Toughbooks on ebay

Why is it a famous thing to sell TB without the caddies or batteries, i have noticed it for a while and have no idea why it is

 

Money, sellers make more money by parting out necessary and expensive components.

 

There is that, but there is also the fact that a lot of the laptops sold on eBay are acquired from Corporate or Govt offices in bulk lots; when they decommission a lot of laptops, it is common practice to remove the HDD for security. Added to that, if they're not scrapping ALL of a particular family of laptop, their IT Dept may keep accessories such as AC adapters, batteries and external drives/docks, etc to support those they're keeping deployed.

For the HDD caddies it is pretty time-consuming to tear them apart to get the HDD; it is not unusual for them to send HDD, caddy and all to the scrap shredder or their secure disposal company. Either way, they're taken out of circulation and folks like us are left trying to find caddies & connectors to return otherwise functional laptops to service.

People who wholesale are interested in turnover; they'd rather sell it as-is than be bothered hunting that crap up. If they did, they'd expect to get resale prices, not wholesale or as-is prices. You can buy a brand-new current model laptop anytime now for $300-400. This drives down the prices on ALL used laptops, even specialty-market ones like these which ARE subjectively worth more.

mnem
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It's not just Toughbooks, I see a lot of Dells and HP's that way to

 

Why would you search for Dell's and Hp's?

 

Damn you caught me ....Realy I just happen to be checking out a few ebay sellers like buybest13 ,14 , 15 and noticed they sell a crap load of Dells too

 

Nice save..

 

That makes total sense, i knew the government would remove the hard drives and i totally forgot how time consuming it is to get access to the TB caddies so its easier to toss it

It also makes sense that parting out things is more profitable sometimes, especially with cars

I usually never search anything other than TB however i have a Dell Latitude E6400 which is actually pretty cool as far as batteries go

They have the regular battery, the 8 cell and 12 cell and the cool thing the docked battery which covers the entire bottom
It looks really cool
genuine 9cell battery GN752 for Dell Latitude E6400 E6500 SERIES laptop AKKU | eBay

Combine that with the 12 cell and your straight for about 24 hrs lol, not only that but it provides extra protection for the bottom too

So as far as accessories go i think Dell wins, but TB is just too cool to pass up

 

Where can you get current models for that price? I got my CF 30 for about $700 maybe 2 yrs ago and it took me a while to find it

 

I think Mnem was referring to new laptops of cheaper makes driving down prices of all used ones, not just those from the cheaper end of the market.