BestBuy Store Trade in any working laptop, Get a minimum $50 gift card & $50 cpn for $599+ laptop

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BestBuy Store Trade in any working laptop, Get a minimum $50 gift card and $50 coupon toward any $599+ Windows laptop
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/clp/i...6113982739

Valid in store only 10/23/16–10/29/16. When you trade in any working laptop, get a minimum $50 Best Buy gift card and a $50 trade-in receipt coupon toward any Windows laptop over $599. Not all products are eligible for trade-in. Not available in all locations and some stores may have additional limitations. Trade-in value may vary. Condition, documentation and accessories may affect value. Excludes devices that are cracked, water-damaged or that lack power. You are responsible for removing any data from your product before providing the product for evaluation. You will be required to agree to the terms and conditions. Best Buy reserves the right to refuse any trade-in or to limit quantities for any reason. Limit of 1 trade-in per person. No rainchecks. Tax is applied based on the full retail value. Limit 1 coupon per transaction. See a Blue Shirt for details.

Some useful information from a previous BB trade-in thread
$50 gift card and $50 voucher towards a surface for Any working laptop @ bestbuy
 
I meant to post this deal some time ago. I traded in some very old laptops with Pentium III, Pentium 4, Turion, and a couple Core 2 Duo laptops.

Only restriction I had was I could only do 3 a day and I had to provide an ID. They just turned them on and saw it boot up to Windows and that was enough.

Got $50 giftcard for each laptop and those $50 coupon for a new laptop.
 
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I'm in this damn section on a regular basis, how in the hell did I miss this? Ugh, would have loved $50 instead of driving to the dump to dispose of the damn thing responsibly.
 
3 per day? I really wish I would have seen this. I could have had a brand new SP4 with as many crap laptops I have laying around.
 
This is the 2nd time they had this kind of promotion this year. So hold onto those old laptops. I wish I didn't toss out 8 (working) laptops to the recycling center last month when I was doing storage cleaning. I could of had my gf help me with the trade-ins.

For some reason though best buy gave me $65 for a Pink Sony Vaio 14.1" with Intel core 2 duo (T5750?) with a dead battery.

Also I install a cleaned Dell Windows 7 Pro on all the laptops regardless of the brand and didn't activate any of them.
 
I have an old netbook. I should see if that qualifies. Probably still has #! (Crunchbang) linux on it, ha.
 
Crap, wish I hadn't missed this.
I've got a stack of Dell D620s and Thinkpads. Getting $50 each would be fantastic.
 
Make sure to check the Store Locator and Trade-In details for the stores in your area. The stores in my county only allow trade-ins for items purchased directly at BestBuy. They do run these promotions every few months though and the times I've asked at my local stores they say they don't do them bc of local laws.

Nice deal though, BestBuy just uses them as a taxbreak and donates them to various charities, which is where the "bootable working condition" requirement comes in. Microsoft will run similar promotions but ask that you "donate" MacBooks instead. :D I've even seen Logitech run promos in the past on their old stuff for coupons that give 20-30% off new items.
 
Now when they say "bootable", can it be a live distro off of optical media?
I'd rather not give them decent sized 2.5" HDDs, which can still be useful.
 
Warsloth said:
I have an old netbook. I should see if that qualifies. Probably still has #! (Crunchbang) linux on it, ha.
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WhoBeDaPlaya said:
Now when they say "bootable", can it be a live distro off of optical media?
I'd rather not give them decent sized 2.5" HDDs, which can still be useful.
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There was a guy who got turned down on the deal for having Linux. Another guy had Windows on a USB and pulled it out before the laptop officially left him. You could try leaving a bootable Windows on the disc and have it boot from the disc drive.
 
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Anyone want my last $50 off coupon for a Windows laptop? Expires Nov 5, 2016.

Edit: Coupon gone~~~
 
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DTN107 said:
I meant to post this deal some time ago. I traded in some very old laptops with Pentium III, Pentium 4, Turion, and a couple Core 2 Duo laptops.

Only restriction I had was I could only do 3 a day and I had to provide an ID. They just turned them on and saw it boot up to Windows and that was enough.

Got $50 giftcard for each laptop and those $50 coupon for a new laptop.
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missed out on this...but in case it comes up again. does it specifically have to boot up into "Windows", or can it boot into a *nix OS? can we just prove that it has memory and a hard drive installed?

I have a couple of old laptops but I've wiped the hard drives on them (no OS on the drives anymore). I guess in theory I can either install an eval (non-registered) windows instance. or throw a random *nix distro on it.

how thoroughly do they actually test these old laptops? one of mine that I'd consider bringing in has a sketchy cpu fan. the would probably shuts itself down within a few minutes of booting up.
 
It all depends on the worker how the laptop is thoroughly tested. However it seems the very common norm is that they power on the laptop and boot into Windows. Yes it must be a Windows OS. I installed a clean copy of Dell's Windows 7 on all the laptops (many were non-Dells). I didn't activate a single Windows 7 and they still took it in as normal.

It seems though they booted up long enough to see the OS, CPU, and ram. What you can do is just have it pre-written out on the laptop and see if they will take your word on it. It helps if you were bringing in 3 laptops to give them some healthy pressure to not take so much of your time.
 
DTN107 said:
It all depends on the worker how the laptop is thoroughly tested. However it seems the very common norm is that they power on the laptop and boot into Windows. Yes it must be a Windows OS. I installed a clean copy of Dell's Windows 7 on all the laptops (many were non-Dells). I didn't activate a single Windows 7 and they still took it in as normal.

It seems though they booted up long enough to see the OS, CPU, and ram. What you can do is just have it pre-written out on the laptop and see if they will take your word on it. It helps if you were bringing in 3 laptops to give them some healthy pressure to not take so much of your time.
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hmmm thanks for the info, and I guess, 1 more question....does the battery have to hold a charge, or are they fine with having to plug it into an outlet?
 
All depends on who it is. Just took in 2006 MBPRO and he didn't even turn it on. Funny thing is trade in on it was $160; however, the 1 year old Acer Aspire R5 wit an i5 6500 8GB ram and ssd was worth $90???????? Yeah I took that one back home with me...
 
DTN107 said:
Anyone want my last $50 off coupon for a Windows laptop? Expires Nov 5, 2016.

Edit: Coupon gone~~~
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Wow, they force you to use that coupon asap. Gotta get them sales going before the end of the year time.
 
ml_paladin888 said:
hmmm thanks for the info, and I guess, 1 more question....does the battery have to hold a charge, or are they fine with having to plug it into an outlet?
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A few of mine couldn't hold a charge but it didn't seem to affect the value of the laptop. They plug it in and went on with their business.

If you have any extra chargers they are "suppose" to give another $25. Unfortunately there are handful of employees who have no idea about it and would say "they don't offer that deal here". However it can be found under "accessories" in their system.
 
People buy consumer class crap laptops at Best Buy? :D
 
Tiberian said:
People buy consumer class crap laptops at Best Buy? :D
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They have some nice stuff too.

Much like everyone else, I wish i saw this too. I have an X60s thats only worth 20 bucks, too get 100 for it would be awesome.
 
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