Refurbished Cisco Switches, worth it for home lab?

Robert5205 wrote:
Cablesandkits.com has some great prices on old Cisco gear. This week they have a 3560 PoE 48-port switch for $150.
Yes, it is absolutely worth it to have real hardware in your hands. Packet tracing is fine, but it's not real life.
Yeah I believe they are being sold by Cablesandkits through newegg.  Any suggestions on which switch or features I should look for?  Really I want something that's managed but beyond that I'm not sure. 

So I been thinking about getting a decent switch to play around with at home.  During my search I found there's a good bit of "refurbished" Cisco switches online and was wondering if they are worth trying out.  Figured they are beyond EOL hence the cheapness, the one I'm looking at is a Cisco 2900 series for like $30 bucks.  Pretty new in IT and working on my Network+ and starting to look into the Cisco certs at the moment so having an actual Cisco switch would be useful. 
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