Recycle & refurbish old Dell PCs back to Dell for 10% discount

May 18, 2007

Posted By:  reg

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Recycle your old Dell back to Dell for a 10% discount on new equipment. Dell can then secure overwrite erase the hard drive, install Ubuntu + hardware drivers, then donate the hardware to unemployment, food stamp, and welfare offices Nationwide. The social services offices then can pass out the refurbished used equipment to its clients, and Dell can be given BIG tax breaks by the State and Federal Systems.



1. Recycle - Turn it in, don't landfill it.
2. Reuse - There is still life left in that old hardware
3. Reduce - Buy new electronics less often, get 5 years use out of every PC.
4. Refuse - wasteful spending, wasteful practices & wasteful companies.
5. Refute - Once wasteful practices or procedures are identified, correct the problem with Action!

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  • Feb 17, 2011     Comment Link

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    Posted By: acj405

    Excellent idea. I have an old desktop system and a laptop. If I could turn those in at the same time for a percentage off of the new price of a laptop then I might consider another Dell. At this point, I can just sell my hardware to another company/individual and puchasee the Mac that I have been drooling over. Incentives will make me at least consider another Dell!
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  • Oct 15, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: rotthund

    Ha, I voted and commented against this. Now I'm fishing for an attractive trade-up option for my CRT monitor. I'm disappointed our employee discount option excludes monitors and accessories. Trouble is, it'd take a really attractive offer to get me to move.
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  • Aug 27, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: newbs

    Yeah definitely. I like this idea. I have lots of old PCs I don't know what to do with.
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  • Aug 10, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: garth

    10% is a little bit to much i think. but it is a good idea
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  • Aug 4, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: daytraitors

    Companies like Dell can take advantage of their scale to aggregate the many old PCs and have them refurbished for use in Africa or other emerging nations. Microsoft can jump on the bandwagon and offer free licenses of Windows XP, if they so desire. Or, Dell can just make everything an Ubuntu or RedHat install. All of the labor would be done overseas, so you don't have to worry about expensive Americans doing all of this work. For an individual like me to do this is not practical. I'm sure there's a way for Dell to strike a deal with the President of Xenabunkaria to defray the cost of rebating customers for the trade in. -d
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  • Aug 1, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jdelidc

    i'm not voting on this yet but here's another idea...... when people send in their recycled system, either strip it and sell the parts to anyone that wants them for $1 or so + shipping, or load linux on it and sell it as an internet/office station for $75 plus shipping
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  • Jul 31, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jorge

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    Again, the consumer needs to take some responsibility for their purchase, whether it be a coke bottle or a computer they need to recycle it not nag a company to do it for them because they don't want to take responsibility for their own actions.
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  • Jul 31, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: winoffice

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    Dear dell_admin1, Thank you very much for fixing the catefories for me, as I could not do such a thing myself, nor did I do it intentionally.
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  • Jul 31, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jorge

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    I don't believe Dell should pay for the cost of recycling your toxic waste, you bought it so its yours not Dell's. Recycling is expensive and adding cost on top of the cost of recycling is just a dumb business move.
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  • Jul 31, 2007     Comment Link

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    Posted By: winoffice

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    Dear jorge: You have a good idea in your comment, but it should not prevent recyclers from getting 10% off, so your comment does not give a reason for demoting my idea.

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