AlienExchange: Out-of-This-WorldRecycling

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Are you eager to buy a powerful gaming laptop, but lack the funds? Well now you can trade old electronic gadgets and earn cash towards the purchase of a high end Alienware machine. I wonder how much I can get off an Area-51 m9750 for my game and watch Donkey Kong circa 1983?

Alien Exhange ProgramFolks fromAlienware must really be from the Andromeda galaxy, or somewhereelse far, far away. Their new AlienExchange program seems toogood to be of this Earth. The concept is simple enough: it'sbasically a recycling program. You send in the out-dated,burnt-out and otherwise worthless computer and electronic devicescollecting dust in your house. Alienware then somehow magicallyturns them into a brand-new Alienwarelaptop, complete with some of the fastest, meanest gaminghardware from here to the Oort cloud.


They musthave some sort of ultra-advanced transmogrifying machine, capableof melting, mashing and rematerializing electronic matter, right?If so, Alienware's AlienExchange could be the final proof we needof out-of-this-world life.

Wait, hold on a second. I got past my Area 51Amazement and read their Web site a bit closer, and I am sorry toreport that, no, AlienExchange is not proof of life beyond theconfines of Earth. Instead, really, it's just an earthlyrecycling program.

Alienware does not actually remold the pieces you send them intoa spanky fresh new laptop. You let Alienware know what sort ofold Alienware desktops and notebooks, cameras, other brandlaptops, servers, projectors, audio receivers, mobile phones, andauto radios, among other items you want to send in. They willestimate what their trade-in value is. (At the moment, they'rerunning a special-Alienware trade-ins get an additional $200added on top of the regular amount). Alienware will give you aprepaid shipping label to send the stuff in.

Then about a week after they receive the items, they will sendout an Alienware gift card or check, which you then can recycleinto a new gaming supercenter notebook.

So as you can see, Alienware is in fact very earthly-earthy andgreen in fact. But at least their AlienExchange could be one ofthe best trade-in programs on theplanet.

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