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Refurbished Notebooks
Unlike many of the sellers of new laptops, many of the refurbished laptop sellers advertise their offerings on comparison shopping engines. They place more importance to being found through this kind of search, as most of those sellers have little or no name recognition among customers. Most of the comparison shopping engines, such as mySimon or Shopping.com, do not have specific categories for used goods. Instead, you have to browse through the products to find the ones that are used. However, PriceWatch.com is an exception, with a specific section named “Refurb/Open Box Deals”. This section contains laptops and laptop parts that are sold as used. Refurbished Notebooks - Retailers Many manufacturers sell their laptops directly on the web and also get customer returns directly. Some of these companies lease their systems and the off-lease notebooks are remanufactured and sold as refurbished at the end of the lease period. As an exemplary service, Dell offers many refurbished laptops from their online site at dell.com. In addition, Dell Financial Services sells off-lease Dell laptops to the public (at dfsdirect.com). All of these systems are put through the production process again. They are taken apart and then rebuilt to original factory specifications, then re-tested to ensure quality standards. Because these Dell's systems are refurbished and then re-tested to meet Dell's high quality standards, they offer the same limited warranties as the new systems. Because most manufacturers use resellers aggressively, there are huge quantities of refurbished laptops available from the hundreds of resellers as well. And because refurbished laptops loose their value very quickly, these systems are offered at deep discounts to reduce the stock. Popular refurbished notebook computer manufacturers include HP, IBM, and others. These refurbished laptops are sold by such popular online stores as: LaptopKings NotebookMall TigerDirect
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