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some of you don't know this but I actually used to sell pcs quite a bit on Craigslist actually when the channel was very young when we weren't getting products sent for free for review by companies like gigabyte a soos what have you case manufacturers like fractal design here I had to buy all the stuff out of pocket because they didn't know who I was I didn't expect them to we had like you know a hundred subs so when I would build a PC like this for say four or five hundred bucks I listed on Craigslist for a modest price maybe like five hundred and fifty bucks maybe like a 10% markup usually no more than that it was a really expensive build and then I would essentially flip the PC and then move on to another build and I'd take that five hundred fifty bucks build something with totally different components get to test those on the channel sell that try something new again with the small profit I made on that one as well so I knew my way around the Craigslist ad when it comes to pcs that's why I feel confident with the Craig's in the series that we post on the channel but I want to show you in this video how to properly sell a PC if you're having trouble selling the one that you have currently listed maybe these pointers will help it's extremely important that you one take good quality pictures I'm not asking you to go out and buy a three thousand dollar DSLR or mirrorless camera that would make no sense just use your camera phone most modern phones have decent cameras packed into the most of them have a AI or some software that's gonna make the picture look a little more crispy than normal because the sensors are pretty small and that's really all you need to do also take a lot of pictures the more the merrier tells the buyer that you again have nothing to hide and that you're forthcoming about the PC itself and that you're confident that it's a good system that said a pet peeve of mine is when people post ads for systems like these and don't actually include pictures of the product they're trying to sell instead they'll show screenshots from Amazon or Newegg of the parts included in the build that tells the fire one of two things either one your bill looks like trash and you're trying to hide it or two you haven't actually built the system yet you're trying to fulfill the orders as they come in and that's not an effective way to advertise a PC build now you're probably thinking yourself great how can you say photos the most important aspect of a Craigslist ad wouldn't it be the title or the price those two have a lot of weight that's true but humans are visual creatures and I can tell you when I see a title and a price tag I want to look the photos for validation you don't have that validation the title and the price are meaningless now when it comes to the title keep things short and sweet I see so many people trying to over complicate this you know put some huge paragraph in the title section of their ad you know something along the lines of extreme gaming PC or best gaming PC you'll ever see or best value gaming PC on Craigslist don't do stuff like that we don't care we just want to know what it is you're trying to advertise the title can be as short and sweet hook something like 1080p gaming rig boom that's all they need to know you're not trying to hide anything you're not trying to pass it off as something that it isn't just keep it short and sweet I recommend putting the gaming resolution the recommended gaming resolution for your system in the title because a lot of people want to know upfront what kind of performance they should expect for the price that you were asking so in this case I'm gonna do just that I'm gonna call this a 1080p gaming rig next up we've got to think about price what should we ask for the said system in this case this whole thing cost me out of pocket about 500 bucks and I don't expect people are going to pay $1,000 for a core i5 34 you rig it's not gonna happen even if I put something like a gtx 1070 or 1080 in here people understand for the most part that older platforms are limiting in the sense that you can't really upgrade much without completely switching platforms in this case that requires buying ddr4 a new motherboard and a new cpu and most people who are willing to buy gaming pcs on Craigslist are probably not gonna want to take up that mantle any time soon so I'm realistic when I approach the pricing aspect and I try not to ask any more than about 10% above what it cost me to build I know 10% it's kind of a vague markup but honestly it just doesn't make sense to charge more than that I it wouldn't make sense for me to charge even six hundred and fifty bucks for this again because the platform is so old despite having a relatively modern card in here and a modern case it's certainly presentable to an extent but it's not worth seven hundred bucks I wouldn't pay that I wouldn't expect anyone else to pay that so for the sake of a quick sale and a quick profit I would say 550 bucks for this system is a fair offer whether or not you want to haggle after the fact is a separate issue I'll leave that up to you but I just again don't recommend you take a loss if you have to break even that's fine just to move through inventory but I don't recommend you know taking 400 bucks for this it just wouldn't make sense you'd be losing money for what the sake of building pcs I don't enjoy doing it that much next up let's talk description what should you include first off a list of every single part I don't fault anybody as I try not to for listing individual components in their builds in their ads that's expected I want you to do that I don't want any surprises when I show up to buy your PC what I don't want you to do is list retail prices for those parts maybe what you paid for it I don't care to know that all right I care about the price now I care about the inherent value I see and use components and I don't want you to try to justify your price by listing retail prices spoiler when you buy something it's not new anymore the next chunk of information I suggest you include in your description is what kind of stuff you do on a daily basis with your PC it just helps you be a little more friendly and human to the potential buyer and it could give them an idea of the to use cases for that system if let's say you play World of Warcraft a ton on this PC and you can do it in higher Mac settings in 1080p that's something I would list you're not misleading somebody or telling them exactly what you do don't lie about it because when they buy it and find out they can't do that you're gonna have issues of your own to deal with what I suggest doing it's just listing out your uses maybe you've video edit on it doesn't mean it has to be the best video editing machine out there but just tell them what you do with it because it again makes you seem a little more personable and it can help a potential sale the last thing that I recommend you include in your ads description are your expectations for the sale what I mean by that is where you expect to meet whether or not you are considering negotiations or trades and your contact information so how they can reach out to you regarding the ad in question now the first bit is extremely important because it concerns the sellers credibility if the buyer gives you cash for a PC that he or she didn't test takes it back to his or her house powers everything up or attempts to and finds out that the computer doesn't work you're gonna be in a lot of trouble potentially legally you could be taking a small claims court over a misleading ad right you've sold me a PC that you said works but actually doesn't alright and you'll probably lose I'm not a lawyer but I would say probably lose that small claims case you don't want to have to deal with any of that mess trust me so instead find a way to let that person test the PC or the component so that you have peace of mind so that you know that buyer can't come back and say you misled them I know it's difficult to do with something as large as a PC whether that means inviting a stranger into your home which I don't really recommend especially of live in sketchy part of the neighborhood or just going to Starbucks setting up an entire desktop right there in the shop I don't know if you could get away with that depends on the employee probably depends on the store but that's another option there are a few places in public that you could probably get away with this but it's worth a shot right and it's something that I don't think you should take lightly and try your best to let the buyer test the system I cannot stress that enough just for your sake for the sake of court fees and all that other crap you might have to deal with in the future let them test the PC so that's it this is the ad and I intend to sell local here on Craigslist anyone who watches this video to go and find it the number I have included there's a burner number so don't try to contact that I'm just gonna end up changing it later on it's gonna be a big waste of time for you and me frankly but yeah I will follow up and probably a tweet I don't know if I make a full-on video on it but I'll let you know when I did of selling this system for I don't think I'm gonna haggle too much because 550 is pretty much that's almost what I paid for it I paid about 500 bucks or everything in there so yeah I could've done better with the price of the used components in there but I still think it's a decent system for 550 bucks things though based in this video can run pretty much anything we throw at it at at least 60 fps and medium to high settings in 1080p and even 1440p depending on the bottleneck situation so if you guys liked this video appreciate the tips let me know but get some that thumbs up I appreciate it thumbs down for the opposite of where you hate everything about life you can do that as well you click the red subscribe button if you 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