Have you ever been burned by a refurbished computer part or computer ?

[steve2470]

Not me. Not once. I've been buying computer parts for many years, and so far *knock on wood* I've never had a failure.

Now with a brand-new bleeding-edge product...yes....it happened once to me. That was painful. I won't buy bleeding edge any more.

How about you ?

[brush]

1. I've had good luck too. I'm a Mac guy and go to gainsaver.com for refurbished Macs

A lot cheaper than buying new.

[Afromania]

2. outright burned, no; but I have had a couple of parts die in extraordinary fashion earlier than they

would have normally.

[emulatorloo]

3. Refurbished Mac guy, all good.

Also refurb home audio gear. Some synths too. Some vendors have very strict reverb process.

[Binkie The Clown]

4. Bought a refurbished computer for my mom at Goodwill for $39.95

That was six years ago and she still uses it every day for email and Facebook, and it still has the Goodwill price sticker on the side.

[lpbk2713]

5. I bought a refurb HP from NewEgg a few years ago.

The power supply smoked after about a month. It only took one call to NewEgg. They expressed me another one and I was back in business. They didn't want the old one or any kind of proof that it actually was bad. This experience balances out the new 4 in 1 printer that I bought from them that lasted about four hours out of the box. I bought it from one of their sub vendors and I had to deal with him. Long story but I ended up just saying fuggit. It's still out in my garage.

[Egnever]

7. New egg rocks

[hunter]

6. The last computer I bought was a Raspberry Pi for $35

The last upgrade I bought was some $10 memory.

I bought a $30 usb stick drive the other day as additional backup for my 30,000+ collection of family photos. Most of those are from digital cameras, the rest scans of negatives, slides, and prints. (For a long time I had my film developed at Costco and got the digital pictures on CD.) I may have been motivated by all the disaster news, thinking it would be handy to have something I could quickly put in my pocket if I had to flee this place.

All the boxes of old photos and scrapbooks would fill a pickup truck...

The last "new" conventional computer I bought was a shopworn 386 for $300. (The 486 had just been released...) Since then I've diverted many computers from the e-waste stream, maybe upgrading them by maxing out the memory, but that's it.

A computer that's been rendered frustratingly slow by Microsoft Windows cruft becomes quite usable again running Linux.