I've been lurking around on the Grays website a few days ago and saw some very good prices for monitors. Has anyone here bought from them and how is the experience, did it work, etc.
Grays - Worth It?
McOzbargainer on 08/10/2022 - 13:42
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Based on all these additional fees, for an old used screen no thanks.
I’m sure the famous chap from Dell can hook you up a new screen at about the same price.
Recently 90% off. Hahaha, I missed that sweet deal. Damn
Depends what it is you are looking at. New? Used? Retail return?
Are you looking at an auction? Grays has the most annoying bid extension system of any of the auction places that I've used.
Annoying for buyers, but advantageous for sellers.
Plus it's more soon to a physical addictionPhysical auction doesn't extend 5+ minutes everytime there is a bid. Not advantageous for sellers, as there is stuff I would have paid more for, but gave up because I couldn't be bothered waiting.
No, but the 5 minutes (I actually thought it was 10 minutes on Grays) is there to allow bidders time tolog back in should they not be present in the last seconds of the auction to rebid over a sniper.
@ESEMCE: I made up the 5 minutes, it may be longer. Yes it does allow that, buy that is very boring, and goes against the excitement of an auction.
Their customer service is horrible. They sent me two busted laptops (one screen was actually busted, one motherboard had issues) that were supposed to be "A grade" refurbs. I only ever got a refund for one, and that took around twelve months of fighting them. Proceed with caution.
Usually buy budget laptops of them, fairly brand new but one needs to have patience so my last purchse months back a Lenovo laptop close too $200 worth say at Office works over $500 brand new, Grays certainly aint eBay style auction one needs to spend more time researching and there aditional fees, high delivery fees, higher auction fees one needs to consider for final price
Sold as it, get a broken one you have an expensive bit of landfill.
Better just buy new at a discount seen here
Bought a audio reciever 400 instead of 1200 and some front speakers 250 usually 1000 at auction. Both were new just old stock. Dont think id trust the used stuff to be in good working order. But if its new and old stock go for it.
bought an hp desktop + parents bought a notebook a while back. no issues with either. Just have to factor pricing with extra fees vs just buying off gumtree etc locally. I like hilco apac and lloyds better overall but see good prices at times.
Grabbed a refurbed ' Buy it Now' Toshiba whizz bang laptop 8 years ago. The only drama was when it went out the car door and cart wheeled across the driveway a year ago, glue n tape and solder kept it hot wired and alive for a while…but really I killed it.
Greys, was very well pried, easy to use online and delivery was very good. I hope they are still just as good for you.
Standard fare for auctions but means there's always a risk it doesn't even turn on. Might get lucky, might not. Not recommended.
Also, looking at a few options, there's a 20% buyers premium added then 10% GST on top then $45 shipping & handling fee for non-pickup ones then another $15 per shipment for admin fee then payment surcharges. That's just nuts.