26 Mar
2021
26 Mar
'21
8:14 a.m.
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