I spent a month buying and selling used computer hardware in an attempt to make some cash. Here's the advice I can give you if you'd like to start doing the same. Music I Used: • No Copyright Royalty F...
I bought a full built with 600w, amd quad core, 500gb HD , with a side glass panel for 120, poped a gtx 950 that i got for 40$ and sold it for 300 making 140$ profit =D
@@westonwright2670 you see if u transfwer 200 watts from 600 u can get 20 gb of ram using the psu. I flip pc all the time, im very good and make alot of money
I’m going to start now since I don’t have a job because of a bat so this seems like a good form of passive income I also subbed this is a really underrated Channel for such great advice even if it’s one month in Update: to any future flippers pay close attention to socket types and such I just wasted $20 on a cpu cause I thought it said lga 1150 but in reality it said lga 1155 make sure you’re dealing with sellers that know what they are doing and will accept returns if things like this happens do your research properly and you’ll succeed Update 2: I’ve done it again but 3rd times a charm and now my account is sitting at below what it had started when I opened it Update 3: both CPU's got refunded Update 4: parts are coming in Update 5: seller labeled CPU wrong and I'm returning it and buying a new one this time I have resources to help me see everything from compatibility to performance. Update 6: got scammed on eBay for ram but it got settled Update 7:still waiting for a buyer
It's all a learning experience. You may have faced setbacks and failures, but you're not quitting. That says a lot about you. Through the setbacks, you're also gaining knowledge which will be advantageous in the future and arm you with the ability to turn your setbacks around. Knowledge and efficiency go hand in hand. Attitude propels or buries, depending on the type of attitude you use. For example: a fruit farmer experienced a drought that withered his entire crop one summer. Rather than seeing defeat, he focused on finding a solution. He came up with an idea, packaged the withered fruit and labeled it a "Peruvian Delicacy" . . . and the California Rasin company was born. Attitude is the backbone of both defeat and success. Not quitting shows you're already on the right track. Stay strong.
I’m thinking about building a $767 pc and sell it for a higher price and rinse and repeat until I can get a good pc or use the money for something else
@@walterwhite7793 Personally, I would keep only some money for yourself, and continue the pc building. Say u make $300, keep $150 of it and keep going. That way, you can do amazing in tour business and it teaches you good bussiness discipline
Ginstr_ I put a pause on it due to covid....parts have been hard to find and when I do they been to high to make a profit..hoping the market changes in a few months as it get back to normal
Expired Yogurt break the components down see what eBay is selling the used parts for see if it a good deal or not.. my price point I like to stay close to is around 500 to 800... I generally know the parts I need in the machine to make a good deal on the computer... if u can make money piecing it out u can generally make a little profit flipping it
Good job, bro. I flipped three gaming pcs with leftover parts and computers that I had laying around. Made a nice little bit while upgrading my main rig. It’s a fun side hustle.
@@HeroOfTime303 lol i feel that i bought 3 GTX 960 4GB models for 80 bucks a pop before the shortage and sold them all for 180 each then used that to get a GTX 1080 and more RAM. Still got 4 other GPU's too but they're 1060s (all 6GB models) going into some builds.
I have been doing this for over 10 years and I can tell you right now you're pursuing it correctly. Don't think small as in flipping a GPU build a system and sell the system higher profit margin. And yes whenever you can by parts that are selling for cheap using the money you make in profit. None of it is coming out of your pocket I look at as free money.
Am i the only one who doesn't have a friendly neighborhood ex-miner giving graphic cards for 30$ which they could have sold for double the amount with no extra effort?
for real theres one dude in my town that sells pc and he is the digest sketch ball. kinda like interacting with any kind of pawn shop kind of person lol i offered to sell my 2700x he wanted it for 40 bucks haha. i said dam dude hook me up with you source that sells 2700x for 40 bucks lol cause he said that was price he gets em for lol
watching this again 1 1/2 years later that 3 RX570s would make now like 200 - 250 each ;D crazy when i think about it how broken that is. love you man u made me go more into my hobby
u should start recording ur deals, say u are buying or selling a graphics card u should record the process, also sense u are a small youtuber you should make budget build vids u will grow fast trust
Just started flipping too honestly you make the most money off low to mid range builds! Edit: It's 100% possible to average $220+ profit in the northeast if you buy "right". My rule of thumb is if you have RGB, INTEL, SSD, NVIDIA, Windows and Wifi your build will sell like hotcakes.Yeah GPU prices are up right now but a lot of people need cash now. Go out there and make some deals!
You have to consider the time it takes to do all the other deals to build the rest of the pc. So yes you make $420 if you get the exact same deals and sales price each time. But in the mean time you could have flipped for a neat $120 profit and had $210 cash in hand to invest in your next deal. Say you keep doubling your money 3 times just like building 3 computers. You would make $800 in the same amount of time you project to make $420. Have to consider the velocity of your deals/sales volume in dollars vs quantity. But if you find joy in the build process then thats a winning formula being able to do what you love. Just trying to help other flippers grow. Also you can leverage yourself with credit and it really isn’t too risky as you know most things you buy are worst case breakevens. Awesome video, you are a cool guy👍
Im in the process of building my first system that i intend to sell and one thing that I've found challenging is trying to figure out which intel processors are actually good deals and which are just trash cpus. Definitely need to increase my knowledge of the low priced intel processors out there
An easy guideline that I follow is (if I'm building a budget system), is to grab an i7 2000 series intel cpu, or an i5/i7 3000 series intel. As long as it doesn't bottleneck the gpu you have it paired with. Also, you want at least four cores at this point at a minimum.
man, I gotta step up my deal hunting game! I've just started but 50% profit seems insane to me. In my local market it's a stretch to just get $100 profit for the build let alone 50%. But, that only means one thing. I'm simply paying too much for my parts.
personally, I feel like quickly flipping is a bit more efficient than building a whole system. when building a whole system, you need the cash for it and spend the time buidling it etc. just buying cheap parts and flipping erases the time needed to build the PC and source out the parts and you can spend that time looking for more parts to flip. however, I do want to eventually get into selling PCs as a whole but due to my situation, its not viable to try and build pcs. not yet atleast. goodluck to yall
i love this video, im glad you did a video after just starting a month ago, rather than someone who’s reflecting from 10 yrs back lol, i just started thinking about doing pretty much what you’re doing to start making more money, and i’m not a nerd at all, im an artificial blonde who’s never really got there hands dirty on this type of stuff. hopefully i’ll get somewhere with this
You got yourself a new subscriber. Very interesting video, perhaps you could make something like a video of you actually putting all the parts together than selling the PC?
I like the honesty shown here. Like how you said you were not somebody with years of experience. I am thinking if I did not want to work in a shop to get experience upgrading and repairing PCs. This appears to be a good way to go for building up experience in upgrading and repairing PCs.
Yeah, I"d say I went into this little venture with a "ok" amount of computer knowledge, but the amount of things I've picked up here and there over the past 6 months is honestly pretty surprising.
Two Wheels Used Tech , I was thinking of not only to increase my knowledge and skills in computer maintenance and optimization. I was also thinking of doing this to better shop for computer stuff in general. Like saving on computers and laptops.
Hi! Great video! Ive dipped my toes into flipping and your advice has helped me cut some costs and get rolling. Where do you get your windows keys cheaply? Thanks!
Labor, equipment, materials plus overhead. Profit? How do you value your time input? Minimum wage? I had numerous small businesses in my 20s thought i was making money. Not so much. Add it up and charge what your worth for your time. Your talent is worth a grand a week easy. Or twice that. Good luck, be smart. Have a plan and an escape hatch.
I have a very unbalanced pc i feel like so i'm not sure how much to sell it for? Ryzen 3 3200g 16gb of 2400mhz ram 4x4 850 platinum rated psu from evga RX580 8GB MSI 2 500gb hard drives one for windows and one for games AX370-GAMING K7 AORUS motherboard NZXT h510 white case Just needed some advice on what I should do if id like to sell it
I'd say put an SSD in it, most customers don't know what to attribute slow boot times to, so having a fast boot makes sure they don't mistake the computer for a piece of junk. That 2400mhz ram makes me "eh" a bit, it's probably fine to leave in there, but with Ryzen you do want to aim for that 3000mhz sweet spot. Overall though, if you clean it up, know how to set it up for another person, it should be a pretty solid system.
I was a lot more worried about this before I started flipping. But since I've started I've only encountered on person who tried to pull a fast one on me, but I had a good idea that she was going to. Generally my advice is read the people your buying from, based on their replies, how they talk about the item, etc. You can get a good feel for if they're genuine or not.
check ratings if available,, if they message you saying my friend or some dumb shit like that or they tryna sound all goody goody to you, ignore them. literally if anyone messages me "My friend" i ignore their message.
I always say you could do all this through online means, such as eBay and the like. It takes a bit more patience and luck, but it could at least allow you to get a taste of it.
Do you allow the buyer to preview/test on-site before money changes hands? If so, what location do you meet at? I am looking at selling my old pc but don't want to get stabbed and don't feel comfortable previewing it in my home. Was thinking about doing it at work if I had to...
I usually offer to send a video of the computer on and displaying through a monitor. If they are REALLY sketchy, you can also show them the current time and date. But, that's what I would recommend over having them come into your work.
This seems pretty fun to do and way faster than saving im gonna start from tommorow with 100 dollars i wil try to remember to update you in a month bro
I didn't earn enough last year to do taxes, since I started in Oct. But this year I imagine I'll have to look into that and figure out exactly what I made, spent, etc.
It's a tough time to flip parts or systems especially on the gpu side of things also a lot of the time you're dealing with people that are a little less knowledgeable it's annoying to say the least that's my experience in the UK maybe it's easier in the US I don't know but i found it to be a bit of a nightmare honestly
So I was thinking about flipping.... Should I start with a Dell optiflex (cause I heard quite a few people start with that) then should I upgrade it and sell it for a little more on a local selling place?? Is the CPUs in the old prebuild PC's like the optiplex any good? If so then I might have an easier time. Also I think starting with something prebuilt is good because you just have to put in a bit of money.
This is a rather long and deep topic to get into, but I'd say just start flipping with what you can afford and know. My first flip was an optiplex, I wouldn't do that again with what I know now. But starting is more important than how you start.
just found this video and it was amazing! and i want to get into this but i want to know if i should start out with just flipping parts and not full builds? mainly because i’m on the younger side. thanks!
When you mentioned that you have received power supplies that arrived dead when did u find out that it was dead. I just wanted to know how to test if it works before building the whole pc and wasting my time.
There is a hanky way of testing it by shorting the ground and green wire in the 24 pin pin. This will show you if the power supply turns on, but you won't know if it's stable under load until you put it all together. Usually it's recommended to out the whole system together outside the case before assembling it all.
@@twowheelsusedtech7628 yeah will do, I'm not really willing to spend too much money just yet so how much do you think I should pay for a gtx 1050 or something similar to it? same with the ryzen 5
Well avoiding having to redownload them for every system would be a big time saver for you. Check out my video on making a bootable benchmark SSD. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l7ob5uEd7JE.html
So u buy second hand parts. As far as I know , u cannot test all those parts because pc parts dont just "fit" and work in any random pc. Do u buy stuff and resell without testing ?
If i want to sell my current rig but want to keep my files and games so i dont have to re install , can i just remove that drive and put a new drive into that system install windows then done. And as for my new rig, could i just plug in my drive and it should work .? If not what do i do ?
Yes and no, with eBay you run into the problem of lots of competition. I usually find them locally fairly often (facebook marketplace and craigslist), from older people selling them off for super cheap.
@@joshhayden6670 You can very easily find i5 3470's on ebay for around 20$, so I wouldn't say its worth 40. Then, for the 570's max 80ish dollars, but closer to 70. (I'm assuming we're talking about RX 570 and not GTX 570's)
I persoanly don't ship whole computers due to cost and risk, but I do ship singular items like GPU's, Mobo's , etc. Just make sure they are packaged tight, use a anti static bag if you have them and you should be good to go.
I ended up using a dell optiplex 3010 I believe (though different generations are all numbered the same, so a 3010 can be a 8 year old machine, or a brand new machine), but mine had a i7 3770 in it.
hey so Im turning 15 in july and I wanna start earning some cash, is this a good way to make some money as a teen? edit: I built my own pc so i have some experience
Potentially. You'll run into issues occasionally at your age (especially if you can't drive). Usually what I say is you could earn more working at a fast food joint part time, but if you like computers anyway, it's a fun hobby to make some money off of.
I'd say you certainly can, might run into some issues with having to be 18 to sell in certain places such as eBay. As far as the 2600.... something like 50$ USD?
This video is encouraging and great, and seems lucrative until you explore all your local marketplaces and no graphics cards (or other hardware for that matter) worth the time of day are selling for anywhere near these prices, everything close to market value used or new...only things I saw even remotely close to these prices were horridly benchmarked cards and parts-only deals. Am I just looking in the wrong places? Am I not being patient enough? I feel like if you have to spend countless hours digging around for that one nugget of value that your time/money ratio doesn't really pan out too well and you'd have been better off working at your local retail joint.