What a find...

PCBudgetSolutions · May 2, 2013

So I've been in the pc upgrading and resale market for quite some time, specifically on eBay. I've found the most profit to be here and what sells vs what doesn't. A good example is of what sells:
Main brands IE Dells/HP over customs

Processors like the Q6600

NVidia over AMD

Pure specs over performance

Windows experience index

This makes it difficult to be ethical while making money, but I tend to be very specific and most PC's I sell are geared towards budget gamers. But today I found a STEAL. Dell workstation, QX6700 Extreme Quad Core, with 2x2GB DDR2, takes ECC ram which I have a ton of, a GTS 450 and 2 raptor HD's. Now I sold an HP XW4600 E8400, 4GB DDR2, GTS 450 as an entry level gamer, meets the min specs for games like Crysis 3 and pulled 350 bucks with only 100 invested. I also sold a PC with a Q6600 4GB DDR2 and a 9800 as a basic gamer for 325 with only 75 invested into it. I've sold over 300 PC's over the past few years and I estimate this PC to have a 400-500 dollar market value, especially with 8GB of ram and a decent WEI, and I bought it for 160. I have bid on a bunch of off lease Dell's with E7500's and 4GB DDR2 for about 75 bucks, hoping to toss in a GTX 650 and market them as budget gamers as well. It's an interesting market, and I try to b sure that I don't mislead people as it's a HUGE ethical issue that I have. I sold a friends PC with an I3-530 4GB DDR3 and a HD 5450 as a media PC with light gaming and it sold for 400.... and I even felt bad for that one.

Emkryan · May 2, 2013

You monster...

PCBudgetSolutions · May 2, 2013

Pretty siked that I got that for that price. I've done this on the side, but now since I am an unemployed student, I have alot more time to do this more often using my bank account + unemployment comp :)

xkronusx · May 2, 2013

To be honest you gotta do what you gotta do, some places its hard getting a job other then general labour.

Created my own computer repair business a while ago, flipping computers is just part of the deal sometimes.

I find its easiest to sell those computers to older folk, its still an upgrade to them and you make money on top of it, you could purchase new parts for less

but then you make no money and no money can mean no food for a student.