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    What are the wholesale prices on TP T42 and T43?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vk60402, Oct 15, 2005.

  1. vk60402

    vk60402 Notebook Guru

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    vk60402, Oct 15, 2005
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    bhtooefr Notebook Consultant

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    SCAM!

    Note that he doesn't list his location.

    Besides, $800 for a laptop with those specs? Bullcrap.
     
    bhtooefr, Oct 15, 2005
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    nice call bhtooefr, it's been removed from ebay in the last hour anyway, obviously it was a scam and people jumped on the seller pretty quickly.
     
    Andrew Baxter, Oct 15, 2005
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    vk60402 Notebook Guru

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    It is weird. The guy had close to 100% positive feedback. How do you evaluate sellers on ebay? Obviously, positive feedback means very little...

    Thanks for your inputs.
     
    vk60402, Oct 15, 2005
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    I've heard that a good rule of thumb is to only buy from sellers with triple-digit feedback.

    He had 42, IIRC. That's low enough that he could have *BOUGHT* some things, gotten some high feedback, and used some shill accounts to drive it up further (buying things from himself).
     
    bhtooefr, Oct 15, 2005
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  6. ZaZ

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    Could have stolen an account as well.
     
    ZaZ, Oct 16, 2005
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