Trade In

Now you can safely and securely ensure the destruction of data on your existing equipment, while trading it in to save money on new equipment purchases. That means your efficient and secure disposition of old outdated technology can help your department fund the acquisition of new mobile computing solutions designed to meet your specific needs. The Rugged Store has a great, easy to use, equipment trade-in program specifically designed to make life easier for public sector departments like yours.

The Rugged Store's program means your department can follow the proper disposition, removal and recycling or remarketing of IT equipment assets, while ensuring compliance with local and national data security and environmental regulations.

We provide current fair market value for your old IT equipment that you can apply to purchases of new mobile rugged computing and services solutions from The Rugged Store that are designed specifically to meet your department’s current needs!

The Rugged Store's secure disposition and reduced costs mean you’ll get more bang for your buck when allocating scarce budget resources!

• Departments that must meet data security or Asset Management requirements for the decommissioning and disposition of excess or outdated IT assets.
• Departments unable or precluded from accepting direct rebates on new equipment purchases.

• Nationwide assistance with the proper disposition, removal and recycling or remarketing of assets, while ensuring compliance to local and national data security and environmental regulations.
• Logistics and de-installation – we can manage the process on your behalf, even down to complete site clearance including data centre decommissioning!
• Safe, secure, and complete destruction of all data on storage media included with your trade-in equipment.
• Reduced processing costs associated with asset decommissioning, disposition, and disposal.
• Direct credit towards the purchase of new or refurbished mobile computing solutions and services from The Rugged Store.
• Augmented funding resources for additional mobile computing solutions or service purchases.
• Complimentary inventory service of all trade-in equipment, with only nominal processing fees for non-working equipment.

The Rugged Store will perform a detailed audit and inventory of your equipment to identify all program eligible non-damaged working equipment. We’ll further grade and classify these working products and assign a value.

Non-working or non-salable inventory will be assessed for possible value as parts, salvage, or reuse and we may, at our discretion, renegotiate the value or return any non-working equipment at the customer’s expense.

At the end of the inventory and auditing process you’ll receive a detailed accounting and value for all of your trade-in equipment. You’ll know exactly how much you can save on your acquisition of new mobile rugged computing and services solutions designed to meet your department’s specific needs!

Grade “A”: Product is used, 100% functional and has passed The Rugged Store diagnostic testing. Complete with all original components and accessories. Cosmetically in good condition with normal wear and tear based on age and use of product, may have minor case scratches. No LCD Blemishes.

Grade “B”: Product is used, 100% functional and has passed The Rugged Store diagnostic testing. Cosmetically in fair condition, more wear and tear than usual. May have missing accessories, item specific. No LCD Blemishes. Case Cosmetics may include but are not limited to: Top cover, Bottom Pan, LCD Bezel, KB Bezel, Side and Back: Deep Scratches, Long and/or Many Scratches, Chips and Gouges (not all the way through the plastics), Scuffed or Worn.

Grade “C”: Product is used, 100% functional and has passed The Rugged Store diagnostic testing. Cosmetically in average condition has more wear and tear than usual. May have missing accessories, item specific. Case Cosmetics may include but are not limited to: Top cover, Bottom Pan, LCD Bezel, KB Bezel, Side and Back: Cracks, Chips and Gouges (completely through the plastics). LCD blemishes may include but are not limited to: Screen Burn, Inclusions (unidentifiable marks inside or on the LCD), Water Marks (Ghosting and Graying), Dark Spots, Light Spots, Unusual or Significant Illumination issue (Bright Light From any Edge of LCD), Dark or Significantly Dim, Pixel Issues (Ranging from single pixel to multiple pixel, no lines)

Grade “D”: Products with known functional problems should have all components. Most components are defective, laptops will be shipped with one of the following: Floppy Drive or CD/DVD/CDRW. We may or may not identify all of the defects through our diagnoses.