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On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 22:53 +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > On 31/01/11 22:44, Roland Tarver wrote: > > > > > Thanks Rob. > > I did point her in the direction of Tierone from a previous time u > > recommended it. Out of interest, have you actually ever bought a > > computer from them? I too would definitely consider buying a new > > computer from them (if I needed one). > > > > Not a computer no, but I did buy the kids PS3 from them back in 2009 > (just before Christmas) and it's still working fine. > > I gather some of the kit they sell is ex-catalogue, refurbished and > returned stuff (for instance my PS3 had a damaged box but the console > inside was in perfect condition) and ex-corporate stuff (presumably this > Dell is ex-corporate). > > At £130 it's possibly worth a punt, you get a 90 day warranty and it's > cheaper than some of the laptops I've seen on eBay which either have no > warranty or 7/30 days. > > Rob > A word of warning from my experience; bought my refurbished eMachine D620 from 'laptops direct.co.uk' with 3 month warranty, after the 4th month both sticks of RAM mysteriously blew, 8 months after that the motherboard died. Tread carefully! Guy -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq