RMA of Second Hand items under a year old

[locrieth]

Hey All,

My wife was looking at buying a second hand PC. The PC she has seen was a pretty decent spec (4790k, Msi Z97 board, 8GB Corsair Vengence Ram and A 280X) and the price is reasonable (he said he'd take £550 and states it was bought 6 months ago). My question is as per title, what the crack with warranties of items bought second hand that are still within the 1 year warranty period, and how easy are RMAs if anything goes wrong?

Cheers,

Locrieth

 

[5960xNvidiaGamer]

As long as they items are under warranty it doesn't matter how many people have had them. £550 seems a bit on the high side though tbh.

 

[Kurgen]

personally I would rather, spend a bit more and get my own new system

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x MSI Z97 PC Mate Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard= £64.99
• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Reference 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail= £155.99
• 1 x Team Group Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD38G1600HC11DC01)= £29.99
• 1 x Xigmatek Maverick 500W '80 Plus Bronze' Semi Modular Power Supply= £29.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £26.99
• 1 x Intel Core i7-4790K 4.00GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail= £275.99

Total: £662.23
(includes shipping: £12.30)
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My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Samsung 250GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E250B/EU)= £65.99
• 1 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 960 Reference 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - Retail= £155.99
• 1 x Bitfenix Nova Midi Tower Case - Black Window= £26.99
• 1 x MSI Z170-A Pro Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £82.99
• 1 x Ballistix Sport LT 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (BLS2C4G4D240= £38.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-6600K 3.9GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £199.99
• 1 x Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler= £29.99
• 1 x Super Flower FX 550W '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply - Black= £49.99

Total: £664.12
(includes shipping: £13.20)
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[pastymuncher]

Companies such as EVGA and Gigabyte (maybe MSI too but I can't remember) go by the serial number on the product so warranties are transferable. However, companies such as Asus do RMA's through the retailer it was originally purchased at so if you are not the original purchaser you pretty much have no warranty.

 

[stewski]

Companies such as EVGA and Gigabyte (maybe MSI too but I can't remember) go by the serial number on the product so warranties are transferable. However, companies such as Asus do RMA's through the retailer it was originally purchased at so if you are not the original purchaser you pretty much have no warranty.

Asus do that? Is that legally acceptable?

 

[locrieth]

Thanks for all your responses, after some more thought, I could actually knock her together a pc from some spare parts I have lying around, so probably only need CPU, Motherboard, and GFX card, I Have a case, 16GB DDR3, and a bunch of 120GB SSDs and loads of HDDs lying around and could reuse her PSU. So Haswell CPU to utilise the DDR3, i7 was probably overkill for just gaming, 4690k would do, that shaves of £75. any recommendations on good z97 motherboard? and also is the 960 actually any good? Mainly had AMD GFX cards recently and was looking at the 380X, the 2GB Vram kind puts me off the 960....


edit: just looked and realised there are 4GB versions of the 960, questions still remains are they any good?

Cheers,

Locrieth

 

[mickyflinn]

380 4 gb is slightly faster than the 4gb 960 but the 380x is not much more money.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus Z97-K - Devils Canyon Core i5 4690K Bundle **£14 Saving**= £270.58
• 1 x HIS Radeon R9 380X IceQ X2 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H380XQM4CR)= £188.99

Total: £470.67
(includes shipping: £11.10)
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[David Bisset]

380X is faster than the 960, would stick with that. Though, they're both in an odd spot as the 390/970 offers better performance per pound for each side respectively which is unusual - used to always be diminishing returns above about £100.

Personally I'd probably go for the cheapest 4GB 380.

 

[pastymuncher]

Asus do that? Is that legally acceptable?

Asus are not the only company to do it. Many comapnies RMA procedure makes you go through the place the item was originally purchased. It's just the way they process the RMA's. It's the chance you take with second hand goods and having a warranty that is based on the serial number such as EVGA and Gigabyte's way of doing things is a bonus.

 

[ZXSpectrum]

Asus do that? Is that legally acceptable?

Of course it is... No company is under any obligation to warrant the products to anyone but the purchaser. There is no contract between the manufacturer and second owner even if they have receipt etc.