Criteria for purchase
- Using only eBay, merely because the description of items seem to be more accurate, and because there is more control of how many items were sold by the seller, and what is the actually source of it.
- Seller must not have too many sales (I started doing this from my 4th purchase). Having more than 200 sales would be an indicator that this is a company re-selling computers, therefore the methodology for putting these computers back to the market would most likely have a clean up process, that could destroy data. An example can be seen below:
- It is being avoided purchasing computers that have the hard disk replaced or formatted, by the product's description. Example can be see below:
- Obviously, no purchases for laptops that do not contain hard disk:
