[ale] Is there anybody we don't hate too much for Refurbs?

[Steve Tynor]

I've had good experience (100% success rate with half a dozen or so) 
with refurbs from both Microcenter and Peachtree Computers.

If you are otherwise happy with your hardware, though, have you 
considered just running Win10 and turbo tax in a virtual machine?

Steve



On 10/24/19 12:30 PM, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
> Slightly off-topic, but not too much.
>
> My wife and partner informs me that TurboTax will no longer run on her 
> Win7 desktop.   Without TurboTax, life ends as we know it.
>
> We have used off-lease refurbs for most of our company's life.  If 
> it's a server, I get a refurb and replace the disk with a new mirrored 
> pair. (and load linux)   If it's a desktop, I feel lucky.
>
> Thus far we've been fortunate at getting them from Tiger Direct. Alas, 
> no longer.   Got one on Amazon a few years back and that has been fine 
> for Android development.
>
> So, I trying to find average form factor 8GB, 1TB disk, Win 10 Pro, 
> VGA & HDMI.    When I look at Amazon, there are plenty of choices.  
> Many of which have 15-25% one-star ratings. And you read them, it's a 
> horror show - "arrived with broken power supply", "NIC intermittent",  
> "Vendor non-communicative".
>
> Yes, Amazon is horrible at policing their suppliers.    I'm 
> wondering.... are companies being more selective at only letting go of 
> their desktops when they know they are going south?   Are refurb 
> vendors getting worse?
>
> Is there anybody we like for refurbs these days?
>
> I see the last one I bought was from Amazon Renewed, which says it has 
> a 90 day Amazon guarantee.  I just checked at it has a 19% one star 
> review.   I guess I was just lucky.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Neal
>
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