<div dir="ltr">Hi Marian,<br><br>My experience with used/refurbished network gear from eBay & Amazon is positive as well.<br>Is it a good or bad idea ? Well...it depends ! If you are looking for networking equipment<br>for study/training - there is no better/cheaper alternative. But if you are looking for<br>equipment for your production/business critical environment - then my simple answer is NO.<br>I always purchase new equipment ( or use existing spare ) for new sites, and always with<br>vendor support ( SmartNet in my case )<br><br>There are a lot more factors than just the price of your your network gear.<br>If you or the management is ready to accept the risk of network downtime,<br>that's OK - you can use whatever equipment you like. It's your network after all.<br><br>Another economical alternative is to have hot/cold spare in your office ( if you don't<br>have support contract ) and simply replace faulty device.<br><br>By the way are the switches you bought Dell PowerConnect ?<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Boyan<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-28 10:29 GMT+10:00 Marian Marinov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mm@1h.com" target="_blank">mm@1h.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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Hi guys,<br>
I'm curious, what is your opinion about buying second hand network gear from eBay?<br>
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My experience so far is excellent. I bought 3 48port 1Gbit/s switches for under 200$ each in very good condition.<br>
I have the same ones in my racks and they were more then 1000euro when I bought them as new.<br>
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What type of network equipment would you buy second hand?<br>
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Marian<br>
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