Refurbished Goods

[RunDownHouse]

Iggy,

Just fyi, there was a deal on refurbed TVs from buy.com posted on slickdeals a week or two ago. Something like $800 for a 42" Plasma shipped.

People started getting them not too long later... in banged up boxes. With giant cracks across the screen. With tons of dead pixels. With markings indicating they were "Class C" or something, which was defined as fit for bench tests only.

Generally refurb products are supposed to be perfectly functional, with only minor cosmetic defects or something, but it definitely pays to do a bit of research on the manufacturer, their refurb standards, and ditto on the retailer. In the few cases I'd read about, I hadn't heard of any real problems with refurbed products, but those TVs through buy.com sounded like a complete nightmare.