I have purchased a few Dell pdas now and I am disturbed. I'm writing this because I've noticed these units are being bought, refurbished and sellers turning around and selling them as like new. Or even sold "as New". One I watched owned it two weeks and resold it for 40.00 more. To my mind this is very misleading and dishonest, "New" means new, like strait from a retailer. "Like new" means the same thing but it has been purchased and opened but used very little.

And as these rebuilt units circulate the refurbished part gets lost. And everyone suffers. Refurbishing can mean a lot of things, Alot of refurbs are returns from customers that may have had an occasional glitch, These will end up sold without anything being done to them. And will still have occasional glitches. But all of them will have as little as possible done to resale them. 

I laugh when these desktop computer refurbishers say "These units have been completly rebuilt". They clean them, and fix whats broke at the time they test them. Then sell them. These off lease computers still has alot of hours on them and chances are good something else will fail before long. Manufactuer refurbs are more secure.But as most people know a lot of things with computers show up at sporadic times and are unpredictable.

I personally have not been burnt yet and I hope this will help some people choose a little more carefully when they buy one. I try to allways buy from a private seller that has all assesories and software and a story. Plus good feedback. This is about as careful as you can get. Thanks and good shopping....