Thread: Classic Best Buy To Sell Nook WiFi for $99 on Black Friday
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Old 11-12-2010, 09:28 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Rebo View Post
They are offering the refurnished units at $99 on ebay and buy.com This is always a prelude of clearing out the entire inventory and make room for new generation. If B&N still in the e-ink market, I am hoping a 2nd gen e-ink nook might come soon.
You may be right, but the official story from B&N is that they had a large shipment of damaged cases and these are repaired, hence refurbs. As many are showing up with older serial numbers it makes sense. I thought people were seeing newer models as well, but the firmware is really weird in that the much older hard ware is showing up with firmware that should only work on the units made after the SD chip change.

We need someone with insight into these firmware changes to set us straight, especially after the 1.5.0 version comes out or it will be impossible to identify who has softrootable (easy way) hardware.
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