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> I like to buy ex-corporate ~5 year old Thinkpads, get from a seller who gives atleast 6 months warranty I am curious if this a US thing only. I mean, I've he
by DoingIsLearning 5y ago
> I like to buy ex-corporate ~5 year old Thinkpads, get from a seller who gives atleast 6 months warranty
I am curious if this a US thing only. I mean, I've heard of company vehicles in second hand market but never company laptops. In my experience all these company laptops get decommisioned by IT never to remove any data, but I never really considered what happens at End-of-life for those.
A few questions:
1. Where do you find these retailers?
2. Where do you find suppliers selling new batteries for old devices?
(all of my previous attempts at finding replacement batteries for laptops and e-readers always resulted in very poor performance or even faulty battery packs)
edit: formating paragraphs for questions
- vurpo 5y agoI live in Finland, and simply by Googling in Finnish I can find several companies reselling used company laptops, and there's at least one local one that I can physically go to (I've bought a used monitor from there, and they always have stacks of ThinkPads in the store when I go in).
- Markoff 5y agosame here in Czechia, pretty much all refurb Thinkpad are from companies, my current T520 is from Singapore of all places, if you choose A grade is basically brand new condition just without brand new smell, they should use some spray :-) my next laptop will be again refurb Thinkpad, for wife I would choose something like X240 A grade 8GB RAM, that cost like 250EUR
- lproven 5y agoIt's 100% a UK thing as well. Most of mine came from Morgan Computers, but I also check Tier 1 Online and Bargain Hardware too. I emigrated, and I have yet to find a good such vendor in the EU. Recommendations welcome!
- eb0la 5y agoI worked for a company that bought their servers from Bargain Hardware. Good service, and fast. No problems with hardware, of course.
- taubek 5y agoI buy my refurnished laptops from Techsavers (https://www.techsavers.com/ https://www.techsavers.com/). They have local outlets in few EU countries.
- NGRhodes 5y agoI am in the UK. I buy from eBay, there are a number of big sellers to choose from. I tend to get my batteries from Amazon, I've probably bought 6 generic unbranded for my thinpads over the years, generally they seem to be about 90% capacity of genuine, but low prices mean great value. One I bought in 2020 was faulty on arrival, rest have all been good.