looking for some sager reseller info

i want to buy a high end sager laptop real soon and my main concern is advanced exchange, say i buy a x7200 then a sandy bridge variant comes out or etc, now i upgrade about every year but the keyword is "upgrade" not buy a complete system. Is there a reseller out there that does advanced exchange i'd definitely be interested, i don't want to buy a high end laptop then when something new comes out next year have to get a complete whole different system, i rather pay the difference and do an advanced upgrade.

it's unfortunate the laptop market isn't open ended like desktop pc's obviously somebody's paying someone to make it that way but anyways.

look forward for the input.

 

Wow.. don't know if any resellers offer that option.

TBH,

I've never heard of any brand letting you do that.

Anyone?

 

This is part of the Premium Parts Warranty from Larry at LPC-Digital:

** Premium Parts Warranty means that as long as you own your system you get very special prices on all upgrades and components for your system, saving you even more!

Is that what you want?

 

well that doesn't explain very much, based form the wording it states that you can upgrade your system for a "special" price, weather that includes being able to upgrade your system i don't know, still a new thread i'm sure some resellers might feel free to get in touch or whatever.

I believe dell does that with there alien ware system, they allow you trade in your system and upgrade paying the difference.

edit: personally i see from the seller point of view, they don't want to take your old stuff(and i'm talking last generation old which isn't really old), but competitively such as alien ware for example, if one company doesn't offer something another can capitalize on the appeal to advanced exchange, in the end if you look at it, it's all about where the consumers money is going to, and personally me and i'm sure many others would love a advanced exchange option, provided you buy the warranty to support the feature off course.

 

I never read anything like that from any of the resellers/builders.. I know a lot of them. Mythlogic has it where they'll upgrade your pc for their cost of the component +5%.. I think a few other placed offer this as well.

They call it their Phoenix Upgrade Plan.. Here's a quote from their website:

"In short, at any time (any frequency), we will upgrade your MYTHLOGIC computers components for minimal cost to you. You will be responsible for all shipping and handling charges (to and from MYTHLOGIC), plus our component cost plus 5% (limited to MYTHLOGIC approved hardware). All labor and testing is on us as part of owning a MYTHLOGIC computer."

 

I'm sure it pertains to the systems that are upgradeable. Speak to the resellers. They'll fill you in on the specifics.

 

best buy will buy your stuff back for 50% if you upgrade within a year I think lol...

 

i highly doubt best buy will buy sager laptops or am i wrong? and you have to buy from best buy, sager isn't publicized like that

 

We offer an exchange plan where you can bring back your laptop and will credit the difference for the purchase of a new one. But it is on a laptop per laptop basis, i.e. if the laptop is in good condition, warranty status, etc.

 

I think most Sager Reseller will provide upgrades at competitive or discounted pricing. We cover all labor and only charge for parts that are being upgraded. Finding a seller that will give you what you paid for the machine a year or more later is going to be very hard to find, if not impossible.

If a dealer is willing to offer a trade in allowance usually the price you maybe given for your laptop as a trade in will be much less then if you just sell it on eBay or here on NBR. If a reseller wants to provide you a trade in allowance they obviously want to make a little on the on the old machine. There is no way of avoiding something "newer" and "better" coming out, that is technology.

 

off course new things always come out, i build extremely high end desktops i'm definitely aware, but in this case desktops are more open ended as opposed to laptops, and in order for me purchase i have to get in touch with resellers. Now i upgrade every year to the next gen stuff and when a chipset comes out in desktop computers all i do is say replace motherboard and cpu, keeping whatever else i have, in the case of laptops it seems you have to start from scratch. if you think about it from a consumer point of view who likes to keep up, they always have to start from scratch if they want a new high end laptop. you could say exquisite taste is expensive sure.

There is also an alternative if a company did offer a step up to say next gen for the high end segment, that potentially steals business from other company's, why pay for brand new laptop when you can pay the difference and pay even less, thus generating even lower price margin buyers to purchase laptops as well(off course you'd have to buy a high end at full price for the first time) and if 1 company is guaranteed to get a consumers business due to the fact it would cost them less then buying somewhere else... just a perspective on the matter, it's sales in the end i get it, i sell things to.

edit: the situation when something new comes out the foreseeable sandy bridge with sli, in most cases you can't just swap out the motherboard, you have to get new casing and with that comes new lcd, it's just not open ended enough to buy parts separately and connect it all, that's the big gripe, you also want to be future prepared as a consumer who doesn't, just wondering who did and who didn't

the problem with reselling a high end laptop is that it appeals to very few and i'm sure most sellers on this forum will tell you there top of the line laptops, people aren't gunning for them but yet people will spend around 1k for something second or 3rd rated, imagine if they had a step up program to deal with, i'd picture money going to the company as opposed to others.

 

^^ Such practice isn't new, many companies have outlets for selling refurbished systems. But as an enthusiast and reseller I can hardly see any margin here that would make sense. If you (like me) have a constant thirst for the bleeding edge, - you need to upgrade every 6 months. Like Justin said, It's much more profitable for you to sell your current config of eBay or locally, normally recovering up to 60-70% of the initial purchase price, then grab a new system which would be about 5-10% cheaper (that's the tendency) than your old machine. Thus, you're losing ~20% each time but two major things are ensured:

1) You're not bound to a single company. Imagine that Alienware or some other company has a new offering, some serious leap ahead of the competition or simply some other Clevo/Sager reseller has extra customization options or lower prices, making their systems more attractive!
Wouldn't you go for the top at the moment? I surely would

2) The Bleeding edge thirst is quenched! - since you can always get the latest and greatest

 

I'm suprised others didn't mention it, but sager and its resellers DID at one time offer something like this.

I can remember the old Sager np56xx line...if memory serves me, they would upgrade the motherboard (and gpu) for something like $500. You'd send your whole laptop back and they'd do a motherboard-ectomy.

They key was these laptops maintained a chasis for sometime and the motherboard replacement was a simple drop in.

The problem is that as the design cycle and sped up, this years motherboard no longer fits in the same chasis--or the thermal solution of the older model is not appropriate for the newer model.

I don't know how many people took advantage of this--I remember the 5670 could be update to the 5690. I suspect not too many.