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Where Can You Buy Refurbished Hardware, Now?

Posted by Cliff on from the used-computers-for-sale dept.

theGoodWitch writes "Since Egghead.com went bankrupt (that new 'powered by Amazon.com' site they have not is not the same thing), I'm having trouble finding good deals on used/refurbished/end-of-stock PCs, servers, hard drives, tape drives, and such. Ubid has some, but not nearly the selection. eBay has too much, and it's too hard to sort out who the sellers are. I don't want to buy from individuals, only from commercial suppliers with (at least limited) warranties and minimal guarantees. Egghead.com was perfect, but now they're gone. What happened to all the stuff they were getting? Who is selling it now?"

5 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Ya, I hate that by dimator · · Score: 5, Funny

    eBay has too much

    Whenever I'm looking for something, and I find it in mass quantities, I get really pissed too.

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  2. Computer Surplus Outlet by funkman · · Score: 4, Informative
    http://www.computersurplusoutlet.com/


    I got memory from them with no problems. They also carry a lot of other crap too.

  3. Compgeeks by bats · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.compgeeks.com

    'nuff said.

  4. ebay/pricewatch by redhotchil · · Score: 3, Informative

    ebay has its half.com, pricewatch.com has its not-exactly-new section..

    half.com

    pricewatch.com

    karma - whore it like you mean it.

  5. Now, I shop at: by qurob · · Score: 3, Informative

    TigerDirect

    Clearance/Refurbished sections of PC Mall, PC Warehouse, Insight, CDw, etc

    I remember buying from Egghead when they were "Surplus Software", they used to have the big black and white news paper type ads they'd mail you. They always had a page or two in Computer Shopper, also.

    They used to sell LINUX distros, way back in the early 90's!