MacBook Pro on Craigslist - Receipt from Apple Store provided - What else is there?

[SDColorado]

It's time for you to set the tone and be the first

Even if I did buy one for my brother . I would rather my brother call me and tell me he doesn't need a laptop or would rather have a Dell or something. It would be better and cheaper for me, to get him what he really wanted or needed, even if what he really needed was $2100 cash. I would hope he would return it to my card, thank me for the generous gift, but let me know he really needs cash for X reason and could I help him out with that instead.

Why stick your dear brother with a $3000+ credit card bill with interest so that you can make $2100? If the sellers story is legit. Doesn't sound very brotherly to me

 

[acorntoy]

Even if I did buy one for my brother . I would rather my brother call me and tell me he doesn't need a laptop or would rather have a Dell or something. It would be better and cheaper for me, to get him what he really wanted or needed, even if what he really needed was $2100 cash. I would hope he would return it to my card, thank me for the generous gift, but let me know he really needs cash for X reason and could I help him out with that instead.

Why stick your dear brother with a $3000+ credit card bill with interest so that you can make $2100? If the sellers story is legit. Doesn't sound very brotherly to me

Exactly, thats why it sounds so fishy to me, coupled with the fact it was bought online, and this dude doesn't want to give his info to the buyer (maybe so he can't report him later?).

 

[SDColorado]

Exactly, thats why it sounds so fishy to me, coupled with the fact it was bought online, and this dude doesn't want to give his info to the buyer (maybe so he can't report him later?).

Especially for what really amounts to a "luxury" item. I mean if his brother needed a computer for a job or school that's one thing, but he obviously doesn't need one or wouldn't be selling it right? So why did his brother buy him one in the first place? His brother needed to randomly gift him a MBP as a tax loophole? Yeah, don't think so

Just strikes me as odd, that if his brother was willing to buy him a laptop he didn't need, why he wouldn't be willing to get him what he does need in exchange for the laptop being returned to his card.

 

[jerryk]

Want to adopt me? My family gets along great, but none of us have purchased a prop for any of the others. I need to be adopted into that lifestyle!

I have given my kids cars, computers, phones, private college educations, etc. Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is a lot of macs I could have bought. But, it is part of parenting deal.

 

[James.K.Polk]

Exactly, thats why it sounds so fishy to me, coupled with the fact it was bought online, and this dude doesn't want to give his info to the buyer (maybe so he can't report him later?).

That was my thinking. Even if there was a laptop in there, everything works fine, I have no way of knowing he won't immediately report it as stolen or something and I have no way to find him again...

 

[jerryk]

That was my thinking. Even if there was a laptop in there, everything works fine, I have no way of knowing he won't immediately report it as stolen or something and I have no way to find him again...

Always follow your gut. Walk away.

 

[Mindinversion]

Though, if you met at an Apple store you could have THEM verify the serial number, etc. Wonder if he'd have shown up?

 

[Fancuku]

Though, if you met at an Apple store you could have THEM verify the serial number, etc. Wonder if he'd have shown up?

My guess is no.

 

[SDColorado]

I have given my kids cars, computers, phones, private college educations, etc. Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is a lot of macs I could have bought. But, it is part of parenting deal.

My parents have done that for me, and my siblings. Guess we all figure we got an equal start, so haven't done it for each other . I mean, if one of us were in real need of $2000, we would give it without question. But the sellers story seems just a tad "off."