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A7thson wrote:
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> BillW50 wrote:
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>> "A7thson" <A7thson2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:d5ad99$oa6$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu...
>> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 07:56:25 -0400
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>> Doesn't really matter now since the auction closed but you can
>> buy them new from dell for $40-300 more than what it sold for,
>> depending on accessories. and for the warranties support etc
>> i'd go that route personally.
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> Note the word 'personally' here just like you used below. They didn't
> ask whether I preferred new laptops to used laptops, or warranty work to
> fixing them myself, they asked if it was a good deal for the money.
> Again, personally, if it comes to buying the same machine for about the
> same price from Ebay or from Dell(with a warranty), I'm going to choose
> Dell. And then if I don't want to use the warranty it's another story.
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>> Not a route for me. As you purchase a new laptop with a warrantee
>> and you lose 10 to 20% walking out of the door with it.
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> Do you often buy new products to turn around and sell them right away?
> And how many computers do you now own that are worth what you paid for
> them? I don't think computers are something that you can look at as an
> investment.
Selling right away is not the issue. You have to plan ahead.
MY target price for a used laptop is 10% of what I think I could get for
it today. That way, you have some time to use it. Of course, you have
to be willing to hang 5 years behind the state of the art.
mike
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> And I also
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>> have heard many horror stories on the warrantee work anyway. One guy
>> purchased a new laptop for school and it failed right away and he
>> never got it back until school was over! That is so sad!
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> And I've never heard a single horror story about Ebay, (note sarcasm)
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>> What I rather do personally is to purchase refurbished or used for a
>> great price.
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> Good thinking But my comparison was a new computer from the manufacturer
> vs a supposedly new computer on Ebay for about the same price
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> That way the value don't drop right away. And then look
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>> on eBay for spare parts.
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> And you can rest assured that all those spare parts you get from ebay
> will make it to your door in working condition
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> That way if it does fail, you can get it up
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>> and running again in no time. For example, if my Toshiba 2595XDVD
>> ever fails, I can swap out the hard drives with my spare in just 30
>> seconds! No service center can beat that ever!
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> If you know how to work on comuters and happen to have a spare drive
> sitting around fully formatted with all software installed. How about if
> it has a bad motherboard? Have you priced notebook motherboards lately?
> And whatever you swap out you have to add into the cost of the machine.
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>> Cheers!
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>> ________________________________________________________
>> Bill (using a HP Pavilion AMD 1.2GHZ under Windows 2000)
>> -- written and edited within WordStar 5.0
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>> axe wrote:
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http/cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6765612739
>>> Is it good for the money?
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