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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem with buying a Kindle on eBay is that it's a crap shoot.You don't know if the Kindle is blacklisted or not until after you get it.
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What he says!
EXCEPT
Apart from a couple of ebay sellers that sell blacklisted Kindles!
I guess older models still let you copy by USB/Sideload, but no books bought from Amazon unless DRM free and no connecting to Amazon.
No 3G at all.
Do some later models get blocked from WiFi or even bricked?
I nearly bought a Sony T2 off ebay, some guy in USA had a bulk lot. Unfortunately USPS has priced USA out of the market for Europe compared to China (or Germany to Ireland), so price more than doubled and came above threshold for 23% import VAT on top of price including shipping.
Beware of that in Sweden from outside EU. Likely the threshold is equivalent to about €20 / $20 / £20 approx. I don't know.
S/H ereaders are risky unless you can try it, or the seller has honest multiple photos as unlike LCD/OLED the screen can show an image when reader is dead, or sometimes even when screen cracked.
I was lucky with a Sony PRS350 and unlucky with a iRiver cover story. My other S/H ereaders are all locally sourced. I got a few from CEX locally and had to take back the last one, a Sony T1 that would "freeze" if annotation attempted. I think a Dictionary issue, unclear if a SW bug or needing internal memory re-partitioned. They refunded with real money! Though they wanted me to take a credit note. I decided since then only to take free S/H models and buy new, locally if possible. Local Argos is mysteriously cheaper than Amazon for Kobo and same price for Kindles, except all Argos Kindles have the adverts.