Selling Computers Online & EBay!

[slowride326]

Hello Technibble Members,

The local school system and government offices, sells there computers, when they upgrade. I have found deals such as 30 Dell Opitplex 755 with Windows 7 COA for $150.00. The only thing is they have no harddrive. So I currently work as a technician and legally I cannot sale or service in my area. So that has made me come up with a plan to purchase theses systems, refurb them and sell on my website, and ebay? What do you think? What kind of warranties can you honestly offer with a computer that is being shipped across the united states. Places to obtain bulk harddrives?

Thanks,
Payton

PS: Not sure if this is right forum for this topic. Oh well moderator you can move it if needed!

 

[Kitten Kong]

Couple of things. Why can you not service or sell in your area?. Have you signed a non compete or similar?

If your looking at refurb ing them, the you need to be a registered Ms refurbisher. There's plenty of threads on the forum re this, inc a sticky I wrote in the windows sub forum.

You can then refurb the machines, (adding in the cost of the coa's) sell to whoever you want to, how ever you want to. Offer your standard warranty. It doesn't matter where the machine is ending up, it could be the other side of the world.

I'm not sure of what the legalities are in the US. But some techs offer 30 day warranty, some 60,90, 120 etc, up to 2 years. As long as the machine is packaged up securely then there shouldn't be a issue with damages in delivery.

Re the hard drives, either try new egg, tiger, or start looking at some distributors, Ingram etc.

 

[SprinterTech-WI]

Hello Technibble Members,

The local school system and government offices, sells there computers, when they upgrade. I have found deals such as 30 Dell Opitplex 755 with Windows 7 COA for $150.00. The only thing is they have no harddrive. So I currently work as a technician and legally I cannot sale or service in my area. So that has made me come up with a plan to purchase theses systems, refurb them and sell on my website, and ebay? What do you think? What kind of warranties can you honestly offer with a computer that is being shipped across the united states. Places to obtain bulk harddrives?

Thanks,
Payton

PS: Not sure if this is right forum for this topic. Oh well moderator you can move it if needed!

Honestly I can get those fully refurbed with a 90day warranty for barely over $100 wholesale, or newegg has them for $150 or so... no way I know of where with a $75 profit you'll cover floating them, hard drives, os install and imaging, the refurbished license, shipping, warranty etc....

even in our stores that's a $200 unit TOPS with a 500GB drive and 4GB of ram.

 

[aweston]

Honestly I can get those fully refurbed with a 90day warranty for barely over $100 wholesale, or newegg has them for $150 or so... no way I know of where with a $75 profit you'll cover floating them, hard drives, os install and imaging, the refurbished license, shipping, warranty etc....

even in our stores that's a $200 unit TOPS with a 500GB drive and 4GB of ram.

Umm. I think he means $150 for all 30 of them. It's not at all uncommon to get skids of them for that kind of money.

 

[SprinterTech-WI]

Umm. I think he means $150 for all 30 of them. It's not at all uncommon to get skids of them for that kind of money.

well maybe I misread that then.... I usually buy 10 skids at a time and that is close to the price I pay (under $10/unit usually).

 

[scott00049]

Yeah, pretty sure it's for all 30. I work for a school district at my ft and that's how we do it. W/O hdd they are hard to sell to end users so they go bulk to whoever thinks they can use 'em, and dirt cheap.

-Scott

 

[SprinterTech-WI]

Yeah, pretty sure it's for all 30. I work for a school district at my ft and that's how we do it. W/O hdd they are hard to sell to end users so they go bulk to whoever thinks they can use 'em, and dirt cheap.

-Scott

yea I think I somehow confused this post with another when I was replying oops!!

 

[brandonkick]

This could be a money making racket all day long, if you had the time and energy to invest.


You could simply set up one machine, sysprep and image the drive and then re deploy it to all the rest. You could potentially have them all ready to go in less than a day or two.


30 machines at $5 each.... grab some 500 GB HDDs @ 50$ each

So you have $55 into each machine, and you could probably get $100 for them all day long at a flea market (and probably even more).


You stand to make over $1300 on selling the lot. Over $2800 if you ask $150 each for them.


Grab your lawn chair, a few folding tables and head on over to the local flea market.


I know the local guy in town does that here, mostly with monitors but also with desktops. He makes a great bit of extra scratch doing that.

 

[AlaDes]

well maybe I misread that then.... I usually buy 10 skids at a time and that is close to the price I pay (under $10/unit usually).

If you don't mind me asking, where are you purchasing your skid units from?

 

[theobsession]

in my experience you'll have better reselling laptops. ive got a new HP that has an HP warranty in a box sitting here collecting dust

 

[SprinterTech-WI]

If you don't mind me asking, where are you purchasing your skid units from?

State and federal auctions primarily

 

[AlaDes]

State and federal auctions primarily

Online or live auctions?

 

[Gary Orner]

I have done this with locale schools and businesses when they upgrade. I take everything in bulk for one lump price.

I never list everything at once. I put up maybe 5 and I jog the Hard drive and ram around a bit and offer different prices. If I do not get the monitors I will buy a few and put together a few packages also.

Like said I also see laptops go a lot faster. But a good machine will sell. I have a few desktops here that have not moved but then again I have not pushed them. a lot of my sales are from repairs that I tell the customer it might be time to upgrade their system. And then Offer to transfer their data ect....