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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Jan 1, 2025
Jan 1, 2025 4:52 PM
Dell Coupon: Refurbished Precision Laptops & Desktops
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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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Dell refurbished site= these are 100% USED not refurbished any more than cars on a used car lot are 'refurbished'.
This is NOT like 'Honda certified used'. This is like a 2006 Honda Civic with 125k miles from a used car dealership who bought it at an auction, looked it over for major issues and 'generously' slapped on a 90 days warranty.
These are used computers, HEAVILY used corporate lease return computers.
Dell refurbished site= these are 100% USED not refurbished any more than cars on a used car lot are 'refurbished'.
This is NOT like 'Honda certified used'. This is like a 2006 Honda Civic with 125k miles from a used car dealership who bought it at an auction, looked it over for major issues and 'generously' slapped on a 90 days warranty.
These are used computers, HEAVILY used corporate lease return computers.
Dell refurbished site= these are 100% USED not refurbished any more than cars on a used car lot are 'refurbished'.
This is NOT like 'Honda certified used'. This is like a 2006 Honda Civic with 125k miles from a used car dealership who bought it at an auction, looked it over for major issues and 'generously' slapped on a 90 days warranty.
These are used computers, HEAVILY used corporate lease return computers.
And I say this because you can get $200 yearly discount from specifically from this site also from AMEX.
So basically they are like used car sales that is just owned and funded by DELL. May not be fully operated and certified by DELL.
AmEx deal says it has to be sold by Dell.Com. Read the fine print.
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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And I say this because you can get $200 yearly discount from specifically from this site also from AMEX.
So basically they are like used car sales that is just owned and funded by DELL. May not be fully operated and certified by DELL.
AmEx deal says it has to be sold by Dell.Com. Read the fine print.
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