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UK HP-41CX why ?
Message #1 Posted by HP 41 USER on 30 Sept 2005, 2:21 a.m.

Does anyone know anything about the brand new hp-41cx being sold on Ebay. I have seen at least 10 to 20 per month in the last 2 years. They are new old stock and all are UK sellers... what is the story behind them?. Were these units hidden, lost, forgotten .. stolen ?

      
Re: UK HP-41CX why ?
Message #2 Posted by Namir on 30 Sept 2005, 10:28 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by HP 41 USER

These units were stored somewhere and basically or practically forgotten. They surfaced recently and were selling on eBay. They are unused and new units.

Namir

      
Re: UK HP-41CX why ?
Message #3 Posted by John Nguyen on 2 Oct 2005, 12:37 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by HP 41 USER

Quote:
Does anyone know anything about the brand new hp-41cx being sold on Ebay. I have seen at least 10 to 20 per month in the last 2 years. They are new old stock and all are UK sellers... what is the story behind them?. Were these units hidden, lost, forgotten .. stolen ?
I've only noticed the UK 41CX sales on eBay recently, but I've only seen 1 or 2 per month, not 10. Maybe the stock is getting low? I'd love to have one of those UK New-In-Box 41CXs, but the going price is outrageous. There was one sold back in June for $651.99. Ouch. See http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11713&item=5783408911

John

            
Re: UK HP-41CX why ?
Message #4 Posted by Darin Ingimarson on 13 Oct 2005, 11:39 a.m.,
in response to message #3 by John Nguyen

I bought 2 of these from this seller about a year and a half ago. I paid considerably less than the $600+ USD noted in the previous post. Both arrived in new, old stock condition. I saw one go for about $950 once -- pick your battles on ebay and you'll do OK.

Both appear to operate just fine. I bought one as a backup for my trusty but aging 41CX, and the other I bought, well, as a backup for the backup. My wife took a somewhat dim (but ultimately tolerant) view of this, but she simply doesn't understand why one cannot be without one's 41CX!

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