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Grimsilver

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Hello! I am currently selling my computer with plans to downgrade, and I am having issues deciding on a price. It works perfectly fine, and is not overclocked at the moment. I am curious as to what people think I could get for it, with say a minimum price I should ask for, and a max. Naturally I know they are all opinions, but I am just looking for some feedback. If these are the wrong forums, I am sorry, I really was not sure on where to ask. Anywho, here is the part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Grimsilver/saved/1KE1

Thanks for looking!
 
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MiniNinja6

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If I was buying this system from you I would not pay over $1500. If you are willing to sell it for $1000 Ill be considering it, but I wont be buying it till later this summer. My suggestion is to put it on ebay at a starting price of $1000 or less, and a buy it now price of $1400. But that's just my opinion.
 
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Darkman69

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I would never spend that much on used parts of questionable repair. For $1000 a brand new rig with similar performance can be had. OP should not sell that rig as he will lose money on it or rip someone off and both ways is losing IMO.
 
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drtoast

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Depends how long you've had it and the condition.

If it was perfect and you'd only run it two days you could probably label it as assembled and tested and get over what you payed...

More than a month? then minininja would be about right. and darkman, you should take a look at what companies price their rigs at, someone would leap at a pc like that, even slightly pre owned for its components value, a lot of people looking for pre built rigs dont know any better.
 
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Grimsilver

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I have had lots of stupid offers (The highest has been $600 so far lol) but I'm used to that in my area, lots of cheap asses. As far as how used it is, it is around 3 months old, and it has been used a fair bit, but not run ragged of course. It is still in perfect shape, I dust it out every 2 weeks and it's never been dinged or anything, never had hardware issues etc. I was considering eBay, but I honestly have not used it in years, so I'm not sure how reliable it would be now. Wouldn't it be rough for me to sell with 0 feedback?
 
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The parts are ~1400 retail. Now used parts of unknown vintage and maintenance. I would not consider buying it at anything over $750.
And building new for $750 (incl a new OS) would mean a much lesser quality machine.

Try it for $1200-$1400. You might reel in some fool.
It is only 'worth' what someone else is willing to pay.
 
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It's simple system depreciation. This is how you calculate the value:

Take what you paid for it, subtract the salvage value, and divide by the life of the rig. Then subtract that amount each year of the life of your rig.

For example a $1500 rig, with a salvage value of $400, divided by 3 years would depreciate like this:

(($1500 - $400 )/3) = $366

First year: $1500 - $366 = $1134

Second year: $1134 - $366 = $768

Third year multiply by the month of sale: $366 * (7/12) = $213

$768 - $213 = $555

This is how you get the book value of your rig. Then maybe add $100 - $150 depending on the condition.
 
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Darkman69

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I would subtract allot more than that because of the chance that the hardware was abused or neglected. Better off for someone e to start off fresh and buy a whole new $1000 rig with full and complete factory warranties imo.
 
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That's a whole different subject altogether. The basic fornula I quote for depreciation doesn't take into account things like active warranties, or condition of the product, appraisals, things of that nature.
 
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Darkman69

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I am not trying to refute the formula you presented I am just saying that buying used computer parts is akin to buying used underwear imo LOL.
 
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How exactly do you 'use' an OS? As a virtual product it doesnt... age in the same way at all, its practically inconsequential.
 
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MiniNinja6

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I meam that it is not a fesh install, possible changes have been made and programs have bin run on it. A fresh copy is worth more
 
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