Any body have any exp with OpenBox MBs from Newegg?

I have no experience w/ an open box mobo, but I figured I would share my opinion anyways :-). Of all compenents, I wouldn't buy an open box mobo for two reasons. First, it has a thousand different chips on it, nb, sb, sata, memory controller, etc. so if any one of those things failed it's out. Second, why would someone open a motherboard up, look at it, and send it back......if you don't need it, you're not going to open it. I find it more likely that something malfunctioned and they just sent it back without reporting it. Use your own judgement.

I know about the risks and missing parts. Thanks for the posts.

I want somebody with a positive experience to post.

The name of the thread indicates that I'm looking for someone with experience. Thanks though.

I re-read new eggs policy. Seem I wouldn't even get the Asus warranty. So I'll just buy new.

I bought a newegg open box long ago for socketA, and it worked as new but did not come with the i/o shield but I eventually found one that fit. It was a $19 pc chips m811lu and it has been one of the fastest athlonxp mobo's i have used, of about 12.