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If a camera is "refurbished" is it okay to buy it ? From a professional camera store ?

2006-08-24 13:06:17 · 24 answers · asked by Melissa 2 in Consumer Electronics Cameras

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It can be anything from someone purchased it & returned it for no reason other then they changed their mind... or it was malfunctioning and the manufacturer repaired it. Either way make sure it comes with warranty.

2006-08-24 13:13:26 · answer #1 · answered by UN_POQUITO 3 · 0 0

Refurbished means either it was repaired, or returned back to the company under warranty or it was used as a demo model which is being sold. The demo models are normally sold when a new model is being launched. So they replace the manuals, do some cleaning etc and sell it as refurbished.

Yes it is ok to buy it from a professional camera store. You will get the warranty.

2006-08-24 21:31:00 · answer #2 · answered by Wild tiger 2 · 0 0

It's often like buying a "demo" car. It should come with a manufacturer's warranty, even though it's a refurb. The warranty may be for 90 days instead of a year, but you will save quite a bit of money. A refurb Nikon D50 is about $200-250 cheaper than a new one. You can get an aftermarket warranty for refurbs costing only about $30 for a five year warranty, so ask about that. If it makes the difference between buying the camera you really want or settling for one that you think will be "good enough," I'd say to go ahead and buy the refurb. You generally will not be able to tell it from a new camera.

2006-08-24 17:58:28 · answer #3 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0 0

Everything that is manufactured has a small percentages of defects. The refurbished items were purchased, the defect discovered, returned to the factory where the defect was fixed. Many times these items (cameras) are tested much better than the ones coming off the line. I would buy a refurbished camera

2006-08-24 13:10:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Refurbished is perfectly fine to buy. Anytime an electronic is sold and then returned it automatically goes back to the factory. They in turn sell it as refurbished. It's possible that the camera had a defect and was fixed by the manufacturer. It's also possible that someone opened the box and then realized it wasn't what they had wanted and returned it. The company is not allowed to sell it as "new" so they sell it as refurbished.

I have a refurbished digital camera. I had it for 4 years and it worked fabulously. I have since upgraded to a newer one (with more memory) but my sister uses my old camera now and absolutely loves it. My son took it to Punta Cana and took a butt load of pictures with it... and I have 3 kids... trust me, many many pictures were taken with that camera.

Go for it.

2006-08-24 13:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0 0

A lot of things are sold "refurbished" but I would not buy a refurbished camera. It means that something serious went wrong with it and they fixed it but I'd be suspicious that the same things would go wrong after I bought it or that it's a model that had a lot of bugs not worked out.

2006-08-24 13:09:23 · answer #6 · answered by phoenixheat 6 · 0 0

Wassup, G? I've been working on this serpent thing for a while now. Get this... What I've found out is that ''serpent'' was a metaphor for either ''wise man,'' ''wizard,'' or ''being of light'' back when the Book of Genesis was written. This symbol had to have still been in use in Jewish culture by the time Jesus came. So there's your answer for the serpent part. ''Be wise men. Know your surroundings. Know when to strike and when to stay cool.'' I really don't think Satan disguised himself as a snake in the garden. I think he manifested himself as either a person or a ''being of light'' (St. Paul wrote a verse about Satan sometimes disguising himself as the latter, though I can't name the verse or even the book. I just remember reading it in one of the epistles). When God tells him ''on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life,'' (Gen. 3:14, NKJV) I think this is also heavy symbolism, meaning ''you will be lowly in My sight and bow down to Me, begging, just to eat the scraps from My table.'' In verse 15, ''He will bruise your head'' means ''Jesus is gonna mess you up in a bad bad way, and the wound you sustain will damage the seat of your intellect and your abilty to control people.'' The next part, the phrase ''you shall bruise His heel'' means ''you will impair His flesh for a short time, but He will be able to recover easily. After three days and three nights, He will rise again.'' Also, being under one's heel is a position of inferiority (1 Kings 5:3, Lamentations 3:34, Malachi 4:3, Romans 16:20, 1 Corinthians 15:25). To this day, if man in the Middle East shows another man the bottom of his foot- even unintentionally, while sitting down with his legs crossed- it's taken as a sign of disrespect. It's taken as an insult. ''You're beneath me.'' We see the serpent reference again in Mark 16:18, when Jesus tells about His believers. We don't hear anything about the apostles picking up snakes, but a certain sorcerer named Simon is mentioned in Acts 8:9, when he is ''taken up,'' or ''converted'' by the church. So all this is part of my new and improved (and probably heretical) Drewish theory. Sorry about all the extra stuff you had to read, but I hadn't shared this with anyone else yet. Now as for the dove, it's just a symbol of peace. Nothing too complicated about it. The dove is a harmless animal. It's not predatory. It never attacks other creatures, besides worms and bugs, possibly (I have no idea what doves eat. LOL). I don't have any good scriptural references, other than the ones you already know about the Holy Spirit descending upon Jesus like a dove, right before He was baptized, or the one from the story of the Great Flood, or sacrificial animals in the Old Testament. It's just a universal sign of peace and passivity. Love, peace, and chicken grease, Drew

2016-03-27 04:09:59 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

This means that all the worn out parts have been replaced, and that it functions the way it should. Usually, refurbished equipment is given at least a 6 month warranty.

2006-08-24 13:09:09 · answer #8 · answered by WC 7 · 0 0

Basically,it's a "second-hand" camera that had a problem,needed to be repaired and now is being sold as refurbished.

2006-08-24 13:08:16 · answer #9 · answered by 867-5309 7 · 0 0

Refurbished - An electronic item, computer, game system, mp3 player, camera that has been repaired/cleaned up

2006-08-24 13:13:16 · answer #10 · answered by House, M.D. 4 · 0 0

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