Does anyone have any experience with this? It would save me a lot of money but I also don’t want to flush it down the toilet.
Amazon is a marketplace.
If you go to the flea market and buy a laptop that is bad, does that mean everybody selling laptops at the flea market is selling a bad product?
There are solid sellers on Amazon and there are shady scam sellers on Amazon.
My advice for your best chances of buying what you are expecting to buy is to go through an authorized reseller of the laptop you are looking for. I bought my last laptop from Newegg and got what I paid for.
Very good point and thank you. I’ve simply not bought a computer in a long time so it’s not clear where I begin.
We have a traditional store reselling refurbished laptops in my city. They’re pretty awesome and I got a nice Dell laptop from them. 100% recommend. But I don’t know what Amazon does.
With my laptop, the battery is old. It has like 40% of capacity left and turns off after 2h. But it’s plenty fast and was cheap. And I got to look at the details before buying.
Check open box prices on ebay. Open box means the product was opened or used for a trivial amount of time, so practically new. Bought a $3000 surface laptop studio for $1200
Another thing I’ve noticed on Amazon is oftentimes you’ll get the first generation of a product. I bought a smart space heater from there quite some time ago and by the time I’d owned it for a few months it was already unsupported, then six months after that it was impossible to connect to (it lost WiFi and I had no means to reconfigure it).
Had I purchased elsewhere I probably would’ve received the fifth or sixth generation. If I do buy from Amazon now I’m always super picky about details.
