Need Hot Swap adapter for 2.5 inch ssd

Kingwin HDCV-4

I also have a hot swap caddy that can accept

Thanks for responding. I just ordered the HDCV-4 from NewEgg.

I do have a Kingwin Hot Swap Caddy that takes the 2.5 drive, but the caddies are no longer available from Kingwin.

Except for the lack of ventilation, it looks ok.

Caddy? I just use the SSD with some folded over tape to help extract it. The 4 side mounting brackets for the 2.5" drive act as guides. No caddy needed.

Usually use this Rosewell adapter:

How is it that vendors have so many open box items? It seems like once in a while someone would send something back, so there could be one, maybe 2 of something, but often I see whole webpages for individual open box items

Newegg has their Premier plan, which offers both free returns and no restocking fee: So, people use it and Newegg gets stuck with a bunch of returns that they unload for a discount.

Amazon Prime also offers free returns, but limits the returns to those items fulfilled by Amazon:

Anybody remember DAC? Mail order place. Wonderful catalogs. They sold slick inexpensive electronics/appliances. Their breadmakers were really neat, and may have been the first 'affordable' ones. The bad thing was DAC's liberal return policy, which resulted in everybody returning their breadmakers after the thrill wore off maybe 1 or 2 months later. They had a local store with an open-box section -- full of breadmakers. They eventually went belly-up, which was sad. The guy tried to start back up a few years later, but it didn't work out.

Somewhere I read you can return Amazon stuff at Whole Foods stores, which might or might not be more convenient than shipping it back.

Yep. It was DAK Industries Incorporated.

I worked for a marine radio company that offered free warranty repair for life for the original owner. I watched 10 year old radios, that looked like they had been raised from the bottom of the Great Dismal Swamp being repaired. Others looked like they had 1/2 inch thick growth of fungus and mold on everything. One had obviously been installed in the path of a diesel generator exhaust. Fortunately, we didn't get too many of such radios back under warranty, so it was somewhat tolerable (except for the tech doing the repair). I asked the company president why he offered such a liberal warranty policy. He answered that he had no choice. It was the only selling point that the company could offer that the big guys in the business (Motorola) could not.

I don't know and am too lazy to Google for the info.

If Amazon can deliver product via a drone, they should be willing to accept returns shipped in the same manner. I don't know if it will work, but it certainly would be interesting to try.

Thanks. I knew it was Drew A. Kaplan, but thought it was spelled with a C but nobody spells it that way so I must be wrong :-(

I worked in QA for a company which shall remain nameless. I discovered that certain components on their wave-soldered boards failed regularly. The solution was a liberal return policy -- if somebody returned it overnight, it was fixed and shipped out overnight the same day, but it was ALWAYS fixed and returned the same day. It was also given fresh batteries, which provided an endless supply of lightly-used AAs for the employees that knew about it.

Free delivery for Prime users from Whole Foods. They should damn well send it by limo and include a massage for the prices they charge!

Possibly :-)

I wonder if you'll be able to return lightly used food.

I come from a long line of "K" Kaplans.

In high school, I worked in a little deli. One customer would come in, she knew my family.... and she would proudly announce "picking up an order for Caplan, that's CAPLAN with a C"... every time. I think she did it just to b e a prick. I always responded, "oh, I thought Kaplan was always spelled wit h a K".