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Buy the Crappiest, Rustiest MacBook Pro Ever for Only $1300

LOLLYJOLLY — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:50:23 EDT

@x23: IF ONLY...

LOLLYJOLLY

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Sh3rpa — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:16:26 EDT

i love all the mac addicts coming clean right now.

We all know you buy them for the looks

Sh3rpa

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Step666 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:43:29 EDT

@x23: touché.

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x23 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:28:30 EDT

@LOLLYJOLLY: maybe you should work on compiling a shift-key from source.

x23

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agseraph — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:23:12 EDT

$1300 up front, $100 for a new battery; and $1240 for Apple's Tier 4 Accidental Damage Service (which will cover cosmetic damage if you ask them specifically to do so).

~$2640

This is at a time when Apple is selling refurbished MacBook Pros, 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 17-inch high-resolution widescreen displays for $2500.

What is this guy thinking?

agseraph

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LOLLYJOLLY — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:15:45 EDT

IF IT WON'T RUN AFTER YOU THROW IT ACROSS THE ROOM FROM FRUSTRATION...
IT WOULD NOT SURVIVE A WEEK
...MOST MACS SHOULD BE CONNECTED TO A WELDER.
THE ONLY THING THAT SAVED THIS ONE IS A NOT QUITE SO CRAPPY OPERATING SYSTEM.
I WOULD CONTEND THAT IF WERE RUNNING LINUX IT WOULD BE IN PERFECT CONDITION.
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE IS TRANSCENDENCE.

LOLLYJOLLY

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jackfrost132 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:08:11 EDT

@LindsayJoy: No worries, I wasn't making fun of you so much as taking the opportunity to imagine a giant macbook leading a giant wifi router army, I was making reference to a previous post where I posted a strip about wifi routers eating babies and growing to massive sizes to attack our cities.

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strider_mt2k — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:10:48 EDT

Tempest in a teapot.

(Which I think is also where that thing was stored by the way.)

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jamar0303 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:41:24 EDT

Looks like this person should be using a Panasonic instead.

jamar0303

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kylemomsa.... — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:21:10 EDT

At lease the guy was smart to put xp not vista but if it is mac why would you want a microsoft os.

kylemomsa....

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matto — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:49:57 EDT

@B: AHAHA

matto

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Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:40:55 EDT

I'm guessing it's stolen. Look at his other auctions. They are all used items which could be easily stolen from cars. Looks pretty suspicious. Is there any way to report possibly stolen merchandise to ebay?

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The Turtle — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:43:10 EDT

I can tell you what almost certainly happened: CAT WHIZ. The thing was lying flat on a surface and a cat whizzed next to it. Cat whiz is the most caustic naturally-occurring substance on earth... it will corrode stainless steel, laugh at anodized aluminum and will eat gold and silver for lunch.

Oh, and by the way: "scammers don't bother."

The Turtle

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howdytex — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:16:01 EDT

@11hawkinst:

I saw one at the ChumpUSA going outta biz sale that looked worse and they wanted $100 off retail. Umm, yeah, right.

howdytex

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chillywilly — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:04:48 EDT

@dead_red_eyes wrote: "Is this guy smoking crack? $1295 is wayyyy too much."

It looks like he used it to cook his crack on.

My guess is this thing was stolen or was part of the trade for lacking cash for the crack he was buying.

(not to imply the seller is a drug user, but there's too much details that he is not telling about how it got to be in this condition)

chillywilly

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Darkest Daze — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:37:37 EDT

A mac that isn't pretty enough to display in Starbucks and is running windows....that's not going to go over well.

Darkest Daze

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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:35:01 EDT

@jackfrost132:

okay, a 17'' typo, get over it!

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Josh_Geyer — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:58:27 EDT

My question:

Dear fxulla,

What did you do to it?

- joshg400

His reply

Dear joshg400,

Its in good working condition just has a few issues with it

- fxulla

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DeadWriter — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:34:51 EDT

Bad mistake. It should have read

I figured it out. It was smuggled into and out of prison.
The battery must have been with another "courier".

Now everybody knows history. One typo can equal death.

DeadWriter

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DeadWriter — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:33:33 EDT

I figured it out. I was smuggled into and out of prison.

The battery must have been with another "courier".

DeadWriter

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jegreat — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:31:53 EDT

if you check out his feedback, he sells used electronics. $5 says this stuff is hot.

I loved this one particular negative feedback. "The charger was broken and generic There were still several nude pics in phone."

or this one

"too much time, all the content of the package is ugly"

jegreat

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shenanigans61 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:25:49 EDT

Wow...I mean, LOOKING beat up, and actually BEING beat up are two completely seperate things. This is crap.

shenanigans61

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sam1am — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:48:26 EDT

Sweet steampunk laptop! I'm in for one!

sam1am

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eternalargus — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:44:58 EDT

This exquisite farm-raised, organic MacBook has been lightly toasted and topped with a delicate battery-acid vinaigrette for the distinguishing user.

eternalargus

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jackfrost132 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:25:04 EDT

@LindsayJoy: A 17 foot macbook? My god, is it the leader of the the giant wi-fi router army?

jackfrost132

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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:15:55 EDT

I actually like how the top looks, I'd pay money to have *just* the top made that way...but not all the other damage.

Besides, laptops go to me to die, and I still can't get my MBP 17' to look distressed. I wanna e-mail this guy for help.

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--Tito-- — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:11:55 EDT

I guess he thought it was a silver cookie and he digested it a bit O.o.

--Tito--

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Dook_In_The_Urinal — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:51:18 EDT

This looks similar to something that landed in the toilet after eating Taco Bell earlier in the week.

Dook_In_The_Urinal

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Gilliam — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:09:59 EDT

i guarantee you have never seen anything more disgusting in any macbook than i have. :P

in refurb, ive opened up ones that i couldnt tell if it was syrup or cum, coffee, perfume, or piss!

Gilliam

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se7a7n7 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:05:50 EDT

If you want it, you'd better act fast, the auction ends in about 12 minutes.

The seller has quite a few shady dealings as you can tell from his feedback.

se7a7n7

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CharleyFeher — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:03:52 EDT

I bought a 15" MacBook Pro (2.16GHz Core2Duo) off of Craigslist that was a month old with the original receipt for $1300 from some dude who really, REALLY needed the money for his rent.

Although that has nothing to do with this story.

CharleyFeher

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jrghoull — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:48:15 EDT

i honestly think that by the looks of it the whole rust thing was done on purpose. its got that kind of purposely beaten up look that certain brand named clothing often has.

@Daniel:

heh...yeah...but are they they legal copies of the software?

jrghoull

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ururk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:48:09 EDT

C'mon. The "rust" improves its value, making it bonafide Steampunk.

ururk

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apeguero — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:43:02 EDT

Is the Apple logo upside down because that Mac is in distress? Kind of like the flag :) ?

apeguero

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drdroo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:38:21 EDT

He uses the term 'loaded' when it comes to the software. I don't see photos of boxes or master CDs.. I suspect his software offering was created by downloads.

drdroo

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Gary_7vn — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:35:22 EDT

I bid a dollar. No, make that 50 cents.

Aluminum corrodes. Aluminum does not rust.

Gary_7vn

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badhatharry — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:20:52 EDT

That thing looks like it could give you hepatitis.

badhatharry

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Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:12:10 EDT

Sold!

*snorts coke. chases with Pop Rocks and tequila*

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The Sword Master — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:11:52 EDT

Right. It's not. I am an idiot. Sorry.

The Sword Master

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The Sword Master — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:10:04 EDT

Why is the Apple logo backwards?

The Sword Master

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treetrunk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:00:38 EDT

Not really the biggest problem I know, but don't mbp's throttle down if you use them without a battery? It sucks enough that it looks awful, but it's not even running at proper speed!

treetrunk

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CarbonatedWater — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:40:17 EDT

I understand there is plenty of value left in it and I'm also a Mac fanboy but I can honestly say that that price is a way too high. A lot of the reason for buying a Mac is the way it looks and this kinda kills that. Maybe if I was super rich I would buy it and replace the messed up stuff but then it would probably still cost more than a new one would.

CarbonatedWater

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NightElfMohawk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:38:24 EDT

It's definitely been abused somehow. He mentions there are light vertical lines on the right hand side of the screen. Usually that means logic board or LCD damage, which, if you want to get repaired through Apple, is the top tier "accidental damage" price, somewhere around the $1300 he's asking for this computer. Ugh.

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kavendano14 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:37:40 EDT

HE'S RUNNING WINDOWS!!!!!!

kavendano14

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Daniel — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:25:44 EDT

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It isn't as bad as it looks. The weird rust is bad, but as for the battery, it looks like he just never used a battery with it.

It also has like $500+ in software on it...

Look at the pic to see a really mistreated laptop. It fell 3 stories. Hard drive survived =)

Daniel

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diabolusunknown — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:25:13 EDT

Rusting Aluminum?

Aluminum shell my ass.

diabolusunknown

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Bokusatsu_Tenshi — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:23:02 EDT

People buy Macbooks because they are beautiful and stylish.
I wonder if this guy would be able to sell it even for like 500 bucks. :P
Modders maybe.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

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11hawkinst — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:19:32 EDT

Obviously, he needs a sturdy notebook, not a macbook pro.

Still, I have never seen a notebook beaten up that much.

11hawkinst

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Josh_Geyer — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:18:01 EDT

I sent a question asking what he did to it.

Josh_Geyer

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DestroyerMTL — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:13:14 EDT

Perhaps some kind of industrial solvent or something? I'm guessing the aluminum is anodized so something has absolutely destroyed it. I doubt it was water damage.

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Nathan Drake — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:04:45 EDT

Did he set it on fire or something? How does a MBP get this damaged?

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DeadWriter — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:56:28 EDT

The rust doesn't make sense as the top case is aluminum.

While the seller is being honest, I would go as far as to say that they are completely forth coming.

I would guess that this was caused by water damage. That the battery was a casualty, and that either by luck, or a lot of cleaning with DI water and alcohol (coupled with luck) that the computer still worked.

DeadWriter

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Dirk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:53:07 EDT

The seller is an asshat for asking that much. Though I guess the bigger asshat would be anyone who seriously bid on this.

Dirk

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mywileyways — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:50:28 EDT

this guy should be beat for treating his mac like this

mywileyways

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dead_red_eyes — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:47:28 EDT

Is this guy smoking crack? $1295 is wayyyy too much.

dead_red_eyes

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nes3 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:42:57 EDT

wow, it looks like he marinated this thing in said orc piss and molasses overnight and tried to bar-be-que it the next day... love how he says "it doesn't make the laptop look great cosmetically on the outside". understatement of the month.

nes3

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OMG! Ponies! — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:39:28 EDT

This is why we can't have nice things.

OMG! Ponies!