Had my 1080 finally die last month. Saw that Newegg was offering 3070s supposedly refurbished by Gigabyte for sale at a decent price, money has been tight and I need my computer for work and I need a decent video card for it.
First card showed up on the 8th, artifacts on boot. RMA, took 10+days round trip, and the new card is artifacting on boot and giving me error 43 in windows, on multiple machines. I'm sitting here and the only return I can do is for a replacement and it's obvious it's a bad batch of cards, since I've purchased it, a review has shown up on the site with similar issues.
Just be warned I guess waiting to hear back from support to see what can be done but apparently newegg is not great lately.
Has anyone bought refurbished items from newegg? What was your experience? Would you recommend buying refurbished?
I bought a refurbished GTX 460 from Newegg. It was artifacting right out the box, and their customer support wasn't great. They took it back fine, but without even asking me, refunded the price (minus the shipping I paid) despite having several more refurb 460's in stock.
That was my last purchase from them.
I bought a refurb SSD from newegg. $80 shipped for a 120 gigs with 1.5 year warranty. It died on me from some freaky windows driver crash (I can't explain it). Despite the headache, it's been worth it. I also picked up a refurb h60 for $27 and it's worked flawlessly.