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So I thought about making custom built budget gaming/rendering pcs and selling it online or on ebay. Now from most of the threads I've read related to this have had some reasonable responses as to why not to bother with something like this. Like one would have to have a warranty and still beat the competitors like best buy or whatever. But thats not what I'm looking for really. I simply want to assemble the best possible gaming/rendering pcs at the lowest price as I can get them at the current time and sell them without an os and no warranty. Basically I just want to market to the people that know what they are doing instead of the kind of people that only need a pc to watch youtube videos or whatever. Yeah no warranty would be a downside but I'm not trying to make crap hp or dell computers that have pretty crap parts and have no real performance gains based off the prices they are sold for. ofc I will have a returning policy that would be pretty reasonable, like a month or something. The company I work for basically operates the same way that I would like to. They are a small company that assembles or resells pcs or servers or even just the parts on ebay. They don't have a warranty because they aren't selling to the average consumer and thats what I'm aiming for my self.

Basically what I'm asking is how would I go about this. Is there a licenses of some sort I should get? Would I make more off my own site vs ebay?
 
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If you sell it, you have to give warranty - it's law. If you advertise as not having a warranty, no-one will buy from you. Also if you are more expensive.
Have a look at what is already being offered. Eg in Australia, PCCG build for $100 plus components. See: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1411&vk_sort=4. They have SLI 780 systems at the top end. Or they will build for you according to your own design build.
PCCG would do business the same as a lot of other PC component sellers eg NCIX, Newegg. Then there's the guys who prefer to build their own PC anyway. Especially if you can't get all the components you want from one place.
So you'd have to compete to get any business. If you think you can compete, then the...
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If you sell it, you have to give warranty - it's law. If you advertise as not having a warranty, no-one will buy from you. Also if you are more expensive.
Have a look at what is already being offered. Eg in Australia, PCCG build for $100 plus components. See: http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1411&vk_sort=4. They have SLI 780 systems at the top end. Or they will build for you according to your own design build.
PCCG would do business the same as a lot of other PC component sellers eg NCIX, Newegg. Then there's the guys who prefer to build their own PC anyway. Especially if you can't get all the components you want from one place.
So you'd have to compete to get any business. If you think you can compete, then the rest of us would welcome hearing from you. We're all always on the lookout for a better deal.
 
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Its required by law? And really I wasn't gonna sell them that much more than how much it costed to obtain the parts. Was aiming for 30-50 dollar profit per build. If its required by law to have a warranty does that mean as an option that I can offer when people purchase the builds or does that mean I have to actually include the warranty with every singe purchase without the customers choice?
 
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If you sell it, it's gotta be fit for purpose and as described. Eg if an i74770k doesn't work, then its neither and you'd have to supply another or do a refund. Same with every other bit in the PC - fans, mobo, ram, coolers, ssd, hdd, psu, et, etc.

Also $50 isn't that much when you would also have to test the thing - posting, OS loading, CPU and GPU temp testing, drivers up to date, blah blah blah. Have I put you off yet? lol
 
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I'm confused here, a warranty and returns aren't two different things? I thought a warranty was something like replacement plans that last a year or something. Like I said earlier I don't mind doing a 1 month return policy.
 
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A warranty is a guarantee. You can have a guarantee that results in different sorts of compensation if you sell a faulty product. You can let the customer return the product, usually at his cost, and either provide a replacement or his money back. You might want to have the return tested to verify whether it is faulty. To do this, you might need to send it to the manufacturer via an RMA. They might also replace it or repair it.
But your responsibility is to your customer. You in turn need to work out something with your supplier. For example if your supplier still hasn't returned the prodcut after say 5 months, you might need to replace the item at your own cost till you can recover an OK part from your supplier.
 
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