Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!sgi!sgistl!larry
From: larry@sgistl.SGI.COM (Larry Autry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Used reconditioned hard disks?
Message-ID: <5565@sgistl.SGI.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 88 02:53:49 GMT
References: <111@ucrmath.UUCP> <1240@qetzal.UUCP>
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mt.View, CA., St.Louis Ofc.
Lines: 32
Summary: I'll take that deal

In article <1240@qetzal.UUCP>, root@qetzal.UUCP (Admin) writes:
-> In article <111@ucrmath.UUCP>, jantypas@hope.UUCP (John Antypas) writes:
-> > Would anyone know anything about the company below?
-> > 
-> > Hi Tech Asset Recoveries
-> > 9036 Owensmouth
-> > Canoga Park, CA 91304
-> > (818) 998-7444
-> > 
-> > As stated by rcw@qetzal.UUCP, they are selling 40M AT drives for $135
-> > and 20M units for $75.  These are reconditioned drives.  Has anyone ever
-> > bought anything like this.  Let me hear your views on this.  Has anyone
-> > ever dealt with this company?
-> 
-> Yes - and apparently you don't really want to do it.  We've purchased
-> three drives, none of which worked.  They were repaired for a reasonable
-> price (and additional $95), so I don't feel screwed, but it's less of
-> a deal than it appears.
-> 
-> Robert White

I figure that you picked up a nice rebuilt 40M drive for about $220 not
including shipping, etc.  It's not hard to find a disk repair shop that
Will repair a drive for a fair fixed price.  I had a hunch that when I
saw the phrase 'as is' that the drive(s) would probably arrive 'doa'.
Still a good gamble.  And you get a short warrant fromn the repair shop to
boot.  Not a bad deal when all is summed up.
-- 
					Larry Autry
larry@sgistl.sgi.com
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