i know it's not recommended but i was looking at ledgers on ebay. but they claimed they were "new". but i think i like the idea of using an opensource software and hardware like the yahboom better!
Whoa. Never buy a closed source hardware wallet bought from a third party. Trying to save a few dollars could mean you buy a device that's been tampered with, even if it's sold as new. I wouldn't even buy an open source hardware wallet from a third party.
Maybe you're thinking "Hang on! You said to buy a Yahboom from AliExpress!" The Yahboom is not a hardware wallet. It's a mini computer that runs micro python & can be used for any purpose. It's not a hardware wallet until you load hardware wallet software onto it. At some point, I may buy myself a backup Yahboom, but next time, I'd buy it with a robot kit for the fun of it. When I want to use it as part of a robot, I'll flash the robot code onto it. When I want to use it as a hardware wallet, I'll flash Krux onto it. It takes less than a minute to flash Krux onto one of these devices. You download
Krux from Github and follow the instructions. Or, I think they have an installer too, but I just run a command in Terminal to install it.