That makes me mad!!!!

[FreakyOCR]

SO my dad buys me a JVC VCR for my Birthday and I open the box to find that the top is scratched... Oh well I say, must have happened in the factory. So I connect it all up and go to put a video in. It won't go in so I put my hand in there and.... there's a video IN THERE. SO I eject it and it's some dv capture test video, with notes written in pen.

Dude that pisses me off. They are selling a used product as new. What the hell is that?

Stay away from A&B Sound.... that's illegal, is it not??? Selling used stuff as new?

[NeoStarO1]

Yes i belive that is illeagal, not only that its false advertising selling a producted as new when in fact its used and thus inflating the true cost of the product.

You are right to be upset, take it back and get a refund and go purchase one somewhere else where you know in fact its new.

I have had that happen to me before at walmart. I am shocked with the amount of things they re-stock on shelves with missing parts.

NeoStar

[Admin RR]

It may well have been a mistake. A box could have been put in the wrong place, etc.

[Knothead]

Freaky--You're kidding, right?

No?

Whoof. Looks like a desperate retailer...hmmm...I have been dealing w/desperate economics, myself...a harbinger of things to come?

Announcement Knothead would never deal in such an underhanded way!!

'course, prob'y why your Knothead is broke alla time!

But then again, I sleep like a baby

[FreakyOCR]

Scott, I wish it were a mistake. But this company, so my dad tells me, is horrible for doing this type of thing... They had everything packeaged up like it was new, the box taped with packign tape, everything in their packages, etc.

Regardless whether it was deliberate or not it should never happen.

They should clearly mark it as used or refurbished, etc. I know it wasn't the VCR maker, because the video was of a local Horse park.... looks like some amature (sp?) filming.

It's like somebody saying that the processor has no chips, and when you get it, it's chipped.

[Richard Cranium]

Rumor has it that Circuit City does just that, re-boxes returned items and sells them as new.

A little spray 3M-77 adhesive, some clear tape and you'll never know it was opened.

Remember I work in an industrry that gets over 1,000 UPS boxes each year, we KNOW how to make um look "un-opened"

err, we only do that when we "accidently" open a box that's supposed to go to one of our subcontractors. BTW

Ok, I feel the same way, kinda..
But, ever been to Target, or Kmart... You buy a sweater and take it back, it goes back on the shelf. Why is a VCR so different?
If everything people returned was dicarded, stores would stop the return policy....
The problem here is the store did not ck to make sure it came back unused..

[Jonty]

Whenever I buy electrical stuff I am always paranoid that something like this may happen. I'm paying new prices for secondhand stuff.

Trouble is, a lot of shops have return policies like 'bring it back within 16 days and we'll refund your money'. Sooooo.... what happens to the product afterwards.... it goes back into stock, even though someone else has had 16 days use out of it. The retailers say it is customer friendly doing this refund policy but it isn't if the next customer gets the used product.

Take it right back on get a refund, I doubt there will be a problem.

[fatal xception]

Best Buy sells them at a discount, I think (hope). I've bought a couple of open box items from them at a pretty good price.

[pickel]

If you will read the FINE print on many warranties, you will find that , a company can , at their descretion, take a used item and sell it for new after re-testing the unit or components for such unit and it's perfectly legal. I read this on a Compaq and HP warranty at Radio Shack when I was looking to but a computer some years ago....Let the buyer BEWARE!!!!