At least you know what you would be getting. He isn't hiding it. The first thing I do when I buy an A3000 or an A2000 or an A4000 is open it up and look at the battery. I bought an A3000 from a regular here on this forum several years ago and he had a bunch of posts and you would have thought that he would check and care for things. The battery was leaking badly and had ruined the motherboard as far as I was concerned. I never would have bought it if I would have known just like I would never buy this A4000.