Not unless you open it and get it tested at the store. I'm not a fan of that, I prefer to have the experience of opening something new in my home.but you can be sure of getting a working product
I just picked MDC as an example, the prices are pretty similar in other stores. The point is Amazon is done with its customer acquisition phase of pushing massive discounts and no questions asked returns and spending tons of money to push small retailers out of the market, and is now in the "screw the customer, they have no options" stage. I would rather deal with an honest retailer, even at the cost of an extra 500, and deal with a person who might know at least the difference between RAM and GPU if i face a problem, rather than deal with Amazon support who know nothing, are just given scripts to follow, and continually hang up/transfer you.
If I don't care for the way a retailer handles DOA issues, I'll just go somewhere else for my next purchase. But my policy, over the last year, has changed to "only buy from Amazon if the thing is not available anywhere else".