sell a pc but for how much?

davilown

Help on pricing for a PC to sell please!

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I have a AMD athlon xp 64bit 3800, 939 motherboard (both of these are one month old), 768mb ram, 40gb hard drive with windows xp home in a pakckard bell case. There is a dvd+/- drive, floppy disc drive, dvi output and BT1040 wireless card, 4 usb 2, and a AMW 17" monitor with 6ms response time. There is a wireless logitech keyboard/mouse, HP deskjet printer with spare cartridges.

How much should I expect to get for this? Do I need to put a reserve and if so how much?

Many thanks

:beer: monster

chuckles1066

davilown wrote:

Help on pricing for a PC to sell please!

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I have a AMD athlon xp 64bit 3800, 939 motherboard (both of these are one month old), 768mb ram, 40gb hard drive with windows xp home in a pakckard bell case. There is a dvd+/- drive, floppy disc drive, dvi output and BT1040 wireless card, 4 usb 2, and a AMW 17" monitor with 6ms response time. There is a wireless logitech keyboard/mouse, HP deskjet printer with spare cartridges.

How much should I expect to get for this? Do I need to put a reserve and if so how much?

Many thanks

:beer: monster

You will invariably find you'll realise more if you break it up and sell all the individual components separately.

Even after eBay/Paypal fees, my 2 year old pc broken up recently fetched me £555.........there's no way I could have sold it as a complete unit for that much.

The reason is, you'll target half a dozen or more different audiences........hard drive, graphics card, sound card, memory, processor, dvd/cd drive, motherboard, psu, monitor.......

Nile

Hello davilown

Your thread will be better placed in the 'Ebay & other auctions' board, so I'll move it across.

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Nile

Blacksheep1979

for a rough idea - take a third off the new price of each item. And yes, you would do far better splitting and selling the components seperately

neilwoods

What a strange combo of parts, an athlon xp 64bit processor with a 40gb hard drive, be lucky to £250 max as a whole.

Broke down may get 300 -350

Blacksheep1979

neilwoods wrote:

What a strange combo of parts, an athlon xp 64bit processor with a 40gb hard drive

not that strange as if the op didn't get sucked into the pcw et al hype that you need a 400gb hard drive to store some digital photos. A 40gb hard drive is more than enough for most people who only have a few programs installed and maybe have 2-3000 photos.

neilwoods

It is an odd combo ad the processor in this Packard bell only goes into the power range, all other models use the intel chipset. The power range start with a 200gb drive.

Must be an oldish computer with just new mobo and chip

Blacksheep1979

yeah it sounds like new mobo and cpu with maybe a bit more ram in the old case.