What in the world..

[Car712]

So I am looking on ebay, and I see a banner for Laptops $399 or less, I go and look at some of these laptops, and am absolutely shocked to see a laptop with a celeron processor, 4GB ram,  and 500GB Hard Drive selling for $349.99!! That is about the biggest rip off I have ever seen for something like this... I mean, what made these companies think that anyone would pay that much for a very underpowered laptop, that will most likely be too slow to use in maybe 2 years? Has anyone else seen laptops like this selling for (what I would consider) very high prices, for what you get in performance, and parts.

 

The main reason I consider this a rip off is because, I bought my laptop in december 2017, it has 12GB ram, 1TB hard drive, and a i3 7th gen CPU, and it was around the same price as the laptop above.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, bobbyd52 said:

So I am looking on ebay, and I see a banner for Laptops $399 or less, I go and look at some of these laptops, and am absolutely shocked to see a laptop with a celeron processor, 4GB ram,  and 500GB Hard Drive selling for $349.99!! That is about the biggest rip off I have ever seen for something like this... I mean, what made these companies think that anyone would pay that much for a very underpowered laptop, that will most likely be too slow to use in maybe 2 years? Has anyone else seen laptops like this selling for (what I would consider) very high prices, for what you get in performance, and parts.

Well what were you expecting? You're not getting a Core i3 for less than 400 bucks. 

[r2724r16]

I once got a system with a 660 Ti, 32GB of RAM, and two xeon quad core CPUs for $200 CAD. Used server hardware sells for really cheap on the second hand market. 

[Fasauceome]

I got an asus transformer mini which has a quad core intel atom, touchscreen, 64gb ssd, and a fingerprint scanner all for $250. some retailers are just out of touch.

[Fasauceome]

Just now, r2724r16 said:

I once got a system with a 660 Ti, 32GB of RAM, and two xeon quad core CPUs for $200 CAD. Used server hardware sells for really cheap on the second hand market. 

well that's a whole different story that laptops.

[Enderman]

11 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

I once got a system with a 660 Ti, 32GB of RAM, and two xeon quad core CPUs for $200 CAD. Used server hardware sells for really cheap on the second hand market. 

"laptop"

[Rainbow Dash]

My HP 250 G5 has an i3-6006u with 4GB of 1333MHz, cost like $450. While my college sells an Asus Vivobook N3700 with a 1.1GHz Pentium-N4200 with 4GB and a 128GB SSD for $600.