Reality Checked by a Laptop Retailer

It was a long and exhausting day. I hadn’t slept well the night before because I was preparing to travel to the city to sell my laptop. The laptop was a high-end model, and I assumed retailers wouldn’t be interested in buying it—it was too pricey for the local market of my small city.



I had contacted someone online, a well-known Instagram seller with around 400,000 followers. I sent him the link to the Amazon listing from which I had purchased it. The laptop was brand new, still unopened, but it had taken six months to arrive. In the meantime, I had already bought another laptop, making this one unnecessary.

I made sure to inform him that the laptop was a refurbished model. However, somewhere along the way, a misunderstanding—or rather, a lack of attention—occurred. The seller didn’t fully read my messages, and he missed the part where I specified that it was refurbished.

When I finally met him, the reality of the situation was nothing like what I had imagined.

The Unexpected Reality

First, he outright denied ever saying he would buy my laptop. In our messages, he had clearly told me, “Bring the laptop, I want to buy it.” I was expecting to negotiate the price or, at worst, for him to offer me less than I wanted. Instead, he completely refused to buy it because he didn’t deal in refurbished laptops.

This threw me off. I had spent so much time obsessing over laptops—months of research, comparing specs, ensuring I got the perfect one within my budget. Somewhere along the way, I started following Instagram pages of laptop sellers, and without realizing it, I began to feel familiar with them. It was almost as if I knew them, as if I had built some level of trust with these sellers just by watching their stories and posts.

But here’s the thing—I never actually knew them. And they certainly didn’t know me.

Key Takeaways

  1. People on the internet are not necessarily who you think they are.
    Just because you follow someone’s content doesn’t mean they know you or will treat you differently. Sellers, influencers, or online personalities may seem approachable online, but that doesn’t always translate into real-life interactions.

  2. Don’t get too attached to material things.
    I spent so much time analyzing, comparing, and waiting for the perfect laptop. Yet, in the end, the one I actually use was gifted to me by my brother. The one I obsessed over for months is just sitting on my bed, unused, waiting to be sold.

Final Thoughts

Sometimes, reality checks come from the most unexpected places. This experience taught me to separate online personas from real-life interactions and reminded me not to get too caught up in material possessions. At the end of the day, life has its own way of sorting things out—often in ways we could never predict.

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