Realistic price ?

[Steve Campbell]

Hi folks, having built his own gaming pc, my 15 year old son is selling off an old pc and separately a graphics card as below to fund a new monitor he wants. I’m trying to help him but am not really knowledgeable on these things. Can anyone help let me know if the price he’s asking is reasonable .... and if not...what would be a price he should expect. He has advertised for a week but Gumtree gets the usual chancers offering silly numbers.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/video-cards-sound-cards/...

https://www.gumtree.com/p/desktop-workstation-pcs/...

Thanks
Steve

[colin79666]

PC: £100ish (think you are being a bit optimistic at £185)
Graphics card: £90-120 (based on eBay sold for figures so you are about bang on)

If you have a CEX shop (careful with the spelling if you Google that!) near you then it might be worth seeing what they would offer. Probably a bit less but it is cash in hand and no hassle.

Edited by colin79666 on Wednesday 30th January 19:26

[Steve Campbell]

Hi Colin. Does the £100 for PC include the fact he's including a monitor, keyboard and mouse ? It's effectively a plug and play.

Thanks for your help. If anyone has contrary views, happy to hear your perspective !

[dundarach]

Just be careful selling PC stuff, there's a load of real numpties out there, especially for this kind of thing.....

Like already said take it to CEX for an easy deal!

[colin79666]

PCs of 3 or 4 years old that originally cost £600 don't have much value as the market is flooded with ex business machines of a similar age and advances in tech mean a brand new machine of equivalent spec is only £250. Just about everyone wants a widescreen monitor now and second hand values are really low. Keyboards and mice and pretty much worthless used unless specialist gaming units.

So yes £100 includes the monitors and other bits I'm afraid. You could get lucky and someone might be willing to pay a little more but £100 is the going rate. 22 bids and this only went for £70 on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-8GB-Ram-AMD-A10-5800...

As above by dundarach and I, see what CEX, Cash Converter or similar would offer as it might be worth going that route. If you go Gumtree or eBay then some idiot buyer might try and come back to you if it fails/for tech support. Whichever way you go be sure to properly wipe the hard drive first (Google DBAN).

Edited by colin79666 on Thursday 31st January 20:17

[Steve Campbell]

Thanks all. Yes hard drive is wiped.

We will show any buyer that it works before sale...and I'll provide a written receipt of sold as seen...after that they can go jump. There is nothing wrong with any of the kit.

Thanks for advice, much appreciated.

[snuffy]

colin79666 said:

If you go Gumtree or eBay then some idiot buyer might try and come back to you if it fails/for tech support.

The last things I sold on ebay were PC parts. After all the ste I had to put up with from buyers I closed by account and will not go near the site ever again. I tried Gumtree and got nowhere. I'd now rather chuck stuff in the bin than flog it on ebay or Gumtree. It seems a massive waste of money I know but then ebay is a massive cesspit of fraudsters and bellends.