Had purchased a Nikon Factory Refurbished from one of the big NY stores. Boxed with all normally enclosed items. Everything was perfect except it had 40,000 activations. May not be considered high by some ( based on 150,000 expected life), but was concerned about prior usage. Like a car, you are more comfortable with one with 10,000 miles then 90,000....although the higher one may have had better care then the lower one...but who knows. I returned for full credit.

(1) Pays to deal with reputable retailer. (2) The older the model, the better chance it will have high numbers.

Has anyone one bought a refurbished camera from Nikon? Were there any problems with the camera? Did you have to send it back? Do they have high shutter counts?

I see that Nikon is offering 10% off their refurbished cameras and this may be a great deal if I know that I'm not getting a camera that has 10,000 shots on it already. I know they are gone over by the Nikon techs but a very used camera won't be worth the money. Is there any type of set standards that keep it from being a very used camera?

Thanks for all your info!!!

Mr. Softy has done a good job. I'm still running tests before committing a full bore upgrade, but camera sync, scanners are all working smoothly.

Anybody remember Palm PDAs? I have two the most modern being from 2005. That was not even supported in Windows 7, but I found a free device driver which worked on W7, and it's clean on W10.

Palm no longer exists. It was bought and put out of it's misery by HP years ago.

These are not devices supported by anybody for years, and yet worked smoothly. I find that impressive.

So far I haven't found a single show stopper, and I have some seriously old and weird stuff that I can hook up to my machine...

Good luck, people....

I purchased a Sunpak Quanaray tripod from Adorama. It was on sale for $40 from $100, with free shipping. Upon receiving it, I determined that it wasn't suitable for my purposes -- it weighed over 6 pounds. Adorama's return policy, which they tout to be the best in the business, calls for their normal shipping charge to be deducted from the refund on items that were sold with free shipping. In my case that meant that I paid $18 for return shipping and they deducted another $17 for their normal shipping charge. Net, net, I got $5 of my $40 returned to me. I don't think that qualifies as the best return policy in the business. In fact, I think it STINKS!
Has any one else had this experience?

Photoshop Elements 11 (2011) boxed software from Adobe plus a giant printed reference book. Both unopened. this is a legitimate copy bought in Apple store with my laptop in 2011. Includes a version of Premiere.

Free plus actual shipping cost to first interested hog. Send me a private email via UHH. I will correspond Thursday AM (PDT) with the first respondent who copies the above title into the subject line of an email.

This software version and book can be a reasonable way to spin up on PP and Adobe’s solution, until you need more in your software.