I’m wanting to sell my computer and start fresh building a new one. It cost me close to $13,000 to put everything together in it and I want to unload it before it depreciates much more. I figured Ebay is probably the best place, but I’m not sure what to make the reserve limit.
How much do you guys think I could get for it with everything below included? Everything! HARDWARE: Antec Full tower case with 400W ATX 2 custom power supply and 5 case fans(cooled to room temp) Tyan S1832DL Dual CPU Tiger 100 Motherboard Intel Dual(2) 550Mhz Pentium III’s w/Custom Heatsinks SimpleTech 768MB Cas-2 PC100 SDRAM (128mb in each of 2 slots, 256mb in 2 slots) Maxtor Quad(4) Ultra ATA-66 40gig HDD’s @ 7200RPM w/2mb buffers (Running Striped Level 0 Raid Array in Single
160 Gigabyte Partition) Promise Fasttrack66 Ultra ATA-66 Level 0/1 Raid Controller 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV Video Card w/3dcool custom heatsink + ATT Cable TV service Sony 6-Head Hifi S-VHS VCR w/remote, Dolby 5.1 and S-Video Creative SBLive Full w/SPDIF Digital Daughter Card Bose Acoustimass 15 Home Theatre surround sound speakers ($2000.00) Pioneer VSX-D557 600Watt Dolby-Digital Receiver (Pioneer’s 1999 top of the line receiver) Cerwin Vega 15" Powered Down-firing Subwoofer 3Com Fast Etherlink XL Combo Deluxe 10/100 Ethernet NIC (Running at 100mbs per sec) Motorola CyberSurfer Wave Cable Modem w/cable sevice@8Mbps per sec 3Com USB 56K ISDN Modem (Never gets used) Toshiba SD-M1212 6X DVD HP Surestore 4X4X24 CD Writer Kenwood Zen 72X True-X CD-ROM Iomega 250mb Zip Drive 3Com Home Connect USB Digital Video Camera Netgear 4-port 100mbps Hub Belkin 4-port USB Hub Microsoft Internet Keyboard w/Accessory Keys Microsoft Intellimouse Pro USB w/Intellieye Laser Quantex 21" Diamondtron Flatscreen Digital CRT Monitor HP Deskjet 812C USB Printer APC Surge Arrest Pro w/6 outlets and Modem protection. APC Backups 500 Series w/3 outlets and 10mins. Battery power.
MAIN SOFTWARE: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Retail (Dual booting Windows 98 Second Edition) Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition (All Programs Loaded)
I have the strangest feeling that anyone with anything close to 10,000 dollars will be hell bent on buying his parts himself. Also ask yourself this: what happens if you post for $8K and it doesn’t sell? OH NO! You’ll have to post it again. Not exactly torture.
Your cost means nothing. I am looking to buy a used laptop and I keep hearing people tell me “but it cost me $2000 just two years ago”. Sorry buddy, today it is not worth $500. the market is what counts.
Also, in Ebay the reserve price means you are not obligated to sell under that, not that you can’t. many sales are under the reserve when the seller realizes the bids are just not coming in.
Are you sure you can post it on eBay? What’s the legality of selling software?
There was article in today’s LA Times about eBay con artists, and one of them was caught for pretending to sell computers. You might face some skepticism. Some E-Auction Users Get Less Than They Bargain For
Good luck! I have no idea how much to ask. Probably, like KarmaComa said, start high and work your way down.
{{{Are you sure you can post it on eBay? What’s the legality of selling software?}}}—AW
Short of a proper transfer of all program media and licenses with the sale, he’ll have to ditch the OS’es and program installations. One can always try to let it slide, but with the BSA and Microsoft on the rampage lately, it just isn’t worth the risk.
Sky, your investment looks like one at retail pricing. I hate to say it but, given the current market, you’ll be doing good to recoup 50% of what you spent on it.
Use the A/V components elsewhere.
Dump the Raid 0, go with Raid 1 and use it as a server at home. Pratically speaking, you’re better off getting the use out of it that than taking a serious hit on your wallet. If you use it for your continuing education (thinking W2K or MSDBA Cert here), you can actually deduct your investment as an professional educational expense.
–Kalél TheHungerSite.com
“If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.”
“Well, there was that thing with the Cheese-Wiz…but I’m feeling much better now!” – John Astin, Night Court
Try this analogy: my neighbor spent 1.2 million building his dream house. He was estatic when the town only assessed it for $838k. Then he got transferred. After 6 months, the real estate broker convinced him that he should accept an offer for $862k. As the real estate broker explained it, he built his own dream house, not necessarily someone elses.
Now, I can buy all the computer I need at COSTCO for $2300, and it’s NEW. If I add the features I want, I might spend another $800. Why should I gamble on a pig-in-the-poke used computer from someone I’ve never met??
I think you are much better off selling everything seperately.
It is my opnion (from lurking around eBay enough, and selling a few things there) is that computer geeks who would be able to properly appreciate the “dream” PC you have built would probably be building one themselves. Which means that they’d be looking for parts, and individual components. They might look at your comprehensive configuration and think “Nice! But I don’t want this particular thing, and I already have that thing, so I’ll pass on the whole enchilada that this person is selling.”
My advice would be to strip the PC down to a “bare bones” (or less fancy and souped-up) system, sell that. Then sell all the other goodies seperately.
Also - another thought: Have you been a member of eBay for a while? Do you have any “feedback” points? If you haven’t signed up for eBay yet, my advice would be to SIGN UP RIGHT NOW. Earn some feedback points.
I’ve done a lot of browsing in the computer section (I especially am looking for an iMac) on eBay. Whenever I see a computer that is selling for a lot less than other simular computers, it is because the seller is new, and has little or no feedback points by their name. Buyers who are thinking of forking out a lot of money to a stranger want to feel some confidence that this person has had a decent track record selling and buying on eBay. So, it would be worth your while to buy (and sell, if you want) a few small items first. You will not be sorry that you did - those feedback points are profoundly important.
well, i agree that you should sell the parts separately…
you probably wont get much more that half the price, maybe 5,000$ if you sell the entire thing.
you have many useful components that you would end up buying again for more than you could sell them for. (that is assuming you really have this stuff)
does nobody else see this post as a heap of dung?
i vote troll.
please prove me otherwise.
what is essential is invisible to the eye -the fox
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-From the Brother Jed flyer-
My gut reaction was similar, (Sys Admins are generally not possessed of such naiveté) but I figured that, given the benefit of the doubt, things would come to the surface on their own.
I tend to agree, and have noticed the same pattern with other very recent “Newbies.”
Wondering if IP filtering might help out with the Troll issue, but guessing it to be less than feasible.
As yosemitebabe says, the advice stands to benefit others.
–Kalél TheHungerSite.com
“If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.”
“Well, there was that thing with the Cheese-Wiz…but I’m feeling much better now!” – John Astin, Night Court
