Please expand on your statement, "they have been inspected more". You are telling me that REFURBISHED have been looked at more closely than new camera's. And what do you base this on. Have you seen these techs working on these REFURBISHED camera's. What is the inspection process? What is the bench time? How do you know they have received more attention than a new one would? And doesn't that tell you their WAS something wrong with it in the first place if it required bench time? It comes down to this, if you want used, someone's return, then by all means buy REFURBISHED. I SHUTTER the thought.

Let's see, the price of a Nikon D810 refurbished is 2499.99. Lets call it 2500 for the sake of argument, at 10% off, that's 250.00. 2500 minus 250 is 2250. Please check my math, any way, that's what the Nikon site has them for.
Lets talk about refurbished, the name itself implies USED, BEEN USED BY SOMEONE, who we do not know and have never met, has handled and put their hands all over this camera. It also implies there was something WRONG with it, otherwise they wouldn't call it REFURBISHED. What was wrong with it, they never tell you. So, what's wrong with telling you. If you bought a refurbished car, wouldn't you want to know what they fixed before you drove it. I think we are being hoodwinked and mislead by all major companies when it comes to REFURBISHED merchandise. It is time to rise up America and fight back, demand to know exactly what was done to a product if it is advertised as REFURBISHED. The name is almost sinister isn't it, think about it, it's REFURBISHED. It was BROKEN (you really don't know if it was broken, BUT), and now it's fixed? So, your buying a used, broken, dirty hands touched it camera with a 90 DAY warranty. That's it America, 90 days or bust. Even Ebay gives you 180 days, chew on that Nikon. GOOD LUCK AMERICA.

I bought a refurbished Nikon 28mm f2.8. The lens hood had a strip of masking tape on it that had an identifying number handwritten on it. I had to use "goo gone" and a lot of scrubbing to get that mess off. Alarm bells went off. Then I took a picture and was amazed at how out of focus it was. I did a lot of fine tuning to get it to focus (at a particular distance). Took it outside and found it wouldn't focus well at other distances. Nikon takes lenses (cameras?) back within 14 days. They did take it back and paid all shipping. It worked out but now I am very leery of buying any more refurbished items.

Hey, I agree with you. Several folks on this thread have said these REFURBISHED lenses get a lot of individual attention, bench time, are inspected more closely than if they were new, or they are just new products repackaged, or just demo's repackaged. Folks are using everything under the sun to say REFURBISHED products are actually BETTER than new in the box. I wonder if these folks would buy a REFURBISHED car and only be given a 90 day warranty instead of one year 12,000 miles bumper to bumper, wouldn't a reasonable person say, "Hey, wait a minute, how come if you have inspected the car, brought it back to factory specs, only has 60 miles on it, you don't give me the same warranty as NEW." The reason camera companies only give you 90 days, CAUSE IT HAS BEEN REPAIRED, taken apart, and put back together. So, save your money and buy new, and, as they say in the old add, "YOU CAN PAY ME NOW, OR YOU CAN PAY ME LATER." Folks who buy REFURBISHED probably like Las Vegas for the same reason because there they can take another type of gamble.