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Originally Posted by joehunt
The seller has made it very clear that he is selling the units for parts only and that the buyer should understand exactly what he is buying.
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I looked at the auction and that was my take, too.
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Originally Posted by joehunt
Sorry, but you were being a bit naive to expect that the seller would send you a good unit for 40% of the price of a working Kindle DX.
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It is
possible to catch deals as good as that when the seller mislists (typos, poor/incomplete/inaccurate title) or has an unlucky choice of end time, etc. Particularly if one is playing the long game with saved searches and sniping groups. But it is difficult to come out ahead without paying close attention.
{Edited to add: spent about 10mins searching through completed auctions using $1-$100 and the string
"kindle dx -(for,cable,battery,screen,fits,case,cover,adapter, light,ebooks,charger,skin,demo)"
It appears this never-used DX was listed by a new seller Buy It Now == $95 and purchased in just over 2 minutes of listing by an ebayer with 18k feedbacks. No neg/neutral feedback to the seller has appeared and the actual product photo looks believable. }
BN: it will be hard to say this without sounding catty, but another tipoff is sellers who use ALL CAPS and write as if barely literate. IME these traits are associated with sub-par feedback. And check out
the toolhaus negs for the seller. Due diligence, my brothers and sisters.