Bargain of a lifetime!

Westyfield2 · 22 Feb 2011 at 23:17

Nick1881 said:
Cash Converters look to double their money so expect them to have paid £50 for it.

There is absolutely no way then that whoever sold it to the Pawnbrokers owned it if they accepted £50 for it!

R.O.S.S.I · 23 Feb 2011 at 13:19

No way, congrats on the deal. Been scowering the net for a Mac recently. I want to have shut of my PC and laptop and replace with a Macbook Pro. This would have been perfect! Jammy!

mediamatt · 23 Feb 2011 at 16:43

L33 said:
I think I've landed the deal of the century today! On my lunch hour I walked into town as normal, and as I was passing an independent cash-converter type place and a unibody macbook pro caught my eye. Normally I'd never even contemplate looking at the rubbish in there but I double/triple took at the price tag.... £99.99. Thinking it had to be some sort of mistake (as it was next to a very old Dell laptop that was £199.99) I carried on into town but on the way back curiosity got the better of me and I had to go in.
I asked to have a look at it, asked if anything was wrong with it and asked them to scan and confirm the price. I booted it up but the account had a password, and as nobody in the shop knew a single thing about macs they had accepted it in untested, but would provide a 30 day money back warranty. I therefore couldn't check the specs or anything, but for this sort of money I didn't really care!

So I am now the owner of a 13" macbook pro for the ridiculous price of £99.99!
After a wipe over, clean install of OSX 10.6.6 and a thorough testing, it is in perfect condition bar a tiny dent on the bottom cover. In system profiler it reveals it is a Macbook Pro 5,5 (so mid 2009-early 2010?) with a core 2 duo 2.53Ghz (P8700?), 4Gb RAM, 250Gb 7200rpm disk etc etc.

Chuffed to bits! No real point to the post other than to ask if anyone knows whether I am complying with Apple's licensing rules by using the snow leopard discs from another Mac to reinstall? I'm guessing the laptop comes with a licence to run Snow Leopard but the discs were missing unfortunately, so I had to use other discs to be able to use the system.

A quick pic:

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Sorry but im calling BS

No way on this earth Cash Converters would sell a macbook for £100 , absolutely not a chance. Perhaps you could tell us which cash converters so we could all monitor this place for bargains?

Cash Converters arent stupid , they know what sells and for how much. For instance.... http://www.cashconverters.co.uk/auction-item/328985/macbook-pro-13253ghz4gb250gb

Matt

Mujja · 23 Feb 2011 at 16:55

He said an "independent cash converter" type place

mediamatt · 23 Feb 2011 at 16:57

Even so , nobody in that line of business would price something up like this for £100 , to sell it at that price he must have paid £50 or less. Nobody in their right mind would sell that cheap , even a smack head.

The name of the independent cash converters place then would be sufficient to check?

Matt

Mujja · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:02

He said it was password locked. That would put most average buyers off. They weren't able to verify the age it spec.

Firstly why would he lie. Secondly why would anyone care if he was, except you.

mediamatt · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:03

I dont care , im just saying my opinion. Im entitled to that you know , just like you are.

sanaxe1 · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:13

I agree , Pawn shops make there money by knowing the value of a item. Every pawn shop would know a Apple product is a premium product and within 5 seconds of searching on google would find out how much they retail for. Now even if he did not known the specs or the password you would have thought it would have made sense to take it to a computer shop for them to have a look at which would have cost what £50 or even a 20 second search on ebay would show they could get a lot more even for spares and repairs? And it would have been more then worth the effort as he could sell it at 6-7 times the price the OP purchased it for.

Mujja · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:14

The age old I'm entitled to my opinion argument. The fact is you failed to the the OP correctly, something I managed to do on my tiny phone, and now don't want to admit you're the one talking BS.

Mujja · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:18

Robboftw said:
I very much like the look of it

sanaxe1 said:
I agree , Pawn shops make there money by knowing the value of a item. Every pawn shop would know a Apple product is a premium product and within 5 seconds of searching on google would find out how much they retail for. Now even if he did not known the specs or the password you would have thought it would have made sense to take it to a computer shop for them to have a look at which would have cost what £50? And it would have been more then worth the effort as he could sell it at 6-7 times the price the OP purchased it for.

Which is why the OP had to take a look several times and get the price checked and called it the bargain of a century. We don't know his small this independent retailer is. Could just be a single guy who has no clue and is just looking to double his money.

Mujja · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:19

sanaxe1 said:
I agree , Pawn shops make there money by knowing the value of a item. Every pawn shop would know a Apple product is a premium product and within 5 seconds of searching on google would find out how much they retail for. Now even if he did not known the specs or the password you would have thought it would have made sense to take it to a computer shop for them to have a look at which would have cost what £50? And it would have been more then worth the effort as he could sell it at 6-7 times the price the OP purchased it for.

Which is why the OP had to take a look several times and get the price checked and called it the bargain of a century. We don't know his small this independent retailer is. Could just be a single guy who has no clue and is just looking to double his money.

L33 · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:33

Would be a bit of a pointless thread if it was BS?!
Proof below, snapped with my phone when I spotted it in the window. Laptop on the shelf below it was some ancient old Dell which was £199.99.

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sanaxe1 · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:38

Well thats Shown me

You are indeed very lucky!

MikeHunt79 · 23 Feb 2011 at 17:42

Most MBP's would have an extra 9 in front of that price!

mediamatt · 23 Feb 2011 at 18:58

L33 said:
Would be a bit of a pointless thread if it was BS?!
Proof below, snapped with my phone when I spotted it in the window. Laptop on the shelf below it was some ancient old Dell which was £199.99.

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So youve snapped a pic of a macbook pro for sale for £99.99/ DOesnt prove a thing. That one could have been liquid damaged and you already had one?

Proof is the phone number to the shop

Matt

Bucket · 23 Feb 2011 at 19:09

mediamatt said:
So youve snapped a pic of a macbook pro for sale for £99.99/ DOesnt prove a thing. That one could have been liquid damaged and you already had one?

Proof is the phone number to the shop

Matt

I've only posted to tell you to keep it coming, it's amusing

L33 · 23 Feb 2011 at 19:15

mediamatt said:
So youve snapped a pic of a macbook pro for sale for £99.99/ DOesnt prove a thing. That one could have been liquid damaged and you already had one?

Proof is the phone number to the shop

Matt

Wow.
Foiled; how did you work it out? It took me ages to find a faulty MBP in a shop window so that I could take a photo of it and then stage this elaborate story, as I had so much to gain by doing so.

LethalUK · 23 Feb 2011 at 19:38

Fantastic deal, doesn't get much better than that. Might as well purchase another software license from Apple, since you got such a great deal.

Skyboat · 23 Feb 2011 at 19:55

Jammy git. That is all. LOL. Definitely nicked though at that price. Not that I'd care either

Si105 · 23 Feb 2011 at 22:17

Nearly as jealous as when my mate got a 17" mbp for £200. Seeing as I just bought my first mbp for over a grand I wanted to murder him.