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Remember the thread we had awhile back about selling through the classifieds rather than the net? I recently bought another 701 to get a DX4-75 and a larger drive. I posted an article in misc.forsale..portables asking $1200 for my old DX2-50 with 12MB of RAM last week. Withing ten minutes I got an offer of $1000, and before the day was out generous souls were undercuting that, advising me that this system was only a 486, the model was discontinued, it had the NiCad battery, blah, blah, blah. I mentioned to one guy that IBM wanted more than a $1000 for the *active matrix display* alone, hard drives and their caddies are in demand (hell, *I'm* looking for one!), and I was sure I could sell the RAM, battery, and manuals and still come out ahead. Parted out, I could get $1200. The guy sent back an email explaining I was somewhat naive about the laptop market. Right. Another guy mentioned that I probably wouldn't get more than a grand, considering I still had the system THREE DAYS after posting without someone meeting my price. Oooh. Today was the 1st day my classified was printed. A CEO for a stock trading co. called me at 8:30am and asked if I could come by around noon and let him see the system. The guy ran the diagnostics and gave me $1200 cash (the new hundreds look like play money, don't they?) on the spot. I got the impression I'd *underpriced* the system, especially considering I've gotten about 12 calls this evening. (I'll be taking calls for a while, the Trib says it's too late to stop the Saturday and Sunday runs). I paid $1500 for the DX4, so I managed to upgrade my processor, hard drive (my old one was 360, the new 540MB), and memory (4MB more base RAM and I already had a 16MB chip) for three hundred bucks. By the way, IBM's policy on transferring the warranty is like this: If you have a receipt, they will honor the warranty from the date of original purchase. If you don't get the receipt for the used system, they will honor the warranty for 3 years from the date of the system's release (in my case May 1995). If you complain, which I didn't, they'll go so far as to check the serial # and see when the system came off the line and go with that date. Thought some of you'd be interested in that. epbrown epbrown@enteract.com Laptop Central http://www.enteract.com/~epbrown