Top refurbished laptops and tablets compared

About Top refurbished laptops and tablets compared

Refurbished laptops and tablets cover everything from a basic classroom machine to a graded business laptop, and this ranking sets 19 sellers side by side. The trade-off is entry price against cover: a low starting price says little about what happens when a battery wears out, and a long warranty usually costs more up front. Every price here is a purchase price rather than a subscription, so the figure worth reading is the one at entry. Across this group entry prices span €56.86 to €762.08, and the median for the category is €133.46. Return windows span 7 to 30 days and warranties span 1 to 30 months, so a seller can sit at one end of that price spread and the other on cover. A few details settle most of the order. Sellers whose device lists lean on phones, and sellers who publish a single condition grade, leave you less choice than those with a full grade ladder. A seller that serves a single market also rules itself out for buyers further out, which is why the market list beside each name is worth reading before the price.

How we picked

Score weights do the sorting. Cost carries 40%, offer carries 40%, and trust carries 20%, so entry price and what a listing actually includes drive most of the order, while warranty, returns and reach break the close cases. Cost measures the cheapest listed unit against the group. Offer weighs the mix of device types, the condition grades published, the battery floor and the warranty length. Trust weighs returns, support channels and the markets served. Sources are the sellers' own policy pages, shop collections and help centre content, joined by the aggregated figures behind this ranking. A figure shown beside a seller always comes from that seller's own page, and group-wide numbers appear as medians, minima, maxima or spans so they are never read as a single seller's price. Where a seller's own figure sits outside the group range, the seller's figure is what appears beside its name. Partner listings sit at the top of the order, then the rest follow by score. A label marks a seller only where it is computed on a single field, such as starting price or warranty length, and every seller gets a blurb whether it carries a label or not.

Our top picks

1. 1. Coolblue Belgium

   Coolblue Belgium pairs a 24 months warranty with entry prices of €139 and a catalogue running from laptops and gaming laptops to Chromebooks, tablets, desktops and e-readers across Windows, macOS and ChromeOS. Battery health starts at 85%, above the 80% floor set by Back Market, which ships far wider but caps cover at 12 months. Returns run 30 days, support covers email, phone and help centre and trade in is offered. The limits are geographic and grading, not paper: delivery covers BE, NL and DE and grades are limited to like new, very good and good.

   • Free delivery threshold: €0
   • Return window: 30 days
   • Extended warranty: Yes

   Pros

   • You have 30 days to send an order back, which takes the risk out of a big purchase.
   • Every product carries 2 years of cover, and an extended warranty is available on top of it.
   • Delivery is free on every order, with the threshold at €0, and click and collect is offered for small items.
   • Refurbished is part of computers, phones and audio here, which the JBL range does not cover: its categories run audio, gaming and refurbished.

   Cons

   • Support runs on email, phone and help centre only, so there is no live chat in the list.
   • The noise cancelling earbuds listed run 8 hours on a charge, well under the 40 median across the products compared here.
   • A 30 days return window places Coolblue Belgium at 3 of 80 brands compared, so it is not the longest window in the field.

2. 2. Newegg

   Newegg is in this ranking as the broad catalogue option. Its product types cover laptop, gaming laptop, desktop, gaming PC and tablet, the operating system list spans Windows, macOS and ipados, and the grade ladder runs excellent, very good and good with a battery floor of 80%. Return windows are the most generous in the order at 30 to 90 days, and support runs on help centre, phone and chat. refurbed, ranked next, starts at £143.46 where Newegg starts at $1,099.99, and refurbed carries a 12 month warranty against the 3 month cover here. Newegg's limits are price and cover length: the entry point sits well above the €133.46 median for this category, and that warranty is at the short end of what sellers in this ranking offer.

   • Return window: 30 to 90 days
   • Price match: Yes
   • Extended warranty: Yes

   Pros

   • Return windows run 30 to 90 days, long enough to set a machine up properly before deciding to keep it.
   • Categories cover computers, phones and audio, so computers, phones, audio, gaming and refurbished kit come from one account.
   • Price match is offered, so a cheaper listing elsewhere gives you a number to hold the seller to.
   • Trade in is available, so an older phone or laptop can offset part of a new order.
   • Support covers help centre, phone and chat, so help is not limited to reading policy pages.

   Cons

   • Refurbished phones are graded excellent, very good and good, so a lower price can mean fair rather than excellent condition.
   • The refurb warranty runs 3 months, shorter than the usual 12 months for the sites in this group.
   • Support runs on help centre, phone and chat only, with email absent from the listed channels.

3. R6. Recommerce: best for Recommerce

   Recommerce is a French refurbished electronics specialist selling reconditioned iPhone, Samsung, MacBook and iPad devices.

   • Markets: DE, FR, NL

4. PC7. Pocitace24.cz: best for Pocitace24.cz

   Pocitace24.cz sells refurbished computers and laptops with warranty and post-warranty service.

   • Markets: CZ

5. PP8. PC-Portable.net: best for PC-Portable.net

   PC-Portable.net sells used laptops refurbished in its workshop, with a two-year warranty and free delivery via Mondial Relay.

   • Markets: FR

6. HE9. Hasznaltlaptop.eu: best for Hasznaltlaptop.eu

   Hasznaltlaptop.eu is a Hungarian seller of used and refurbished laptops with Windows 11 installed, a 2 year warranty and a 28 day exchange guarantee.

   • Warranty: 24 months
   • Return window: 28 days
   • Markets: HU

7. MC10. Maas Computers: best for Maas Computers

   Dutch online shop for refurbished workstations, notebooks and peripherals, with quality guaranteed and savings on used systems.

   • Markets: NL

What to look for

What the starting price covers

Prices here are entry points, the cheapest unit each seller lists, and they span €56.86 to €762.08 across this group. The median is €133.46, with the lowest entry at €84.19 and the highest at €1,226. A low floor tells you the entry point, not the price of a typical machine.

Whether laptops and tablets are the main stock

Laptops make up 52.6% of the product mix in this ranking and tablets 52.6%, with desktops at 47.4% and gaming laptops at 31.6%. Sellers leaning on phone stock give you a narrower laptop shelf than the mix suggests.

How long the cover runs

The median warranty in this category is 12 months, and the spread runs from 1 to 30. A seller sitting above that median is buying cover the cheaper entries do not offer, which matters most for laptops.

Condition grades and the battery floor

Like-new and excellent grades each appear in 75% of this ranking, and good in 87.5%. Fewer grades means a narrower choice of price, and the battery floor a seller publishes tells you what a replaced cell is worth on a laptop that lives on mains power.

How you can reach support

A help centre appears in 100% of this ranking, phone support in 68.4% and email in 73.7%. Live chat is the least common at 42.1%, so a seller without it should be easy to reach another way.

Which operating systems are listed

Windows appears in 42.1% of this ranking and Android in 78.9%, with macOS at 31.6% and iPadOS at 31.6%. Match the list to the machine you actually want before comparing prices.

Frequently asked questions

Top refurbished laptops and tablets compared by country

• Australia
• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Spain
• United Kingdom
• United States

The data behind this ranking

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