We’re not selling this deal anymore, but you can buy it at Amazon

Toshiba 13.3" Chromebook 2 (Refurbished)

  • It’s small, it’s cheap, it does web browsing and video streaming and anything else you can do in a browser
  • Really sharp 1920 x 1080 display, everybody’s favorite thing about this Chromebook
  • 9 hours of battery life! That’s worth an exclamation point
  • 16GB SSD, no optical drive: that’s why it’s so light and cheap and has such a long battery life
  • Model: CB35-B3340 (we definitively unpacked this model number last time - there’s nothing left to say)
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It's complicated.

These stupid-cheap Toshiba Chromebooks sold out the first time we sold them. And the second. The last couple of times, they haven’t. And we’re happy about that.

Because we actually sold them to more people those last two times.

We get emails from people frustrated that we limit purchase quantities (to 3 per customer most days, to 1 on special days like today) and that we’re cracking down on the use of multiple dummy accounts to circumvent those limits. They can’t understand why we would possibly not sell them as many as they care to buy. Don’t we want to sell as many units as possible?

Not necessarily. We want all of you to buy all of our Toshiba Chromebooks. We don’t want one of you to buy all of them.

We already have a wholesale division. When it’s all about shifting mass quantities, we’ve got ways of doing that. This website is not one of them. This is where we serve customers, talk to the world, have fun. It’s not just a facade for our wholesale business. When we’ve got a good deal, we want to use it to reach a lot of people, make a dent in the Universe, distract ourselves for a moment from the insignificant and ephemeral nature of our own existence.

Then there’s what happens when those crypto-wholesale orders get through, besides disappointing some actual customers who we care about. Those units wind up for resale through Amazon. We know they came from us because we bought all of the remaining units on the market.

And because our prices are so low, those rogue Amazon resellers are able to sell the ones they bought from us for a great price, even with their added margin. Not as great as our price. But good enough to make our price look like it’s not all that great, not all that much lower than the “Amazon” price.

So either we wind up competing against our own deals, which make our deals look less great by comparison. Or some of our real customers can’t buy something they wanted, and have to go pay a higher markup that we don’t even get a piece of. Why would we want any of that to happen? What’s in it for us?

Sure, we like sellouts. But we would rather not sell out than sell out to product runners who are screwing our real customers out of the good stuff.

It’s a complicated racket, this daily-deal business. But it could be worse. We could be a third-party Amazon reseller.

So far today...

  • 63051 of you visited.
  • 31% on a phone, 7% on a tablet.
  • 5506 clicked meh
  • on this deal.

And you bought...

  • 580 of these.
  • Deal ended .
  • That’s $96280 total.
  • (including shipping)

Who's buying this crap?