That is far from the quality of an Apple refurbished item. To many refurbished means a bad machine was sent back and some third party company has tried to fix it cheaply and put it back on the market. NOT gonna happen.Īnother fine avenue for buying good Apple machines at lower prices is buying the refurbished items sold by Apple themselves. I'm continually amazed by people who write private messages offering to pay cash if I will close the auction and sell directly to them. I won't sell to anyone that doesn't have a 95% or higher rating and at least 20 sales/buys and a confirmed PayPal address. I paid about $1750 for itand it was just six months old.
I sold my last BlackBook (2.16Ghz, 3G RAM, 200G HD, SupeerDrive) for $1600. This is because, if the buyer does a little homework, they see the hardware being offered is slightly used but at a very good price. Look for small everyday sellers with good feedback ratings of at least 20 or more sales/buys.Įvery time I have put an item up it has sold within three days and usually grabbed with the BuyIt button. These are the "Power Sellers" - people who are generally professional sellers so they tend to sell at higher prices. A majority of eBay sellers have turned selling into a job/business. iMacs and BlackBooks got as much RAM as possible and biggest hard drives offered.
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In each case I have pimped the machines out to full maximum hardware. I consider that loss to be a similar rental fee that would have been paid to use the machines. I sold them because Apple came out with newer, faster models and I generally took a loss of anywhere from $100 to $200 in each sale. You can actually get a good buy on eBay because I have sold three iMacs and two BlackBooks on eBay and each was barely six months old.