Are they available to be returned for free for Prime members, or they are final sale with no return?
WOOT!'S HOLIDAY RETURN POLICY - Items purchased from Woot between 11/1/2024 and 12/31/2024 may be returned by contacting Woot! customer service by 1/31/2025 for a FULL REFUND. There are some restrictions, which are here.
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I’ve bought refurb items from woot. They last long enough to get past that 30 days and then brick. Not worth the frustration or funds.
I bought one of these last January (1/13/24) and the minimum specs were similar (i5 8th gen vs 10th gen now is the only change I see) but at the time the cost was only $179.99. At below $200 this was a gamble I was willing to take to get a laptop that I could use to store and run the files for laser engraver, download and slice 3d printer files, and store and run the files for the embroidery sewing machine we have. I was never going to tax this laptop so one with the minimum specs was OK for me for this purpose. If you want something that you are going to actually use hard (not just surf the internet), then this is not for you.
LOL actually I just wanna make sure if the specs worth such price
Thanks for your information! I just wanna make sure if it is refundable, and I think for this price it should not be so worthless
My refurb Dell sourced from woot was a grab bag of ???, I tore the whole thing down upon arrival and if I would not have addressed some pinched wiring and thermal issues the device would have crapped out in short order.
Whoever woot is sourcing these refurbs from does not do substantive qa. They must’ve opened my machine and haphazardly put the case back together as there was more than one wire pinch, they also pulled the heatsink off but did not put new paste on the device, just put it back together with the crumbled mess of old paste.
The other issue is these days you can get mini PCs with like an n100 chip that are pretty viable for under $200 anyway. What do you recognize there is some luck involved work you could order something here and be one of the 15 or 20% that gets disproportionately good specs --relative to the price anyway. But to me the best way to take advantage of a resale market is typically hardcore research and knowing what you’re buying…
Not to say you could never get a good deal this way but the idea of ordering something and returning it 30 days later because you didn’t win the spec lottery seems to be pretty wasteful in terms of sustainability and use of energy. I would probably rather just see the pricing of the actual products.
But I don’t know I’m open to hearing an anecdotes of people that have gotten a really good deal on this kind of thing.
I gotta keep telling myself "I don’t need it!’ The price is okay, but not impulse buy territory. I like the smaller screen sizes as that lends to portability. Usually ram is easy to upgrade, but no telling if it’s soldered to the board. I would not expect a dedicated GPU, but 10th gen Intel should still be enough to play almost anything on batocera.
30 days is the return period.
This comes with a 90-day warranty as does most stuff on Woot.