Is it worth it to buy an open-box printer and save 10%?

[yobriman!]

I'm thinking of buying an open-box Canon i850 printer from BestBuy. They have new i850's for $153 open box and new printers for $169. Is the savings worth it?

 

[Nohr]

I think I'd just get the new one.

 

[ROTC1983]

I have one of those printers. I bought mine at Sam's Club for 149 with the USB cable and cartridges. So far I am very pleased with the picture quality and print speed 🙂

 

[rutchtkim]

no way, get the new one. ur not saving much

 

[Iron Woode]

Like anything else, you must way the pros and the cons.

I bought an open box USB cable (10ft) for 25% off. It works great. You never know what might be wrong with an open box purchase.

 

[radioouman]

Someone probably returned it with empty ink cartridges, since new Canon cartridges are more than the 10% that you are saving, I'd buy a new one.

EDIT: However, I bought a Canon S600 a year ago with empty cartridges and got the Best Buy employee to drop the price to $79 🙂 by telling him that it had empty cartridges.

 

[brtspears2]

Open box items with possible easyly broken moving parts is something you don't want to buy open box unless you have a lot of time on your hands.

Cables usually don't have moving parts, so if it doesn't look like it is too beat up, could be a great buy.

 

[UCDznutz]

10% isn't much. If it was 25% or more maybe.

 

[vegetation]

Bad idea, these cheap printers are very poorly made with low quality fragile plastic parts. The original buyer probably had junior break something off of it.

 

[aphex]

Stick with new. I wouldnt wanna mess with opened print cartridges. You can never know how long they were used.