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you know what's going on everyone another Craigslist video or right here for you I'm gonna start things off by saying that I'm gonna do my best from now on to hide personal information if for whatever reason for whatever stupid reason you put your personal address let's say on a Craigslist post and then I ended up showcasing it on the channel I'm just gonna f12 it and then delete that element if I if I find it I might not get everything but I'm gonna try my best to hide as much personal info as possible even though I don't recommend you you put anything like that on Craigslist to begin with I don't think we're liable for anything like that we've had people threaten to sue us and then nothing ever happens because I'm pretty sure that there's nothing they can do on a Craigslist ad if they you know willingly post public information on a public forum but anyway just to keep things simple you know I don't want people to get angry that's just because we're showing these ads on our YouTube channel I'm gonna do my best to hide that stuff so if you see something slip by maybe phone number address I'm sorry I've tried my best though to get rid of most of those elements so we're gonna start things off with a terrible craigslist ad and this is one that you know right away you can just take a quick look at the PC you really don't even know look at the specs to know that this asking price here of $3,000 is just a tad bit outrageous so it's got listed here a ZOTAC gtx 1060 and then also from the same manufacturer a gtx 1070 sure enough in the picture he has two cars that look identical but they are not from an architectural standpoint so you cannot sli these that's why he has no sli bridge here he probably figured that out the hard way so I would recommend if he bought this PC for whatever stupid reason you did to sell either of these cards because you can't use them in tandem he has an EVGA 750 watt bronze 80 plus power supply okay that's not too bad intel celeron g30 930 this right here is a dual core dual threaded processor there's no hyper threading onboard this is just missus bare-bones this is pretty much as bare-bones that it gets and he wants three grand for it I almost feel like he's trolling me and then he has a Z to 70 P for whatever reason and unlock chipset board with a seller on G 39 30 he's sure to include that price because that gets us way closer to $3,000 he's got a bunch of other frankly useless stuff here in the sense that it doesn't come anywhere close to three grand so he's not really making a case for himself he even contradicts himself down here do not contact me with unsolicited service and then he clicks the button says it's ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests so I don't know I feel like this is a troll but either way yeah this should just raise so many red flags even just by looking at the picture up front not worth three grand I wanted to transition into something that's a bit more reasonable so the prices you're gonna see in the in these subsequent ads are actually pretty good there is one misleading ad I'll get to in a second but this one here to kick things off with the you know decently priced ads is an all-white build for the most part I would personally paint that that gigabyte card myself just to make things a little more cohesive in there now buddy's got a great color scheme going on he's using it looks like a deep cool captain 240 X it's a white AI oh and he's gonna white almost looks like a MSI be 350 board yeah all rise in 5 1600 so he's uh let's see let's just break this down price-wise this is about 200 bucks this is about 500 bucks so let's say $700 there $800 $900 $1,000 these right here probably make it $1,100 I wouldn't even price that so 1100 1200 bucks you know you could have the other things in your Corsair I'm 65 for a mouse mechanical keyboards he's including a Steam library of apparently worth $200 and games could probably haggle with him just a little bit he says it would cost you 1700 bucks I'm I think about a clicking on that I just kind of break you down on my head this is not too bad and I'm sure the reason why is he says is request $1,700 is because he's got the 1080 in there priced at like a thousand bucks but prices are coming down a lot and so I don't recommend buying you know paying more than retail for a GTX 1080 at this point just be patient you'll find something around MSRP and that's much better than what you can find on sites like eBay and Craigslist for those scalpers trying to make a quick buck on a graphics card sale you can see he's pretty much got everything you want in a Craigslist ad right if he's trying to sell a PC he's gonna make sure they takes pictures of everything he's trying to sell and he does that here I'll be at the pictures aren't that great of quality it's got steals here I can't even tell what that is SteelSeries it might be a mousepad or something but you know he's got enough here enough evidence to show you that this is PC and these are the part you're gonna get for the price you're gonna pay twelve hundred eighty bucks isn't too bad I'd say that's around retail price so you'd probably hag a little bit if he's gonna really stubborn on that graphics card price you might have to pay around twelve hundred bucks for it but I would probably pitch him a thousand bucks and just see where his head's at if he says no not a chance I'm keeping firm at 1280 and you're probably gonna overpay just a little bit for this because he's valuing that GTX 280 above MSRP now this when I first caught me off guard it looked really interesting in the pictures and then I saw 69 50 X right here this was a fifteen hundred dollar retail processor when I first came out and it's got a gtx 1080 and it's 16 gigs of ram basically the works and he only wants 1799 bucks for it you know and it looks like it was well built got a really weird Zalman cooler but then I started digging because I wanted to see how much this was going for now I'm sure it's depreciated a lot so let's just do that it's too high 769 50 X and let's see what we can buy it for so we have on eBay here about 850 bucks you see everywhere else is basically MSRP maybe a little above MSRP depending on where it's coming from so let's just say 800 bucks right that's that's a good deal I guess according to what the markets telling you right now just lease on these few shopping sites from Google so let's price at $800 and then we have a Zalman cooler here this is gonna be let's just say a hundred bucks right so $900 this is 200 bucks that's $1,100 a 1080 let's price again at 500 bucks that's $1600 there already which is almost what he's asking for we haven't even got a storage and other things the motherboard and whatnot so 1,600 and then we have a 240 gig SSD let's say another 60 bucks so 1660 then a 2 terabyte hard drive let's say 1720 1730 this this asrock x9 on xtreme3 is probably a couple hundred bucks so there we're already at the price he's asking and then we of course have the case that I'll take view 21 he doesn't have the power supply listed but I'm pretty sure it's included and then he gives you a little disclaimer down here PC is a monster and will handle anything a perfect video editing 3d rendering cat and his production blah blah blah so it's not too bad it comes with Windows 10 apparently and you know he's got he's got actually decent stuff here you know it's a clean build he's not asking too much forward you can see the cooler so big he can't put the vyx card in the uppermost pci slot but other than that i mean it's a pretty conventional beefy system that i think is actually reasonably priced you could probably pitch 1600 bucks for this just assuming that these prices you know this one at eight hundred bucks and this one at five hundred are about on par with fair market value i mean it's already pretty competitive though so I'm not too I'm not too too satisfied with this one you know being that the CPU is really expensive or used to be really expensive not bad now this one here is just a little misleading whenever you see these like fake pictures or the pictures are like just the you know market pictures that look like they're ripped from Google Images that's what I want you guys is be as radars to be synced to right if you see something like this you need to be aware of it you need to be very cautious because if you don't have actual pictures of the product that you're trying to buy this just this might not go well and if you don't pay attention you could be very misled so at first this looks great right i7 7700 it's a non k mind you 250 GB SSD 16 gigs of ram I don't see a graphics card listed here but I do see a price of 725 looks pretty good and check it out the picture has what looks like an MSI graphics card so let's assume it's got a backplate looks pretty beefy let's say it's just a 1060 that still makes this a really great deal but if you scroll down you can see that as a video card is not actually a video card at all this isn't discrete graphics this is integrated graphics intel HD graphics 630 which is what you find in the 7700 so you get no graphics card here so I see seven or twenty-five bucks I mean if we go ahead and price it you know we can call this around 250 bucks this is another 200 bucks it's 450 we have an SSD here let's say $500 I'm not gonna price a sound card this is a really cheap power supply maybe 550 he's actually asking a tad bit more than I would feel comfortable asking for this because it doesn't come with a graphics card so he probably sold the card turned a pretty sweet profit and trying to break around even for the rest of the components so I would not lowball him but I would pitch definitely lower than what he's asking and he doesn't have real pictures so that would probably the first thing I asked him was like dude send me real pics of your PC before you know you asked for this amount of money lastly I want to end on the state of graphics cards and that current market you're still gonna find people like this right who are trying to flip these cards big-time unless he bought this card already at an inflated price which I'm sure he did because it looks like he's been using this for a while this will be a huge profit Ram he'll profit around 200 300 bucks maybe and that's that's a lot of money that's a huge profit and if you're willing to pay that fine good for you but I wouldn't I would wait this is a great card from a soos but it's in my opinion it's not worth 900 bucks even if it's difficult to find these and you gotta be really patient and diligent with where you're looking this is still a little too much for me so what I would do is wait a little more do your due diligence and look everywhere for the same card or a comparable card that's priced less that would be your best bet buying one use especially at this price way above MSRP is just that's not my cup of tea so with that folks I want to know what you guys think in the comments below I would also like your suggestions for future Craigslist topics maybe even Craigslist links to pcs and other components that you think are either outrageously priced or are really great deals that you would like me to publicize in a future video on the I read playlist I really enjoy making these videos because we often cover the academic stuff on this channel but this is more of a street smarts video right it's how to deal with with buyers and sellers online how to think logically and and you know how to just use your brain when it comes to everyday transactions with the used components you know and don't overpay don't spend more than MSRP unless you really have to and the markets being gouged like it has been with a graphics cards and RAM recently and and most importantly make sure that you can engage in these transactions in public places only use cash if possible only deal with cash I should say and make sure that you do your due diligence I tried saying that like three or four takes before this and I always kept messing up due diligence do your due diligence what I mean by that is make sure that the components work or do your best to make sure that they work before you give somebody your cash if you liked this video be sure to let me know buy this one a thumbs up I appreciate thumbs down for the opposite you click that right subscribe button if you haven't already and stay tuned for a more content like this this is science studio thanks for learning with us you