Buying open box

[player96]

So i just a ASUS Z170 motherboard  open box for 100$ from newegg.... it sells for 150$  open box was 50$ off seemed like a good deal. a  risk i wanted to take

But what i would like to ask is.....  It said 30 per customer... most open box boards are 10 to 15$ off but this one was 50$ off with 30 per customer.

 

So what makes newegg have so many open boxes of these board?

i got the board in the mail today... It did not come in the original Box did not come with the Q connector driver cd and the I/O Shield:(

So i am wonder where did this motherboard come from maybe a return, a reviewer board, or a show case board?

Very interesting to me.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132566R

[XenosTech]

36 minutes ago, player96 said:

So i just a ASUS Z170 motherboard  open box for 100$ from newegg.... it sells for 150$  open box was 50$ off seemed like a good deal. a  risk i wanted to take

But what i would like to ask is.....  It said 30 per customer... most open box boards are 10 to 15$ off but this one was 50$ off with 30 per customer.

 

So what makes newegg have so many open boxes of these board?

i got the board in the mail today... It did not come in the original Box did not come with the Q connector driver cd and the I/O Shield:(

So i am wonder where did this motherboard come from maybe a return, a reviewer board, or a show case board?

Very interesting to me.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132566R

I got this same exact board too... Open boxes aren't anything be be afraid of most of the timme plus this is shipped ans sold by newegg

[ProjectBox153]

I don't see anything about 30 per customer; they are out of stock right now. 

[NannerBeans]

1 hour ago, player96 said:

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If it came in a plain white box, it's most likely a DOA board that they sent back to Asus to get RMA'd so it's really a refurb. When I get those, I usually complain to Newegg since the box says recertified parts and say this is a refurb and not an open box. They've given me additional discounts before for that. If it's in original box and not really missing anything, it's typically just a customer return and they changed their mind after opening the box. 

[Shog]

Unrelated but I got an open box mobo from microcenter once. $50 off a $180 + a $30 discount for combining cpu and mobo. The board works great and came with everything. I pulled it out of the box and looked in front of the employee has he watched me check the pins and all, there was a little bit of thermal paste on the cpu latch. Odd, but everything worked great (that I've been able to test!)

[dizmo]

The only thing that really sucks is the i/o shield, depending on the board those can be pretty expensive. Likely why the board saw such a large discount.

[player96]

10 minutes ago, dizmo said:

The only thing that really sucks is the i/o shield, depending on the board those can be pretty expensive. Likely why the board saw such a large discount.

i can get them on ebay for like 6$ so was no biggie just gotta wait for it to ship which sucks lol

i checked that out be for i paid for it haha. but yah some can go for a lot

[player96]

1 hour ago, NannerBeans said:

If it came in a plain white box, it's most likely a DOA board that they sent back to Asus to get RMA'd so it's really a refurb. When I get those, I usually complain to Newegg since the box says recertified parts and say this is a refurb and not an open box. They've given me additional discounts before for that. If it's in original box and not really missing anything, it's typically just a customer return and they changed their mind after opening the box. 

yah it was in a white box. the board looks new. but did not come with Q connector  driver cd and I/O shield. but all the sata and sli cables with the owners manual was in one sealed bag

[patric_o]

2 hours ago, NannerBeans said:

If it came in a plain white box, it's most likely a DOA board that they sent back to Asus to get RMA'd so it's really a refurb. When I get those, I usually complain to Newegg since the box says recertified parts and say this is a refurb and not an open box. They've given me additional discounts before for that. If it's in original box and not really missing anything, it's typically just a customer return and they changed their mind after opening the box.

I do the same thing. I buy open box all the time and ALMOST never have any problems. Go for it!