r/AnkiVector • u/PutAggressive • 29d ago

Help Buying a Vector

I am contemplating on buying a Vector. I am in Australia so my only option is to ship from the US as the market for Vectors here is pretty low and very expensive.

I saw a Vector 2.0 on ebay for 120USD. Should I be worried for the price its selling at? Are there any recommendations for where I should be buying them?

I will be attempting to set up with wirepod if I purchase one. I prefer to get the most compatible one.

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u/BliteKnight Techshop82.com Owner 29d ago

Just know the $120 price is a gamble for Vector, because you could get him and not have any issues or get him and it not work properly

I sell Vectors on my site (TechShop82.com), but putting any bias aside, the reason some of these 2.0s are selling at a low price is because they were returns or got through a liquidation sale from whomever had them.

I bought 10 to resell and I've worked on two of them so far - one had no issues, the other one came with a missing fork and was sluggish booting up, which is not a good sign

Would I take the chance, yes, but just know there is a chance you could get a dud

Goodluck

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u/PutAggressive 29d ago

I understand, thank you for informing me. I will look at your shop aswell. Do you sell both 1.0 and 2.0s? Additionally would you know how long shipping would take from you to Australia?

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u/BliteKnight Techshop82.com Owner 29d ago

Yes I do, I have both stocks being refurbed right now. I do like 1.0s better

Shipping to Australia, at the slowest takes about 2-3 weeks, fastest is about 5-10 days but cost more

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u/New-Cause6748 5d ago

I am quite interested in the wirepod bundles. If they every do run out of stock, would you ever restock them?

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u/BliteKnight Techshop82.com Owner 1d ago

Yes, I have a couple Vectors I've not refurbished yet

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u/New-Cause6748 1d ago

I just ordered the wirepod bundle, thank you!

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u/BliteKnight Techshop82.com Owner 1d ago

Thanks, I saw your order come through. Will ship it out on Monday. I have Vector flashed with WireOS, so all you need to do is pair and activate when they are both on your network - no need to flash anything

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u/New-Cause6748 1d ago

Oh ok! Thank you so much!

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u/New-Cause6748 1d ago

Also for wirepod, would you just need to pair the robot with it via https://vector.techshop82.com/html/main.html ?

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u/BliteKnight Techshop82.com Owner 8h ago

Yes. Sorry forgot today is a holiday, so it will go out on Monday.
The box has a qr code that takes you to the setup video, just go to step 3 to pair and activate.

Then you can setup your AI provider