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There are a number of vendors on eBay selling Nikon-refurbished D50 bodies on eBay for $400 to $430, roughly $100 below what a new body costs, or 20%. A significant amount. One vendor includes a five year Mack warranty with the purchase price and that makes the offer doubly attractive...since it betters the factory warranty by some 4x.

Anyone purchased one of the refurbs on eBay or off eBay? Good experience?

I just need a body a I have an N70 with several lens and am not thrilled about spending $500+ on another body to be able to shoot digital.

Thanks.
 
I would shop around, you can get them new for that price.
 
If there are lots of D50 reburbs around doesn't that mean that Nikon is putting out a lot of lemons. Makes be a little nervous about the durability of mine. Or is it case of if something is wrong it will make itself known in the first few thousand photos, I just went over 4000.
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I bought one last week. It should be here in about an hour. Bought it from completePhotoUSA, which is Cordle. (Google and you'll see what I mean.) $445 with one year warranty, plus shipping.

I wouldn't recommend all the vendors on eBay. Search my posts for more detail.

beachcamera is selling refurbs for $400. Search my posts for more info.

I'll post back tonight after I put some time on the camera.

I bought a body and 50f/1.8 on eBay and an 18-70 privately, locally.
 
Refurbs = people buy one from Costco (or similar) and then return it. If the box gets opened, it goes back. Nikon goes through it from top to bottom, repackages it and sells it to you.

I bought a refurbed Coolpix 950 5 years ago. No problems.
 
http://www2.buydig.com/shop/product.aspx?&sku=NKD50RB
http://www.beachcamera.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=NKD50RB
  • Free Shipping
  • Authorized Nikon Dealers (both are actually the same company)
  • Also available with 18-55 kit-lens for $499
So, If the ebay price of $400 - $425 includes shipping & Mack Warranty, and the seller has 99% or more positive feedback, it would be a good deal. If not, save yourself the headache and buy it from a buydig/beachcamera. If you want, you can get pick-up the Mack Warranty elsewhere for about $40 or so.

Cheers.
 
Cameta Camera on EBAY is very good. ( http://stores.ebay.com/Cameta-Camera ) They sell refurbished Nikons, and explain how the warrantee works before you actually make the purchase. My D70 came with a 10 day money back guarantee from Cameta, Nikons 30 day warrantee, and a year parts and labor warrantee from Cameta. Down side is it something happens I have to send it to Cameta, but hey. They are a Nikon authorized dealer.

Your deal, if it's not from a Nikon authorized reseller within your theater I'd avoid the purchase.

Jay
nopcbs said:
There are a number of vendors on eBay selling Nikon-refurbished D50
bodies on eBay for $400 to $430, roughly $100 below what a new body
costs, or 20%. A significant amount. One vendor includes a five
year Mack warranty with the purchase price and that makes the offer
doubly attractive...since it betters the factory warranty by some
4x.

Anyone purchased one of the refurbs on eBay or off eBay? Good
experience?

I just need a body a I have an N70 with several lens and am not
thrilled about spending $500+ on another body to be able to shoot
digital.

Thanks.
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My D50 has a 1 year warranty package and 2 weeks ago that was the absolute best buy around. Today you can buy them for less.

It just arrived today. It looks perfect and runs perfect.
 
Go back 2 weeks and show me a better deal. I looked and looked and couldn't find anything to touch that.
 
Not all places that get functional returns send them back to Nikon. Many just make sure everything is there and sell them as refurbished.

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Everyone has a photographic memory...some just don't have the film.
 
2 weeks ago, I bought the 18-55 kit for $550 + $20 shipping. 100% US warranty too.
 
My box has "Refurbished" printed right on it from the factory. I'll post an image. It isn't a returned camera that the dealer is trying to resell. My camera went back to the factory, was checked and then shipped to me.
 
I didn't say no refurbished cameras come from the Nikon factory, I said that not all cameras that are just opened up and returned go back to to Nikon.

I have also seen cameras (and other things) sold as open boxes at costco AND sams which means they are not sending them all back for just being opened (if any).

If a camera is returned as defective it WILL go back to the factory. If it's just returned as opened that's not necessarily so. Just because yours came from the factory does not mean it was just opened and not malfunctioned when it was returned.

Look at newegg, one of the top stores online. If you order refurbished from them (motherboards, camera's, etc) it means you may get one gone over by the company or just one returned opened to them. They even say stuff missing from them. Like if you get a "refurbished" motherboard some of the stuff may be missing. They not going back to the factory.

In other words refurbished in the retail world usually means you are getting something that was opened, factory refurbished means it was returned to the factory to fix something.

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Everyone has a photographic memory...some just don't have the film.
 
I'm also not saying people that get refurbished are getting bad camera's, but people should not be convinced they are getting brand cameras that were just opened and had no problems originally.

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Everyone has a photographic memory...some just don't have the film.
 
I'm sure you could have sold the 18-55 lens for more than $100, but then again that is time you could have used taking pictures... To each their own, as long as it functions as new.

Personally I try to avoid refurbs, but sometimes the deals are too good to pass up.
 
I made it clear that I was speaking of a factory refurbished camera. No doubt someone somewhere is selling returned cameras. Those are NOT factory refurbished cameras. Lets not confuse the issue.

A factory refurbished camera comes in a factory box with Refurbished written in yellow on it. This is a camera that was returned with very little use that gets thoroughly tested and repackaged. The warranty is 90 days from the factory. My camera came with a 1 year additional warranty.

A camera that does not come in a factory refurbished box isn't factory refurbished and shouldn't be called such.
 
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