Electronics in Eastern Europe are generally more expensive than Western Europe or the USA since the supply chains are longer. You can find stuff in Germany at 60-80% of what it costs in my country, but your price is outrageous and most likely some sort of scam
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I've found lots of cheap stuff on eBay in Germany. Maybe but quite as cheap as in the US but definitely nowhere near as bad as this.
Are European eBay sellers blocked in Asia? For some reason, all I can see are USA-only laptops. Maybe a few Italian and Slovakian ones, which are again, priced ridiculously. So far, I've not come across even a single seller from German.
Have you checked out any other thinkpad? I'm not in Slovenia but my local price comparison website only shows upgrades for this one in stock, and the laptop itself only from a refurbishing place. Maybe this thing is just out of stock.
Most of the Thinkpads are from the USA on eBay, so there's really not a lot of options for used/refurbished products from European countries in general. I'd love to use any other platform that ships their products to South Asia.
I'm not saying you should buy a refurbished one, I'm saying I couldn't buy a new one locally because it's not in stock. Have you tried other laptops?
Not really. So far, I've been looking for the Thinkpad T14 (T4xx), the X13 (X3xx), the P14s, the P1 and the X1 extreme. But most of them were either out of my budget, or quite outdated
Perhaps the seller has not updated the listing since 2018?
I've messaged them, and the least they're willing to go down is 760ยฃ, which is still quite a lot for a 1st gen Ryzen mobile processor.
Well, don't buy it.