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what's going on everyone we have another video for the I read playlist where I read ridiculous comments or ridiculous postings from people trying to sell stuff in this case on Craigslist this is another Craigslist edition and I was recently scrolling just to see if I could find some decent use graphics card sales on sites like Craigslist I have a couple from like offer up maybe one or two from eBay but mostly Craigslist because that's just been the traditional way to sell things online especially local so I went all across the states trying to find some decent deals actually for once and I really struggled to come across graphics cards that were anywhere close to MSRP still there's been a lot of talk about eBay having their prices drop significantly closer to the original MSRP of some of these cards at the 1074 around 400 450 dollars and that's you know that's great null but that's still not what they should be they should be under 400 bucks now especially after the 1080i release that bumped the 1080 price down to about 450 500 dollars the 1070 should be fair market value right now around $350 and in the ballpark but we're not seeing that still and you'll see that as well in some of these craigslist ads people still want ridiculous sums of cash for their cards so I hope you enjoy and maybe have a laugh out of this one all right so the low prices always catch me especially when the words graphics cards are included in the title this guy wants 55 bucks for I kid you not a Titan XP box the GPU obviously is not included there I didn't know this was a thing apparently he says that they're selling for much more online right so the reso cadiz is around a hundred bucks or so apparently on eBay and he's obviously doing you a service by only asking 55 bucks per box I mean if you're into that kind of thing sure in my opinion this is like putting like a core i7 sticker on like a PC running an Intel Atom processor I don't know something like that this is just I don't know why you'd want these boxes I guess they're beautiful never owned one I probably never will especially at these prices this one what's so funny I actually shared this on Twitter I couldn't help myself these are little gaming boxes right so these are the boxes that you would hook up to like an ultrabook the Thunderbolt three cable and you could run discrete graphics on those laptops so and essentially what this is is just a gtx 1070 and an enclosure that has a couple dunder thunderbolt three ports has a you know dedicated power port and that's literally it people are buying these they're ripping the graphics cards out of them and then just trying to sell the boxes so he's trying to sell just the box without a graphics card in it for a hundred and sixty dollars I doesn't gets funny that that's what it's come to like we are resorting to buying these things ripping the main components out of them and then trying to sell the shells like it's just so sad all right this will be a good one $4,500 asking price for a custom professional high powered PC the specs right off the top of bag and tell you he's asking way more than he should he's got a single 1080 TI okay let's give him a thousand bucks let's just say a thousand dollars for that card and an i7 1700 X which for all intents and purposes is an 8700 K and that you shouldn't buy it you shouldn't buy this one right here this is a this is a ridiculous process it really shouldn't exist and that's gonna use the x-29 and platform he has look he even listed the thermal paste as like the third the third component in this list eight 115 i from corsair x 299 prime from Asus he's got 64 gigs of RAM okay I'll admit that's a crap ton of money alright but it still puts this nowhere near $4,500 territory so I mean it's not like he's using a really expensive case either to be frank he's also including an ultra wide monitor from LG but these run for I mean like two three hundred dollars and use don't even know a lot cheaper than that but yeah this is this is over the top his asking price is ridiculous and I would be very surprised if he even gets an offer at this price point now this isn't a theory of mining rig looks like a custom built chassis 6rx 588 gig cards the other components in here pretty useless to be frank and Intel processor like he's so vague about it because I'm you zoom in here he's vague because it's probably like a you know a Celeron or a pentium i 1:20 SSD and only four gigs of ram 881 motherboard a beefy power supply obviously to power 6 but he is asking a hefty premium for the he's asking for almost $1,000 per card unless he's bundling something else that brings this price up to well above $3,000 this is uh this is a bit outrageous here all right here's one that looks in deceiving this might look just at first glance like a pretty sweet deal you're getting basically a whole platform here right CPU 16 gigs of ram which is enough for 99% of you and a motherboard for 250 bucks but then scroll down you see what he's what he's including in that and AMD FX 6300 might as well be a space heater we got a gigabyte G a 70 LM T this is a bare-bones motherboard I remember back in the day these were selling for 50 60 bucks it was a fairly cheap board I did own this exact board by the way and then we have 16 gigs of ddr3 Crucial Ballistix and that's it right so if we say that the 16 gigs of ram is I don't know I had 16 gigs of ddr3 I don't know it doesn't equate evenly ddr4 in terms of price so ddr4 would be around 200 bucks or so for this let's say it's a hundred 150 let's give him 150 bucks okay just because it's used 150 dollars for this 16 gigs you know kid of RAM and then the motherboard which I wouldn't pay a dime over 20 bucks for and that's probably doing a service it doesn't deserve I mean look we got we got IDE characters on this thing and then an FX 6300 I'll check that out CPU cooler included well I would hope so it's the stock cooler all right now at first glance this card also might appear overpriced but this is a full-fledged 1080 Ti here gigabyte horas addition it's a beefy cooler from a reliable company only a $700 asking price you know this isn't too bad most of these cards are going for eight nine hundred a thousand dollars even elsewhere so occasionally you'll find something like this not too far from the initial MSRP and you'll probably feel pretty comfortable in this current market paying that price I think this is from the same seller a gtx 1070 this time a gigabyte and g1 card $400 which literally is the MSRP of a 10-7 or was the MSRP of a 1070 back when it was released so this this actually isn't too bad at all I mean you're you're not getting the price discount right with kind of the the maturing of the hardware but you're probably not gonna feel any buyers from Moore's paying 400 bucks for this right now again in the current market alright this one here just typical you know overpriced graphics card offers $850 for a gtx 1070 TI this isn't like a for the 1/2 edition or anything like that from EVGA general run-of-the-mill 1070 TI and he's very explicit right you can use these for mining and they're selling for apparently $1000 so they're really hard to come by apparently just have a really great like you know mega hash to wat ratio it's basically how effective the card is at mining per unit power consumed on a 1070 the 1070 TI are pretty sweet so that's why these are usually very expensive online 850 bucks though not a chance in my book all right now you're probably looking at me like Greg why are you throwing a prebuilt in here and because of the bargain if you really think about what you're getting in this if you want to just take all these components out put them into a custom case called a custom build do whatever you want with it you know how you feel about the way the case looks on the outside is really not important here because the price is actually pretty good so you're getting in 7700 I 7 which isn't that you know that's it's KB Lake it's not a copy Lake but still it's a really great i7 one of the best for gaming 16 gigs of ram which is enough a gtx 1070 a 256 gig SSD and a one terabyte hard drive this i haven't checked online how much it retails for but if you just broke this down parts wise about 300 bucks for this let's say for let's let's say $500 for 1070 right so that's $800 already 16 gigs of ram puts us at near $1000 so you're already getting a pretty sweet deal and that's not including a storage drives the motherboard or the power supply XFX AMD radeon RX vega 56 this is all pretty redundant and a 1500 are asking price that is insane entire pcs that could perform with graphics cards better than this thing can be built for less than $1500 I'm just saying one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 he's got 20 of them here so 20 times 800 at $16,000 in graphics card you're looking at right here assuming he gets what he's asking for for every one of the this is another 980ti that is fairly priced again we're talking basically 1070 performance here with a little extra power draw on the Maxwell side this is the reference cooler so it will be a bit louder maybe run a bit hotter but for 325 bucks heck up I live near here I'd probably buy that for a new gaming PC just because this is gonna pull really anything in 1080p in 1440p and if you wanted a comparable 1070 card we're talking upwards of six seven hundred dollars which is twice the asking price this one no I have here our x5 80 plus ram plus CP plus power supply alright so I love how he like groups all these up in the title right so he's acting like he's gonna bundle all of this stuff for $225 which would be an insane deal regardless I think of what Ram or CPU is throwing in there but he's just selling the RX 580 for 225 bucks this is also not bad at all so this is actually an 8 gig card to sissy a gig variant and unless I'm reading something wrong in here his asking price for the card is $225 so yeah he might be trying to mislead G kind of did in the title anyway but if he's just talking about the card here this is an excellent price I don't expect if that's the case this ad will be around much longer all right now this one an Rx 484 gig card for 220 bucks this one's it's not you know outrageous he's not asking for hundred five hundred dollars like some other people are we'll get to those shortly this is an example of like an okay deal in today's markets so he's not trying to price gouge it probably did pay a bit less for it I'm assuming unless he bought it you know during the middle of the mining craze and I will have to say that this is also one of the better deals that you'll see in this video when I get these come out of the way first because things get pretty rough later on here let's go ahead and move on to the next one scrolling through this one look pretty cool I saw three graphics cards like wow okay 3-way SLI maybe he's got some Maxwell stuff in here but no GeForce 9800 GTX and then we go to phenom ii x4 965 cpu 4 core cpu and he's using the stock AMD cooler this thing honestly I mean this is gonna perform worse than my 5 to 6 under dollar build that I put together in this video right here you're more or less painful like the vintage aspect here have three 9800 GT X's but even though you got three of them in here remember SLI kind of degrades performance-wise with every card that you throw into it it's also not going to be very efficient it'll be probably very loud and the frame rate will be rather disappointing considering you know in the backyard you got three graphics cards in there they're just so old not really gonna keep up with modern titles this one looked pretty sweet I 787 hundred kg takes 1080i all the good stuff you want RGB it's got a 570 ex case from course there the total price for this according to the seller is twenty eight hundred fifty dollars but again if we just break it down this let's say let's say four hundred bucks for this so I give them the benefit of the doubt four hundred dollars let's do another two hundred that's six hundred bucks and then another 150 at 750 and then so 750 dollars not including storage or the cooler 750 plus let's say $1,000 for this worst case so that's 1,750 bucks the cases was the case running out for 200 bucks 1950 and then the power supply let's say another 150 bucks so $2,100 and all we have left is the cooler and the SSD and we're still not at 20 $150 so again just kind of run through these prices in your head just a ballpark them and if it seems reasonable maybe you can haggle if they're asking this much though $2,800 $2,800 for this now this is an example of a great deal look at that 8700 K 16 gigs of RAM GTX 1080 240 gig SSD one terabyte hard drive and windows included for thirteen hundred and forty nine bucks just break it down $400 here that's $200 that's 600 bucks and then where's the graphics card 600 bucks right here is another let's say 600 dollars let's say worst case 600 bucks for a 1080 right maybe a little more than that that's already $1200 plus the liquid cooler that puts us around 1,300 bucks boom that's already what he's asking for so you're getting an extra you're getting the motherboard you're getting a hard drive you're getting an SSD sorry about that you're getting the case and you're getting a power supply basically for free in the current market or if you want look at this another way you're paying almost pre-mining craze MSRP for this build which in today's era is pretty sweet this one at first glance look pretty good right you get a gaming PC and an HTC vive which used to be about what five six hundred bucks for only nine hundred fifty dollars I was like wow I get a VR kit for free but then I scrolled down I mean the PC looks decent looks like he knows what he's doing he only has an on XFX RX 560 in here but this is where I have a huge problem write an RX 564 VR is not gonna work and I think they'll I think in our X 480 or rx 580 or five seven is the bare minimum and the reason why those are the minimum is because you need around 90 FPS with VR to enjoy the experience if you only do 60 FPS that close it causes headaches and things people have found out so that's why that the system requirements are VR pretty high I mean he says down here the five is a complete VR system and runs pretty well as computer as it stands but will definitely grow with you as you get more acclimated to what VR can or can't do reasonably I'll tell you what it can't do it you can't it won't run on an Rx 560 that was his first mistake he's probably got a really bad impression of VR now but this system just can't keep up with that but this is actually a pretty sweet deal here I was looking through the list of things he's including so for some reason he never actually built this PC but he's got everything brand new in their boxes horizon 1700 AC scroll air six he's got a 960 pro 512 gig in vme SSD and 850 Evo 500 gig SSD 16 gigs of trident z ddr4 and asus strix 1070 TI EVGA g2 850 watt power supply and he's literally bundling it all for just $900 she's not parting it out piece by piece you gotta buy it all at once but still 900 bucks if I look near this guy I would buy this stuff in a heartbeat for that price here's one that kind of made me chuckle so this guy is selling a super high-end PC I put together less than four months ago so a custom loop you know he's got the right components right i 780 700 k SZ 370 board 16 gigs of ram he's got a gtx 1080 TI water force graphics card a 960 Evo nvme SSD 250 gigs and he's got a 500 watt power supply this is probably a bit under key light I suggest maybe 6 to 700 Watts even though a 500 is still fine you can get away with this but to stay well within your efficiency curve 600 to 700 watts is probably his comfortable range so this I would want to upgrade but then he goes on to say one of the best gaming PC's on Craigslist right now kills 4k games attaining 60 plus fps and most titles buttery smooth gameplay an instant load times I mean I'm not sure about like the best gaming PC on Craigslist I've probably seen better pcs on Craigslist just scrolling through this particular location but you know when they hype it up like this it just you don't want to oversell it right because then people start wondering what's wrong with it if it's that great dude why you selling it oh and by the way this is still an extremely high asking price he's saying that his graphics affair with the waterblock costs $1,400 new on Amazon I'm not sure if he paid that much or if he thinks he's gonna get that much out of it but he's I mean people would have to be crazy to pay this much money of this dude for this system all right here's one from offer up I got a laugh out of this one someone on Twitter shared this a thank you to whoever that was I'm sorry I didn't pay closer attention but this guy wants seven hundred and twenty-five dollars Museum in here seven hundred and twenty-five bucks for you're reading that right folks an Rx 488 gig model I mean at least he's got the hate gig parent here but 725 bucks check this out he's so standoffish too if you find it somewhere else for cheaper go buy it there and don't waste my time he already says he's willing to go down to 650 I don't know why he doesn't just put 650 in it you know the actual price box if you're serious about making an offer contact me bought it in the summer of 2017 which means that you paid near MSRP for this card which would have been around 250 bucks so you want three times what you paid for the card back after roughly a year and here's our last one this is a gaming PC for $2,800 ending on in good spirits here an i7 8700 K 16 gigs of ram is e 370 board one terabyte SSD mastercase 5 RGB 650 watt gold plus EVGA 10:18 and knock this D 15 that's that giant air-cool you're saying there he wants so what is this $2,800 let's do one last price breakdown then so i7 8700 K that's about 400 bucks this is 200 bucks that's $600 or so let's let's give them 200 bucks for this so 600 that's plus 200 $800 1 terabyte SSD we'll skip that for now 800 bucks let's move on to the graphics card okay graphics card is another maybe 800 bucks at $1600 a hundred bucks for the cooler 1700 bucks $1,800 let's say $1,900 and then whatever one terabyte SSD is going for right now so we still need to make up for roughly 800 to a thousand dollars to come close to this asking price which mind you is you know you're paying for use parts here you're not buying brand-new components so if you wanted to build this yourself you actually could spend a lot less than this in the current market and still build a comparable PC that this one's probably not gonna sell at this price either then again I've been wrong before about this kind of stuff somebody might see it and go WOW looks like a really great deal so folks that is all I have for this one I tried to throw in more ads this time and focus less on like they're really absurd ones just so you guys can get a feel for the entire market I went pretty much all across the states I'm not sure about that one offer up ad was I think it was la so I went through Florida I went up to Atlanta I went up to I want to say it was Virginia and then we went kind of in the middle st. Louis area went down south to Houston Austin areas and in Texas and then we went to LA and then up to Seattle I kind of try to follow like that zigzag path up to the northwest of the country just to get a feel for all the prices across the country and it's pretty consistent what I think I can say is that the big cities are gonna have usually the best deals but then again they might be asking for more because they're in big cities so you know people have like this this notion in their head that they can charge more for a product because the cost of living is higher in that area and that might be true to an extent especially in this market but nonetheless prices right now on Craigslist are not doing too well I'm almost just willing to say that you're gonna have a better I'm shopping on eBay because there you're getting just you know usually just certain items right you can hunt for specifically graphics cards and find a lot more of those offers on a site like eBay so the chance of you finding a pretty decent deal are gonna be a lot higher than on a site like Craigslist and most people on Craigslist aren't willing to ship anyway so you're gonna have a much broader audience from which to reach that's that if you liked this video let me give this one a thumbs up I appreciate thumbs down for the obstacle to subscribe but if you haven't already stay tuned for more content like this this is science studio thanks for hunting with us I don't know why I point it that way you