Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Anyone using a Denon AVR-2105?

Cu, welcome. Although all sellers have some bad reports, several members here have had good experiences with ecost refurbs. You might do a search under "ecost". The 2805 should be an excellent buy at that price and suit your needs very well.

I did check on Denon's web site, and Ecost is an authorized dealer. The unit carries a 90 day warranty, as opposed to the 2 year on new units. At least it will be covered for any major defects when it first arrives. Also, if I were to go with a new unit through an unauthroized online retailer, Denon makes it clear that they won't honor the warranty anyway. I checked posts regarding Ecost here and at AVS forum, and it's a mixed bag of reports. However, I tend to believe that people are more likely to post about a bad experience than a good one so the results are probably skewed.

I'm going to give it a try, so in a week or so I'll let you all know how it goes.

I've purchased from eCOST and had no problems at all with them or, for that matter, with their competitor Dakmart.com (also an authorized dealer), which, by the way has the refurbed 2805 (in both black and silver) for $630, but it comes with a one year warranty as opposed to a 90 day warranty. If the warranty is important to you, you might check it out.

One more thing. With either vendor, you should give them a quick phone call BEFORE ordering to be SURE they actually have them in stock.

cu, I've ordered from ecost, a couple of friends picked up some Denon DVD-1600s and my next door neighbor just took delivery on an 1804 on Friday. All good experiences. As stated above, there will be bad experiences with any etailer (except Axiom , but ecost seems to do pretty well.

As far as warranty goes, I added a 1 year warranty to my ecost order for the Denon DVM-4800 for $30 or $40, so you can get some extended coverage inexpensively.

The 3803 I ordered from ecost has been on back order for 2 months. I left my order open, in the hope that I could consider it a Xmas present to myself. I don't have much hope about that, though. It appears that if they don't have a warehouse in your area, you will not receive anything you order which has a 2-5 day truck icon.

Bruce, ecost has a nasty habit of cancelling orders if they don't have/anticipate a particular model for awhile. If you haven't, might be good to check on the status of your order.

Ray,

I called ecost today to see if that bugger was coming soon. The lady told me that it will never arrive since it is discontinued and they won't EVER be getting any more. She said my order should have been cancelled long ago. I only have one question for them. Why was it listed on their web site if they didn't have any to sell in the first place.

Just to make this a bit worse, she has no way to know if they will get anymore or not. If Denon gets a few back from the last spurt of units they sold, they'll ship them out to the ecost/dakmark/pcmall/macmall warehouse for sale. The simple fact is that no one, not even Denon, can say with certainty that something will or won't be available.