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30% off all products at Dell Refurbished Computers
Discuss (22) : History : Tell : Posted 5:00 AM PST 11/14/08 by Ben
30% off all products at Dell Refurbished ComputersDell Refurbished Computers has 30% off all products in stock (before tax, shipping & handling) with coupon code NCj)17aj#33 [Exp 11/17]. Applies to on-line orders only while supplies last.
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#1   ctjwa - Posted 5:44 am PST 11/14/08 (155 Posts)
Does anybody really buy refurb laptops? I have to assume sales are on par with refurb condoms.
#2   Leeds - Posted 6:03 am PST 11/14/08 (87 Posts)
I bought a refurb laptop from dell last month. It's awesome. (No lie).
#3   dieseldork - Posted 6:07 am PST 11/14/08 (43 Posts)
I've got a dell refurb laptop... and have 2 dell refurb desktops... never a problem.

BTW... I can't get coupon code to work... Sad
#4   TheMax7 - Posted 6:09 am PST 11/14/08 (381 Posts)
Some are better than others depending on who used/abused it. So it can be a gamble. You get a 100 day warranty to make sure everything works okay. I have a couple that I have had zero problems with in the last couple years.
#5   1 - Posted 6:29 am PST 11/14/08 (667 Posts)
Yes, #1, laptops are just like condoms, that makes perfect sense. I hear my mom buy refurb laptop, I guess that makes you a mistake.
#6   danameless - Posted 6:43 am PST 11/14/08 (201 Posts)
I've bought a refurbed desktop and works great.

I can't get the coupon to work neither, says it's invalid.
#7   lampinlance - Posted 7:28 am PST 11/14/08 (71 Posts)
No prob with refurb computers here.
#8   TheKitty - Posted 7:34 am PST 11/14/08 (1456 Posts)
I've bought one dell laptop xps and one desktop 530, no poblems, save alot
#9   philipbi - Posted 8:46 am PST 11/14/08 (46 Posts)
It too have XPS 1330 refurb - no problems, ever. I bought XPS 1530 recently NEW and have had Dell replace HD and Fingerprint reader already. I have been of the mind to think that a Refurbed item almost has better success rate than a new device. You have a 2nd set of QA eyes on it to reinspect it. Seems you have better chance us a successful unit when re certified. The exception to this rule is when a device is returned and customers explanation of defect is elusive and not descriptive enough for QA team to reproduce the defect(faulty connector, fastened as shipping, but jostling it in/out of backpack or during travel causes connector to cause a failure.) in this case QA may think device is OK and send it back out. Either way Dell still 100% warranties the device as if it were new.

Code: Dell has 3 types of computers in Outlet store:
1. Certified Refurbished - had a defect and QA has hopefully fixed it
2. Scratch and Dent - OpenBox, kiosk demo, BestBuy, Customer Returns, store or warehouse opened a box, all contents are still in tact, but not factory sealed. may have a few fingerprints on items that were inspected while taken out of the box, but contents are certified to all be there.
3. Previously Ordered - Customer Canceled order, Customer opened box found computer to be too big, and returned it.

My point here is i am wondering if the Code not working is cause you when you are selecting your computers from the list of avail, it might have to be a true Refurbished items instead of the a open box or returned....there are icons on left side of list indicating which of the the 3 buckets it belongs in. You can filter to only display refurbs. Just a thought...

- Phil
#10   dieseldork - Posted 8:48 am PST 11/14/08 (43 Posts)
Thanks Phil,

I did in fact make sure that I was trying to purchase the refurb. No dice. Sad
#11   philipbi - Posted 8:58 am PST 11/14/08 (46 Posts)
ok folks, i sort of retract my previous Refurb thoughts for THIS item.

Sorry i didn't actually go to the link for this refurb sale. I assumed it was a Dell Site Outlet sale. IT IS NOT DELL.

this is for Dell's Financing dept. These are like repo'ed machines from folks going default or a .com .bomb company and they machines are avail for resale.

Their Web Controls they use to make a selection are NOT the same as the Dell outlet center. So this site will not display the 3 types of dells.

#10 - deseldork, this code will not work for sure on the Dell outlet linksbacon must be only for the Financing dept site ;-(

Sorry about that guys....
#12   Budman - Posted 9:40 am PST 11/14/08 (491 Posts)
I was hoping this would work on a Refurbed monitor. Coupon code does not appear to work. It does not give you an error message but does not apply the discount either. Hey, a 30" for $629 + tax and shipping would have been a sweet deal!
#13   malarrya - Posted 9:47 am PST 11/14/08 (132 Posts)
As far as I can tell most of the computers on the repo/expired lease site are Pentium IV, Pentium D, or Celeron and the desktops are priced around $500 for something with average features. The real refurb site has some pretty nicely loaded C2D 2GB, 250GB PCs for around $360

Here is an example of the real refurb site:
http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/topics/global.aspx/arb/online/en/InventorySearch?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb
#14   coastsidejohn - Posted 10:18 am PST 11/14/08 (20 Posts)
I called and talked to Mike they have one sales person. He was able to give me more specs on the unit I wanted includeing telling me that the original warranty with the unit is still good so you may get a unit with a year left on the warranty and he stated you can extend it through the dell warranty group.
#15   phan02 - Posted 10:22 am PST 11/14/08 (60 Posts)
Thanks Phil, I thought this was a really good deal too, until I realized it's not their outlet.
#16   haas - Posted 10:26 am PST 11/14/08 (14 Posts)
Dell outlet is great when they issue coupons. Never had any problem with their machines and always save lots of $$$
#17   dieseldork - Posted 12:31 pm PST 11/14/08 (43 Posts)
Ahhhhh... yeah, I couldn't get to the link (proxy filter at work)... so I was just going to Dell Refurb directly.

CRAP! I was hoping to get a new box at a better than usual price. Sad
#18   specv - Posted 12:40 pm PST 11/14/08 (42 Posts)
refurbished has come a long way. I remember way back when refurbished computers were junk. It would be something wrong with it. You will not find out until you've used every part of the system.
#19   uigrad - Posted 1:23 pm PST 11/14/08 (343 Posts)
I was looking at some of the towers. None of them list details about the motherboard, so you have no idea if a new video card can be added.

All the ones that I viewed said "16MB" for the video memory, even if the processor was 3.6GHz.

I was hoping to find something for my girlfriend to play games on, but even the games she is interested in will not work on these systems.
#20   andyzhao - Posted 5:28 pm PST 11/14/08 (14 Posts)
Did anyone actually used this code? Both of them seem not working. Got Coupon Error Message. Thanks.
 
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