tankman1989
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My dad bought a Latitude D820 for $600 from this shyster a few months ago when he and I were not on best of terms. He didn't want to bother me with asking about a laptop so he looked in the free local weekly "merchandiser" paper under the computer section. He found a guy selling laptops with XP. Since my dad thought he could no longer buy a laptop with XP on it, he went to this guys house and bought immediately site.
After a little while, my dad started having a lot of problems with the machine, it was REALLY slow (maybe because it has a 4 year old 80GB HD!). Man was I ****** when I heard how much he paid for this piece of crap.
Anyway, I found that the Office 2007 he had installed is the version (key) floating around on torrents and the XP license I think is the Volume license from Bank of America. From what I understand, the volume license ends when the computer leaves BoA and it should not be supported or sold outside of the company. Is that correct? If not, what is the story?
The computer has a 1.6Ghz processor, 1Gb ram, 15" 1280x1024 screen, crappy battery, 80 GB 5400rpm HD, DVD-Rom/CD-RW, Wifi b/g and a docking port (no station) with pirated Office 2007 and I think an illegitimate XP Pro license.
My dad says that this guy has sold over 1,600 of these laptops, at $600 each, in the last few months and my jaw almost hit the floor. How the heck can I compete with this?
I recently tried to sell (for $350) a NIB Toshiba L355-S7915 with:
Processor: 2.2GHz Intel Celeron 900
Memory: 3GB DDR2
Storage: 250GB hard drive
Optical Drive: DVD±RW
Screen: 17 inches (1,440x900 native resolution)
Graphics: Integrated Intel GMA 4500M
Weight: 6.9 pounds
Dimensions (HWD): 1.7x15.7x11.5 inches
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Basic
on Craigslist and did not get one person who thought it was a good deal! How the heck is that possible! This is 2-3x the computer that my dad bought for just over half the price! I feel as if I am in the Twilight Zone...
First, what would you do about this scum bag selling these machines and second, can anyone explain this CL phenomenon?
On another note, I bought a 160GB HD for his laptop and installed it and it is working faster than ever (but not as fast as the Toshiba would have been
) So total cost for this ancient laptop: $695!!
After a little while, my dad started having a lot of problems with the machine, it was REALLY slow (maybe because it has a 4 year old 80GB HD!). Man was I ****** when I heard how much he paid for this piece of crap.
Anyway, I found that the Office 2007 he had installed is the version (key) floating around on torrents and the XP license I think is the Volume license from Bank of America. From what I understand, the volume license ends when the computer leaves BoA and it should not be supported or sold outside of the company. Is that correct? If not, what is the story?
The computer has a 1.6Ghz processor, 1Gb ram, 15" 1280x1024 screen, crappy battery, 80 GB 5400rpm HD, DVD-Rom/CD-RW, Wifi b/g and a docking port (no station) with pirated Office 2007 and I think an illegitimate XP Pro license.
My dad says that this guy has sold over 1,600 of these laptops, at $600 each, in the last few months and my jaw almost hit the floor. How the heck can I compete with this?
I recently tried to sell (for $350) a NIB Toshiba L355-S7915 with:
Processor: 2.2GHz Intel Celeron 900
Memory: 3GB DDR2
Storage: 250GB hard drive
Optical Drive: DVD±RW
Screen: 17 inches (1,440x900 native resolution)
Graphics: Integrated Intel GMA 4500M
Weight: 6.9 pounds
Dimensions (HWD): 1.7x15.7x11.5 inches
Operating System: Windows Vista Home Basic
on Craigslist and did not get one person who thought it was a good deal! How the heck is that possible! This is 2-3x the computer that my dad bought for just over half the price! I feel as if I am in the Twilight Zone...
First, what would you do about this scum bag selling these machines and second, can anyone explain this CL phenomenon?
On another note, I bought a 160GB HD for his laptop and installed it and it is working faster than ever (but not as fast as the Toshiba would have been
) So total cost for this ancient laptop: $695!!
) a couple competitors doing this, we can't compete when I am playing by the rules and they aren't. a few years ago one guy had these Junk cars parked around the city for a while with big white letters "LAPTOPS $399" on them. I went and checked him out, then turned him into the city, B.e.a.r., microsoft piracy, adobe (photoshop for $75, yea.)state board of equalization, bbb and finally the IRS. when i would see one of his cars I would call the PD and report it under a city municipal code on advertising I found...
