Smaller electronics like cell phones, opossum, etc often use standard power adapters that someone may want to keep. My kindle and ipod didn't even come with a charger new. Any semi-recent laptop should come with a brick <div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 2, 2012 10:09 AM, "Charles Ulrich" <<a href="mailto:charles@bityard.net">charles@bityard.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Chick Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I like to check out the ads on Craigslist for laptop PCs. Many of them say > they don't include the power cord. Does anyone have any real idea of why > this seems to be so common? Could it be that the laptops are stolen? Do > any of you have problems keeping track of your laptop power cords? Any laptop that doesn't come with a power brick or any other accessories is a good candidate for having been stolen. Same for a cell phone, iPad, or other portable electronic device. I don't care how disorganized you are, if you bought the thing new, you should be able to dig up *something* that came with it. One possible way to tell if an item is hot: ask for the serial number. If it's a thief (or fence) trying to sell it, I doubt you'd get a response. Charles _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>