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Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: C(-)ris
Date: November 03, 2009 01:30PM
Now I feel everyone's pain. Mac Mini I wanted showed up and I got an email alert from refurb-store, it showed instock but wouldn't let me check out...then it went to out of stock! Drat, missed again! I guess this is going to require constant refreshes of the Store page to actually get one of these?


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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: decay
Date: November 03, 2009 01:37PM
bookmark the product, then when you get the email, go there right away.

i've seen them sold out even when clicking immediately - there must be some delay.



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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: Carm
Date: November 03, 2009 01:40PM
Stay online between 12:00am and 4:00am, droid post them during that time. Worked for me once.

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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: billb
Date: November 03, 2009 01:42PM
Kinda like looking for Easter eggs on a Sunday night, no ?
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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: Harbourmaster
Date: November 03, 2009 02:10PM
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Qwuiet I'm hunting waaabbitsss...


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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: November 03, 2009 04:06PM
Took me weeks to get my refurb Mini back in the 1.66 CoreDuo days.

Be patient young grasshopper.
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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: Black
Date: November 03, 2009 04:49PM
Took me 3 weeks.
When mine came online I called and completed the purchase by phone (because I don't do e-tail from work computers).


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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: deckeda
Date: November 03, 2009 05:23PM
Keep looking everyday. It'll show up. My preferred time to look when I got mine a year or so ago was from say, 8am-1pm EST.

There were times when there would be nothing in the morning and it would show up around noon for about a 1/2 hr.
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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: LyleH
Date: November 03, 2009 05:26PM
There's a RefurbMe Widget that can be configured to open the Apple Refurbished page whenever anything is added to the page. Or it can be configured to give a "Speech" notification. Notifications can be configured several ways.

You can also set an upper limit on the price of the new item. Might work pretty good for a Mac Mini as it's lower in price than a lot of the refurb stuff. It's free, and worked fine for me when I was looking for a particular iMac. I'm not sure it's any quicker than an email alert, but it'd be easy to test.

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Re: Frustrating Mini hunt
Posted by: C(-)ris
Date: November 03, 2009 09:12PM
I guess I missed again..sheesh.


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