16GB ASUS TF101A1 Eee Pad Transformer 10.1" Android Tablet (Refurbished) $250 + Free Shipping (expired)

Kind of iffy buying off eBay instead of a big shop but I'll give it a try since this is about $40 less than the big stores usually offer them.

Looks like a good deal to me. I'm waiting for a good bundle deal, but I've played around with a Transformer in-store and was impressed

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone that got in on the last deal from this store. Was the tablet really a factory refurb in perfect shape?

Quote from UltraLaser : Kind of iffy buying off eBay instead of a big shop but I'll give it a try since this is about $40 less than the big stores usually offer them.

I wouldn't worry about buying it off of ebay because it's part of their daily deals. It made FP quite a few times here

Quote from UltraLaser : Kind of iffy buying off eBay instead of a big shop but I'll give it a try since this is about $40 less than the big stores usually offer them.

The account is still owned by 1saleaday [1saleaday.com] and has over 300,000 ratings.

Speaking of, looks like they have the Iconia for $179.99 on their site right now.

They aren't the best company, and shipping can be anywhere from a bit slow to over a month, but I've always gotten what I ordered.

I wouldn't worry about the ebay part. A lot of companies are using ebay as a second market to sell their merchandise.

Regarding ebay and the seller: I ordered when the deal came around last time a week or two ago. It shipped in a couple days and I got it a couple days later. It was in perfect shape and its running great! Great tablet.

Beware the OTA ICS update that is causing some battery drain issues for some people. I updated to ICS and have not seen that issue though.

Quote from Strmtrper6 : The account is still owned by 1saleaday [1saleaday.com] and has over 300,000 ratings. Speaking of, looks like they have the Iconia for $179.99 on their site right now. They aren't the best company, and shipping can be anywhere from a bit slow to over a month, but I've always gotten what I ordered. I wouldn't worry about the ebay part. A lot of companies are using ebay as a second market to sell their merchandise.

When you buy from 1saleday through eBay, you have an intermediary that keeps 1saleday running with eBay and paypal standards. In other words, they do tend to respond quicker through eBay.

can this be upgraded to ICS?

Quote from UltraLaser : I'd appreciate hearing from anyone that got in on the last deal from this store. Was the tablet really a factory refurb in perfect shape?

i dont know

Quote from dragonwarrior : can this be upgraded to ICS?

Yes, it can. The official ICS update came out about a month ago.

Quote from dragonwarrior : can this be upgraded to ICS?

Yeah, this is one of very few tablets that has has an OTA update for ICS. When I got mine, it installed a bunch of updates one after another, and one of them was ICS. It makes a huge difference with performance on this tablet, aside from just being nicer in a lot of ways.

Quote from UltraLaser : I'd appreciate hearing from anyone that got in on the last deal from this store. Was the tablet really a factory refurb in perfect shape?

Yeah. No pretty packaging, but everything was perfect. It could have easily been brand new and just being sold as a refurb so as to not irritate retailers, which seems to be a pretty common practice these days.

Mine appeared to be in perfect shape. There were a couple of posts from others in the old thread who said the same, and nobody said otherwise.

It will auto-upgrade itself to ICS, even, just by putting it on wifi and clicking to install the update that it auto-downloaded.

The reboot/drain issues with the ICS update can be worked around by installing a (free) app called Wake Lock and setting it to PARTIAL_WAKE_LOCK to prevent the CPU from shutting down when it's in sleep mode. This has surprisingly little effect on the battery. If you want to go the CFW root, a few very bleeding edge kernels seem to solve it, so there's that, or you can just wait for the next official patch and then stop using Wake Lock then.