- recently the price difference on many items isn't worth the risk (e.g. a saving of 5% off the regular price)
- sometimes you receive an item that someone has fraudulently returned (e.g. someone has an old broken item, buy a new one from Amazon, and return the old one pretending they just changed their mind); I had this happen once for an expensive item ($600), and the original return slip was still in the box. It was obvious that the item returned had been used for quite some time, and didn't work.
- the items don't seem to be checked too well: I recently received an item which was missing an essential part
Still, Amazon's return process is great when they're at fault, so overall it's still worth it.
Recently purchased an older zenbook this way and it has clearly seen some use (and battery was dead). Still happy though since the similarly priced netbooks I was looking at were garbage spec'd.
- recently the price difference on many items isn't worth the risk (e.g. a saving of 5% off the regular price)
- sometimes you receive an item that someone has fraudulently returned (e.g. someone has an old broken item, buy a new one from Amazon, and return the old one pretending they just changed their mind); I had this happen once for an expensive item ($600), and the original return slip was still in the box. It was obvious that the item returned had been used for quite some time, and didn't work.
- the items don't seem to be checked too well: I recently received an item which was missing an essential part
Still, Amazon's return process is great when they're at fault, so overall it's still worth it.