[ale] Is there anybody we don't hate too much for Refurbs?

[Jim Kinney]

I have no problems with ebay purchases. I have a card designated on
Paypal and use it exclusively. I've also ordered ebay gear for work
with the corp card. That card number was "re-used" elsewhere but it was
also used on Amazon with 3rd-party sellers as well locally with some
retail places.
On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 11:25 -0400, Leam Hall via Ale wrote:
> Three days after my one and only e-bay purchase, using a brand new
> PayPal card that had only gotten used for Amazon, someone orders
> network gear with my card info. I would strongly recommend not doing
> anything with e-bay.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:40 AM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> > I've had good luck with eBay purchases of off-lease laptops. The
> > last
> > 
> > one came with a 90 day warranty and was about 50% off the price of
> > a new
> > 
> > system.  The seller had tens of thousands of excellent reviews. 
> > The
> > 
> > purchase was exactly as expected.  8th generation Core i5 for $305,
> > 
> > including factory ready Win10 install.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I never saw the Win10 - pulled the HDD and put in an SSD, then last
> > 
> > month repurposed that HDD for an emergency need before another HDD
> > 
> > failed.  I think the Win10 license is stored in the BIOS somewhere,
> > but
> > 
> > I don't know anything about Win10 today.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I might be having the same Intuit problem as you, but not with
> > TurboTax.
> > 
> > We dumped them decades ago over DRM and have been happily using a
> > 
> > different tool.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 10/24/19 12:30 PM, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
> > 
> > > Slightly off-topic, but not too much.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > My wife and partner informs me that TurboTax will no longer run
> > on her
> > 
> > > Win7 desktop.   Without TurboTax, life ends as we know it.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > We have used off-lease refurbs for most of our company's life. 
> > If it's
> > 
> > > a server, I get a refurb and replace the disk with a new mirrored
> > pair.
> > 
> > > (and load linux)   If it's a desktop, I feel lucky.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > Thus far we've been fortunate at getting them from Tiger Direct. 
> > Alas,
> > 
> > > no longer.   Got one on Amazon a few years back and that has been
> > fine
> > 
> > > for Android development.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > So, I trying to find average form factor 8GB, 1TB disk, Win 10
> > Pro, VGA
> > 
> > > & HDMI.    When I look at Amazon, there are plenty of choices. 
> > Many of
> > 
> > > which have 15-25% one-star ratings. And you read them, it's a
> > horror
> > 
> > > show - "arrived with broken power supply",  "NIC intermittent", 
> > "Vendor
> > 
> > > non-communicative".
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > Yes, Amazon is horrible at policing their suppliers.    I'm
> > 
> > > wondering.... are companies being more selective at only letting
> > go of
> > 
> > > their desktops when they know they are going south?   Are refurb
> > vendors
> > 
> > > getting worse?
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > Is there anybody we like for refurbs these days?
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > I see the last one I bought was from Amazon Renewed, which says
> > it has a
> > 
> > > 90 day Amazon guarantee.  I just checked at it has a 19% one star
> > 
> > > review.   I guess I was just lucky.
> > 
> > > 
> > 
> > > Regards,  
> > 
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James P. Kinney III

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gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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