Found this laptop for sale in todays paper

[40Hands]

Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop for sale. This laptop is 3 Month old and with 21 Month of Dell Warranty.
Laptop specifications:
Intel Pentium M Centrino 2,1 Ghz Processor
120 GB Hard Disk
2 GB DDRAM Memory
17 " Screen
DVD-Burner/CD-Burner drive
128 ATI Radeon 9700 Video Card
LAN, wireless card 802.11 a/b/g
Windows Xp Pro OS

I went to dells site and I could not configure an Inspiron 9300 with these exact specs. $800 seems too good to be true and that means it usually is. They also may not know what they are talking about...

 

[Pathogen03]

go look at it.. what do you have to lose.

 

[MX2]

While you are talking to us about it, you could be missing out on the deal😉

 

[Looney]

Yeah, that's wrong. There's no 120GB HDD or Radeon 9700 for the 9300.

 

[enyce2k9]

meet them if u can, ill like to see what happens next.
probably its a pentium II with an Ati rage 4mb

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah... The 9300 only comes with high-end Nvidia chipsets. I'd still take a look at it, though

 

[spaceman]

if they paid to have it advertised in the paper its probably safe to meet them.(in a well lit high traffic place)

 

[spanky]

u saw my ad? the problem is, the nigerian government....

 

[Perknose]

About a year ago, I had to work really, really hard to talk a female friend out of buying a high end Dell laptop off of e-bay from a foreign seller. All I remember is that the price was too good to be true and that there was no exactly corresponding model number (but close) in the US Dell catalog.

It's disturbingly funny how greed can make otherwise intelligent people really really stupid.

I'm with the others, though, can't hurt to go see. Sometimes people don't know or don't care about what they have. It happens. I would write down the serial number and before buying it, call Dell support - they have the serial numbers of stolen lappies flagged.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Someone confused a desktop with a laptop when entering the specs.

Almost all those items would be for a desktop system.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Perknose
About a year ago, I had to work really, really hard to talk a female friend out of buying a high end Dell laptop off of e-bay from a foreign seller. All I remember is that the price was too good to be true and that there was no exactly corresponding model number (but close) in the US Dell catalog.

It's disturbingly funny how greed can make otherwise intelligent people really really stupid.

I'm with the others, though, can't hurt to go see. Sometimes people don't know or don't care about what they have. It happens. I would write down the serial number and before buying it, call Dell support - they have the serial numbers of stolen lappies flagged.

Make sure you tell tech support right away that you don't own the laptop, but you are looking at purchasing it. It seems to good to be true, you want to validate the configuration, etc etc. If they start giving you the runaround and stalling for time, it's pretty likely the laptop's hot.

- M4H