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Found this on eBay: http://tinyurl.com/ypgpz7
Buy It Now: $699.-
Barebones NEW Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Core2 1.66 15.4" WSXGA+ 6731
6 available

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL:

THIS IS A NEW UNIT SHIPPED FROM LENOVO AS A CTO BAREBONES SYSTEM -

THAT MEANS IT HAS NO HARD DRIVE - NO OPTICAL DRIVE - NO BATTERY - NO MEMORY - NO OPERATING SYSTEM.

THAT IS WHY IT IS LESS THAN HALF THE PRICE OF A FULL SYSTEM!

PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS NOW THEN EMAIL ME A HOUR LATER SAYING YOU DID NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS !!!!

!!! Factory NEW - Not refurbished !!!

!!! Feature loaded T60 - Core 2 - 1.66Ghz – T5500 - Hi Resolution 15.4in WSXGA+ 1680x1050 LCD !!!

PS: I have nothing to do with this!

Thanks for the info. This is what I was looking for a few days back.

And the listing has been removed by eBay...hmmmm...

I still saw it yesterday, with the price reduced to $666.-
Maybe the luck of the devil/beast and this lot was 'hot'?

The same seller also had barebone Z61s (or something like that) and another set of barebone ThinkPads...could've been just a simple scam. Not to defend eBay, but they usually don't remove stuff without reason. And they do watch like hawks because T43 that I've been bidding on has disappeared with the same info-it has been from a different seller, and a used machine...because a lot of people got away with murder thanks to human greed, stupidity and PayPal...

Someone probably hacked into another person's account and posted this auction. The victim realized this and canceled the auction. Hopefully s/he has since changed the password.

pianowizard wrote:Someone probably hacked into another person's account and posted this auction. The victim realized this and canceled the auction. Hopefully s/he has since changed the password.

Actually, eBay pulled this listing, not the owner.

If the auction owner closes a listing, the listing is still visible but just shows and closed. When eBay themselves closes a listing, the description and all related info is removed and you get an error.

Correct in that this is most likely a hacked account.

brentpresley wrote:If the auction owner closes a listing, the listing is still visible but just shows and closed. When eBay themselves closes a listing, the description and all related info is removed and you get an error.

Ah, thanks for the interesting info.

I don't know about the hacked account..I've taken my time while the post was still available to go through the seller's feedback, and he/she has been selling barebone new ThinkPads for at least a couple of weeks...very successfully so

My account has been hacked twice over the last 3 years but I've noticed within hours both times and took appropriate action. So, I think that here we had a different issue-which one exactly, I'd rather not guess...may get scary...let's take it one step further: knock-off ThinkPads...used to work in NYC's Chinatown and have seen quite a few miracles there, and I'm not talking only Louis Vutton bags...

ajkula66 wrote:My account has been hacked twice over the last 3 years

When it was hacked, did the hacker change your password, and are they able to change anything else, like the member email? I usually check feedback also. In the auction body if I see something like "reply to this email only" and they give a non-member email address, then that's a dead giveaway too. I'm just curious of what a hacker is capable of doing in the account itself. EBay seems to be worse then ever with hacked accounts.

ajkula66 wrote:My account has been hacked twice over the last 3 years but I've noticed within hours both times and took appropriate action.

How do you know when your account gets hacked?