Should You Buy Refurbished Electronics?
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Is buying refurbished electronics a great way to save money, or a risky gamble on a mistreated gadget? Techquickie explains.
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Refurbished SSD, like new, only 743TB written
Celestia Pony "written". He didn't mean its a 743tb ssd.
toilet brush pretty sure that data can be tampered with
Celestia Pony learn to read 😂😂
What's wrong with buying a used SSD as long as the S.M.A.R.T. report is given with the amount of writes to the drive. I wouldn't worry 1 bit as long as it's below say 100TB written. Plenty of life left usually
danwat1234 it depends on the size of the drive and model in question. A 125gb Samsung 840 evo would likely be dead at 100tb written. A 2tb 860 pro will still have a ton of life left after a 100tb written.
Bought a hp computer over ten years ago and everyone at the time told me it was not a smart idea. Price was good and I bought it. The computer still works to this day.
Many people just hate on HP products JUST because they see "HP". Nothing more than brand bandwagon hate by elitists.
same, here. on my 2nd one now. first 1 still works perfect. Got a sweet deal too. Brand new would have cost at least 5K, i paid 900
Lucky you.
@@AG.Floats I hated my old HP laptop because it acted up on me so since then I haven't liked HP.
@@AG.Floats Because they make shit quality products, I remember my dad bought an HP laptop 7 years ago and I played Roblox on it, and it could barely even run anymore, he had to return that slow piece of garbage. The specs weren't even all that bad either
I work at a Goodwill where my job is refurbishing computers. I definitely approve of buying refurbished with the caveat being that you should know what you are getting before you purchase it. We try to make it very clear if there are any issues and what they are, and we only sell computers with issues if it isn't something that affects it actually being able to work (e.g. a USB port not working).
you guys actually do get some good stuff in the reboot store in iowa city. never bought a system there, but bought several high end cases, and sundry parts. never had any problems with any of them. whether they have any really good stuff just depends on the day of the week, which way the wind is blowing, the angle of the sun to the third stone of stonehenge's tangent from the great pyramid of giza, etc though, but showing up a couple of times a week helps.
Shane Robinson I have dropped off electronics at Goodwill and have more to donate once I make sure my private files are permanently gone. I am happy to hear from a Goodwill electronics specialist how you deal with them. Thank you for posting your comment.
Kayla and Jim Bryant: Great comment. Funny, too!
A caution about this: on several laptops that I bought refurbished, the USB ports were slightly loose. They worked fine for transferring text data among my drives, but music files would come out distorted. Yet this is not the sort of detail that firms like Discount Electronics seem to check.
@@stevevasta I no longer work at that job, but I can say that at the scale we were working at and considering time constraints and profit/per item (or profit/per hour), being able to test what you are describing is impossible without just straight up losing money. We had a pretty reasonable return policy at the time, to allow time for customers to catch those things we missed or just couldn't thoroughly test in the amount of time we had.
When my school upgraded their computer lab, they went with refurbished Dells, ended up costing a fraction of the retail price. They bought 25 for every 20 they needed, since they didn't have a lot of faith in them, but they performed brilliantly.
I guess it depends on who re-furbishes them.
i bought a dell monitor refurbished about 10 years ago, and it stills works, totally worth it
No
Totally agree. In fact, I would go as far as to say computer monitors are probably the most reliable computer accessories that one can comfortably buy refurbished.
Treat them well, and they literally last forever.
Damnnnn ur poor as shit
comtox you sound like a spoil child who spends all day playing roblox
@@paypur stfu
1:23= “kinda like a stray dog” (shows picture of pig)
That’s a dog
It's a dog.
It looks like your mom!
@@PizzaPowerXYZ sweetheart, i think you switched beetween his mom and yours
Watch your tongue kiddo
Kind of like a pidog
I've been dealing with technologies for over 37 years of my adult life and I quickly learned that refurbished items are good or if not better than new items. This video pretty much validated my experience thus far. My family thinks I'm cheap or stupid for buying refurbished items over new but it is they that was blinded by stigma of the wording "new".
Answer:
It depends
512yottabytes I-
I'm thinking about buying an iPhone x from the site device refurbished.com , should I????? I really don't wanna get scammed lol
I bought an Asus GTX 1070 Strix OC on amazon reconditioned products (idk if it's the same, that's how is called here), and here (in spain) it's obligatory per law to have a 2 year warranty on anything any company sells.
I paid like 100 euros less, (especially because the non stop raising prices back then) and works perfect, actually I think it was a consumer's return, because the box had a detached sticker of a mail company, and it was like opened but with all the accesories and the bags resealed, it was like the best buy ever
ENEKO TORRES strix oc doesn’t have memory cooling, be careful.
LOL
I think reconditioned just means that the product was never repaired in any way, just repackaged. Like you said, somebody bought it, and figured he wanted a 1080 ti instead, so he bugged his parents and had them swap it out.
In Denmark, and probably a lot of other european countries, we have the same laws. In general, if you're a business and sell electronics to customers, you have to give them a 2 year warranty, whether the product is new, refurbished, home made, or whatever.
Although, if you sell to an other business, there is NO warranty at all! That's when you have to handle that with the manufacturer yourself.
ow in france you have a site ldlc that has a refurbished 2nd hand thing. and it give 2-3 months waranty :( that is all (that the sites gives) even if the product is new never used just opened. but it also says on a other page it says new product/opened ones have manufacture waranty but on every product it says 3 months so yeah like wtf is it lol
100 EUR for GTX1070? Damn you hit the jackpot!
You can thank the EU for making the 2 year warranty obligatory.
when buying refurbished ask if the fans have been cleaned and thermal paste changed as alot of the time places dont.
I bought a refurbished hp spectre x360 13t and this thing heats up the entire house
@@paulp551 contact seller if it's unsafe if your in Australia send it in :)
See I asked that and the guy started to act like a smartass saying "But sir, it's a printer". Such a prick.
Great point. The term "refurbished" is not a protected term so you must be careful to only purchase from reputable companies who do fantastic refurbishment.
We provide new and professionally refurbished business headsets. The refurbished models are all done in house and go through a rigorous process to bring the products up to grade A standard. Same as new warranty included.
Buying refurbished can definitely save you money without sacrificing quality but do your research so you don't get a dud!
1:26 is why we love you Linus
I TOTALLY missed it
I like when Linus drops it down... :P
1:45 spit a tooth
I bought a new laptop. It died. I didn't have any recourse other than a £250 motherboard replacement. A few months later I found out there was a common problem that killed my motherboard and many people claimed against the company. I had already binned my laptop.
My brother bought a new car. It was freshly built and factory new with 14 miles on the clock. The radiator blew within 4 days and he had to take it back for warranty repairs.
My car, I bought second hand, knowing full well that I'd most likely need to do a head gasket repair on it as it was a common failure point. This made the car cheaper to buy, but it was cheap for me to fix to a better standard using higher quality parts from China (who took over the car company and actually improved upon the British engineering). I fixed the car and it's running so much better than when I bought it, and the price of the car is appreciating as other people are losing theirs to the same head gasket issue.
Moral of the story: Buy what you KNOW is going to work, or what you KNOW you can fix to a standard you can either sell for the same/higher price or just use for yourself. Never buy new and expect it to work flawlessly because it has this "NEWWWW" label on it. New means that it's at the beginning of the *Failure bell curve* and that it hasn't gone past the peak, and that none of the common failure points have been identified or fixed yet.
Jim Griffiths curious as to what car you bought mate?
wilsonram39 a rover 1.4 probably
+wilsonram39
MG TF.
+sbisxi
K-series engine built by Rover group haha.
Jim Griffiths 😁😁😁
I've had two refurb dells with no issues that weren't dealt with within 24 hours of contacting them.
I bought a brand new Galaxy Tab S2 and am in a two year running battle with PC World because it's a piece of shit and won't stop breaking.
Once they fix it or replace it it's getting sold and I'm never buying anything there again.
In my experience, the refurbished is still covered by manufacturers warranty. At the very least, the things I've gotten refurbished has. If that's the case with most items, there's not much risk of buying it.
I bought a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad T430 from Amazon, and though the reviews are kinda all over the place, the only problems I had were that there was slight cosmetic damage on the top of it, there was so much bloatware that it ran slower than the Windows 95 computer I grew up with (but this was probably how it came originally :rolleyes:), and the third "problem" was something that I was considering doing anyway: Though the laptop came from when Windows 7 was out, they said that it would have 10 installed, but mine came with 7. Almost immediately I remembered how much better 7 was overall and so didn't really pester them to give me a key, since unlike my main computer I didn't have anything tieing me to using 10. Still, I got it for far less than I could have gotten another laptop with flimsy build quality and lower specs that would break apart after a couple years. Seriously, I hate this modern trend of trying to make laptops (and electronics in general) as thin as possible: I will take my old laptop that I repeatedly dropped and it still worked just fine over these laptops that you condemn to a quick death by just putting in a backpack.
I've bought a refurbished ThinkPad T440s for 350€. It was a config with i5 4300U, 128GB SSD, backlit keyboard, HD+ TN display and also a 2 year warranty.
Albeit it had the smallest battery configuration (24 + 24 Wh) both of them had only 13-14% wear.
I've replaced the SSD with a 500GB Crucial MX500, installed an LTE module into the M.2 slot and bought a 72Wh battery.
These upgrades cost me around 200€, so for 550€ I've got myself an absolute beast that is "online" no matter where I am and lasts on battery all day (12h+ usage).
I'm also thinking about replacing the display with a FHD IPS panel as they are not expensive at all (55€ on Ebay).
Needless to say I can't be happier with my purchase.
Bought a Refurb Corsair RM750x PSU recently because I saw the growing number of people complaining the fan never comes on. Not a big deal when you realize the fan is a thermo-sensing fan that only comes on when needed, which some people may not like that function and return them with absolutely nothing wrong with them. It also comes with the 2 year warranty, so kudo's to Corsair!
0:16 guessing you had 59 fps instead of 60
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1:44 nice spit
lol i saw that
Did not even need 4k to see that.
bruuuhh
I saw it in glorious 480p
saw it in 360p, had to switch to 480p just to confirm
I've worked Gamestop, Bestbuy and Circuit City. All 3 had the same practice. Customer claims product was defective and we confirmed. Product was refunded and then immediately resold as refurbished after being cleaned.
Only refurbished items being returned a second time would be serviced. Often we cited a no refund policy on refurbished items if they were too expensive.
Once bought a refurbished smartphone on which they forgot to install the Playstore at first
that's weird, the Playstore comes with the stock firmware, so it should already be on the device (as far as I know)
EggoMyLego actually, some chinese manufacturers don't include Play Store and instead use their "app market". For those devices you can manually download an apk file of the Play Store
Custom roms don't include Playstore or Google apps in general, great to choose which ones you want or don't need
zalibassga yup, like for example, when is installing cynagenmod or lineage OS (both custom ROMS) u have the option to install Google Suite apps manually (i.e. u gotta do it by yourself)
coolstorybro
I bought a "Grade A" refurbished laptop from Best Buy for almost half-price. That was almost three years ago and it's still chugging along just fine as my daughter's gaming PC.
I love refurbished products, you often save a lot for ridiculous things like damaged packaging which will go in the garbage anyway. Often it is 99% new, mostly on Amazon and anyway as long as I still have my 1 year warranty then I don't care. Open Box is usually pretty good too and even better. Monitors can be a bit tricky cause of people returning for dead pixel usually but if you can return it also at no fee then it's worth taking the risk. I would never get a used HDD though.
Around 2007-2008 I bought a refurbished Nokia N81 8GB, and it worked great for the years I used it. Only issues were wear and tear related, one was that the centre "select" button had the top part fall off (due to heavy usage, but I could still press it bit something small), the second thing was how the charging port for Nokia's own charger became very loose (the cord didnt stick in/make proper contact). I accidentally pulled it kinda violently when I was in a hurry, which caused the issue.
Otherwise the phone worked great and was pretty cheap back then.
“that must be italian” 1:01
excellent semi-obscure reference to a stylized prize lamp
@Norii. first look at timestamp 1:02 in this video. then check out the classic movie "a christmas story". the whole thing is excellent but that little thought bubble on the screen in combination with the fragile sticker is a reference to this scene: ua-cam.com/video/lR29zxrY2LM/v-deo.html
0:17 - 0:19 I need this on loop XD Its the best! That yell kills me every time!
Lost a tooth for sure, I had to replay it a few times.
“Linus drops Razer Blade”
Iconic
Good explanation, and it mostly depends on the company. For Apple stuff, I actually go for the refurb items first if they are available. Not only does it save some money, but over the decades, I've actually had better luck with refurbs than new. I think it is that fact that the refurb stuff gets more testing attention than new, and as the video mentions, Apple warranties it like new anyway.
Nice shoutout to Louis Rossmann at 2:57! Good guys! 👍
I buy only manufacturer refurbished if it's not from the manufacturer forget it and if there is no warranty options forget it.
1:18 "It's sort of like a stray Dog". *Shows a pic of a pig*
Nah that's a dog
Definitely a dog
It's a cow.
@@HR-eb4vs tbh i thought it was Travis Scott at first ngl
@@Yo-nq9ul lmao
Been using my 2nd refurbished laptop for a year now. The old Dell didn't fit my needs anymore (a 2007 model). Definitely worth getting, especially for Linux users. Paid about $277 on each.
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Darrien Russele Angeles y Tabuzo it's zoom in
Reza Purnama yep. Only TechQuickie/LTT fans will notice.
Yeah thought that my UA-cam App glitched
ylwsub68 there's a glitch in the Matrix.
*Ali a intro*
I bought an advanced razer blade 2018 refurbished for 1500, came with original packaging and even the stickers, couldn’t tell it was refurbished
It'sSoTrippy where? Post link!
Linus spits at exactly 1:45
Look at his black shirt
Thanks
Thank you soo much.
I bought a new 32inch monitor (3yrs warranty) (already ordered) and got the same as listed refurbished for 20% less (used for a year).
What do you suggest?
Currently watching this on a ~500$ Hewlett Packard 2TB HDD, 12 GB RAM, etc... manufacturer refurbished laptop from EBay. I've had this for over a year now, and so far, except for a little degraded battery ( which is probably more of my fault ) this computer is working flawlessly.
2 years ago, I bought my GeForce 1080 as an "Open Box" Item off of Newegg. At time time it cost me around $540.00. To me, I really thought to myself that I was taking a gamble. However, I am glad to say my 1080 still holds up well.
I've had some pretty good experiences with buying refurbished stuff. I bought a refurbished HP Omen Monitor for 50% off. It did however break after 3 month but after calling HP they sent me a brand new monitor.
It was covered under warranty I should say (the excisting warranty carried over which was 1 year and 7 month) so definitely watch out for that.
I got a Thinkpad 420 for $210 dollars. 8gb ram, an i5, and a 320gb hdd. It’s pretty good. I removed the dvd drive and replaced it with an SSD (about 300gb)I had lying around. Runs fast. Good purchase.
Who else is watching this from a refurbished device?
Not only that but my refurbished laptop has a refurbished ssd in it.
I dont know if mine is refurbrished
I am
Surely if you upgrade a computer you are refurbishing it?
Probs me lol
I bought a ThinkPad. It was refurbished and what they did was completely upgraded. It was a 2016 laptop they put 8 gigs of RAM and 128 SSD. And I got it for two hundred bucks 2 years ago, it still works good and I love it. A solid good second laptop that I can take out or just want to use to type up messages on Facebook or good around online
I got refurbished PC 2 years ago, but still works in this day.
What I want to know , is there a best time of year to by refurbished like there is to buy new ? Do refurbished items ever get discounted like new items do ?
After some new product comes out , wait a mounth or so when people start to fall broke so they have to resell it
8 yeas ago I had a gaming laptop for five years I bought refurbished. Very good Asus ROG G51Vx.
Who cares
Mister Alien The people who liked the comment
Should you call it a "gaming laptop" if it's 8 years old?!? LUL
@@crazymonkey60123 It was a gaming laptop at it's time.
@@crazymonkey60123 you're a dumbfuck
I am watching this from a refurbished HP dc5850, that I bought early 2014. I use three 2nd-hand HDDs in that HP. One is a refurbished HDD coming with my refurbished i5 laptop, in my laptop I swapped it for a new 1TB SSHD. One 500GB Seagate I bought in 2014 and that one has a power on time of >5 years now, while my 1TB WD Black I bought locally this year has >6 years (probably a bad deal with only sidewalk warranty).
I use the 2008 desktop for almost 5 years now, without any problem and the same is true for that 2013 i5 laptop I bought 1.5 years ago. So far the only problem has been the new SSHD, that had temp problems during the very hot summer of 2017 (>35°C°).
I hope the HDDs survive a long time, since they are used with ZFS and 2-level caching with 3GB memory cache and 50GB SSD cache. Cache hit rates are respectively 89% and 16%.
I got myself a refurbished Thinkpad. Really happy with it.
Quite powerful and it was cheap.
Sometimes a product has an intermittent defect. When returned the inspector doesn’t see the defect and considers the product acceptable. Buy it and you get a defective product.
I love how "fragile" must be Italian. I love that movie.
Every laptop I've ever bought, I've bought refurbished. The most recent two laptops I've bought have been two of my best: my Compaq Presario lasted me an entire decade, and my ThinkPad R61 is a workhorse that handles great for a decade-old model. I bought the Presario for $300 at a pawn shop, and I bought the ThinkPad for $79 on clearance. The ThinkPad was upgraded with a 6 cell battery and an SSD, which shortens boot-up time and quickens performance all around. Refurb dot IO is a great site for refurbished laptops and desktops.
1:45 food flies out of Linus' mouth.
Derek Bye I can't unsee it now.😅😅😅😅😅😅🤣🤣
I think it was a tooth.
Jahhqhaahahh
I used to work as a tech for a company that refurbished cable set top boxes. Some of the techs did good work, but because of high quotas (which really shouldn't be a thing when it comes to troubleshooting and repair) a lot of the techs would cut corners: soldering in components from the top of the pcb, jumpers around filter caps and current limiters, float soldering with a heat gun on temperature sensitive chips, etc.
I'll buy open box products, but I avoid anything that has been refurbished.
0:17 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Never mistreated anything that badly
I was looking at GPUs the other day, (GTX-1080's specifically).. and came across a "refurbished" EVGA 1080, from EVGA. This would have been fine, but the price was nearly the same as new, and it only had a 180 day warranty. The warranty being so short is what turned me off. I ended up going with a new one for less than the refurbished one would cost.
"Fragile! That must be Italian!" I see what you did I got that reference.
Keep in mind there is manufacturer refurbished & vendor refurbished. Manufacturer (MFG) refurbished is probably going to have Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) or at least a large stock of new replacement parts in stock while a small vendor might just have whatever is available or a limited quantity of replacement parts. MFGs or large vendors like eBay or Amazon can afford to put good warranties on the devices as well. I've bought almost all my tablets & smartphones refurbished with good results after carefully shopping around keeping in mind the device's advertised condition, battery health, warranty period & limitations, as well as who refurbished it. I've purchased for myself & family members an iPad Air, iPad Mini from Wal-Mart.com & iPhone 6, 6S, 7, 8, X, from eBay have all been in excellent condition with great warranty. I did get an iPhone X from Amazon but it had a scratch I couldn't handle, but Amazon had a good return policy & took it back within 90 days, no questions asked.
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro I bought refurbished direct through apple, no regrets two years later it still works fine and when I got it, not a scratch on it👌🏻
Well I bought a refurbished iPad Air 1 (I’m typing with it right now) today. It is a pretty fine tablet. Only issue I experienced is that in white backgrounds there is a darker shade below the notification bar. It doesn’t affect performance at all. I’ve also tried heavy games on it and it is amazing. It has outstanding performance on web browsing and gaming and I just bought it for 124€. So yes it is worth it.
You need to do your homework. There is a difference between refurbished and open box. If some one buys something and returns it for what ever reson, then that is an open box. If it needs some repair then that is refurbished.
Open box Apple returns go back to be refurbished. They only sell new or certified refurbished so where do you think all the returns go?
Actually...... Open Box can mean returns, floor or cabinet display, double order, damaged or dropped box etc.... Refurbished units are more insurance claims for screen replacement and returns after a customer has had try heir data and everything transferred onto it and changes their mind about keeping it.
In my country, products from display are sold at full price (without any included warning that it was used for display purposes), and refurbished items are rarely cheaper.. maybe like 15% cheaper at most.
I bought a dell g3 laptop(in 90000 Indian rupees) on 15 July 2019 and after one day there was a horizontal fine line on the LCD. Dell adviced me to replace the LCD with a refurbished LCD. When the engineer was changed my LCD then a new problem was arised ,it is not powering on. Now again dell adviced me to replace my motherboard with a refurbished one. I am totally get frustrated with this dell laptop. Dell company cheated me and I am not going to adviced and buy dell product in future.
I got an Acer Predator 17, Factory certified refurbished from Amazon. It had a faulty video cable that go so hot that it melted part of the lid. I was able to send it back to be fixed and luckily they were able to replace the cable and the whole back of the lid. Works fine now.
Depends is it seller or manufacturer refurbished. Is a warranty also available.
My 9.5 year old refurbished Samsung flat screen TV, is still up and running, and it has not changed a noticeable bit over all these years. I mounted it on its base rather than have it mounted on a wall. It also came with a string and a bolt. The idea is to attach the string to the TV and then to a wall to help stabilize it and/or prevent it from being accidentally knocked forward. But it came with the wrong size bolt. But once I had the TV up and running, I kind of laughed and said to myself, "I don't think we are going to have any earthquakes any time soon.", since earthquakes are super rare indeed in my area. Next, I sat down while reading the manual. Suddenly, you guessed it, an earthquake started. Fortunately the TV did not fall forward, but just rocked back and forth a bit instead.
YES!
I just bought a 6core xeon workstation (12 HT), with ssd and hdd, windows10pro installed, and 12gb ddr3 for a mere 350,-
But it's from a trustworthy company, they even included a keyboard which was never mentioned. (and it's a decent 10-15,- office keyboard, it's even a heavy metal kind! :D )
Thing is, it outperforms a 700,- + equivalent because that workstation tech was over 6000,- when it released 8 years ago.
I Slammed my own graphicscard in it instead of the outdated 1gb quadro and it (for example) play's 4K on youtube just fine, and games run smoother than ever before, while also capable of multitasking thanks to the 12 threats :D
i know its not electronics but i just bought a new camera lens today. it looks like new and works perfectly. also it was half the price of a new one. i think it comes down to where you buy it. i researched a lot of different sites and stores for reviews. i didnt go for the cheapest but went for the store which was already well established and had many locations around the country. i went into the shop and physically tested it. really glad with my purchase
I have bought a lot of refurbished stuff but I always try to get an extended warranty. In my experience around 1/3 of what I have gotten have ended failing again.
You need to pay attention to listings on Amazon too. Most of those great deals on electronics are just refurbished product.
If possible I buy directly from the manufacturer of the product on Amazon. They have rebates and what not already applied and you get next day / same day shipping!
My main HDD was a refurbished one, I was iffy on it, but 5 years later, its still going strong!
I bought a refurbished laptop back in 2011, it worked great but the video card finally gave out, so it worked perfectly for 8 years.
Now I'm doing my first computer build. can't wait to have it all ready.
Somebody could explain me the italian reference? I didn’t get it
sorrefly maybe because it's 'italic'?
Same here...
sorrefly it’s from the movie “A Christmas Story” when the dad gets his reward in a wooden box with the word “Fragile” and says it in an Italian accent and says “It must be Italian!”
A Christmas story, it's a movie joke
OMG! get cultured bruh
0:01 is it me or the intro looks zoomed in
Lol it says ech quic instead of tech quickie
Edit: changed quickie from quicky
I worked for Toshiba and their refurbished laptops is as bad as a broken one. I talked to Jackie Chan complaining about newly repaired refurbished laptop from the repair depot getting bsod out of the box. I felt ashamed. I think one of the reasons Toshiba stopped manufacturing laptops is the products and the services were bad.
I once got a sweet deal on a refurbished all in one computer, because of a dead pixel the price was dropped significantly, my thought proces already was 'I'm gonna hook it up to my tv, so it won't ruin my watching experience,' but when I booted it up I noticed the dead pixel they mentioned was at the very bottom of the screen, so because it also got a HDMI-in port it turned out to be a still sufficient monitor as well, if it's is still working by the time I move out, it'll become a nice addition to my work station as I can switch to working on something else on the all in one while my workstation is rendering
Actually i bought one HP touch screen laptop, been using it for around two years after the 3months warranty finished, had no issues with it at all, but when later i understood whr they might come from i sold it right away lol...i only thought it was a returned items lol
I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T420 for $210 and I love it. Especially when you replace the dvd drive and replace it with a caddy drive with a 320gb Solid State Drive
This one time my friend bought a refurbished Windows 10 computer for $250 from an ebay seller. A week later he told me it was running very slow and for me to look at it. Turns out it was a Dell Optiplex 755 with a Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR2, and a 5400RPM HDD. I told him that computer is like 10 years old and is a hunk of shit. He got his money back, and I gave him my old i5-2400 system.
Your friend didn't even look at the model and etc when he bought it did he?
The seller got screwed by your friend for no reason.
seeing Linus this young is uncanny
Bought a refurbished thinkpad, all i had to do myself was replace the battery which i was planning to do anyway and works real damn good. Saved a lot of money.
Bought a second-hand Lenovo Yoga 370 for 750 euros, while the most reasonable retail price lied around 1100 euros.
1:43 Spit flew out of Linus’s mouth saying “brAnd nEw ShinY”
Lmao
I've got some horror stories with buying refurbished items. A few years ago I bought a refurbished HP small form factor computer for my ex from Wal-Mart's site refurbished by a 3rd party that was supposed to come with a 500GB hard drive and Windows 7 for $150 but when I hooked it up after it arrived it went straight to the BIOS so I removed the side panel to discover there wasn't even a hard drive in it so I took it back but to the store rather than shipping it and ended up dealing with a 4 month ordeal to get my money back because it was discovered after viewing camera footage that an employee pocketed the money that was supposed to have been credited back to my account.
About 2 or 3 years ago I decided to buy a refurbished Dell Lattitude E6420 laptop on Newegg but refurbished by a 3rd party that was a "Authorized Refurbisher", when the laptop arrived it came with a really cheap chinese charger and mega cheap replacement battery, the backlight would flicker and eventually it just went shot a couple days later, sent it back for a replacement and received one without the integrated Nvidia card that I specifically ordered and also had an issue with the charging port so I had to return that one for a replacement, the 3rd laptop arrived but had backlight issues once again so at this point I was fed up and it was clear that this "Refurbisher" didn't test anything before they shipped it or know what they were doing.
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING REFURBISHED UNLESS ITS DIRECTLY FROM THE MANUFACTURER.
Thank you again for your videos. You have helped me out so many times with tech questions. It is nice to know refurbished can be, in many cases, as good as new. I will be careful to see what the warranty length is next time I buy. I'm glad my son found your channel. :)
I bought an open box TV once. The store disclosed it was missing it's smart remote but had the normal one. The smart remote ended up being ONE HUNDRED BUCKS. But...Ultimately the TV was undamaged and Best Buy promised a 2 year warranty free and I WAS able to pay for an additional 2 after those were up. Another few hundred bucks there. But here's the thing. I GOT A 2200 DOLLAR TV FOR 1400. 1700 if you include the 200 warranty and 100 remote. And two years later it's still the best TV I've had yet. 55 4K 3D high end SUHD Samsung set. 800 off just because it was an open box floor display they had to get rid of to make room for a new model. But hey, that picture looked amazing to me! Never had a 240 refresh rate before...IT SO BEATS 60.
My S7 is refurbished and I saved a lot, works great, it was worth every cent :)
Fridgemusa the S5 I used to have was refurbished and worked perfectly.
*_NOW YOU CAN PLAY FORTNITE_*
I'm sorry.
Same here, got it on ebay cheap as fk.
@@Alcoholic_Nerd how much did it cost and who was the seller if you don't mind? I wanna get one for my little brother who just plays games and the s7 is still great even if it's old thanks :)
I also own a S7 it's used though not refurbished.
I've been pretty lucky with my refurbs from Woot. between then and the refurbers they work with, haven't had much problem getting stuff on the cheap.
Hey Louis!
Aussies, FYI; No such thing as a limited warranty for us. Minor fault is entitled to repair or replace at cost-efficient judgement of retailer, major fault is entitled to repair/replace/refund at your call.
Just helpful tip if anyone needs it :) go check out these rules on The Checkout if you want proof.
1:43 "SHINY! *spit...*
I got an htc phone from a dubai store. It was packed like brand new and was only 30 dollar off the retail price. I thought it was new. No sign of any reburbished branding. When i opened it, it had no sim card jackets. And it had selfies in it, which clearly showed it was a demo unit sold to me as new. I ordered the sim jackets from aliexpress, took a month to deliver. And turns out both the sim slots were damaged. I got them repaired. But the repair guy warned me they may stop working any minute. I immediately sold off the phone for half the price i got. Htc resale sucks. And got myself a new nokia 6.1 2018.
You could have used the clip when Max let the PC fall
mharris1270 who are your parents fam. I just wanna talk.
@mharris1270 hey grandad
All the refurbished products I've purchased have lasted quite a bit and worked very well. Obviously, I can't compare with non-refurbished because I purchased the refurbished product but I am usually satisfied with the refurbished product. The exception are refurbished products from a specific chain of cheap electronics where I live. You can't return products, only exchange and their refurbished TVs, for example, all have major scratches dings and damaged screens. Luckily I check before I buy. Once, I tried to purchase a TV from them and opened 27 boxes and did not find one proper TV. They were all heavily scratched. That's the last time I frequented that store for anything.
Just don't buy refurbished stuff from Game Stop
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Is someone a spawnwave viewer ?
www.refurbished-warehouse.com/index.php
The first refurbished thing I ever bought was a DVD player. It's lasted me over 12 years now, although after HD technology came out, I have used it less and less. Still, it served me well. And if I remember correctly, my PS2 and my PS3 were purchased as refurbished items back in 2010. Still going strong!
I've been buying refurbished electronics since 98. Love it. Just make sure it is refurbished and tested by the original manufacturer.
I worked for a large tool company doing quality control for their electronic test equipment. Any refurbs we sold were tested more thoroughly than newly manufactured products because it costs a lot of money to have the refurb returned to be reworked over again.
Linus - intro sequence was oversized, doesn't fit the aspect ratio.
Maybe he got a malfunctioning refurbished intro...
What episode is the keyboard smash from?
Watching this on my refurbished Dell Latitude laptop!
I usually always buy refurbished, but at Fry's Electronics, I bought a lemon. I bought a Steel Series Arctis Pro Wireless for full price and one of the batteries was missing and the other was bent in half. Also, someone cut the headband in half. I didn't even test it, I was so upset that I immediately drove 1 and a half hours back to the store to return it. I live in a really small crappy town, so it was the only place to get it from.