank goodness for eBay money back
guarantee - eBay refunded the rest of the money post haste.
I know of one seller who I trust to actually test before shipping and that?s
about it.
-Ali