"Looking to upgrade that rinky dink laptop of yours? Direct your attention to Amazon. This HP listing comes bundled with a whole bunch of extra accessories including a wireless mouse, webcam covers, a cleaning cloth, an external DVD drive, USB port covers, and a portable 1TB SSD. The whole set is marked down from $3,000 to just $900. Wowie, that's a 70% discount amounting to a savings of $2,100."
"So what we have here is a 17.3-inch laptop, displaying in an HD resolution of 1920 by 1080. It's a touchscreen so you can choose to operated it like a laptop or a tablet. The laptop comes pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro. It's powered by a 6-core AMD Ryzen 5 and comes with 32GB of RAM and a full 1TB of storage on its internal SSD. That ain't bad! Plenty of room to store thousands of photos, videos, or documents of any kind."
"Okay, so peak behind the curtains of online retail-the percentage off is never real. What sellers on Amazon like to do is take decent laptops, add in some freebies, set the price at an astronomical high and then immediately cut three quarters of it off with a sale. That's exactly what happened here. The price history only shows as far back as the beginning of September. On September 2, it got cut 70%."
An HP laptop bundle on Amazon is offered with multiple accessories—wireless mouse, webcam covers, cleaning cloth, external DVD drive, USB port covers, and a portable 1TB SSD—advertised as reduced from $3,000 to $900 for a 70% discount. Price history shows the 70% cut on September 2, suggesting an inflated original price. Sellers commonly add cheap freebies and list an astronomical original price to generate attention-grabbing percentage-off labels. The laptop itself is a 17.3-inch 1920x1080 touchscreen running Windows 11 Pro, powered by a 6-core AMD Ryzen 5, 32GB RAM, 1TB internal SSD, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple ports.
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