Factory Seconds Framework Laptop 13 11th Gen Intel Restock Time

[Fraoch]

Unfortunately, looking back at the history of the introduction of the factory seconds:

Announcing Framework Outlet

[Screenshot 2023-11-20 1.30.59 PM] We’ve shared our philosophy around price promotions before, but to summarize it, we believe in keeping pricing consistent and predictable. Instead of running time-based promotions like Black Friday sales to entice you to buy a product when you may or may not need it, we keep pricing stable so that when you do need a product, it’s at the lowest price to date. At the same time, we’re always looking for ways to make our product pricing more accessible. When we i…

This was a one-off.

@SquidWorks

We shared earlier that when closing out the factory in China that we originally used for subassembly manufacturing, we learned that there was a substantial amount of finished and partially finished material left. We listed the 11th Gen Mainboards that came from this on the Marketplace earlier this year. The excess material also included enclosure parts and our original glossy displays. Rather than list all of these parts individually for sale, we decided to manufacture them into a limited number of full new 11th Gen Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition systems with US English keyboards.

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It looks like only the higest end units are left.

There may not be any more factory seconds, but refurbished units come up from time to time.