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Another 'Too Good to be True' E-Bay Item?
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Seller has good feedback. But there are still 10 hours to go and I could see that final price easily going up a lot. If its that low with say 15mins left you might have quite a deal but I doubt it will.
Too good to be true - Maybe
If the description didn't say "BRAND NEW", then I would say it was probably a real auction. I'd also be wery about the seller's feedback rating.
-Dan Uff
If the description didn't say "BRAND NEW", then I would say it was probably a real auction. I'd also be wery about the seller's feedback rating.
-Dan Uff
Yeah in hindsight brand new but no operating system seems to be contradictory. I would ask some more questions of the seller.
Wary about the feedback rating?
A quick look at his feedback shows that the items he sells are electronics such as PS3's, a few Macs and iPods.
Feedback seems fine to me.
If you look....
At the bottom of his list, (in the yellow area),, it says near the end: 10.4 as an OS
At the bottom of his list, (in the yellow area),, it says near the end: 10.4 as an OS
Notice it also says "New, Sealed in Box" which would lead me to believe it was re-shrinkwraped.
Didn't we have a poster complain about getting jumped by a CL buyer and it was regarding a MBP and he also posted in other thread how to re-shrink products? I think it was an iPhone?
New, Sealed in Box but no OS included? Sorry, new sealed in box DOES come with an OS, so this has to be re-shrunk which would tech be true and yet false description.
Yeah, I'd say there's all kinds of wrong in that auction.
First, he has a conflicting summary and item description - then he posts a picture of some other MBP and the "sealed" box....Who knows if the box pics are his/her own??? Or did (s)he take it out of the box, which would mean it's not sealed in box...
I'd stay away, and I expect all the bidding to happen in the last 10mins
First, he has a conflicting summary and item description - then he posts a picture of some other MBP and the "sealed" box....Who knows if the box pics are his/her own??? Or did (s)he take it out of the box, which would mean it's not sealed in box...
I'd stay away, and I expect all the bidding to happen in the last 10mins
The picture of MBP in use is actually printed on the box. The pictures included are 3 sides of the box.
He sold at least another at $1490 on Feb-12-08. If that's true then it's not bad, as the refurb price is currently $1,699.00.
But how come it's brand new, where did he get them for that price?
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need to get my eyes checked, I'll blame the PC monitor I have to look at all day 
Personally, I never buy second hand laptops without going round and checking them over first. There's bound to be someone selling local to you.
First if it's real the operating system is 10.4 not 10.5 so if it's new sealed in box you are buying old stock. This would also mean a max of 3gig or ram. So if what he means about no operating system is that no leopard upgrade disk included that's another $150 so this isn't that great of a deal for a last generation system.
I always start my auctions really low to gain interest in them and gets people to add to the watchlist and then go crazy at last minute. Just my way though, maybe the seller is doing the same thing?
