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- Nov 3, 2002
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- TN
I'm building a low end system for someone I know. I can get nearly every part out of the refurb section and save on average $10 per component (and in case of the cpu can bump up to a much higher speed for same price). I'm looking at cpu, mobo, hdd, and memory. ~$50 worth of savings when you're building about a $300 computer is huge.
My question is, how often will the parts be 'like new' in perfect working condition? Now I don't mind if one thing is bad in the batch of four things I get. And if something is bad, how big of a deal does NewEgg make it to return the parts and get good working parts? Will they refund return shipping as that could easily eat the cost of going the refurb route? Time to get this built isn't a huge deal, but I don't want it to take a month to get a new part.
What stuff is more than likely new or unbroken (practically no risk in buying 'refurbished')? I can't imagine them trying to fix a cpu, so I assume that's new.
My question is, how often will the parts be 'like new' in perfect working condition? Now I don't mind if one thing is bad in the batch of four things I get. And if something is bad, how big of a deal does NewEgg make it to return the parts and get good working parts? Will they refund return shipping as that could easily eat the cost of going the refurb route? Time to get this built isn't a huge deal, but I don't want it to take a month to get a new part.
What stuff is more than likely new or unbroken (practically no risk in buying 'refurbished')? I can't imagine them trying to fix a cpu, so I assume that's new.