I've been in contact with him and if all goes well, I can save money. If it comes in DOA or breaks, that defeats the purpose. But he does seem to have a lot of happy customers. Even considered buying the NVR here, and importing the rest.
I purchased a IPC-HDW5231R-Z varifocal camera from
Hard Working Andy. It sat in my office in a box for 3+ months. I finally got around to installing it but it Qrapped out after running for 10+ hours. Andy replaced that camera with an open-box lightly used IPC-HDW5231RP-ZE which, arguably, is a better camera. In fact I once saw Andy repair a camera for a guy who had bought the broken camera from someone else.
In addition, let me point out that
Mr. Hard Working Andy-- with 2,165 posts and 3,959 likes -- has a LPR of nearly +200%...
no one else with that number of posts comes close to a 200% LPR (I'm trying to reach +100% but I'm running out of bad jokes, Qontest swag, and Cat Bullshit
)
(Likes To Post Ratio©)
BTW, I put a lot into this post and I could use a Like, eh?