F***. I bought a Blackberry as 'Open Box' (no returns) from J$R in New York and just discovered that the sim card connector piece is missing, rending it inoperable.
― calstars, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)
I like when they're at least obviously broken on the shelves. Like the stereo I was checking out that wouldn't open its CD or cassette compartments.
― Abbott, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)
i bought my last laptop this way, it ended up only having 15GB of hard drive space, not the 80 GB as printed on the box.
so dont do it
― homosexual II, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)
there was a good story around here about a couple who bought a CRT monitor and then when they got it home it was an institutional-sized can of corn or something like that.
― teeny, Thursday, 12 July 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)
WAHT? If it's open box, aren't the items usually displayed outside the box?
― Abbott, Thursday, 12 July 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)
A former roommate bought a gigantic projection TV open-box. Best Buy knocked off about $1500 due to a small scratch on the case, but it worked fine for years. I'm pretty sure she tried it out in the store first though.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 July 2007 23:52 (eighteen years ago)
I would look into the consumer rights laws of NY - I know that in some places you can't sell things 'as-is' or 'open box' when they're actually completely fucked without stating that they're inoperable.
― milo z, Friday, 13 July 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)
"J&R stands behind our Open Box products with a 30-day, no-hassle return policy. If you are not satisfied with your purchase, you can return the product within 30 days and we will issue you a refund for the full amount of the merchandise."
― milo z, Friday, 13 July 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)
Anyone who lives within shooting distance of a Fry's knows that open-box == 100% waste of money.
― libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)
yeah unfortunately my lazy ass didnt discover my computer was very shy of hard drive space about 6 months after i purchased it. :(
― homosexual II, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)
homosexual II: https://www.serversupply.com/products/part_search/query.asp?q=ST9120821AS&pw=Y
120G SATA = $100. PATA isn't too far off.
― libcrypt, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)