January 2014
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
7h 59m
English
I’M WRITING THIS CHAPTER ON AN ULTRABOOK LAPTOP THAT I acquired by gambling. I didn’t win it in a poker game, a raffle, or a bet. I bought it used on eBay.
Gambling? Think about it: I authorized a chunk of money to go to someone I’d never met, for a preowned machine that I’d never seen, described in a way that I couldn’t verify. I knew that eBay’s Buyer Protection Policy offered me some backup if things went wrong. But that policy involves going through a resolution process with no guarantee of the outcome—not the same as simply being able to return a laptop to the store where you bought it.
Fortunately, my gamble worked out fine, as I expected it would. The deciding factor ...
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