Netgear Nighthawk Smart WiFi Router (Open Box)

I was hesitant on buying a refurbished router even though I knew this netgear product was what I wanted. I fixed all of my wifi coverage issues within my house and I was really happy with it. Within 6 months while I was on vacation, I got an alert that some of my home automation products went offline. At that point, I was able to determine that I had power at my house but my router had stopped responding. I had the ability to restart the router remotely to no avail. A few weeks later when I came home, I found the router to be flashing the LEDs in a strange sequence, and later determined the router was stuck in a boot loop. I tried to reflash the firmware with tftp and nmrpflash. Neither worked. I called netgear support, and they were obviously not aware of this strange LED sequence. After a few questions, they told me I would need to renew my netgear support at a cost of $50. Had I decided to spend that money, if they would have determined that it was a hardware issue (which it most likely is since none of the reflash tools work or even get connected to the router) then they wouldn't be able to do anything for me anyways, since it was refurbished with a 90 day warranty. Extremely disappointed in Netgear and Amazon for selling a product with such a short warranty. I guess it's my fault and lesson learned for buying refurbished, but for all I know this was the same reason it got returned in the first place. Never again will I buy refurbished, and hopefully can find a replacement without Netgear's name on it.