Any "STOCK" 24-inch iMac owners?

Has anyone bought a "STOCK" 24-inch iMac. I am planning on buying a Refurbished 24-incher, but I was wondering what are my chances of receiving one with a free unlisted upgrade. I was thinking... most people who can afford to buy this size iMac would most likely upgrade at least one thing (HD, Ram...). All refurbished Macs were bought (and hopefully upgraded) and returned to Apple for some reason right?

Refurb IMac can be "Stock" as most retailers only sell/stock "Stock" IMac including Apple own stores and many of them have a liberal return policy so they could have been returned to Apple simply because the person did not like the IMac or over 1-2 dead pixels.
I personally exchange my IMac 24" Stock 4X and on the fifth exchange I got a perfect screen. The first 4 IMac had between 1-3 dead pixels. I bought my IMac at Best Buy who has no quesiton asked return policy after reading many forums and people complaining about their 24" having between 1-3 dead pixels on them and Apple offical policy does not consider them defective unless they have 5 or more dead pixels. So if you buy from either Apple.com or offical Apple store and get less than 5 dead pixels they will not allow you exchange it without paying a restocking fee as according to them their is nothing wrong with your IMac and it working according to specs which allows upto 5 dead pixels.
I know my local Best Buy did not care about me returning and exchanging my IMac till i got a prefect one as their agreement with Apple is all returned Apple products get sent back to Apple for credit. Fry's J&R Music and Circuit City also have the same agreement with Apple which is why you never see open box Apple computers at any of the above retailers. So the chances of getting dead pixels on a refurb in my option is much higher than a new computer because all the above retailers will allow their customers to exchange their IMac if they have any dead pixels at all on the screen or just simply return them for any other reason what so ever. If you dont mind a couple of a dead pixels then I guess a refurb is for you.

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