Unless you're referring to a MASSIVE scale production, that kind of business model doesn't have very large legs to stand on. Unless you have an insane amount of capital to join an already super competitive market, your best bet is something local as @aisle9 mentioned.
Where are you located? If you're looking to flip builds on Craigslist, yeah, it can be done, more easily some places than others. Bryan's business model at Tech Yes City is basically exactly this: buy stuff cheap, build it into systems worth more than the sum of their parts, sell those off at a hefty profit. I made enough doing this in Florida over the course of a few years that I strongly supplemented my annual income at the expense of not having weekends.
If you're talking about buying bulk components and building systems yourself, I'm not one to kill a dream, but I will say that unless you're ordering thousands upon thousands of a given component, like the big boys (Dell, HP, Acer, etc.) do, you're not going to get a call back from the component manufacturers when you ask about OEM pricing.
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