is this good laptop i have bought????

motorguy

'£235 cash' implies it was this price for a cash sale, but you're right it may have been an auction.

Strange that other machines of same spec have sold for a lot more at auction though.

Will wait for o/p to get back to us and find out the details then. Hope it all works out. I'd buy one all day long at that price.

foxyuk

pgilc1 wrote: »

'£235 cash' implies it was this price for a cash sale, but you're right it may have been an auction.

Strange that other machines of same spec have sold for a lot more at auction though.

Will wait for o/p to get back to us and find out the details then. Hope it all works out. I'd buy one all day long at that price.

was accepting paypal.... was no buy it now but had on it collection possible

motorguy

How did you get on? You were thinking you could pick it up last night?

foxyuk

pgilc1 wrote: »

How did you get on? You were thinking you could pick it up last night?

not collected yet ... its like drawing teeth with this guy... ask a question and it seems to go over his head./..

keep you posted

motorguy

I've just found the listing - i wont post it on here though.

Things that worry me about the seller are....

(a) hes only been on ebay since 28th Nov
(b) he has two feedback for selling items of high value. Both listings he started and ended early once they had one bid.
(c) the two people who left feedback have only three themselves.
(d) miraculously they have bought items off each other - whats the odds of that? Unless they were accounts merely being used to build feedback?
(e) they both have previously left glowing feedback for another seller (and allegedly bought the same items off that seller too), who has been NARU'd on ebay. This person was a newbie as well. This person also lived in the same city as your seller. This person received negatives one of which was 'Laptop did not exist. Sent me threatening, abusive and racist emails. Avoid'
(f) that seller thats now NARU'd left negs for everyone who left him a neg, so be aware if it comes to that.

That combined with what i put earlier about the actual spec of the laptop..

(a) the model is wrong - its a 1521 not a 1520, why wouldnt the owner know that?
(b) You cant buy a 1521 with a TL60, only up as far as a TL58
(c) You cant buy a 1521 spec'd with Vista Ultimate
(d) No one (in their right mind) would build a laptop running Ultimate on 1Gb.

I definitely wouldnt part any money until you actually have seen the item, and sorry, but i really dont think you will ever see it - i think its a very amateurish scammer who has yet to actually extort money successfully.

motorguy

Any word on the laptop?

map200uk

indeed interesting, as for amd cpus, amd cpus are fine imo at one point amd were infact leading the cpu race, b eating intel flat out for price vs performance

i still like amd, and have a turion based laptop myself

pgilc1, what does NARUd mean? cheers

map

poppy_f1

map200uk wrote: »

indeed interesting, as for amd cpus, amd cpus are fine imo at one point amd were infact leading the cpu race, b eating intel flat out for price vs performance

i still like amd, and have a turion based laptop myself

pgilc1, what does NARUd mean? cheers

map

not a registered user -could mean they have been booted off ebay for someting

vaio

pgilc1 wrote: »

I've just found the listing - I wont post it on here though.

Things that worry me about the seller are....

(a) he’s only been on eBay since 28th Nov
(b) he has two feedback for selling items of high value. Both listings he started and ended early once they had one bid.
(c) the two people who left feedback have only three themselves.
(d) miraculously they have bought items off each other - what’s the odds of that? Unless they were accounts merely being used to build feedback?
(e) they both have previously left glowing feedback for another seller (and allegedly bought the same items off that seller too), who has been NARU'd on eBay. This person was a newbie as well. This person also lived in the same city as your seller. This person received negatives one of which was 'Laptop did not exist. Sent me threatening, abusive and racist emails. Avoid'
(f) that seller that’s now NARU'd left negs for everyone who left him a neg, so be aware if it comes to that.

That combined with what I put earlier about the actual spec of the laptop..

(a) the model is wrong - its a 1521 not a 1520, why wouldn’t the owner know that?
(b) You cant buy a 1521 with a TL60, only up as far as a TL58
(c) You cant buy a 1521 spec'd with Vista Ultimate
(d) No one (in their right mind) would build a laptop running Ultimate on 1Gb.

I definitely wouldn’t part any money until you actually have seen the item, and sorry, but I really don’t think you will ever see it - I think its a very amateurish scammer who has yet to actually extort money successfully.

This sort of ring was very common when I was trying to buy a laptop a few years ago, complete waste of time, don’t get involved, certainly don’t send any money and even more certainly don’t turn up somewhere strange with a wad of cash in your pocket.

To summarise, RUN AWAY very fast

map200uk

ahh ok, yes the points listed above do make it seem a bit suspect, wonder whats happened-no news as of yet