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Re: Manufacturer Refurb Portable HD Reliability

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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 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.

After I complained and they told me to fuck off they wouldn't do
anything but give me the contact info for whatever bullshit company
they used, they did update the listing to remove their lies, but I did
keep screenshots a I planned to file against them in Small Claims.

Then the pandemic happened. So instead I simply stopped buying computer
parts from them. In fact, I don't think I have used my account at all
this year, although it is possible my wife has for household stuff. (She
has her own account but is careless about which account she is logged
into).

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

And if I have to check every serial number to make sure I am not being
defrauded, that's not a company I want to purchase goods from.

-- 
You could save people. You could get there in the nick of time. And
	something could snap its fingers and say, no , it has to be that
	way. Let me tell you how it has to be. This is how the legend
	goes. --Soul Music

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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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