[moz_21]

Ok, I am curious if anyone has bought a hard drive off Ebay with this warning:

This unit is assumed to be defective and not working. This item is a customer returned item and has not been tested by us. If you purchase this drive and it works that's terrific, if not, there is no warranty or reimbursement.

They are usually priced low. I would like to know if anyone has gotten a working drive or a dead one. The shipping is kind of insane but...

The item in question is here.

[JDXNC]

For one, its a laptop HDD.... and for I wouldn't bother on wasting my money and time on that when I could get a brand new 6gb laptop drive for about $30 shipped.

[timmyqwest]

i dunno if you've ever shipped anything but thats not that bad of a price. Considering the packaging it'd need.

Corp. get to ship stuff for MUCH cheaper then us.

[moz_21]

But isn't $30 still expensive for 6gb? I mean, I can get a 40gb from Best Buy for $40 after rebates.

Originally posted by JDXNC
For one, its a laptop HDD.... and for I wouldn't bother on wasting my money and time on that when I could get a brand new 6gb laptop drive for about $30 shipped.

Where is this new hard drive? I need one for a project box and would like one cheap (size constraints). I guess if it costs 30 bucks it costs 30 bucks. I do like the idea of it being brand new too.

I really want to know if the odds are decent that it would work.

[Exiler]

I doubt its working. They say its a customer return, usually when you do a return something is wrong in the first place, and stores dont take stuffs back unless there is something wrong with it. I'm sure they tested it out and found it dead or something.

Rather than say dead HDD for sale, better to say untested, to get more money. Your wasting your money if you buy it.
This is just pure marketing, Ebay style for newbies.

[phoenix111384]

yeah, i would take any ebay hdd sale with a grain of salt. personally i'd rather not take chances buying major components on ebay, very risky...

[moorcito]

I bought a 20GB quantum fireball with the same warning to try an replace the burned out PCB on a dead fireball, and the only thing wrong with it was 1 bad sector at the beginning of the drive. I happen to think I lucked out on that purchase, I think I paid $10 total for the drive.

Like most have said, buying a hard drive off of ebay is pretty risky. In this case, I doubt that anyone else will be bidding on this drive, so it'd be pretty safe to say that you could get it for $11. If I was going to buy a bad drive off ebay I'd rather be out $11 rather than, let's say, $50.

[moz_21]

My first hard drive was off of Ebay, a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 60 40GB and 7200rpm. Still works fine. I paid $90 at the time. It has a good whine to it and it wouldn't spin up when it got hot (until I put a fan on it).

The only reason I am looking at this is because there are 4GB laptop drives that are going for about $30 (or more). Anyone know a good deal on a working drive in an online store, let me know!

[diggingforgold]

Thats usually what they ship out with software and OS's. Unknown condition hard drives.