Cowon S9 packaging

[boofus]

I just bought a new S9 off Ebay. It was advertised as "factory sealed".

It arrived without any sort of "sealing"; I was able to open it without "unsealing". Just a box which slid into a "sleave". No shrink wrap, no sealed plastic "shell", nothing like that.

I suspect that is the way they are shipped from Cowon and the seller just didn't understand what "sealed" should really mean.

My only concern is that the unit could *possibly* be re-furbed, although I'm pretty confident that it is not. Any way to tell this for certain from the serial number??

Boo

[Giraffes Rule]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/18/c...-and-hands-on/

I think that's what the factory packaging should look like.

[invertedskull]

The packing you describe is how mine also came, and I bought mine from a store. So I think you should be fine. You might want to tell the eBay seller to not use "factory sealed" though. That's quite misleading I think.

[boofus]

Originally Posted by invertedskull

The packing you describe is how mine also came, and I bought mine from a store. So I think you should be fine. You might want to tell the eBay seller to not use "factory sealed" though. That's quite misleading I think.

Thanks you guys..... I think the EBay seller may not even KNOWN what the packaging would look like..... (S)he is apparently a re-seller of some sort, as even though (S)he's on EBay as a private seller, the unit was shipped from Amazon.com

Thanks again..... BTW, I bought a P3 about 4 months ago..... This S9 kicks it's butt!! (IMHO)

Boo

[Cardshark]

mine was the same, although it did have a circular transparent plastic sticker thing to seal one part of the package.

[Syndrome]

Cowon doesn't shrink wrap any of their DAP(at least none of the 10 different models I've had). Sometimes they do have a small sticker covering the tab on the opening end.