asked on Microsoft Refurbisher experience
I ended up with enough semi-retired computers that I enrolled in the Microsoft Refurbisher program.
The obvious motivation is to be able to turn around an XP machine with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and to be able to sell them at market prices by getting the operating system for around $30 each.
Now that I'm on board, I see there's this RPK package at 3 price points from around $200 to $400 depending on what you choose. I'm not planning to launch into anything but small numbers of computers - so I ask the question. This isn't a main stream activity.
And, I see that the RPK requires a Windows Server operating system - which I don't have. I guess I could start with one of the 180-day installs. I have plenty of computers....
Anyway all that seems to be more of an investment than I had expected at this stage. So, is the RPK really necessary? I can read the contents but what I need to know is practical experience.
The obvious motivation is to be able to turn around an XP machine with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 and to be able to sell them at market prices by getting the operating system for around $30 each.
Now that I'm on board, I see there's this RPK package at 3 price points from around $200 to $400 depending on what you choose. I'm not planning to launch into anything but small numbers of computers - so I ask the question. This isn't a main stream activity.
And, I see that the RPK requires a Windows Server operating system - which I don't have. I guess I could start with one of the 180-day installs. I have plenty of computers....
Anyway all that seems to be more of an investment than I had expected at this stage. So, is the RPK really necessary? I can read the contents but what I need to know is practical experience.
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Gary Patterson: Thank you. Well the "business" in that context is "in the margin" of other things. So, if it adds to better customer experiences and takes minimal resources then there's an incremental benefit. The volume is small because it doesn't happen often. But when it happens there should be a "formula" that makes sense.
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Yes. That makes a ton of sense and it does help. I normally say: "We don't sell computers". And that's made perfect sense for a long time. Some of my competition does sell computers and I have always wondered why they do it and how they could generate any reasonable margins.
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Thanks!
But if that level of spending is a barrier, then I'd say you're probably not a good candidate for the program. You'd be talking about such a small volume that it probably isn't worth fooling with, if you ask me.