Ebay vs Buying from a trusted seller here.

Not sure where this is going.
Other than we get many threads started from guys who seem to have buyers remorse.
A cheap Ebay deal is not as cheap as the buyer expects.
What are the hidden costs of your first Toughbook?
What are the hidden PITA's of a Toughbook.
Why is an i5 in a Toughbook slower than an i5 in anything else?
Can drivers and the BIOS really be as difficult as the long timers here say? Or are the long timers just old farts who don't know anything?

 

Shawn I think we could talk about this until we are blue in the face. People will look at eBays cheap price and nothing else. Forget that they have to buy memory, caddy, HDD and new skins on the sides and bottom. This can add up to $300.00 easy + the cost of the Toughbook. Sure it's cheaper

 

Had the talk with a guy today,he wants a CF-52E that I have but the screen is burned. Cost of LCD,caddy,drive and restore really suprised him. I told him what it costs me to do it. He chickened out.

 

A few months ago I sold a 30MK2 4GB,120GB SSD for $350.00 Canadian dollars on Facebook. Well about 1 hour later some A-hole left a post saying he could buy the same thing for $150.00 on ebay. The link he posted later was a junk 30 with no memory, HDD or caddy. Boy did I shut him up. Some only look at the price...nothing else.

 

Told him I would sell that 52E to him for $75, cost with new LCD up and running was over $200 buying the parts himself. No labor included.

 

Can you see whats wrong with this picture? Ebay item no. 291614333562

 

www.ebay.com/itm/291614333562?ru=http:%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%26_sacat%3D0%26_nkw%3D291614333562%26_rdc%3D1

Windows coa maybe. On my cell phone so it's hard to see

 

WWAN and Bluetooth are missing.. WIFI antenna cables are wrong. Those look like the WWAN antenna cables.

BT'W...I have an extra Bluetooth module for a CF31.

 

aaannnddd ... the specs state 4 gigs of ram while the bios shows 2 gigs .
the coa shows as "7 pro" but the last two groups of the key are obliterated .
an "IBM" compatible power supply ?... show me a picture and the specs .

the price ??!! (all things considered)
yet another case of "pass the vaseline" .

 

I think they are new user here who that regeted people buy the first from cheap ebay seller. Like myself, most not really know toughbook will be "traped". for example, many people think that can be remove the cmos battery that can be reset bios, and maybe seller write it down has bios password locked, and sell for cheap price, "traped" people will think that , not problem i can remove the battery reset the password for nice cheap price, but finally he will know he can't. (even some seller even not write it down any problem or miss parts)

 

that is why we need cossult here, I can see that miss bluetooth, but never found the cables are wrong

 

Shawn hit the most. The antennas are at the wrong connection. Those antennas are for WWAN. It means that there is a conflict of frequency now. That s why as I told, every now and then to the buyer that they must be very careful on buying a toughbook on ebay. Some sellers are fooling the buyers with their ads from GPS option to CPU speed.

As before, we have a word of saying. "They just started to learn how to turn the screws of the toughbook and then suddenly, they call themselves "expert and professional"

ohlip