Toshiba launches a laptop trade-in scheme
TOSHIBA IS TRYING to lure punters into buying one of its new Windows 7 laptops by promising to give you up to £150 in cash for your old one.
Not only do you get some dosh back, but Toshiba is promising it'll recycle your old kit, no matter who made it, in the best way - refurbishing it and passing it on if possible or disposing of it in an environmentally friendly way if not.
To qualify you have to first buy a new Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 and then head over to the dedicated Toshiba Trade-In website to register your details and input information about the old device.
Once that's all done, your old brick will be picked up by the disposal firm Tier 1 Asset Management Limited, which will decide what to do with it. Those with data security concerns can rest assured that all personal data on the laptops will be erased.
Once Toshiba has confirmed that all is in order it will send the appropriate payment by cheque or Paypal within ten days.
The Toshiba Trade-In programme kicked off yesterday and will run until 31 January 2010. µ
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Lol
I put the details in for my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A (Athlon XP2600, Mobile R9000 based), and I was offered a whole £23!
I'm better off keeping what I have, it still works and hasn't been a problem!
keep it and use it as a file server.
Connect a couple of USB drives and connect it via Ethernet. Cheaper and probably faster than buying NAS drive.
The trading-in scheme is just not worth the effort.
What a joke. You could get more on ebay or other place by selling it yourself. My old laptop is worth an amazing £8.
Well, looks like I'm winning - they offered me a giant £7 for my laptop. I think the original power adapter could be worth more than that!
Poor show.
I was offered £173!
However, my laptop is a Core 2 Duo 2Ghz, 250GB Hard Drive, DVDRW with 4GB Ram.
Thinking about it though, I'd probably have to spend another £250 to get a laptop of the same spec.
Rob
£6 for me. Hmm, really tempting.
yes wow. I was offered 20 quid for mine. it does its job well enough thanks.
i got an epic £416 for my laptop, i only played £600 for it so its actually not to far away, still prefer my sony to a toshiba :)
quoted 122, sadly it is only available in uk