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In the upper right corner of your initial post, there should be an "EDIT" button. Click on that and a message composition window will open up. Simply change the "Subject" line of that initial post and the entire thread title will change. There is a limit of 60 characters so you will need to be somewhat terse. Something like "FS Mint T42p 2373-GUU $750+shipping or pickup Durham,SC" will fit nicely.

Thanks for the help rkawakami. I kept the original title and used all 60 characters to indicate it is for sale, for new and current potential buyers alike. Due to this title amendment, it now says that my initial post was "edited 1 time in total."

rkawakami wrote:In the upper right corner of your initial post, there should be an "EDIT" button. Click on that and a message composition window will open up. Simply change the "Subject" line of that initial post and the entire thread title will change. There is a limit of 60 characters so you will need to be somewhat terse. Something like "FS Mint T42p 2373-GUU $750+shipping or pickup Durham,SC" will fit nicely.

I think it is more obvious if you put "FS" in front, like what rkawakami mentioned.

My take on it is "FS T42p 2373-GUU Mint $750+SH/PU Durham SC".

Good luck with your sale!

Done, as you suggested rhema83. Thanks for your and rkawakami's advice!

rhema83 wrote:I think it is more obvious if you put "FS" in front, like what rkawakami mentioned.

My take on it is "FS T42p 2373-GUU Mint $750+SH/PU Durham SC".

Good luck with your sale!

Not for nothing, I can't fathom why this hasn't been sold yet....

From a rational point of view, I should be the last one bumping this post, since I do have a similar (you may say competing) machine for sale...but...

For the sake of justice within the universe, someone cash out this beauty...price has been reduced, pictures tell a great story, what are you people waiting for???

ajkula66 wrote:Not for nothing, I can't fathom why this hasn't been sold yet....

From a rational point of view, I should be the last one bumping this post, since I do have a similar (you may say competing) machine for sale...but...

For the sake of justice within the universe, someone cash out this beauty...price has been reduced, pictures tell a great story, what are you people waiting for???

Since you asked....
Check out the ebay completed listings. T42p's with warranty are getting sold for 660-775 shipped.
See eg., 320151841834; 290155199296; 320154061570

And once again this place gets compared to eBay...no, I don't think so.
Anything, and I mean ANYTHING goes on eBay...not here.

In case I need to underline the obvious: THIS is the place for buying and selling thoroughbred ThinkPads, not fleabay...

Check out 320156007867, T42p uxga, for $400 shipped! Dam I missed that one by a few minutes. Looks like in good condition too.

Edit: oops, I forgot this is a for sale thread, sorry, well I know buying here gets you peace of mind as against luck of the draw at fleabay, and that deserves a premium.

alanx wrote:Check out 320156007867, T42p uxga, for $400 shipped! Dam I missed that one by a few minutes. Looks like in good condition too.

Yup, some smoking deals to be had on ebay.
Does it say UXGA anywhere ?
EDIT, yes from the model number it is UXGA.

Dam

Sold in 12 minutes.

And once again, this is an extremely low price even by eBay standards...there will always be sales like this for people willing to sit all day and wait and wait and wait...

Someone needs to pay the rent. Or has sickness in the family. Or car just died. Or whatever. That's NOT how you determine the market.

Average out the extremes...

ajkula66 wrote:And once again, this is an extremely low price even by eBay standards...there will always be sales like this for people willing to sit all day and wait and wait and wait...

Someone needs to pay the rent. Or has sickness in the family. Or car just died. Or whatever. That's NOT how you determine the market.

Average out the extremes...

I completely agree.
400 for a T42P with UXGA is just crazy.

Yup you can't stare at your computer all day. And you can't really be sure you're getting what you expect, without a full description, who knows that laptop is one lift away from a gpu problem...or several dead pixels...

But then again...dam I missed that one

alanx wrote:, who knows that laptop is one lift away from a gpu problem...

That is precisley why a warranty is important. And OP's laptop is outta warranty I think.

ajkula66 wrote:there will always be sales like this for people willing to sit all day and wait and wait and wait....

Exactly. I did it for a while last year, refreshing the browser several times a minute for 5 hours in a row, everyday. On a lucky day, I could find one or two crazy deals comparable to this $400 T42p, but finding nothing was the norm. I could have spent that same amount of time working a part-time job and made hundreds if not thousands of dollars. It's just not worth the trouble.

BTW, the $400 T42p description doesn't specically say it has a UXGA-IPS screen. The seller could have downgraded it to XGA. This is the kind of risk people have to take buying stuff from eBay. Here on this forum, this kind of risk is minimized.

wearetheborg wrote: I completely agree.
400 for a T42P with UXGA is just crazy.

This eBay auction ended with BIN in 10 minutes if I am reading it correctly.

I noticed that the COA was removed.

Other than that this appeared to be a very good deal.

Brad

pianowizard wrote: BTW, the $400 T42p description doesn't specically say it has a UXGA-IPS screen. The seller could have downgraded it to XGA. This is the kind of risk people have to take buying stuff from eBay. Here on this forum, this kind of risk is minimized.

The model number is 2373-htu; it has a UXGA screen.

wearetheborg wrote:The model number is 2373-htu; it has a UXGA screen.

Please read what I wrote again: "The seller could have downgraded it to XGA." I once bought an A31p on eBay with an XGA screen, even though all A31p's are supposed to have UXGA-IPS.

Thanks ajkula66 and pianowizard for the insights and enthusiasm . I agree with you both, that the expertise from this forum provides better peace of mind from both the buyer's and seller's perspectives. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this is why I would rather sell it to a thinkpads.com community member.

To follow up on more questions that have been asked by email/PM, in terms of the chassis being opened, the memory cover at the bottom of the machine was opened in order to add the 1 GB memory stick from Crucial, but otherwise no. There are no dead pixels on the LCD, though the trackpoint sometimes gives the illusion there a temporary white one that is removed by clicking the middle trackpoint button, (this has been documented by others and is not a dead pixel).

Just to remind folks, YES, this T42p is currently up for sale! Maybe I should start a new post so buyers will not have to read two pages of posts to come to this conclusion

This is in response to the following PM I just received that made me chuckle

There have been two pages worth of posts since your original. I guess my main question remaining.....is the T42p still up for sale?

To clarify another question for the benefit of all, YES the optical drive this T42p contains is a ThinkPad Multi-Burner Ultrabay Slim Drive (FRU P/N 92P6110) as seen in the photo. This website:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-55186

indicates it is capable of all these read and write formats:

Read
Media Speed Access time
CD-ROM, CD-R media 24X Max 1.54 - 3.69 MB/Sec CAV
CD-RW media 12X Max 0.77 - 1.84 MB/Sec CAV
DVD-ROM single layer media 8X Max 4.43 - 11.08 MB/Sec CAV
DVD-ROM dual layer media 6X Max 3.32 - 8.31 MB/Sec CAV
DVD-R media 4X Max 2.22 - 5.54 MB/Sec CAV
DVD-RW media 4X Max 2.22 - 5.54 MB/Sec CAV
DVD-RAM 2.6G media 1X 1.38 MB/Sec CLV
DVD-RAM 4.7G/9.4G media 2X Max 1.38 - 2.77 MB/Sec ZCLV
DVD+R media 4X Max 2.22 - 5.54 MB/Sec CAV
DVD+RW media 4X Max 2.22 - 5.54 MB/Sec CAV

Write
Media Speed Access time
CD-R media 16X Max 1.23 - 2.46 MB/Sec ZCLV
CD-RW media 4X 0.61 MB/Sec CLV
High-speed CD-RW media 8X 1.23 MB/Sec CLV
DVD-R media 2X 2.77 MB/Sec CLV
DVD-RW media 2X 2.77 MB/Sec CLV
DVD-RAM media 2X 1.38 - 2.77 MB/Sec ZCLV

I, and everyone else who does person to person internet transactions, would love to see you accept PayPal. Cash at a distance is a leap of faith to say the least. I want the computer, and will pay accordingly but PayPal is the means. Im sorry to see you limit your options.

If anyone is seriously interested, and has issues with seller not accepting PayPal, may I suggest an escrow through Mr. Morrow...it's the costliest and safest of all options...does NOT get safer than that...

You guys want to make a deal? Spend some $$$ on it...and move on.

Just my $0.02

fox_napier wrote: 12. methods of payment - In order of preference, cash (if you are picking up locally), PayPal, check (ships when check clears). Not interested in bartering or trading.
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Quoted for the benefit of hopewellz.

That was amended later in the thread...

fox_napier wrote:

Amending "12. methods of payment" to:

12. methods of payment - In order of preference, cash in hand (if you are picking up locally), deposit cash into checking account (if elsewhere), checks either in hand or deposit into checking account (ships when funds clear), certified money order. Do not have enough experience, and thus confidence in PayPal. Not interested in bartering or trading.

I always get a good laugh when I see that people still trust PayPal like it was governed by U.S. Supreme Court...bottom line being, if someone wants to seriously take your money and run, there's not a thing in the world PayPal can do about it...not that they try that hard anyway...

ajkula66 wrote:That was amended later in the thread...

fox_napier wrote:

Amending "12. methods of payment" to:

12. methods of payment - In order of preference, cash in hand (if you are picking up locally), deposit cash into checking account (if elsewhere), checks either in hand or deposit into checking account (ships when funds clear), certified money order. Do not have enough experience, and thus confidence in PayPal. Not interested in bartering or trading.

I always get a good laugh when I see that people still trust PayPal like it was governed by U.S. Supreme Court...bottom line being, if someone wants to seriously take your money and run, there's not a thing in the world PayPal can do about it...not that they try that hard anyway...

Oops - I don't know how I missed that one!

I have posted more photos of the T42p ready to ship. I have even found Thinkpad packaging for the internal shipping box, surrounded by protective outer box.

extended battery and AC adapter in package:
img]http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3722 ... nx0.th.jpg[/img]

T42p in package:
img]http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/4306 ... pt0.th.jpg[/img]

T42p protection out of package:
img]http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/7028 ... ar9.th.jpg[/img]

Based on suggestions, I am considering starting a new thread to consolidate all the pertinent information from this thread about the sale. People may not be reading two pages of posts to figure this out.

Note from Moderator: Starting another sales thread about this same system would be almost as bad an idea as posting pictures without a warning.

ajkula66 wrote:Not for nothing, I can't fathom why this hasn't been sold yet....

Maybe no one's interested in buying a T42p...?

qviri wrote:

Maybe no one's interested in buying a T42p...

I doubt that, since my (almost identical) machine is pending sale as we speak...closing this thread and starting a new one would probably be a good idea for the OP...

Bump for a great machine, one more time!

Again...

Would love to have the machine. Please accept PayPal....... will purchase TODAY. Seriously.

There is a post office on my way home from work. Last week it cost about a buck and a half & 5 min. to send a MO to someone.(George) It has been said here that sending money by mail is a leap of faith, and so it is. However nothing in life is without risk, and buying from folks here, IMHO, is about as safe as internet dealing gets. Tom