Should You Buy Refurbished Electronics?
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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1:22: "a stray dog" LULZ!
Never buy refurbished computers, they could have been driven into the sea and recovered, or built from 2 crashed ones.
I’m sure it’s usually fine but all the refurbished consoles I’ve seen my buddy get over the years are horrible garbage that are loosely put back together, often missing screws. Think I’ll shell out the extra hundred or so
I have bought a few refurbished phones to save a hundred or $200 and in most cases the charging ports already we’re pretty worn out and only lasted for a short. Of time
1:26 lololololol
y was the intro walking out of the screen to the void
I buy all my stuff from Guy’s Groovy Grab Bag. It’s a panel truck and he’s never in the same place twice.
Voice hurts my ears.
1:43 Thanks Linus you just spat in my face 🤦♂️
Almost all my components (excpet for the personal rig itself though it’s monitor and the psu are not) are "USED" parts. They are lot cheaper and works fine for a while. 6 uears ago I bought a NEC branded monitor for as cheap as 20 dollars and it’s working flawless to the date. But, as someone mentioned earlier… "It depends"
intro: *thanks for watching echquich*
SPIT ALERT at 1:45
I bought a refurbished graphic card from newegg and it was DOA.
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.
bought refurbished iPhone x and turned out to be an android 😫
A-gain-Sth…. Canadians….
I’ve bought a few refurbished items and I’ve never had an issue ever all of them are still working and looked brand new
so there is a 140 dolars gtx 1060 6gb you recommend? it really cost like 220
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 mean, I bought a refurb monitor for £50, works great
in my country refurbished PC’s have 36 months warranty. But you have freedom
Hey Linus. Few years ago (don’t really remember when. three? four?) picked up a ‘refurbished’ Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series for $225. It’s been great. Case was clean, unscratched. Get four hours battery life max but that’s not a problem. I don’t game and don’t really need a super-powered system. I plan to pick up something brand spanking new but I’ll hang on to this one for back-up till it fries.
BTW, would appreciate a few words from you about those miserable ‘Canadian’ keyboards vs the traditional American and how hard it is to find the latter in a Canadian retail store. Apple and Dell are two companies that only have American keyboards. I’m a deeply proud Canadian but the so-called Canadian keyboard is an abomination.
what about a "renewed", or refurbished smartphone from amazon?
When you buy used car from the car lot you’re buying a refurbished car unless you buy from a private sellar that hasn’t touched it yet
My keyboard is refurbished and it doesn’t work so w- t 67 khk s fy5 e ed w467
My Xbox 360 was refurbished. Worked great for the life of the system.
hahaha, I occasionally apply toothpaste to the top of my computer’s cpu.
Very tempted to go refurb for my next laptop… this has been a good watch and good thinking material.
Refurbished tablet section on Amazon = neverending list of iPads 🤔
Every Referb piece of electronics everyone I know has ever bought has died between 3-6 months. However I bought a refurberd GE coffee maker years ago for my mother (as my aunt worked at GE) and it out lived her!
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.
Im getting a refurbished headphones and gaming keyboard im scared for my life lol
I just got scammed by refurbished laptops 😢
He’s right you dont know where a stray dog has been especially when he’s turned into a pig…
I love refurbished and used items. I usually manage to get around 50% off. I have purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro, S7, S9, Book 2, Dell XPS 15 Touch 4K, projector, 2TB NVMEs, etc all at around 50% off and in great condition.
Watching this video on my refurbished, brand new looking and cheap Galaxy S9
I never purchase refurbished merchandise for the simple reason that there’s a good chance that it’s been damaged or defective. Unless the refurbished item is at least 50% discount off the item if it was brand new, then I’m not buying. Oftentimes, retailers like Best Buy only offer a small discount. It’s not worth it. Once the item has been opened, it loses half of its value.
I always buy refurbished. On my second Workstation. First one was awesome and worked for years.
I bought a laptop and it stopped in a month got my money back not all of it but yea i had to take a loss.
What about batteries and SSDs that come with refurbished laptops?
I bought my MacBook direct from Apple on their certified refurbished scheme. On their website it does actually say these items are refurbished or clearance items. It’s quite common (at least in the UK) when buying direct from Apple to get last year’s model still brand new and unopened at around 40% off just because there’s a new model been released. They just pop a Certified Refurbished labelled lid on the box and reuse the new one for their next model 🙂
Rossman!
I am always buying used parts and refurbishing desktop computers fro my personal use. Normally i3 2nd GEN with 1GB VGA and brand new 120 SSD will cost me 100 USD. for a machine booting with in 20 seconds for office use. band new SSD is a must but other parts refurbished.
all my organization computers are refurbished and no hikups at all. running very much as new once.
Before I watch this video my answer would be no don’t buy refurbished, used is better.
My answer is hell no
I bought a manufacturer refurbished Western Digital external harddrive a couple of years ago. Looks like new and performance is as expected. Saved some money. Would do it again.
Linus is simply the best if u need any help in the technology world.
1:45 something came out of his mouth xD
I have bought three refurbished ThinkPads and have been mostly satisfied, although I did receive one lemon. All three have been less than $600, with my recent W541 being the most expensive (but also the best spec’d.)
Buying a refurbished machine is a great way to get a good machine for a decent price, especially if you’re on a budget like I am. Some manufacturers like Apple also have really good refurbishing programs for their products, although you will likely pay more in comparison to a third-party refurbisher.
My dealer of refurbished computers gives me 3 years if warranty for a few bucks.