Apple MBP 2.53 for $1600...too good?

I found this ad for $1600 Canadian.

I have sent countless emails and all emails the english is proper.

I have his address, I have called him, talked to him, sounds like a good guy.

The problem is he is 6 hours away so i can't drive there. He said paypal. 50% of the money now, then he ships, then I pay the rest when I get it.

I'm currently trying to push COD so I don' have to pay until I receive it...

Waiting for his reply.

It sounds too good to be true, but there have been no signs of a typical scam...

 

I'd figure out a way to drive the 6 hours and pick it up.

 

Take the Amtrak or Greyhound if you don't want to worry about driving 6 hours. lol

 

I dono, greyhounds in Canada are kinda risky these days

Yeah I wouldn't send any money. And depending on the Post office they won't let you open it until you pay for COD.

 

besides the price....??? ultra cheap for something currently being sold... is usually a scam in one way or another.

 

Probably the old non-unibody types. That's what they're going for (around there)

 

If you want to know if it is a scam or not email him from a different email address, claim you live in the city he claims he lives in, and tell him you want to buy it with cash.

 

smelling scam ...

cheers ...

 

Greyhound isn't bad at all......certainly nothing to lose your head over.

(Sorry, I had to)

 

when it smells like scam, looks like scam, sounds like scam, it usually is scam just becareful.
Yeah, the non-unibody is about 1600CAD for 2.53 mbp.

 

well.. so it's more likely that it's a non-unibody than that it's a scam.

I like the tip above - pretent to be a different buyer living not far from where he claims he lives, and see if he then still lives there or suddenly lives somewhere else far away.

I don't have personal experience with this but isn't PayPal pretty safe for the buyer, e.g. you can get your money back within 30 days if goods were not delivered. Just wondering...

 

I've had problems with PayPal when I purchased an item that wasn't exactly as described. I requested a discount from the seller and filed a complaint with PayPal but their solution was to send the item back for an entire refund.

PayPal isn't there to protect the buyer at all.......they just do a good job of fooling you into believing it.

 

From personal experience, paypal has always been far more on buyers side.

Any updates?

 

I second that. You must always remember that PayPal is a business dealing with both buyers AND sellers. They have to keep BOTH satisfied. It is the buyers responsibility to do the research before they buy. In this case make sure the MBP is the unibody ... I must tell you though, for this kind of $$ I would figure out a way to drive out there and pick it up personally.

 

I decided not to buy it. If i did buy it I would have re sold it to make profit. But it's not worth the risk and the effort.

If he was local, sure, I'd have gotten it. But I just don't want to deal with PP and shipping and that.

 

Please forgive me everybody, I am looking for a long lost friend in Thailand and I saw you are into computers in Pai. This is where I last saw my friend. His name is Olaf. Is it you, Orthorim?

 

make some more posts and pm him private dude ^_^