Re: "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

[John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/3/2013 8:36 AM, John Doe wrote:
> There's also the grey area of the "like new", refurbished (by the manufacturer,
> or even the vendor), etc... especially on ebay.

a LOT of 'refurbish' stuff is refurbed by 3rd parties, neither the OEM 
or the reseller, and then reinserted into the grey market retail 
stream.  in these cases traceability and accountability can be hard to 
come by.

now, its a fact that something like 80% of product returns are 100% AOK, 
they were returned for stupid reasons, pilot error, etc.   The 
refurbishers often do little more than a quick functional test, relabel 
(if you're lucky) and repack.    Big discount resellers like Fry's are 
notorious for stocking this sort of junk (never mind the stuff they 
repack in-house).



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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