Selling my Baby (m15x)...

Well the time has come to move on. I am selling my m15x on fleabay right now and the auction ends in 25 hours or so. She is a fairly standard install, 2.4ghz with a Solid State Hard Drive, 8800 GTX & 2GB RAM (+1GB turbo cache memory).

I don't want to post a link to ebay here... so if you go there and search for "Alienware M15x" .. mine is the prettiest one.

 

Bummer. But you do know that the warranty does not transfer, right?

 

oh.. that's bad news. GOod luck. m15x's are really hard to sell on eaybay. ANd the warranty doesn't transfer. Make sure your buyer knows this.

 

like hell he's gonna mention that

 

Just wanted to make you aware and unfortunately, warranty is not transferable.

 

Did it end up selling?

 

lol, I'm with you on that one mate.

 

With all the problems associated with the m15x only someone really naive (and desperate for an Alienware) would pay that much-Considering that you can now buy the m15x standard with a 2Ghz dual Core and upgrade the GPU to a 512GB 9800M GT, (which includes a 1 year warranty) for $1600-better to drop the reserve to about $600.
$2500 is waaay overpriced.

 

Or about the other 99% of people not on the forums that haven't a clue to what they're getting themselves into warranty wise

 

trust me, i've met some really naive and desperate fellas on a german AW board...

 

Sad thing is I have just looked at all the m15x systems on sale on ebay (some even being auctioned off with the non-existant warranty) and two things are consistant-
1. Everyone is trying to sell the m15x for original purchase value ($2500-$3500)
2. The average bidding hits a threshold at around $1500

Buyers would be better off just buying a recertified system off Alienware's ebay site for around $1000, or buying the 15x new at alienware.com for the same price (and if you buy the m15x get no less than the 3 year warranty- chances are you're gonna need it.)

 

If I were the buyers I wouldn't even bother to buy a used overpriced AW laptop on EBay. And in the jungle of EBAY, you never know who you will meet

 

Removed the reserve pricing this time around!

Happy bidding.

 

Dang i would love to buy it if only the warranty was transferable

 

about the warranty: couldn't you just do all warranty jobs through the original buyer? and just have him "change his adress" to wherever you're living?

 

I considered this, but it becomes complicated because they would have to ship you the notebook, u would have to call it in and describe it, then after u get it fixed ship it to the buyer yourself... doesn't seem worth the time...

I was considering putting mine up for 1500 starting bid no reserve with an 8800gtx, 250 gb 7200 rpm hd, 4 gb memory... thing it would at least get one bid?

 

i think it would. might as well try, no?

 

If that was the case... if I moved to a new house, you are saying they would only ship to my old house.

Any buyer of this laptop can feel free to take over my identity through Alienware. From my understanding the only thing you can't change is the name on the account, but there shouldn't be any problem in modifying the address.

 

True to that, if I could pass it off as moving to a new house it would most likely work, the only thing is that you need to make sure is that they can't order with the credit card you had on file or something over the phone...

 

OR.....

Alienware could pull their head out of their penny pinching void and get with the times.

The inability to resell your unit w/ a warranty is a major turn off to more customers than they realize. They are doing themselves more harm than good.

But then again, their service and support is so poor overall, I can see why they do it.

 

WHOOT!!!! ...BUT they never will...

 

Luckily I haven't had to deal with their support department as this thing has run flawlessly. But now that I want to login to "MyHive" the password retrieval system doesn't send out!