Reselling to pay for PC parts? Ways to improve?

[Sirgeorge]

 

I payed for my PC by reselling but I want to know if anyone here has any better tips on how to do it. Do you have any other sites besides amazon or ebay? Do you go the Alibaba way and if so what is your style? You get the point. Let's share some money making techniques so we can all upgrade our rigs with the upcoming hardware in 2017.

[tarfeef101]

I think you're talking about selling old hardware to be replaced by new stuff you want to buy. If that's the case, here are the places I sell

• School classifieds page on facebook
  • Since I go to university, we have one of these. Easier to trust your fellow students, and there's less annoying negotiators, as well as more reliable people in terms of following through on meetup plans.
• Kijiji
  • This is craigslist for Canada
• Craigslist
  • This is craigslist
• The classifieds on this site
  • This is a great forum, so sell stuff here!
• r/Hardwareswap
  • I don't use this, but a lot of people do.

[AshleyAshes]

My secret is to work every day, then every two weeks they put money in my bank account and I can then use those funds to purchase goods and services.  It's a neat trick I picked up and so far it's earned me tens of thousands of dollars every year!

[dizmo]

2 minutes ago, tarfeef101 said:

I think you're talking about selling old hardware to be replaced by new stuff you want to buy. If that's the case, here are the places I sell

• School classifieds page on facebook
  • Since I go to university, we have one of these. Easier to trust your fellow students, and there's less annoying negotiators, as well as more reliable people in terms of following through on meetup plans.
• Kijiji
  • This is craigslist for Canada  Eastern Canada and the Prairies
• Craigslist
  • This is craigslist
• The classifieds on this site
  • This is a great forum, so sell stuff here!
• r/Hardwareswap
  • I don't use this, but a lot of people do.

fify

2 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

My secret is to work every day, then every two weeks they put money in my bank account and I can then use those funds to purchase goods and services.  It's a neat trick I picked up and so far it's earned me tens of thousands of dollars every year!

We seem to be a small breed here.

[Wolther]

2 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

My secret is to work every day, then every two weeks they put money in my bank account and I can then use those funds to purchase goods and services.  It's a neat trick I picked up and so far it's earned me tens of thousands of dollars every year!

Um.. What? He never said he didn't work, he probably just wants to save some money by selling parts of his rig to help pay for new parts. 

There's plenty of things you can spend on the money you saved by doing this and I can't see why you'd not want to.

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

fify

We seem to be a small breed here.

 

buy stocks i have a lot of money in stocks. 

[dizmo]

44 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

buy stocks i have a lot of money in stocks. 

I invest in more tangible things.

[bossman1]

47 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

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pfffffft working for the man are you

work is over rated

its about working smarter not harder

[Quinnbeast]

7 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

My secret is to work every day, then every two weeks they put money in my bank account and I can then use those funds to purchase goods and services.  It's a neat trick I picked up and so far it's earned me tens of thousands of dollars every year!

Total con. Sounds like a pyramid scheme to me.

[AshleyAshes]

4 minutes ago, Quinnbeast said:

Total con. Sounds like a pyramid scheme to me.

There are people above me who make more money... ...And people above them who make more money...

 

...SON OF A BITCH! D:

[ProjectBox153]

I get what I can for my stuff and then find the best deals on new parts. Of course, you'll have to throw in some of your own money in addition to what you got from selling your old stuff, but it always works well for me.

[Quinnbeast]

1 hour ago, AshleyAshes said:

There are people above me who make more money... ...And people above them who make more money...

 

...SON OF A BITCH! D:

 

I KNEW IT!

 

Perhaps all is not lost. What if (and this might sound a little far-fetched) you took the place of someone higher up the pyramid?? We must think of a name for such a maneuver. The people must be told.

[Sirgeorge]

13 hours ago, CoolJ S.A.S. said:

Every year I upgrade my video cards. I found a few friends who needed  video cards anyways, so I just sell to them, and when they go to upgrade there's someone below their tier of card looking to upgrade too. If they can't sell it to someone, I look for someone for them. So basically, 2-3 of us can just rotate graphics cards every year. You could try that with people you know if you can, and maybe work something out so every time you go to upgrade, you already have people lined up to buy.

 

 

13 hours ago, tarfeef101 said:

I think you're talking about selling old hardware to be replaced by new stuff you want to buy. If that's the case, here are the places I sell

• School classifieds page on facebook
  • Since I go to university, we have one of these. Easier to trust your fellow students, and there's less annoying negotiators, as well as more reliable people in terms of following through on meetup plans.
• Kijiji
  • This is craigslist for Canada
• Craigslist
  • This is craigslist
• The classifieds on this site
  • This is a great forum, so sell stuff here!
• r/Hardwareswap
  • I don't use this, but a lot of people do.

 

 

13 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

My secret is to work every day, then every two weeks they put money in my bank account and I can then use those funds to purchase goods and services.  It's a neat trick I picked up and so far it's earned me tens of thousands of dollars every year!

 

 

13 hours ago, dizmo said:

fify

We seem to be a small breed here.

 

 

13 hours ago, Wolther said:

Um.. What? He never said he didn't work, he probably just wants to save some money by selling parts of his rig to help pay for new parts. 

There's plenty of things you can spend on the money you saved by doing this and I can't see why you'd not want to.

 

 

13 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

buy stocks i have a lot of money in stocks. 

 

12 hours ago, dizmo said:

I invest in more tangible things.

 

12 hours ago, bossman1 said:

pfffffft working for the man are you

work is over rated

its about working smarter not harder

 

 

5 hours ago, Quinnbeast said:

Total con. Sounds like a pyramid scheme to me.

 

5 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

There are people above me who make more money... ...And people above them who make more money...

 

...SON OF A BITCH! D:

 

 

5 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I get what I can for my stuff and then find the best deals on new parts. Of course, you'll have to throw in some of your own money in addition to what you got from selling your old stuff, but it always works well for me.

 

 

4 hours ago, Quinnbeast said:

 

I KNEW IT!

 

Perhaps all is not lost. What if (and this might sound a little far-fetched) you took the place of someone higher up the pyramid?? We must think of a name for such a maneuver. The people must be told.

 

Well, selling old parts to pay for new off my rig is one thing I've been looking at but I was also thinking about new secondary sources of money investment. I actually started work on setting up an amazon business and getting in contact with a buy in bulk manufacturer to make profit that way. I wanted to know if anyone had a better idea then that. I'm sorry if I confused you with my wording. I'll try to make it clearer next time.

[dizmo]

16 minutes ago, Sirgeorge said:

 

Well, selling old parts to pay for new off my rig is one thing I've been looking at but I was also thinking about new secondary sources of money investment. I actually started work on setting up an amazon business and getting in contact with a buy in bulk manufacturer to make profit that way. I wanted to know if anyone had a better idea then that. I'm sorry if I confused you with my wording. I'll try to make it clearer next time.

Buying in bulk requires a large initial investment. It would depend entirely on your margins, what you have to do to ship, shipping costs, etc etc.

[tarfeef101]

13 minutes ago, CoolJ S.A.S. said:

You can try day trading instead, as suggested by @nerdslayer1. You can also try something like mutual funds. I don't know if you do this already, but that's what I'm doing right now, but it's a lot less risky than buying products to sell, and you can end up with way more profit if you go that route.

Before you start daytrading, understand it is very risky, and has caused many people serious financial problems. It can be done, and is sometimes even successful. But, before you get into it, do your research and make sure you understand the risks. I've seen way too many people lose too much money to not give you that warning. 

[TheBestUserName]

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