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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025 4:52 PM
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Some items better your odds (desktops) with components that can be easily cleaned or replaced by you in the future. Sealed laptops are riskier and should be individually researched to know if that model had bad histories (Latitude 5-series laptops). You can check Reddit, Dell Support Communities, etc.
INFERENCE #1 - BUYING FROM DELL OR DELL OUTLET
You're not. You're buying from a 3rd party (FedEx Recycling). That has implications (warranty, refurbishing quality, credit card promos, etc.). We've had many instances when it took 2-5 business days to finally get a response from FedEx Recycling over an order, support or warranty issue. Other issues too that would need another page.
INFERENCE #2 - LIGHTLY USED BY EXECUTIVES
FedEx Recycling obtains thousands of off-lease products annually that were purchased in high volumes from large corporate, government, education and other agencies (charities, non-profits). Some are lightly used, most are moderately used, some are substantially used by many users (like a car rental that's been loaned out daily for 2-3 years). How many times have you spilled coffee on your keyboard or dropped your laptop on the ground - maybe never, but that was personally owned and paid for by you.
Even "Grade A" products may have scratches, paint touchup, or new skin stickers, in addition to worn touchpads, loose ports and dusty fans.
INFERENCE #3 - BUSINESS QUALITY PRODUCTS
Yes, many of these items were built of higher strength (hinges) than personal home-use components, but they were also treated very differently. A used taxi/Uber or rental car is abused much more if not personally and casually used. Many lack home-use features such as HDMI ports and better quality screens (> 220 nits).
INFERENCE #4 - GETTING A HUGE DISCOUNT OFF INITIAL LAUNCH PRICE
Yes, but Dell business products are sold to large volume accounts which receive a 30-60% discount off Dell Business products. That's why they are launched with much higher List Prices. Other considerations: older tech (launched 2-5 years ago), used, short warranty, unrepairable.
We lost about $600 on two Dell Latitudes that failed about 1 and 8 months out of the 90-day FedEx warranty (complete system board failures) but had successes with monitors and desktops. Later, Reddit confirmed that I.T. managers had returned hundreds of Dell Latitudes 5-Series back to Dell with some that said their system boards would eventually prematurely fail anyway. Do some research on owner support sites for any model being considered, and remember, you're not buying from Costco or Best Buy, or an item that was personally cared for.
give it a month or more, and they will have piles of stuff. and better sales too
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Some items better your odds (desktops) with components that can be easily cleaned or replaced by you in the future. Sealed laptops are riskier and should be individually researched to know if that model had bad histories (Latitude 5-series laptops). You can check Reddit, Dell Support Communities, etc.
INFERENCE #1 - BUYING FROM DELL OR DELL OUTLET
You're not. You're buying from a 3rd party (FedEx Recycling). That has implications (warranty, refurbishing quality, credit card promos, etc.). We've had many instances when it took 2-5 business days to finally get a response from FedEx Recycling over an order, support or warranty issue. Other issues too that would need another page.
INFERENCE #2 - LIGHTLY USED BY EXECUTIVES
FedEx Recycling obtains thousands of off-lease products annually that were purchased in high volumes from large corporate, government, education and other agencies (charities, non-profits). Some are lightly used, most are moderately used, some are substantially used by many users (like a car rental that's been loaned out daily for 2-3 years). How many times have you spilled coffee on your keyboard or dropped your laptop on the ground - maybe never, but that was personally owned and paid for by you.
Even "Grade A" products may have scratches, paint touchup, or new skin stickers, in addition to worn touchpads, loose ports and dusty fans.
INFERENCE #3 - BUSINESS QUALITY PRODUCTS
Yes, many of these items were built of higher strength (hinges) than personal home-use components, but they were also treated very differently. A used taxi/Uber or rental car is abused much more if not personally and casually used. Many lack home-use features such as HDMI ports and better quality screens (> 220 nits).
INFERENCE #4 - GETTING A HUGE DISCOUNT OFF INITIAL LAUNCH PRICE
Yes, but Dell business products are sold to large volume accounts which receive a 30-60% discount off Dell Business products. That's why they are launched with much higher List Prices. Other considerations: older tech (launched 2-5 years ago), used, short warranty, unrepairable.
We lost about $600 on two Dell Latitudes that failed about 1 and 8 months out of the 90-day FedEx warranty (complete system board failures) but had successes with monitors and desktops. Later, Reddit confirmed that I.T. managers had returned hundreds of Dell Latitudes 5-Series back to Dell with some that said their system boards would eventually prematurely fail anyway. Do some research on owner support sites for any model being considered, and remember, you're not buying from Costco or Best Buy, or an item that was personally cared for.
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give it a month or more, and they will have piles of stuff. and better sales too
This coupled with the fact that Dell PCs and their charging bricks do some kind of handshake preventing full power to the processor if it doesn't happen right - I've been through two of them on my Dell micro PC.
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All performance related not hardware failures
Some items better your odds (desktops) with components that can be easily cleaned or replaced by you in the future. Sealed laptops are riskier and should be individually researched to know if that model had bad histories (Latitude 5-series laptops). You can check Reddit, Dell Support Communities, etc.
INFERENCE #1 - BUYING FROM DELL OR DELL OUTLET
You're not. You're buying from a 3rd party (FedEx Recycling). That has implications (warranty, refurbishing quality, credit card promos, etc.). We've had many instances when it took 2-5 business days to finally get a response from FedEx Recycling over an order, support or warranty issue. Other issues too that would need another page.
INFERENCE #2 - LIGHTLY USED BY EXECUTIVES
FedEx Recycling obtains thousands of off-lease products annually that were purchased in high volumes from large corporate, government, education and other agencies (charities, non-profits). Some are lightly used, most are moderately used, some are substantially used by many users (like a car rental that's been loaned out daily for 2-3 years). How many times have you spilled coffee on your keyboard or dropped your laptop on the ground - maybe never, but that was personally owned and paid for by you.
Even "Grade A" products may have scratches, paint touchup, or new skin stickers, in addition to worn touchpads, loose ports and dusty fans.
INFERENCE #3 - BUSINESS QUALITY PRODUCTS
Yes, many of these items were built of higher strength (hinges) than personal home-use components, but they were also treated very differently. A used taxi/Uber or rental car is abused much more if not personally and casually used. Many lack home-use features such as HDMI ports and better quality screens (> 220 nits).
INFERENCE #4 - GETTING A HUGE DISCOUNT OFF INITIAL LAUNCH PRICE
Yes, but Dell business products are sold to large volume accounts which receive a 30-60% discount off Dell Business products. That's why they are launched with much higher List Prices. Other considerations: older tech (launched 2-5 years ago), used, short warranty, unrepairable.
We lost about $600 on two Dell Latitudes that failed about 1 and 8 months out of the 90-day FedEx warranty (complete system board failures) but had successes with monitors and desktops. Later, Reddit confirmed that I.T. managers had returned hundreds of Dell Latitudes 5-Series back to Dell with some that said their system boards would eventually prematurely fail anyway. Do some research on owner support sites for any model being considered, and remember, you're not buying from Costco or Best Buy, or an item that was personally cared for.
I kind of figured it was previously used by some industry professionals too as that's normally the case. You said it all right here though, and provided more insight than I even knew. Thank you!
It's only been a few months into owning my latitude and so far so good. I had to transition from my Asus vivobook (sadly) because the charging port on it went out and I wasn't willing to foot the cost for repair on it. I'm also not skilled enough to solder a new one on. I really appreciate being able to charge it with a c-charger than that old round DC port that breaks so easily over time.
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I just used this to get a Precision 5560. My extended family has also bought several Precision 75x0 computers over the years from this site. I do feel like, when they run discounts like this, you can get a really good deal here. One thing to watch out for, the SSDs are often not the originals and sometimes the replacements are very low end. So a fast 1T drive might have been replaced with a slow 256G drive. I suspect that is because companies take the driver's out to erase/destroy them. Discount replacement drives are used instead.
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Some items better your odds (desktops) with components that can be easily cleaned or replaced by you in the future. Sealed laptops are riskier and should be individually researched to know if that model had bad histories (Latitude 5-series laptops). You can check Reddit, Dell Support Communities, etc.
INFERENCE #1 - BUYING FROM DELL OR DELL OUTLET
You're not. You're buying from a 3rd party (FedEx Recycling). That has implications (warranty, refurbishing quality, credit card promos, etc.). We've had many instances when it took 2-5 business days to finally get a response from FedEx Recycling over an order, support or warranty issue. Other issues too that would need another page.
INFERENCE #2 - LIGHTLY USED BY EXECUTIVES
FedEx Recycling obtains thousands of off-lease products annually that were purchased in high volumes from large corporate, government, education and other agencies (charities, non-profits). Some are lightly used, most are moderately used, some are substantially used by many users (like a car rental that's been loaned out daily for 2-3 years). How many times have you spilled coffee on your keyboard or dropped your laptop on the ground - maybe never, but that was personally owned and paid for by you.
Even "Grade A" products may have scratches, paint touchup, or new skin stickers, in addition to worn touchpads, loose ports and dusty fans.
INFERENCE #3 - BUSINESS QUALITY PRODUCTS
Yes, many of these items were built of higher strength (hinges) than personal home-use components, but they were also treated very differently. A used taxi/Uber or rental car is abused much more if not personally and casually used. Many lack home-use features such as HDMI ports and better quality screens (> 220 nits).
INFERENCE #4 - GETTING A HUGE DISCOUNT OFF INITIAL LAUNCH PRICE
Yes, but Dell business products are sold to large volume accounts which receive a 30-60% discount off Dell Business products. That's why they are launched with much higher List Prices. Other considerations: older tech (launched 2-5 years ago), used, short warranty, unrepairable.
We lost about $600 on two Dell Latitudes that failed about 1 and 8 months out of the 90-day FedEx warranty (complete system board failures) but had successes with monitors and desktops. Later, Reddit confirmed that I.T. managers had returned hundreds of Dell Latitudes 5-Series back to Dell with some that said their system boards would eventually prematurely fail anyway. Do some research on owner support sites for any model being considered, and remember, you're not buying from Costco or Best Buy, or an item that was personally cared for.
For example: under the current deal, a refurbished Precision with a decent CPU (a tenth generation i7, H designated) 16 GB, and a laptop GPU that is 1/2 as fast as a 3050 laptop GPU would cost $413.50 with the one-year warranty. Now, compare that a deal posted on 12/30 by Dr.Wajahat (the man, the myth, the legend, who seemingly spends every day looking for the best desktop and laptop deals), for a *brand new* HP laptop, with an i5-12450H that is about 50% *faster* and the 3050 laptop GPU (twice as fast). Would just need to upgrade the memory to 16 GB. Pre-tax cost: about $500. I'd gladly pay an additional $85 to have a new laptop with a one-year *manufacturer* (not reseller) warranty with a faster CPU and mobile GPU. I'll probably get at least anrother year or two out of the newer laptop.
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