[Pritesh.Mistry]

I want to get this laptop..

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/hp-pavi...76815-pdt.html

£50 cheaper than getting the laptop brand new.

I was just wondering if anyone has any experience with buying refurbished laptops from Currys/other PC stores?

I don't mind if there is a little scratch on it, but something as big as an extremely poor battery life would be a deal breaker.

Thanks

[Snagprophet]

It might be worth going in to see it, have a go on it. It seems a pretty solid laptop but it's hard to say what condition the battery is. My Acer Aspire is four years old and has an awful battery. I suppose you could put a new battery into it if you need to. I wouldn't recommend buying it from the website and having no idea the condition.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by Pritesh.Mistry)
I want to get this laptop..

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/hp-pavi...76815-pdt.html

£50 cheaper than getting the laptop brand new.

I was just wondering if anyone has any experience with buying refurbished laptops from Currys/other PC stores?

I don't mind if there is a little scratch on it, but something as big as an extremely poor battery life would be a deal breaker.

Thanks

It should be properly refurbished so battery life must have been looked at as well.

[Hustler-1337]

I bought a hp envy 15 laptop refurbished from PC World (Currys are in the same Group) for a good price (£650ish when the rrp was over £1k).

Their refurb units usually are customer returns and don't usually come in the original box. Mines came in a plain box with the charger and seperate disc drive. When I first opened it I the laptop was extremely cold and there was a lot of condensation on the actual screen and keyboard and I hate to wipe off all that water. But that's probably due to the laptop being made of metal and where it may have been kept in the delivery van.

The laptop had a few *minor* scratches which I weren't too happy about. However, what was worse was the poor battery life of the laptop. It would run for a maximum of around 2 hours before the battery ran out. It turned out that this was a common problem for that particular model and I eventually returned the laptop. A battery life of less than 2 hours was useless for me as I needed it for uni, and some of my lectures were themselves 2 hours in duration!

If you aren't happy with the laptop, then give them a call and request a return. I think you can only return if the item is faulty (if you have used the item), else if it is unused then you can always return it.

I said that my laptop gets very very hot and that was the fault and that the battery life was very poor. I think that's why many people probably returned the laptop in the first place and why PC World were reselling them. My advice would be to check if the laptop has any known issues before buying refurb. Otherwise it should be fine as they are normally thoroughly checked and tested before reselling them.



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