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Yes, with all the startups going out of business, there're some nice laptops coming to the auction market. I picked up a two year old fully speced T470s for ab
by ww520 6y ago
Yes, with all the startups going out of business, there're some nice laptops coming to the auction market. I picked up a two year old fully speced T470s for about $200. No OS though. Installed Mint and it ran like new. Also picked up an one year old MacBook Pro A1989 for 1/3 of the price. Good thing Apple honors the purchase of the OS with the laptop and allows a full reinstallation.
- spurdoman77 6y agoHooray for recession.
- ww520 6y agoHa. Also picked up two designer brand height-adjusted desks for the cheap. Looks barely used. Still looking for an Aereon chair.
- JMTQp8lwXL 6y agoHow does one go about finding deals like this? I wouldn't mind a MBP for a third of retail price.
- ww520 6y agoI asked before in HN and someone pointed me to hibid.com, that's where I looked. The auctions come in wave. Sometimes there's no companies need liquidation. Sometimes lot of companies need to sell. Just wait a bit for the upcoming auctions. Edit: Here're some MacBook auctions currently. https://hibid.com/lots/?q=macbook https://hibid.com/lots/?q=macbook. You might need to wait for an auction local to you to come up.
- akudha 6y agoJust checked, some of the items look too good to be true https://hibid.com/lot/67650485/lenovo-thinkpad-t410-laptop-with-windows-10/?q=&ref=lot-list https://hibid.com/lot/67650485/lenovo-thinkpad-t410-laptop-w... $30 for that?? What am I missing?
- kn0where 6y agoThat’s the current highest bid, not what it will necessarily sell for.
- stevenwoo 6y agoIf you are not familiar with EBay, auctions work with a max bid per bidder, but the displayed price is the lowest bid that beat the lowest bid by some minimum or matched the initial price. The way it usually works for a popular item is savvy bidders will wait til the last second to bid what they think will win or what they think the item is worth, no matter what the current price is, and the actual price is set by the lowest maximum bid, so if someone bid $10 on a $5 item, the price is $5, then I bid $8, the price goes up to $8 and the initial bidder is still winning. I only bid using an online service that enters a bid 3 seconds before the end of the auction. Some people do this manually. Sellers can set a reserve minimum price but otherwise the bids set the final price. Also shipping
- zozbot234 6y ago> I only bid using an online service that enters a bid 3 seconds before the end of the auction. I don't get why people do this. eBay has what they call "proxy" bidding, so in effect you're only paying the second-highest bid if you win the auction. You might as well bid your perceived maximum directly.
- vasco 6y ago> Sniping helps to eliminate competitive bids. It also prevents other bidders from discovering your proxy (maximum) bid because your bid is kept completely private until the very end of the auction. It keeps your interest in an item private From: https://www.ezsniper.com/faqs.php3 https://www.ezsniper.com/faqs.php3
- jncraton 6y agoI have a site that churns through the eBay API and dumps cheap but durable used laptops here: https://createdtolast.com/laptops https://createdtolast.com/laptops It saves me time when friends/family ask me for used laptop recommendations, and the eBay referral program nets me some beer money on the side.
- eatonphil 6y agoThat's awesome! Would be curious to see a tab for servers too.
- jncraton 6y agoThanks! Hopefully I'll get some time to add that at some point. LabGopher provides something similar for servers but with more advanced filtering: https://www.labgopher.com/ https://www.labgopher.com/
- elliotpage 6y agoThis is a great site, thank you very much!
- harry8 6y agocan you add Australia? Please.
- ornornor 6y agoGreat tool thank you!
- gowld 6y agoYou aren't filtering out HDD, though.
- Dylan16807 6y agoA competent SSD is $30 or less. That upgrade cost is something to think about when looking at laptops in the $300 range but definitely not a deal breaker.
- jseliger 6y agoMany big players have off-lease or refurbished pages. Here is Dell's, for example: https://www.dellrefurbished.com/laptops?p=1 https://www.dellrefurbished.com/laptops?p=1. I have seen prices as low as $200 but rarely lower than that. Many of the least-expensive ones also still appear to come with mechanical HDs, not SSDs, and these days I'd expect to replace the former with the latter.
- eden_hazard 6y agoSometimes looking for deals on craigslist. Every now and then you will see someone that doesn't know the value of what they're selling. In 2016, I was able to find a 15" MBP for only $750. The guy listed as a cracked laptop when it was a small 3 inch scratch near the corner of the screen, so no one reached out to him. It's hard to notice when the laptop is on even when you're looking at it. Probably the best purchase I ever made.
- LynxInLA 6y agoare these auctions in person, or online?
- ww520 6y agoOnline, see my other comment.
- raincom 6y agoLucky you. I've been scouring craigslist/ebay/offerup for good deals on T460s/T470s for a while. The cheapest I could get is $400 for a laptop with i7.
- tamiral 6y agoThat’s amazing