Hard To Believe This Person Is Serious

[Ali]

> 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