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Originally Posted by Gabethebabe
100-150€ per computer
About 15-20%
I'm not really in it for the money. I enjoy chasing cheap components and being the first to buy, building a solid PC, selling for a decent price and have a happy customer.
My son's gaming PC looks different every week, due to me swapping components lol
In your experience, do people pay a markup because it's ready made even if it's used and the sum of the individual components price is lower than the whole build?
With new CPUs coming this fall, I am thinking of building one high AMD and one high end Intel system, doing tests on which one handles poker programs and then selling the one which is left behind.
But I think that's tricky, because of the advantages new parts have is the warranty that comes with it. From the buyer's point of view, it doesn't make sense to pay for a new or newish PC if there's no warranty on the new parts. But if I tell the buyer that I am going to help him with any warranty issues, I am committing myself to helping some random deal with the RMA process for a power supply or whatever.
I don't want to do that. But if I don't do that, I am ether looking for a sucker or selling a new pc at a loss.
The other issue is finding an appropriate GPU for the high end CPU. That also narrows down the market and you need to make a shrewd choice. And obviously the high end market is smaller than the low end.
So, although the idea is intriguing and I am inching to build and experiment for the sake of it, I am concerned about these pitfalls.