What matters is how comfortable you are with the dent, it is is it cosmetic ?
if yes, make sure you get a good price, check with craigslist or ebay.
As far as warranty is concerned you have dent, so what ? Apple will not care the dent, they only cover electronic parts of the device. You just have say 6 months or so warranty left. Even better if you can talk into the seller to apple store, to check the device, if not get a decent price, make sure it is returnable and check with apple store after purchase, for any defects, by the time maybe too late.
if you can get hold of the serial number look up apple support site, it will still shows the warranty till Nov or you can still buy apple care for it, for another year, if you are interested in Applecare.
Obviously you cannot tell apple to fix the dent for free. So what ?
This scenario is liken to buying a used car, if dent is there will not affect your mechanical warranty. It is up to you.
Since you are comfortable with the cosmetic part, do you intend to meet in person to get the ipad ? if yes, the dead pixel will show up right then and there.
To be able to be comfortable with the ipad you have purchased, the first thing is to make it to apple store and have them check the battery and overall condition, sure the dent will be there, so what ?
Here is what I experience with my macbook pro with non lethal dent, the seller
sold me with apple care, I could get the hard drive fixed and replaced, this is after I had it for a year, at the most the apple store recorded there is a dent.
No big deal.
I'm about 3 hours away from the nearest apple store, so that won't happen. My current iPad (3rd gen) I bought off of CL as well, so I know the drill when it comes to checking them out. The last one I bought was in near perfect condition and only had a single dead pixel I found later that day, which isn't a big deal at all.
Btw, he's standing tall at $300, so that would be my best price.
Why not buy a refurbished one off of Apple's site?
I would make your decision based on the assumption that you will NOT be covered under warranty AND that the probability of finding something else wrong with it at a later date is higher than normal due to this incident. I would also not assume that you will be able to find any and every possible fault when you meet the seller.
There are a number of different deals you could construct based on those caveats, but unless you have a reason to do the guy a favor...are there so few devices on the used market right now?
Regards,
Tom
the question is do you really need the ipad ? if not you can back out, what is the big deal ?
Well, that's that; I turned it down. Thanks, guys.
The right decision IMO. You'd have trouble reselling it yourself too.
It's all about the price. ;p. College students like myself get excited about deals, but I think I may pass on this one. I think the only price that would make it worth the risk for me would be at or under $250.
There will always be another one come along, hang on for another few months,
Apple would have to release new ipad, the ipad 4 price will drop even more and supply will be plenty, then you can choose the best among them.
Ipad will be released every year, if you think every ipad is worth grabbing, then in no time your house will be full of it.