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"Refurbished" Items

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EastcoastAR5
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Thoughts?
Anyone buy something that was Refurbished?
it sounds kinda sketchy but maybe its the way to go.
Can you even tell a difference?
Nov 20 2005 5:54PM
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OpIvy
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I normally have no qualms with it. And its always a good deal if you can get it for a lot cheaper. The quality is the same as new, the only risk is that it won't always last as long. But its usually a safe bet.
Nov 20 2005 6:00PM
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Timmy_G
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I got a refurbished video camera once and it was fucked up. Refurbished items are a risk. Some are totally legit, some suck ass
Nov 20 2005 6:08PM
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awsomecoolguy
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i got a refubished cell phone and it works great
Nov 20 2005 6:28PM
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Galin
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i got a refurbished xbox and it works fine. I've had it forever too
Nov 20 2005 6:30PM
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sneather
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same here
Nov 20 2005 6:30PM
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spin
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refurbs are good deals
Nov 20 2005 6:32PM
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foodisfun
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yea the'yre usually pretty good, and most of the time if the performance is affected the company will give u a new (refurbished) product. i got my basbeall bat for $125 instead of $250 just because the knob was silver instead of black, and the letters on the bat were blended together
Nov 20 2005 6:36PM
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alpineplease
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my dad dropped his ipod off a the chairlift onto a rock, fuckin broke the shiiiiittt out of it, got a refurbished one. yet is had to be new. maybe they call it REFURBISHDE BUT ITS NEW, SO FAGS DONT BREAK THEIR SHIT AND GET NEW ONES.
Nov 20 2005 6:53PM
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Snowcase
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most of the time u can get a good deal
Nov 20 2005 6:59PM
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Dilla
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my friend got a refurbished shuffle, and it works really well
Nov 20 2005 7:01PM
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lalalalaura
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Interesting story:
A friend of a friend of mine used to have to pass by this old beat up garden gnome every day on his way to and from school. So one day, he steals this gnome, to put it out of its misery. Anyways, he paints the gnome like, super amazingly, and put it back exactly where he found it, happy as can be.

I thought it was a pretty rad story myself.
Nov 20 2005 7:07PM
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alpineplease
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hahaha. is that a goat smoking out of a pipe in your icon? cuz goats are funny. like in chappelles show, goat play, with ron jeremy, hahah and lateralis has him in his icon which is cool, and snow is pretty cool, but its not cool in california, its hot. hot like this girl who said raise your hand if you are drunk, which the garden knome was.
Nov 20 2005 7:14PM
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lalalalaura
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It's actually a sock puppet. Although, on a level of coolness, I'd have to say goats are definitly cooler. as for the rest of your post, I really don't know what the fuck you are talking about. But, I still kinda liked it.
Nov 20 2005 7:23PM
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QuazBotch
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I too am confused. But goats and sock puppets make a great team and might be able to defeat an army of garden gnomes in a game of dodgeball played with lead-filled dirigibles, fresh painted or not. I think the freshly painting gnomes might be scared of getting chipped and not really fight it out.

And everything refurbished I've bought did not work.
Nov 20 2005 8:34PM
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lalalalaura
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I don't know about the garden gnomes being afraid of getting chipped... It seems to me they'd be more likely to give it their all, it's like when Digimon characters morph into whatever they morph into, they become that much more hardcore, as would I imagine, well painted garden gnomes.
Also, I don't think that sock puppets would last very long in dodgeball, seeing as one would need to wear it on ones hand, and the likely hood of catching a dodgeball with one hand before it manages to strick the actual tubing of the sock, seems a little farfetched to me. Goats however, would definitly show everyone who was boss.
Nov 20 2005 8:38PM
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Rajna
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i had a refurbish cell phone and in 4 weeks the 3,6,9 buttons did not work at all
Nov 20 2005 10:20PM
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