[Acer Iconia A500] gammaRascal:
Where do you get that from? I never said that.

You're assuming that Acer *could* reissue SNID's more than once and at the same time so that the same SNID is active across multiple devices. Acer, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't refurbish and Acer, to the best of my knowledge, can't issue an SNID that is already issued without first redacting it [or at all].

If serials could be issued to multiple products the warranty system as we know it would fall apart. So, that doesn't happen. Period.

Second to that, if redacting an SNID is possible and reissue of a redacted SNID is possible it would likely be restricted to regions so a redacted EU SNID would never be reissued to a new tablet in EU - it would be reissued to a tablet outside the region so that when it's registered, it can only be registered in that region and only for that region in order to claim any warranty in that region.

It doesn't matter if a reissued SNID is on a sticker or the OS, Acer's database would never let repeating serials - no company would ever EVER issue repeating serials. Since I have three, they should all be legit, period. Ergo, if my tablet had serial ABC prior to being shipped from outside North America and some 4 months later that same serial is issued WITHIN North America then it must mean my serial was redacted in EU or Taiwan FOR EU / Taiwan [or where ever] and the only reason to redact a serial would be because the tablet was issued a new one [in this case a North American SNID] - IE, refurbished.

Since there is another tablet with the same SNID now [it doesn't matter if mine is on a sticker or the OS] it was reissued ONLY if the first instance of it was redacted.

That's not necessarily true. The only way anyone could know for fact that they are is 1, if they know the entire lifecycle of the product and no company would ever share that information or 2, you come a cross a cluster **** like this.

As I have stated, Best Buy could have done this knowingly or not and Acer could have done this knowingly or not. It's impossible to know for sure and we'll never know.

Best Buy gets busted all the time for selling refurbs/used as new - are you kidding me!? And Acer? Seriously? They're in Taipei, man... their factory is in China!

I wouldn't be surprised if half of the flaky tabs we've read about were really EU / Taiwan refurbs sent to North America. You're not privy to the deals Best Buy makes or the details of an agreement so you're argument is really moot.

Huh? What "impossible" category are you referring too?

I don't know how clearly I can spell this out. Yes, "as I already know" the SNID on my SD cover was put there prior to May [probably April]. Now also on a, separate, refurbished tablet, 4 months later. Yes, the other tablet was re-serialized and refurbished in August - Acer confirmed it and Revonate confirmed it.

How is the other tablets feasibility of being refurbished in August based entirely on whether mine is or not? That has nothing to do with anything. Did you even read the post? The logs are as clear as day.

I hope you don't mean to suggest that this was found out "that easily" and I hope you don't mean to suggest that no business in the world would try and save a buck or two if they can... Check the internet sometime.