http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-best-practices-guide-to-buying-used-electronics/ Tech Powered Life... Simplified Tue, 14 May 2013 18:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-best-practices-guide-to-buying-used-electronics/#comment-94824 Mike Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:50:15 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=17855#comment-94824 Steve Stone gives good advice. I buy nearly all my electrics from Ebay and most come from Hong Kong/Taiwan or even the Chinese mainland. The stuff I buy is usually computer parts so the people I buy from are small businesses that buy from other small business, etc. Never had a problem yet. What I stay clear of are people posting their own items for sale. In electronics, unless you have seen this person selling multiple items (like an auction buyer of sed PCs for example) then you really take a chance.

]]> http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-best-practices-guide-to-buying-used-electronics/#comment-94747 Steve Stone Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:11:15 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=17855#comment-94747 When purchasing electronics from eBay. Never assume anything. If the listing does not say the device is working, new, etc. don’t expect it to have those qualities. Beware non definitive description like: near mint, like new, nice, excellent. I plugged it in and it lights up, got this at an estate sale. If it doesn’t say it is working properly don’t expect it to be in working condition, even it listed as USED per eBay’s definition of used.

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