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I’m kind of surprised they’ll even take open-box returns of hard drives that aren’t defective. How do you know the drive is safe to use? It seems to me kind of
by elliekelly 6y ago
I’m kind of surprised they’ll even take open-box returns of hard drives that aren’t defective. How do you know the drive is safe to use?
It seems to me kind of like underwear: once you buy it, you keep it and in the unlikely event you need to return the item it goes right in the trash.
- noja 6y agoBecause the dirty secret is that "new" does not mean you are the first customer to open the item.
- RandomBacon 6y agoWhen you return an item to Amazon, one of the reasons you can select in the dropdown menu is "received used item" (or something similar).
- bentcorner 6y agoIt's disappointing that this scam is so pervasive they added UI to handle it.
- elliekelly 6y agoAnd for most items that’s not too big of a deal. A returned textbook or toaster can be re-sold after it’s been opened without much fear that it’s been tampered with but I’m not sure the same can be said for a hard drive. Or maybe it’s more like a bottle of medicine. Even if it’s exceedingly unlikely that it’s been tampered with I’m not going to risk it if the manufacturer’s seal is broken. It’s just not worth it.
- QuercusMax 6y agoTextbooks are actually a bad example, now that an awful lot of them have one-time codes linked to online materials (homework, etc.). Sure, the contents of the book may not be "used up", but that doesn't mean it's necessarily "good-as-new".