Full Gaming Tower from EBAY?

[Brandi93]

I heard a lot of horror stories about PCs not being packed well with air bubble packs for component protection, but those were a pretty long time ago.

Any of you bought gaming PC Towers from ebay before? How was your experience? I find a lot of good deals like $800 PCs with RTX 3060s, i5 12th gen and 1TB SSD, 16GB DDR4, etc.

Any input is appreciated. thanks.

[jaslion]

33 minutes ago, Brandi93 said:

Any of you bought gaming PC Towers from ebay before?

Overal good but sometimes they are just handled roughly and the gpu or cooler if its big detaches/bends stuff and the pc arrives mangled.

 

Thats why you pay with paypal then you get your money back.

 

What pc is it? A custom build or a prebuilt? Share a link or pictures?

[LogicalDrm]

eBay is not store, its marketplace where every ad is from different seller. So no, there won't be any comprehensive promise of decent packaging. Unless the seller is very established for long time and stuff like that. But like with all shipping, you are taking a risk with bigger and more fragile shipments.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 hours ago, Brandi93 said:

I heard a lot of horror stories about PCs not being packed well with air bubble packs for component protection, but those were a pretty long time ago.

Any of you bought gaming PC Towers from ebay before? How was your experience? I find a lot of good deals like $800 PCs with RTX 3060s, i5 12th gen and 1TB SSD, 16GB DDR4, etc.

Any input is appreciated. thanks.

Any examples? If it's a prebuilt like a HP or Dell, there won't be any packing foam but enough brackets and supports to avoid shipping damage (unless it's one someone opened up and customized themselves). 

[Needfuldoer]

It depends entirely on the competence of the seller. 
 

If it’s a reseller that commonly deals in PCs, then there’s a good chance it will be packed properly and arrive in one piece. 
 

If they don’t know enough, or don’t care enough, it will arrive in a beat-up recycled box packed with garbage as void fill. 

[Brandi93]

13 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Any examples? If it's a prebuilt like a HP or Dell, there won't be any packing foam but enough brackets and supports to avoid shipping damage (unless it's one someone opened up and customized themselves). 

 

9 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

It depends entirely on the competence of the seller. 
 

If it’s a reseller that commonly deals in PCs, then there’s a good chance it will be packed properly and arrive in one piece. 
 

If they don’t know enough, or don’t care enough, it will arrive in a beat-up recycled box packed with garbage as void fill. 

I found both Pre-builds like this Acer Nitro ($900 for a 3060Ti) and even pre-builds from German business (custom) like this one, which for $800 comes with a 3060.

[Brandi93]

Couple more examples:

RTX 2080 PC for $750.

RTX 3070 PC for 1,050. 

[LogicalDrm]

On 10/3/2022 at 12:03 AM, Brandi93 said:

Couple more examples:

RTX 2080 PC for $750.

RTX 3070 PC for 1,050. 

First is one-time item, seller seems solid. Second is someone probably selling returned OEM hardware they buy from local retailers. Like they have ton of Acer prebuilds and laptops listed.