Reboxing Refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T500
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at
2:27 pm
Returning a refurbished ThinkPad T500.
Tagged with: Broken laptop • refurbished laptop • refurbished lenovo
Filed under: Cheap Laptop Used
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dear papercut,
You are right but it still hurts when you spend some 900 bucks and get some thing like this. Well, thats how things go.
Thanks
did you buy one listed as “new” or was it actually considered “refurbished.”
I think the ones called “new” never leave the factory, while the ones considered refurbished have physically been shipped and returned. Just a guess, I’m no expert.
Dear Spartacus,
It was listed as refurbished. I am not sure about now adays, but in those days, lenovo outlet website had a description of the refurbished which said that the refurbished items have no dents or cosmetic blemishes. On there other hand, there was a separate category of “Dent and scratch” laptops.
When you sent it back did you have to pay a restocking fee or any other type of fee?
Yes i agree with you 100% never buy a refurbished laptop. Most of them are lemons. But open box are a different story.
No, I did not have to pay restocking fee because the product was damaged and it was not my fault. If I would have sent it because of any fault on my end, then, they would have charged me some fee of this sort.
I do believe in Lenovo!!!! there is no doubt that every excellent company has some small problem about very few of its products.
I got a Refurbished Gateway desktop and love it!
I buy used laptops all the time and they work fine but what little minor things, Refurbished is just a fancy term for used not new That why it’s cheaper.
There was no “dent or blemish” on it. Yes, there was the scratch, but I would guess that it would operate correctly. But, if I had spent my hard-earned money on an equisite laptop, I would like something brand new. But nice choice, Lenovo is very respectable.
I sympathize with you, and I wanted to comment because I just bought a refurb from lenovo.
I bought mine after watching and waiting for a deal over three months. Finally I jumped at an R400 with everything I needed for $570 after tax, free shipping. Everything was and is good, and I am very pleased with the laptop, apart from some of the thinkvantage software that came with it, which is dealt with easy enough.
Less people in the refurb market means lower prices, so thank you for discouraging.
Dear qwertypipe,
Well, its a matter of opinion. Some lucky friends like you happen to receive good stuff as well and some like me received defective. One thing which is for sure true for refurbished laptops is that they don’t give you new battery and no one knows for how long this battery was used so, you do end up buying a new battery sooner than some one who gets a new laptop.
My friend,
I watched ur 1st video which was “unboxing” it. Then by chance I saw ur “re-boxing” video. The Laptop was perfectly fine in ur 1st video. U did chk the spot above LCD by touching it & it was fine. Even the front left side was closinging w/o any gap in between. I think u r not telling the truth that u broke it later & now blaming IBM for sending broken one. U can watch ur own video if u don’t believe me. Accidents happens, but blaming someone for ur mistakes is not professional.
Dear friend,
Thanks for the comment. Its not my fault if you happen to see the videos in opposite order and have not cared for checking the upload dates. If you pay a little attention, you would know that reboxing video is older and pertains to the refurbished laptop while unboxing video is newer and is for the new laptop I bought which I am using. I hope my reply is not taken personally.
Regards
You are absolutely right. Please accept my deepest apology. So dumb of me. I am very sorry. I should pay attention to dates, before making any comments. once again, I am sorry.
One last thing I would like to mention, that the misunderstanding happened when I typed in search, “Lenovo T500″ and results showed the older video as first and the newer “unboxing” video as 2nd. I watched them in same sequence and here we are. Sorry and thanks.
dear friend,
Its alright. these things happen sometimes. Its alright. I m glad that we cleared this misconception. Good luck my friend.
Regards
Hi I got a T400 and have the gap between the lid and dock also. have u had it replaced?
Dear inaugurate,
Since my T500 was refurbished so, I was sure its a defective unit and as you could see in the video the gap was kinda wide on the left side than on the right. I didn’t get it replaced, I returned it forever!
just figure it out for yourself…it’s refurbished, i bought one from HP, it works perfect, some of the new ones u buy will have worse problems, it’s a matter of luck
Actually, What’s broken isn’t what secured it to the base. It’s just a spacer. The thing to the left of it is what was causing it to not close. the latch was missing.
Dear gurielzeigerman,
Thats exactly what I thought at first as it was my first lenovo T series laptop. But, as it turns out, T500 dont have any latch on left side! it has only one latch and that is on right. This sounds very unusual but that is how they make it. My idea was that somehow, the screen frame was not straight and that caused it to not to fit the base on the left, right side was fine because it had the latch!
Thanks for the comment though!
Dear gurielzeigerman,
I own a T500 now and mine one only has one latch on the right!
yes there was no damage when you opened it before, I think you dropped it and now want your money back!
As the T500 is your first ThinkPad T series, you’d like the old ones, they were much better built, however i do not imply the new ones are bad, they are just of lesser quality. You would love the T43 for durability, i can stand on it without any trouble.