Have your friend scour clearance sections at electronic stores or surplus sites like woot.com to find something in their budget. Source: 5 months ago

Don't forget to check woot.com (amazon subsidiary) Same money as the new-old MacBook Air but much better but refurbed/returned/open box machines. Source: 6 months ago

Best deal around is when woot.com has PW3 refurbs for $25 (plus tax and ship). Keep an eye out. PW3 is darned good, a benchmark Kindle. Source: 11 months ago

I got a hover-1 alpha for $200 on woot.com when they had them for sale (now around $260 refurb on amazon). Range is listed as around 12mi, top speed 18mph. it's rated for 265lbs. Source: 11 months ago

I had bought a PW3 refurb from woot.com, and it arrived with no ads. My buddy bought another, and it did have ads. We got them removed, since he reasonably expected the refurb to be ad free. Source: 11 months ago

Kikoff and Self are good and cheap ways to build credit; a Walmart rewards card too. Get a separate account with online statements that go to a new email. Source: about 1 year ago

I do use KickOff and just kinda’ let that do it’s thing, and have been doing so since December. Source: about 1 year ago

I don't know if you heard of Kickoff but this has tremendously assisted me in my journey to rebuild my credit. Source: about 2 years ago

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If you have no credit and are looking to build it, check out https://kikoff.com/. Source: over 2 years ago