buying digital camera from refurb website? I'm buying a digital camera online. I'm looking for the best bang for the buck. Right now, I'm looking at a cool site called epinions dot com On this site, I search for price range, model, and compare cameras and find the best prices online (with shipping included) and have them delivered to my door. My best search brought up a Canon Powershot A520 on a site called Refurbdepot dot com (forwarded site from epinions dot com) for only 100USD - that's for a new camera link to camera here http://www.refurbdepot.com/productdetails2.cfm?Product_ID=4212&refererid=dealtime My question is this: Is buying a a refurbished/remanufactured digital camera from the web a good idea if the price is considerably cheaper than in-store or other online deals? If you don't know about refurbs you can learn about them on the site. I'd like to know people's experiences in buying refurbed digital cameras online I mean the Canon Powershot A52 is supposed to be the best value vs. price at around only 100USD. How can I not buy it? note: I used epinions dot com, is there another site (similar in focus and reach) that'll help me track down the best online deals? thanks!
I like epinions. If the guarantee/warantee is good, I'd go for it. Many manufacturers won't honor their warantees with such sites as the sites aren't manufacturer certified dealers because they're considered distributers not retailers. If such is the case, make sure the dealers warranty is just as good and look at what others had to say about that dealer. I buy refurbished stuff all the time; I've saved a fortune and never had any trouble but I must admit that I won't go near refurbished for certain things...my computer, monitor, TV, AVR etc....big ticket items that are hard to return. If the warranty is good...hell, why not? Let us know how you make out with this if you go through with it. Come the time of my income tax return, I'm planning to get a digital SLR. I have a Pentax 35mm and if I buy a pentax digital SLR body, I can use all my lenses, filters etc. It will cost about $600-$700 for the body but then I'll be able to use everything I've bought over the years which amounts to a lot of $$ when you consider everything.
