My cousin is heading off to Georgia Tech and his parents asked me to search for an Apple Laptop for him, with a budget of around $800. As soon as the new ones were released, I searched religiously on a number of forums and Craigslist with the hopes of finding a good deal on the 2010 2.4 ghz C2D 13" models.
Most of the sellers wanted around $1000, respectively for them and I know that they are still worth that or close to it. Sunday night while browsing Craigslist, a seller listed their 2 week old 13" i5 up for sale...........for $850! I immediately contacted him and met up with him the following day. I was stoked! Sure enough, we met and I inspected it. It was a 13" i5 with 320GB HDD, thunderbolt port, all the goodies and only had 4 battery cycles. In addition, it had the 2 year accidental coverage warranty through Best Buy, and he also gave me an incase cover. This whole setup for him was over $1500 and his only reason for selling was to get the 15" model and that since he worked at Best Buy, the company doesn't allow him to return their products, so he threw it up for a quick sale.
Cousin doesn't know he's getting the core i5, because before I got the i5 for him, I told him I picked up a brand new 2.4 ghz 13" MBP for $850 and was going to send that to him. He thinks he's getting the 2010 C2D model, but my uncle offered to take the C2D model instead, as it was brand new and he wouldn't do anything with it, but browse and listen to music.
On another note, my dads client sold me his pristine top of the line stock configuration 13" MBA with applecare for $800 just last week. The GF took this cute little thing.
Talk about an excellent past 2 weeks!
Cliffs:
- Cousins parents asked me to search for MBP for him for around $800
- Found a 2 week old i5 for $850 with accidental coverage and incase cover
- Cousin thinks he's getting a brand new 2010 C2D model, that I paid $850 for but is getting the i5 instead
- Uncle takes the C2D model
- Dad's client sold me a top of the line stock config. 13" MBA w/ applecare for $800.
- The GF took that MBA
- Scored great deals on 3 Macbook's.....PROFIT
Most of the sellers wanted around $1000, respectively for them and I know that they are still worth that or close to it. Sunday night while browsing Craigslist, a seller listed their 2 week old 13" i5 up for sale...........for $850! I immediately contacted him and met up with him the following day. I was stoked! Sure enough, we met and I inspected it. It was a 13" i5 with 320GB HDD, thunderbolt port, all the goodies and only had 4 battery cycles. In addition, it had the 2 year accidental coverage warranty through Best Buy, and he also gave me an incase cover. This whole setup for him was over $1500 and his only reason for selling was to get the 15" model and that since he worked at Best Buy, the company doesn't allow him to return their products, so he threw it up for a quick sale.
Cousin doesn't know he's getting the core i5, because before I got the i5 for him, I told him I picked up a brand new 2.4 ghz 13" MBP for $850 and was going to send that to him. He thinks he's getting the 2010 C2D model, but my uncle offered to take the C2D model instead, as it was brand new and he wouldn't do anything with it, but browse and listen to music.
On another note, my dads client sold me his pristine top of the line stock configuration 13" MBA with applecare for $800 just last week. The GF took this cute little thing.
Talk about an excellent past 2 weeks!
Cliffs:
- Cousins parents asked me to search for MBP for him for around $800
- Found a 2 week old i5 for $850 with accidental coverage and incase cover
- Cousin thinks he's getting a brand new 2010 C2D model, that I paid $850 for but is getting the i5 instead
- Uncle takes the C2D model
- Dad's client sold me a top of the line stock config. 13" MBA w/ applecare for $800.
- The GF took that MBA
- Scored great deals on 3 Macbook's.....PROFIT
Me off to search my local Craigslist. 
