"fail deal" lol I meant to say fair deal.
That was a freudian slip if I've ever seen one. ... yet somehow I managed to use new age internet speak so I guess that's at least a testament to my geek-hip-ness. I even make freudian slips in 1337 speak. Massive fail. Please at the very least have a laugh at my expense. :) Let this be a lesson on how NOT to sell a macbook. Peace, -Mike On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Mike Meiser <[email protected]>wrote: > Aha... umm... I guess I'm a big honking idiot. > I failed to realize how cheap the top of the line macbooks were. $2800 > isn't the entry level one either. It's pretty much fully loaded. Even comes > with 4gig ram. This includes shipping, but not tax. Of course it's not > actually shipping until 3-4 weeks, but still. > > It was not my intention, nor my friends to post this overpriced. Please > forgive me. > > I'd also like to point out the apple factory refurb page has four 2.6 ghz > on sale for $2300 > http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac > > Those posted on apples site have much smaller drives and only two gigs of > ram, but they're still a superb deal. > > I therefore apologize for being a nuisance and suggest if you do want a > deal on one you buy it from the refurb page and buy ram through a third > party and upgrade it yourself. > > If you do want to make my friend an offer I supposed you could still email > him. I suspect he might take something around $2500-2700, but to be honest > I'm not sure what would be considered a fail deal now that I've seen the > price on the refurbs and the new models. > > On a side note, it's amazing how fast these things depreciate in a year. > I'm quite certain that's at least $1k less then he paid for it. > > Still. It's better than the depreciation on a car I guess. > > My apologies. > > -Mike > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Irina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> yeah i was thinking the same thing >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Steve Watkins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > But the new 17" costs $2799 from Apple, so how can he expect to get >> $3k >> > for it? What am I >> > missing? >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Steve Elbows >> > >> > --- In [email protected] <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, >> > Mike Meiser <groups-yahoo-...@...> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > He's hoping to get $3k for it. >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> http://geekentertainment.tv >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
