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| Thread ID: 126066 | 2012-08-05 00:07:00 | What's this worth ? | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 1292997 | 2012-08-05 05:19:00 | The vast bulk of Tradme buyers are looking for low price, and those looking for a bitchin' gaming rig would likely look elsewhere and buy new kit. . I dunno, you should see what some people buy there. It is good quality parts - say 70% of new, you could try Gpforums Buy/Sell section too, they know what they are looking at there, so it's an advantage. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1292998 | 2012-08-05 07:11:00 | It's nice hardware but it appeals to a very small market so the problem you face is finding the right buyer, very few people actually need a 6 core CPU. I would rather build a new i5 ivy bridge based machine than spend that kind of cash on a 2nd hand machine myself because I'm a gamer and the games I play don't need 6 cores. I can't even convince myself I need an 4 core i7 for what I do. All you can do is keep listing it for the price you want and see what happens. The problem is most gamers see no need for that CPU and most serious users that need 6 core machines don't need dual graphics cards and don't buy 2nd hand machines. I'd also sell all but one monitor off seperately as someone else suggested. Perhaps splitting off some parts and selling them as has been suggested could be the way to go. As for your insistance that you'd rather destroy it than sell it off too cheap, that'll get you nowhere. Computers are not an investment, they lose value rapidly and you don't get your money back. It might be worth 3k+ to someone out there but it also might not, that's reality. The new machine you are building will be in the same position in a year or so. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1292999 | 2012-08-05 07:13:00 | If a CPU that cost $1600 a year ago is only worth a third of the price I will not be selling it. I'll modify it with a hammer and dump it. Same for the whole computer.I will not take less than $3500. And that's less than half of what it cost me. It doesn't matter what the original price was, the thing that matters is what the second hand and new prices of everything else is, even at $500 you'd be stupid to buy a second hand 980x which is built for a socket type that is next to dead over a 3770K which retails for less than $500 new and is better than or almost as good as the 980x at basically everything. www.anandtech.com |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1293000 | 2012-08-05 08:16:00 | $3500-odd would build a new, comparable-performance machine, ignoring the printer and the desk. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1293001 | 2012-08-05 09:23:00 | If you're just going to hit it with a hammer send it to me and I'll do it for you. :D I think TradeMe is not going to be the best place to sell a system like that unless, as others have already said, you pull some bits out and bring the main system specs down and sell the rest of the parts as individual items. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
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