Building and selling computers

[KidKid]

Hi! Do any of you know of a good way to build and sell electronics, specifically computers? 

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

28 minutes ago, KidKid said:

Hi! Do any of you know of a good way to build and sell electronics, specifically computers? 

Buy old business/enterprise systems from bulk lots, fix em up and sell them for cheap. 

 

There's little room and money from building custom PCs, especially if you're new to it. Plus, those Dell/HP/Lenovo enterprise systems are built like tanks and have significantly lower failure rates than their consumer brethren despite clocking several times more power on time. 

[Shimejii]

46 minutes ago, KidKid said:

Hi! Do any of you know of a good way to build and sell electronics, specifically computers? 

You dont. Biggest problem is finding the buyers, not the parts. You are already operating on pretty razor thin margins, and selling used computers. When you have to buy them used you take on a huge risk of if there is something wrong with the part. Often times you just have to eat the cost of a bad part. If you sell it to someone and they have issues, guess what you now have to give them tech support otherwise refund and voila back to square one.

 

on a small scale it doesnt go all that great, it only really works when you have a big enough business that can eat costs of failed items.

 

You can see whats in demand in your area. Put up some ads for computers with parts you know you can get and see if you get any bites.

[RONOTHAN##]

1 hour ago, KidKid said:

Hi! Do any of you know of a good way to build and sell electronics, specifically computers? 

Generally in my experience, if you want to profit you go the other way around, buy computers and part them out. Most people don't want to pay extra because you assembled the components unless they specifically commissioned you for those exact components (if anything they want a discount as they're buying parts in bulk), so unless you have a source for getting parts for next to nothing, you just can't make a profit. Going the other way around, finding used systems that people are trying to quick sell then selling the GPU, CPU, mobo, and RAM individually can usually make you a bit of money assuming you're good at negotiating a deal on that used system to try parting out.