Has anyone had experience with open box products @ Micro Center?

[desert_scarab]

I work a block from a Micro Center that has two EVGA GTX 780 Ti's SC for $324.99 USD. However, they are open box and the retailer indicates that they were returned in good working condition, but may be missing other peripherals or manuals. I'll go in after the holiday and ask specifics directly, though.

 

Has anyone had experience with purchasing "open box" discounted GPU's from Micro Center? This question is specific to this retailer, but would like to know if anyone has had similar situations with other stores/online retailers.

 

I currently have one reference PNY GTX 780 Ti and thought this would be a great deal to go SLI and give more oomph to my system rather than waiting on selling my current 780 Ti and picking up one GTX 980 (or maybe two GTX 970's).

 

At $324.99 USD, that would be somewhat cheaper than one GTX 970 and give quite the performance boost. Though, I'm hesitant due to the returned "open box" status.

[LarsReviews]

I have heard of CPUs being returned because the OC bad and then they were sold as open box models. Do you have a return policy? It is always worth a try. 

[TheSLSAMG]

Yes,

 

It was a Z77X-UD3H. Fantastic board, too bad the open box one had bent pins, killed my SSD and almost fucked my entire system. The price gap isn't that big, and neither is the performance gap.

[Savant]

I trust Micro Center very, very much.

 

I personally haven't, but you should be fine.

[deVIZtation]

Checked an open box Z77 board a couple years ago, believe it was an ASUS ROG board. It was clearanced for 100 bucks, but had bent pins. Did purchase an open box Z87 board last year for pretty cheap. It looked like the person bought the board and just didnt like it, because the tape was still on the chipset and dimm slots.

[Scheer]

I've bought an open box motherboard from them 2-3 years ago, still running fine for me.

 

I think it is a luck of the draw thing... the employees at the one I went to didn't seem competent enough to test a PC component, I'd assume they ask the customer what is wrong, write it on the box and put it on the shelf. For $50 I took the risk and turned out alright, but I dunno if I'd risk much more than that unless they give you 15-30 days to return it where you can stress it a bit.

[Sandvich]

if they allow you to return it, why not?