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Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability

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On 2020-08-22, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <hqcssjFcqheU3@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2020-08-22, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <t0_%G.413861$DO2.340698@fx45.iad> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2020-08-21 16:45, Wade Garrett wrote:
>>>
>>> Of note, never buy any hard drive on Amazon. They routinely sell
>>> drives they claim are sold by Amazon (they are not) and that they
>>> have a manufacturer's warranty (they do not). When the drives fail,
>>> and they will, you will find yourself trying to deal with some
>>> "company" you've never heard of trying to get a warranty replacement
>>> and Amazon will tell you to fuck off.
>>>
>>> (Company as in some guy selling OEM drives out of his storage
>>> locker).
>
>> I wouldn't go so far as to say "never - just be smart about it.
>
> There is no way to tell. The last drives I bought (or will ever buy)
> from Amazon clearly said they were sold by Amazon and had the
> manufacturer's warranty; Not "a warranty" but the manufacturers
> warranty/ Both these statements were lies.
>
>> Luckily, it's really easy to avoid shady resellers on Amazon: just
>> make sure the item you want to purchase says "sold and fulfilled by
>> Amazon". 
>
> It did. It was not. As far as I am concerned, what Amazon did was
> fraud.

I've purchased a dozen drives like this without issue in the past year
or three.

Did they accept your return?

> I did have some Amazon marketplace issues with drives several years
> ago (I bought 4 drives, all were OEM, I returned them and got four
> "new" drives. All were OEMs. I canceled the order and returned the
> four replacements. Since then I was VERY careful that nothing I bought
> was ever from Amazon Marketplace.

Same here. Since avoiding the marketplace, I haven't had a problem with
drives not being what was stated. But even if something like that did
happen, I know Amazon would take them back no questions asked.

> After I complained and they told me to fuck off

That's why you buy from Amazon instead, where they will happily accept a
return for just about any reason.

> In short, don't trust Amazon to sell you what they said they sold you.

Meh. Don't buy from the marketplace and you have little to worry about.

> And if I have to check every serial number

If you are buying hard drives without checking to make sure the warranty
is legit on the manufacturer's website with the serial number, your
problems are self-created as far as I'm concerned.

> that's not a company I want to purchase goods from.

Where do you buy your hard drives from?

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Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2020-08-21 16:45 -0400
  Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-08-21 16:35 -0700
    Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2020-08-22 09:40 -0400
  Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-08-21 20:53 -0400
    Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-08-22 07:04 +0000
      Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2020-08-22 09:45 -0400
      Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2020-08-22 07:02 -0700
      Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-08-22 15:45 +0000
        Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-08-22 16:10 +0000
          Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-08-23 16:19 +0000
            Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2020-08-23 22:00 +0000
              Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-08-25 20:56 +0000
        Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2020-08-22 13:17 -0400
          Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-08-23 16:20 +0000
    Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-08-22 15:36 +0000
      Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Paul Goodman <goodmanp@comcast.net> - 2020-08-22 14:10 -0400
  Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2020-08-22 15:29 +0000
    Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2020-08-22 13:19 -0400

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