💬 Bought a refurbished Latitude near Ameerpet, here's 8 months later

I bought a refurbished Dell Latitude near Ameerpet 8 months ago. Everyone told me not to. My friends said refurbished just means somebody else's problem and I'd be back within a month. I'd saved for almost a year and still couldn't afford a new one with 16GB RAM. So I walked into the shop with a lot of doubt. It's an i5 8th Gen with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. It cost me a third of a new one. The shopkeeper let me check every key and every port before I paid anything. I asked for a 6 month warranty and he wrote it on the bill by hand. I carried it home in my backpack very slowly, like it was an egg. After 3 months the left USB port died. I went back sure he'd say it was my fault. He took it to the back room and came out 40 minutes later with it fixed. No charge, no argument. It was covered under the warranty, just like the bill said. That one visit is the reason I'd shop at that place again. Now it's 8 months in and it still runs VS Code and Chrome with 20 tabs fine. Battery gives me 4 to 5 hours. I sit near a socket most days so I don't care. There are a few scratches on the lid. I stopped seeing them in a week. The fan gets loud when I run 2 projects together. That's my only real complaint. Get the warranty in writing, and ask for a bill with the shop's name on it. Test every port and the hinge before you pay. Take a charger and a pen drive along. If you know another shop in Hyderabad you trust for this, tell me. My brother wants one. Would you buy refurbished again or save up for a new one?

I had the opposite experience with a refurbished one last year. The screen started flickering around month 5. The shop said the warranty only covered the motherboard, and the screen was a separate thing. Nobody had told me. It took 2 weeks and a lot of calls to sort out. So read what the warranty covers. Yours sounds like a good shop, though. Which area near Ameerpet, if you don't mind sharing?

Good that the warranty is written on the bill. A friend only got a promise and lost 2 months. Did you check the battery health when you bought it? Windows can make a battery report from the command prompt. Mine showed 61% of the original capacity, which explained my short hours. A new battery cost less than I feared. So 4 to 5 hours after 8 months sounds healthy to me.