Am I a bad person for selling at this price?

[Baeger]

So my buddy's buying one of my old desktops, I'm offering it to him for 500 GBP and it's about 3 years old, BUT he knows absolutely nothing about PCs and I know a fair bit but I'm no expert, so am I being a bit of a dick for selling it to him at that price or is it reasonably justified? I don't wanna be a bad friend of course but I wanna get my money's worth so I can get a new laptop.  

I offered to make some upgrades for him and put up the price to 600gbp but is that enough or even worse?  

Specs are below

 

TLDR; Selling my GORON PC to a buddy at 500gbp, is this too much?

 

GORON (Currently my LAN Rig): i5 2500k @3.3GHz, Asus P8Z68V-LX Motherboard, Asus Geforce GTX 760, 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 @1333Mhz), EVGA 100-W1-0500-KR PSU, Standard 5200RPM 500GB HDD

[Sauron]

500GBP is pushing it to be honest, I would not pay more than 350 for it given its age and performance. Depending on the power supply and storage solution (do you have an ssd? if so what model and in what capacity?) it may be worth a little more but generally that should be a fair estimate. If you plan on making upgrades, add their cost to the 350 baseline and maybe bump it up by 10-20GBP for your labour, that would be fair.

 

-on a side note, iirc it's against the rules to have a signature longer than 3 lines - you can show your system specs on your home page

[Baeger]

17 minutes ago, Sauron said:

500GBP is pushing it to be honest, I would not pay more than 350 for it given its age and performance. Depending on the power supply and storage solution (do you have an ssd? if so what model and in what capacity?) it may be worth a little more but generally that should be a fair estimate. If you plan on making upgrades, add their cost to the 350 baseline and maybe bump it up by 10-20GBP for your labour, that would be fair.

 

-on a side note, iirc it's against the rules to have a signature longer than 3 lines - you can show your system specs on your home page

Power supply is 500w bronze EVGA one, it's brand new unlike the rest of the PC

Storage right now is just a 5200rpm HDD but I offered to put a 120gb SSD in there for free

well thanks for a better idea on the price I'll say 350 to him and then 400 if he wants a 1.5tb hard drive or something

 

also, sorry, didn't know that was a rule, I'll fix that now  

[thekeemo]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

500GBP is pushing it to be honest, I would not pay more than 350 for it given its age and performance. Depending on the power supply and storage solution (do you have an ssd? if so what model and in what capacity?) it may be worth a little more but generally that should be a fair estimate. If you plan on making upgrades, add their cost to the 350 baseline and maybe bump it up by 10-20GBP for your labour, that would be fair.

 

-on a side note, iirc it's against the rules to have a signature longer than 3 lines - you can show your system specs on your home page

not really anymore because it auto truncates

and OP taking advantage of someone is a horrible thing to do

[79wjd]

19 minutes ago, Sauron said:

-on a side note, iirc it's against the rules to have a signature longer than 3 lines - you can show your system specs on your home page

Does that still apply now that signatures automatically get truncated? 

9 minutes ago, Baeger said:

Power supply is 500w gold EVGA one, it's brand new unlike the rest of the PC

Storage right now is just a 5200rpm HDD but I offered to put a 120gb SSD in there for free

well thanks for a better idea on the price I'll say 350 to him and then 400 if he wants a 1.5tb hard drive or something

Well, you could build a comparable system (i5-6500+RX460) for about $570 USD (so probably 600GBP~), and that's with an 80+ bronze PSU. So....

 

EDIT: 520GBP w/ an 80+ Bronze PSU:  http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4H4JM8

[Baeger]

Just now, thekeemo said:

not really anymore because it auto truncates

and OP taking advantage of someone is a horrible thing to do

Yeah but it's not like I'm doing it on purpose, I just have no idea how much the parts are worth and that was the first price that popped into my head (taking into consideration the price I paid for it new, the amount of time I've owned it and rough equivalent current gen parts).  

That's why I'm asking you guys about this, I don't wanna take advantage of a friend obviously but at the same time I want to get the maximum value I can for this PC 

[thekeemo]

59 minutes ago, Baeger said:

Yeah but it's not like I'm doing it on purpose, I just have no idea how much the parts are worth and that was the first price that popped into my head (taking into consideration the price I paid for it new, the amount of time I've owned it and rough equivalent current gen parts).  

That's why I'm asking you guys about this, I don't wanna take advantage of a friend obviously but at the same time I want to get the maximum value I can for this PC 

Way I see it the only way to get maximum value IS to take advantage of someone so its one or the other

[Baeger]

2 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

Way I see it the only way to get maximum value IS to take advantage of someone so its one or the other

Eh, Sauron's rough price he gave me seems to be a good compromise You are technically right though, I just don't wanna be a complete dick

[Straudz]

That's an older machine.  Give him back 150 bucks or so.

[Sauron]

12 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Does that still apply now that signatures automatically get truncated? 

Apparently not, I'll have to reread the coc one of these days

[Canada EH]

A 2nd gen cpu computer, I'd say 100-125 GBP is reasonable and 175 GBP is retail store value.

[79wjd]

8 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

A 2nd gen cpu computer, I'd say 100-125 GBP is reasonable and 175 GBP is retail store value.

Yeah...no, that's just ridiculous. 

 

A comparable Skylake/Polaris-based system would be 520-550GBP. So 400GBP would be fair. 

[Canada EH]

....for a  i5 2500k?

[stconquest]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£163.98 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£48.43 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£25.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£35.95 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Travelstar Z7K500 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Superclocked Video Card  (£145.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Aerocool Aero-500 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£29.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£36.22 @ More Computers)
Total: £516.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-30 05:06 BST+0100

 

Soooo...  500?  You're a huge dick! 

 

Even 350 is pushing it, the thing is old. 

[Baeger]

10 hours ago, stconquest said:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£163.98 @ Ebuyer)
Motherboard: ASRock H110M-DGS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (£48.43 @ More Computers)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  (£25.99 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£35.95 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Hitachi Travelstar Z7K500 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£29.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 2GB Superclocked Video Card  (£145.98 @ Ebuyer)
Case: Aerocool Aero-500 ATX Mid Tower Case  (£29.99 @ Ebuyer)
Power Supply: XFX TS 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  (£36.22 @ More Computers)
Total: £516.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-30 05:06 BST+0100

 

Soooo...  500?  You're a huge dick! 

 

Even 350 is pushing it, the thing is old. 

Fair point  

[greaves1111]

maybe knock off 100?