One of my best recently is I bought an Apple Watch Ultra 1 refurbished off eBay in Feb. for $335 which was a steal on its own.Yeah, I bought a 2017 13" MacBook Air in 2021 off Kijiji, and it was pristine. I could tell by the serial number that it was an Apple refurb, but I didn't care about that since as well all know, Apple refurbs are excellent.
I also bought a 2015 13" MacBook Pro off eBay in 2021 and it was essentially perfect. I opened it up to install a bigger SSD, and it looked brand new inside with zero dust, as did the keyboard and screen. The battery only had 30 cycles too. I think for that one it probably had the battery replaced, which involves replacing the battery, keyboard, and top case, which would explain why all of that looked brand new and the very low battery cycles.
And I bought an M1 Mac mini 16 GB 1 TB off ebay in 2022, and despite having a manufacture date of 2 years prior, it only had 1 week of power on time according to the SSD info, and it also looked brand new. And it still does... Anyone want to buy an M1 Mac mini, since I've upgraded to the M4?![]()
But I was REALLY shocked when I checked and it had TEN YEARS of AppleCare left. I was dumbfounded as to how it could possibly have 10 years since you can only buy 3 years of AppleCare but apparently corporate clients can purchase longer AppleCare warranties. So some company bought it for an employee and I dont know, they got fired? And then sold to someone who sold it refurbished on Amazon and it ended up with me, and I have Applecare for far longer than I will probably ever own the watch.
But when i sell it in 3 years you can bet I will put "has 7 years of AppleCare left!" on the listing.
I feel bad though that we have hijacked DeepSix thread about him getting hosed trying to resell by telling stories of great deals we have gotten buying used.