Buying refurbished gear....

I bought a new Decware first new thing in 5 years, then it was class D amps before that. Before THAT it was used Mac gear. 100 pieces of gear 3 newer pieces are still 7 and 2 years old. Everything else is OLD, maintained and if need be rebuilt.

I watch out for the yellow cap crowd too. Macs just don't sound right with polies vs PIO rebuilds and then know what to put in. No need for fancy high dollar caps either. Good resistors Russian surplus PIO caps work the best for most Macs. The PS and a few spots and types of gear like the MC225 you can ruin by changing the caps, they don't go bad very often.. PS is a different story..

Fun expensive and  life long habbit/hobby for me..

Regards

All of the refurb stuff I've gotten has been like deeply discounted new with warranty. Never used acc4less but they seem like mostly consumer grade middi.

I've used Accessories4less.com and have purchased a refurbed AV Denon receiver. It was cheap and if memory serves, it was packaged in a plain brown box (vs the original manufacturer's packaging). Other than that, it was like 50% off of "new" pricing and worked fine.

I had no issues with the transaction, and they actually contacted me to follow up and make sure I was happy.

I was happy with the sale and the state of the equipment when it arrived. No issues there.

Now, as for the AV Receiver itself, it wasn't a high quality piece and I gave it away. I think my son-in-law law is still using it in his man cave.