Well, didn't get the MacBook. Story goes like this: Got there, after 40 minutes of driving in reasonably heavy traffic, knocked on the door, and a woman claiming to be the baby sitter answered. she didn't know anything about the macbook, and said that the woman's mom had been rushed into hospital, so she was at the hospital and didn't want to call her. so i got back in the car, mom told me to go back and ask the baby sitter to ring the woman. So i did, she called the woman, and it was on voicemail - and then she got funny with me, said the only macbook she knows of is a working one - but then she said she doesn't even know where it is (?), and then she said "i didn't really want to call her, i'm really going to have to ask you to leave now"...

If the story the baby sitter was telling is true, then I suppose I cannot be too annoyed. But I have a feeling something was dodgy (oh, and yes, it was the right house.) Oh well, perhaps it was "too good to be true" in the first place!