How much is this HP 8710P laptop worth, do you think.

[rnoldh]

Hello All,

I've been considering a new laptop and I saw this ad on craigslist:

HP 8710p Laptop 17" Brightview - New in box
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Date: 2008-05-15, 9:49AM CDT


This is a brand new 8710p laptop just ordered from HP - will be delivered tomorrow. Need money so I charged a new laptop to sell. I have the receipt to show when it was ordered (5/12/08) and it should be delivered today or tomorrow.
Loaded with:
HP Compaq 8710p Notebook PC
Genuine Windows Vista
IntelÂ

CoreT2 Duo Processor T7500* (2.2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 4MB L2 cache)
17-inch WSXGA+ BrightView display
2048MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (1 DIMM)
256MB video memory (512MB TurboCache) - NVIDIA
160GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
BluRay Disc DVD+/-RW drive
56K modem
10/100/1000 NIC
8-cell Lithium-Ion battery
Intel 802.11a/b/g/draft-n
Integrated Bluetooth
TPM & Fingerprint
IntelÂ

CentrinoÂ

Pro processor technology
ENERGY STARÂ

qualified, EPEATT Silver
3/3/0 Year WorldWide Limited Warranty

1 $2,249.00 $2,249.00

MicrosoftÂ

Office Basic 2007 - OEM License Kit - Notebooks Promotion

1 $109.00 $109.00

HP Docking Station with 120W Smart Adapter - Smart Buy Promotional Sku

1 $159.00 $159.00

HP Smart Solution Road Warrior Bundle

1 $279.00 $279.00


I will sell by itself or with it's acessories.
Make reasonable offer please. Prices listed above that I paid. The road warrior bundle includes leather case, extra battery, car charger etc.
Hurry before it goes to the pawn shop and you have to pay more!

I do not have a picture because it has not been delivered yet. Go to HP's website and take a look.
Don't forget - I have the receipt!!
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I've talked with the seller once and she said that she actually paid HP about &2,850 for the laptop and all the extras and she would consider offers of 1/2 of that but no lower.

Here is a link to HPs sales site for preconfigured HP8710Ps. Apparently they range from $2549 to $1449, and hers is the RM252UA which is the high dollar model though HP said they would discount it. Note that model next to hers, the KR888UT(which has a faster processor) is $200 less list price, because it is a promotional item!

Also note that she configured it with 2 GIGS of RAM which I think is nuts, particularly since HP currently has a laptop RAM upgrade special going, where a 2 GIG RAM upgrade is $69!

So my question is this. This is a knocked out laptop, though with some strange configurations. The extras are nice, though not all are necessarily needed.

I went to Best Buy to do some research. The tech wizard salesman (a really nice kid), said that it was a great HP laptop, but even he was surprised that she had paid so much. Reading her ad though, she states that she bought it (charged it!) to sell at a reduced price for some cash.

If anyone cares to read this and give an opinion I'd appreciate it. Her inflated MSRP is about $2850. She wants at least half. I would offer her $1,000. Is that still too much? Anyone know of anything this knocked out at around $1,000?

BTW: The Best Buy salesman said that one of the reasons that it was priced so high was that it had a Blu-Ray optical drive which is very expensive, and a 7200 RPM HD (though only a 160 GIGHD). These two features are nice to have but are they really necessary and useful?

 

[bkk]

Not to steer you off course from your question, but my experience is that HP makes POS laptops. My wife's work laptop must be on a hard flat surface or it will overheat (and lose a hunk of her work in the process).