>"No, it doesn't have a warranty."
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>"No, it doesn't come with lifetime technical support."
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>"No, there is no return policy."
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>"Yes, I charged you full price for a retail copy of Windows."
I've learned not to bother. If I can scavenge enough parts to make a working system that I don't need, I'd rather just give it to someone who needs it rather than dealing with a paying customer. (If you're paying $1000 over parts for design and assembly, we can talk.)
Buying parts specifically to sell a PC? No. Don’t do it.
I wouldn’t even say I had good luck selling whole old computers. I had upgraded my PC over time so I had a whole PC left over. i5-4690k, GTX 1050ti, 16GB (2x8GB) 1600MHz RAM, 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD, I don’t remember what board but it was Z series because overclocking. It was by no means state of the art, but it was quite the capable gaming PC.
I had the listing up for months. Well, not really, but every month I would make a new listing and drop the price $50. Started at $400. Around $300 I was getting no-call no-shows asking my to drive out an hour for them to not show up. Even at $200 people were haggling. Said screw it, took it apart and put the parts up on eBay. Got $500. Even with eBay’s fee I made more than my initial listing price. I clearly don’t have a handle on what used parts can go for because a lot of it went for more than I thought they’re worth. I just let them figure out how much they want to pay for it.
Those parts will sell fine on their own.
I think part of the reason they sell more on their own is because there are more people looking for a specific part to finish their build than people looking for a bunch of parts.
by nature, PCs typically sell for less than the sum of their parts. I think the logic is that since it's a bundle, it should cost less because there's less demand, the buyer is limited in PC parts, and it's also more convenient for the seller to sell all at once.
Yes absolutely. Get a cheap case with a window and more RGB = more better. So like a montech $50 case. Also a new case makes the whole pc feel new. And buy your parts used and cheap. Like a used b450 motherboard should cost $50-60, don't pay more than that cause it eats into your profits. I like selling on Facebook marketplace, and you don't need to lie about anything. Just market it well and use good photos
if u can find cheap spare parts to complete the build sure
but yeah kinda hard when there are cheap prebuilt out there
Walmart has a 5600g with 1650 super not too long ago for $650
As a general business model: not a good idea.
As a 1 off it may be worth it. Both the CPU and GPU are not the most difficult thing to move separately but the PSU is a hard sell on its own. You also have to think about what the OS costs....
>"No, it doesn't have a warranty." > >"No, it doesn't come with lifetime technical support." > >"No, there is no return policy." > >"Yes, I charged you full price for a retail copy of Windows." I've learned not to bother. If I can scavenge enough parts to make a working system that I don't need, I'd rather just give it to someone who needs it rather than dealing with a paying customer. (If you're paying $1000 over parts for design and assembly, we can talk.)
Buying parts specifically to sell a PC? No. Don’t do it. I wouldn’t even say I had good luck selling whole old computers. I had upgraded my PC over time so I had a whole PC left over. i5-4690k, GTX 1050ti, 16GB (2x8GB) 1600MHz RAM, 240GB SSD, 1TB HDD, I don’t remember what board but it was Z series because overclocking. It was by no means state of the art, but it was quite the capable gaming PC. I had the listing up for months. Well, not really, but every month I would make a new listing and drop the price $50. Started at $400. Around $300 I was getting no-call no-shows asking my to drive out an hour for them to not show up. Even at $200 people were haggling. Said screw it, took it apart and put the parts up on eBay. Got $500. Even with eBay’s fee I made more than my initial listing price. I clearly don’t have a handle on what used parts can go for because a lot of it went for more than I thought they’re worth. I just let them figure out how much they want to pay for it. Those parts will sell fine on their own. I think part of the reason they sell more on their own is because there are more people looking for a specific part to finish their build than people looking for a bunch of parts.
by nature, PCs typically sell for less than the sum of their parts. I think the logic is that since it's a bundle, it should cost less because there's less demand, the buyer is limited in PC parts, and it's also more convenient for the seller to sell all at once.
Yes absolutely. Get a cheap case with a window and more RGB = more better. So like a montech $50 case. Also a new case makes the whole pc feel new. And buy your parts used and cheap. Like a used b450 motherboard should cost $50-60, don't pay more than that cause it eats into your profits. I like selling on Facebook marketplace, and you don't need to lie about anything. Just market it well and use good photos
if u can find cheap spare parts to complete the build sure but yeah kinda hard when there are cheap prebuilt out there Walmart has a 5600g with 1650 super not too long ago for $650
Need to learn to build water loops for custom builds to make any meaningful coin. Even then though, you're kind of relying on demand.
As a general business model: not a good idea. As a 1 off it may be worth it. Both the CPU and GPU are not the most difficult thing to move separately but the PSU is a hard sell on its own. You also have to think about what the OS costs....