Re: Canadian (preferentially) or American used Mac sites.

In article <136jg8cm0nvbo46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Yates <johndontspammeyates@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The New Guy wrote:
Can anybody recommend any reputable used Mac vendors in Canada or the USA?
Ebay is getting retarded as far as used Mac pricing is concerned.

TIA
http://www.mantek.mb.ca/catalogue/used.html
http://www.ehmac.ca/
http://www.usedmac.ca/index.php?

I've found the Canadian prices to be on the high side. There's better
deals to be had on eBay. Try this search:

* apple G4 (or whatever machine you are looking for)
* available to Canada

Never specify Canada. Many sellers will sell to Canadians if you ask
even though there is no mention of it on the auction listing.

* buy it now

Never specify But it Now. Specify as little as possible and you'll
draw in everything. Learn how to use the - symbol. Its far better to
cast your net wide then filter the results. Many people misspell, put
in the wrong category, or incur any number of mistakes. There's even
a website that searches using many misspelled possibilities. Another
way is to just look at the general section or all of Ebay, filter by
price and obvious keywords, and only look at stuff ending within 12 or
24 hours. You just never know when people are going to make a mistake
in the classification section. Or where they will put it. When
something is posted in a totally wrong area you can be sure it going
to go for a lot less. Most auctions end in the early evening. But
some of the best deals don't of course. That's why they go cheap.
Not as many people to frantically bid up the price at the last few
minutes.
A search for a G5 iMac might look like this:
iMac G5 -(G4,G3,Cube,keyboard,mouse,USB,speakers)
That will bring in any title with iMac and G5 in it but won't bring in
any of the words in brackets. Once you look at the results you add to
the words in brackets to shorten the results but maintaining
relevancy. There's not anything much more tedious on Ebay than
looking for something specific and having to wade through endless
garbage from parasitic sellers flogging their made in China
break-in-1-day toys. Ebay will only allow a certain length of search
but......you can use a bookmark to make it much longer. You'll notice
your search and filtering criteria in the URL.

Thanks for the lecture.

Its called advice. Free for the taking, ignore at will.

Some folks will put a really really attractive price on a machine to get
rid of it now. Hence "buy it now - list soonest first". It works.

But if he doesn't specify Buy it Now, won't those also be included in
the search? When I search in general terms, I get lots of Buy it Now
auctions. The more I use Ebay search, the more I realize you want to
cast your net far and wide. Limiting yourself takes you in the
opposite direction. Search Completed Items for the really low prices
and you often see they went cheap because they were misspelled (fixed
by searching the whole category which I should have mentioned in my
post), put in the wrong category (fixed by searching by keyword, not
category) or some other error.

And speaking of Ebay searches (this is getting WAY off topic I know),
has anyone noticed that RSS and emailed searches don't include any
time left filtering? They filter by keyword, location, price, etc,
but not time left. Apparently they're working on it. It will be
awesome when they get that working.

If you're a bargain hunter, here's something that just dawned on my
tiny brain this week that might help some of you score your next Mac
at a good price. If you're searching for a common item that gets a
lot of hits, filter by price but only specifying a small amount of
time left since the price filter won't be very effective until the end
of the auction when the price usually suddenly rises. Most auctions
end in the early to mid evening so that helps too. To be really sure
though you need to check the category every few hours for what's
remaining after filtering by your max price.

Telling the op to "never" do that is doing him a disservice.

Like I said, I thought that by not specifying Buy it Now, he would
still get Buy it Now hits. Correct me if I'm wrong. Ebay can be
complex and we all make lots of mistakes. Perhaps I make a lot more
than most.

I presumed the op knows how to search, so I saved myself the keystrokes
that you have so generously expended.

Well I've pissed so many people off here lately I thought if I could
help out with something useful, I should.
.

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