Buying Guide for Factory Refurbished Notebooks
When shopping for a notebook, a refurbished notebook or laptop is an excellent way of saving money. Although you usually do get a shorter warranty with a refurbished notebook (either 60 or 90 days), you can purchase an extended warranty with the notebook, and still save a couple hundred dollars over a new one.
To become a refurbished notebook, one of two conditions must be met. One of the most common conditions is that there is damage to the box that the notebook originally shipped in. Because of this, this notebook can no longer be sold as new, so the manufacturer recertifies that it works, and sells it at a discount.
The second condition to end up as a refurbished notebook would be when a customer did originally have a problem with the notebook. Most notebook manufacturers have a 30 day DOA (dead on arrival) policy. If, within 30 days of buying the notebook, the customer has a problem, and it canâ??t be solved over the phone, the manufacturer will ship the customer a new notebook. The majority of the problems that notebooks get sent back for are software related, and not because there was something physically wrong with the notebook. Despite this fact, the manufacturer can't sell this notebook as new again. As such, they fix the problem, and sell the notebook as refurbished at a discounted price.