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Chun -
I don't exactly have vast personal experience w/ either category refurb'd, so knowing that consider the source for the rest of this drivel...
I've built more 'puter stuff than I can count, and I'll never, ever buy refurb there. I know, never say never and never is a long time, but that's pretty much a commodity market so the huge savings are rare and not worth the gamble. And I'll never buy Dell refurb :p) .
Refurb HT is a little different animal in my most-limited experience. It's not all that commodity (or at least I haven't bought into that viewpoint yet) and from the limited samples I have to date, if you can get a factory refurb w/ full warranty at a good price then you probably have one heck of a good deal. New may be theoretically better 'cause it (supposedly) passed the tests and had zero failures, but the tests aren't always done, they don't catch all and stuff happens.
I might have bought something like an HK AVR-7200 refurb'd 'cause it's full factory warranty (well, at least until OneCall started unloading them for even less). I have a friend who did just that & has nothing but smiles and savings to show for the experience. I'd probably feel less comfortable with a CD or DVD player, just because they're more mechanical and I have an opinion that once-failed mechanicals might be overall more likely to gag again. Purely opinion and relatively unsubstantiated, but it works for me today. (All this from someone whose Amurican-made "true minivan" blew an engine at 851 miles. They wouldn't replace it as a lemon, insisted on rebuilding the engine, and now it only has 140K miles on that rebuild w/ no real oil loss, etc. The tranny barfed last month, but that was also a hopefully limited mechanical incident. That all partly explains the mechanical refurb avoidance syndrome).
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