buying used please advise

[NeezyDeezy]

Hypothetical:

You buy a used system ie an entire assembled desktop from someone, say on ebay. All of the parts of the build are still under warranty. You get the system, it works fine. In a year, a hard drive stops working or any number of things go wrong that require you to use the warranties. Don't you need the original packaging, manuals, and warranty cards to be able to RMA the broken equipment in question?

I ask because many people do not include these items in ebay auctions or for-sale lists.

 

[NeezyDeezy]

bump for a simple question

thanks!!

 

[velis]

In my country (Slovenia) it usually suffices to have the original receipt and / or warranty card. Which one of them or both depends on the vendor really.
If you don't have any of those, you can't really prove when the stuff was purchased, can you? What's even more of a problem is that you don't know who to RMA the broken goods to. Usually vendors will only take stuff that was bought there and you need the receipt to prove that.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Hard drives default to a warranty based on the manufacture date if you have nothing else. The rest depends on the manufacturers i.e. Mushkin ram requires the original packaging for RMA.