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Listing check: bargain or skip

A defect is not a verdict

Worth the compromise?

Check a used listing against the work you actually want to do. You enter and confirm the listing’s faults; reviewed model evidence and exact cost calculations decide the assessment.

Seller tests and every price you enter are unverified. No repair, reliability or compatibility guarantee.

01 · Your job, not just the grade

Match the exact model and your use

Match the full model and variant. A thumbnail is not enough.

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The functions below define what must work for your task.

Flawed, well used, as-is and similar labels do not describe a specific fault.

Confirm the full listing. A short “caps” note is not proof a battery, charger or lens is absent.

Select an exact model to see the functions covered by reviewed evidence.

Which functions are essential for your task?

Choose the functions you need, including controls you must adjust reliably.

02 · Enter, then confirm

What is wrong with this unit?

Automated reading of seller notes is not enabled on this site, so there is no note field. Add each fault from the listing yourself: kind of issue, affected component, a short quote, whether it must be addressed for your task, and any quoted cost. Short quotes you type are sent with your assessment request. This purpose-aware assessment is separate from the manual price worksheet further down the page.

Which required functions did the seller demonstrate working?

Tick only if the seller has shown the test for this particular unit. Manufacturer specifications do not prove a used unit works.

03 · Make the real comparison

Known costs and a working used alternative

US dollars. Blank shipping, tax and necessary fault costs mean unknown, not zero. Enter 0 only when a cost is known to be zero. Add evidenced repair / replacement costs to their fault cards above.

Same exact model / variant. A new MSRP is not a working used comparison.

Privacy and how this assessment works

This form has no browser saves, share links or automatic submissions. Automated note reading is not enabled on this site: there is no seller-note field. You type each fault yourself.

When you request the assessment, your fault cards (including any short quotes you typed), function choices, included-component note, grade and costs are sent by POST to the site’s deterministic assessment. They are computed in the response and not retained by the application. Hosting/security systems can still see your IP address, request times and endpoint names; their retention is described in the site policy.

The assessment cannot verify the unit’s condition, invent a workaround or make a purchase. The browser keeps inputs only in this open form. Clear inputs when you finish, and do not type names, contact details or order numbers into a quote.

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Manual price worksheet

This earlier worksheet works without the listing assistant and without JavaScript. Its price thresholds are editorial heuristics; use the purpose-aware assessment above for a flawed item’s suitability.

Used, open box, refurbished

Bargain or skip?

A listing says "no charger", "small scratch" or "as-is". Tick what is missing or wrong, add the prices you found for the replacements, and see whether the real total still makes sense against a reference price.

You supply every price; this site publishes none yet and does not verify yours. With JavaScript on, the arithmetic runs in your browser and nothing you type leaves it. Without JavaScript, the form posts to this page; the server computes the verdict in the same response and does not store the values. The host's standard access log records that the page was requested, not the posted values.

The current price of the same exact model from a retailer or the manufacturer.

A verdict needs a reference for the same condition as the listing. A different condition only shows a saving.

What the listing says is missing
Defects the listing describes
Enter the listing and check it.The verdict, the arithmetic and the questions to ask the seller will appear here.

How this is decided: real total = asking price + the replacement cost of every missing item you do not already own + every repair cost you know. Classification uses exact cents: a total of 70% of the reference or less is a bargain, up to 90% is fair, above that is a skip; percentages shown are rounded for display only. The reference must be for the same condition as the listing; a comparison against a different condition is shown as a saving, never as a verdict. "For parts / not working", a fatal defect or an unexplained functional problem is never a bargain or fair, whatever the price. Any unknown required cost blocks a bargain. Every price here is one you entered; this site publishes no prices and has not verified yours, and the thresholds are an editorial rule, not market data.