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.

I don't know about Accessories4Less, but I have bought a number of 'refurbished' items and I've not had any problems with any of them. They often come with warranties as well....

My older AV pre-pro crashed and new models were in short supply. I bought a refurb Marantz AV 7706 from Accessories4us a week or so ago. I paid for fast shipping and expedited handling. It shipped the day I ordered it and arrived in two days. Looks brand new. Has the original factory stickers on it/was "fac-packed" (though gear slingers know how to do that). Came with 1 year factory warranty plus 2 years extended.

Now if only I could figure it out- talk about complex! I did get it working though and it looks and sounds great. This is for a modest 4k/5.1 home theatre set up in my front "parlor."

Marantz did acknowledge that they are a legit reseller. It isn’t just price- given the Covid/Supply Chain/Yada (I need to come up with a defined term for this), such devices, brand new, seem to be in short supply.

Good hunting.