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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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I5-10310u - Passmark - 6435/2193. TDP 15W
You tell me.
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Its not just FedEx...a lot of large companies lease from Dell. Where I work, engineering uses precision series laptops while other office staff uses the latitude series. I repeat....don't touch the 3561 with Nvidia graphics unless you like hearing the fan continuously running at full speed all the time...the thing is always hot to touch, even when put to sleep.
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If I need a regular laptop, then I would buy open box or new laptop with latest processor, 16gb RAM. Not seeing very good inventory on these yet.
I saw people who thought they were great/awful.
What I didn't see were people praising the battery life.
Some said 2.5 hours and some even said 1.5
No real happiness for battery life - lots of people liked machine when plugged in - I have desktops for that.
I bought ($900) an Apple M1 a few years ago and was shocked how long the batter lasted - days of use.
Unfortunately Apple uses PWM displays and I had to take laptop back.
But after having a laptop last so long a couple of hours seems pretty bad
What's the allure of even the discounted prices being discussed here for tech that is now seven years old in terms of performance? And no OS (although that's not really an issue for many).
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.
TLDR- Its a used EV car, buy a extended warranty. unless the warranty is more
Even lenovo thinkpad have a bad batch and model. I gotten over 15 fedex dell laptop, 75% turned out good. 2/10 were unacceptable.
You didn't lose $600, you gained $600 in spare parts
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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.
couldn't agree more. Every unit (~5) I've purchased had some major issue within the first 90 days
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