[CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Oct 3 19:30:26 UTC 2013
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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