How to buy a unibody Mac for the lowest price...

I got my MacBook air a few months ago and since then I have been
looking for a MacBook online.

I need a MacBook because my office has MacBook adapters in all
conference rooms and no wifi. So even though the air is gr8, it is
difficult carrying around a lot of adapters.

Why not a pro? - because before choosing my air, I went to bestbuy and
weighed every PC & Mac notebook. The pro is too heavy for me. The
Macbook is heavy too, but manageable, I think.

I looked at craigslist for a month. 90% of mac listings are fake, the
few real sellers expect the poor suckers (buyers) to shell out more
than $700 cash for notebooks which are more than 2 years old!!!

Electronics fail over time. Buying something that old for that high a
price is not acceptable for me. The apple store is too expensive,
gainsaver is nice but the systems are too barebone and they are used
too. No 30 day warranty for me.

Ultimately, I have brought a new MacBook for eBay, saving several
hundreds over the price, no tax and most importantly a $95 cashback
from live search!!!

So for around a thousand bucks, a new notebook which costs more than
$1200 everywhere else. I still get the warranty, I still get a new
notebook - not refurbished, used or open box.

I think it is a gr8 deal.

Happy B'day to myself!!