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by joe_mamba 128 days ago
>they are reaching the 200€ threshold on the used market.

Where?! I just cheeked the used market in Austria and 2020 M1s go for at least 350 for the 8GB RAM models and 450 for the 16GB model. Your 230 for the 16gb one fells more like a rare exception but not them norm everywhere.
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haunter 128 days ago
I’m in Hungary and usually check Facebook Marketplace, Vinted, and another two local sites

Here is another one from today, just messeged them. 230€ rose gold one, and that's without any bargaining offer https://files.catbox.moe/exbrfc.jpg

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joe_mamba 128 days ago
Damn that's lucky. I checked facebook marketplace in Austria and prices are double that of what you're showing, even on Intel macbooks, there's no M1 macs for 200 Euros, only 400 Euros and up. Same on Vinted. No 200 Euro M1s, only at 2x the price.

The ones that I saw similarly low to yours are obvious scams from scam profiles all repeating the same message in the ad.

So maybe the ones you saw are scams as well. Otherwise hungary seems to be a lucky exception for some odd reason. Maybe because people have less disposable income, IDK?

Anyway, I wouldn't spend 400 Euros on a used mac with no warranty. The point of buying an old ThinkPad for cheap was that if something broke on it you could easily swap that part yourself for cheap because it was easily repairable and the used market was flooded with spare parts. But if your used macbook dies out of warranty, then you're shit out of luck, you can't fix anything, it's 400 Euros wasted.

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haunter 128 days ago
>So maybe the ones you saw are scams as well

I bought one already so I know it's not a scam. Scams usually communicate badly and they don't want to meet you in a public space (like a McDonald's with free wifi)

Obviously ymmv

>Anyway, I wouldn't spend 400 Euros on a used mac with no warranty.

This I agree with. I still prefer Thinkpads too but these M1s are also pretty good in almost every sense except for repairability

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adgjlsfhk1 128 days ago
isn't this is just exchange rate? 1AUD is 0.6 Eur
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karmajunkie 128 days ago
Austria, not Australia.
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joe_mamba 127 days ago
If HNers could read, they'd be very upset.
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