refurbished imacs

[dpankar]

Hi,

My imac 17" 2 ghz recently met with an accident and got its lcd damaged. Apple care gave me an estimate of $1200. My queries are:

1. Where can I sell my imac?
2. Does it make sense to buy a refurbished imac from the apple store?
3. Is there some place I can buy a new imac cheaper than the apple stores at wheeklock and funyan?

Thanks.

[bigfilsing]

you're best off scanning ebay singapore and the market place section of VR zone singapore or hardware zone singapore

There's this 20 incher for the same as your repair
http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/marketpl ... 2&id=32962

There a lot of tech heads over there so may be able to help

Good luck

[SGgal]

Try this Mac user forum http://www.macusersg.org/forums/index.php

You need to have at least 50 post before you can post anything in the forum’s marketplace.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Why would you want to?

[Plavt]

Hi,
2. Does it make sense to buy a refurbished imac from the apple store?
3. Is there some place I can buy a new imac cheaper than the apple stores at wheeklock and funyan?

My advice for what it's worth: don't buy a refurbished mac unless there is some pressing reason to have one. The reason being is, out of warranty they are really expensive to get fixed should you get a serious hardware failure as it seems you have already found out.

For what some repairs can cost you can buy a brand new windows-based laptop.

[dpankar]

Hi,

thanks for all the advice. I bought the new 2.4 ghz 20" imac after selling my poor old damaged piece. Though even the stores @ Sim Lim were selling at the same apple store prices I got a good deal at one place - RAM upgrade from 1 gig to 4 gigs plus a lot accessories.

Cheers,

Dipankar[/quote]