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expired Posted by iconian | Staff • Jan 1, 2025
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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's mission for business customers was to make them with stronger components (hinges) to survive those 2-3 years of employee abuse, but many I.T. managers complained of faulty cooling and therefore performance nowhere near the specs. But Dell went cheap on screen quality (brightness, pixel density), older HDMI 1.4 ports, etc., as employee users weren't the actual buyers.
Dell dropped newer faster processors without wanting to update the chassis vents or supplemental cooling channels, which meant speed dropped and fan overused.
It was smart marketing for Dell as they could promote better speeds and higher prices while saving on development and production costs, and temporary employee users couldn't complain. But now they're reselling (FedEx Recycling) these to more educated consumers using their personal money, with minimal warranties.
dell designed a latitude chassis for 2 cores that ran great and cool. intel quad cores ran hot. so hot apple abandon them
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've had good experiences with All-in-ones, Optiplex SFF, and Lattitude laptops so far but prices haven't been that great in the past year with me sourcing a lot from ebay.
For what it's worth, 8th gen intel cpu computers still get bi-annual or quarterly BIOS updates which is why I like to buy Dell's business models (called Dell Pro in 2025).
Don't get a Windows 11 N (european version) for OEM computers that have an existing Windows license tied to it though. Only on Motherboards that don't have an existing license like when you put togeather your own gaming desktop. I could only use the N version on a gaming desktop I made. No Windows Media or bloatware at all because Europe said they can't bundle that kind of stuff in their OS. Some video converters require windows media pack that you can download from the app store.
So you'll have to stick with Windows 11 pro (home is the same price so just buy pro).
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Many folks don't know what Dell Refurbished is, they likely think it is the Dell Outlet.
The stuff I received from them was overrated and disappointing and it was disrespectful to call them grade 'A'.
Everything was a real grade 'C' retuned it all and never dealing with them again.
Dell refurbished does not care.
Don't get a Windows 11 N (european version) for OEM computers that have an existing Windows license tied to it though. Only on Motherboards that don't have an existing license like when you put togeather your own gaming desktop. I could only use the N version on a gaming desktop I made. No Windows Media or bloatware at all because Europe said they can't bundle that kind of stuff in their OS. Some video converters require windows media pack that you can download from the app store.
So you'll have to stick with Windows 11 pro (home is the same price so just buy pro).
Many folks don't know what Dell Refurbished is, they likely think it is the Dell Outlet.
The stuff I received from them was overrated and disappointing and it was disrespectful to call them grade 'A'.
Everything was a real grade 'C' retuned it all and never dealing with them again.
Dell refurbished does not care.
The 90 day / 1 year warranty doesn't show when you pull up the service tag on Dell's support page. I'm not certain how they monitor that.
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