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I Read an Overpriced and Misleading PC Ad on Facebook Marketplace

2018-07-07
okay I'm going to read this ad to you and I want you to decide for yourself really what you think about this ad before you hear what I have to say about it because you know that most of these are gonna be pretty bad but I just you know look at the price and then kind of break down the parts in your head as I read through them and then decide for yourself if this is something you would entertain at all maybe you would counter at the lower price what have you just let me know in the comment section below before you hear what I have to say because I'm curious to see if we think alike or not so 850 bucks for this case it's actually full on PC I should say and it starts off with gaming desktop computer , with red comma LED lighting and a front temp sensor can play most games at high settings has no issues and keeps a good temperature even while running for long periods of time mid tower computer has an open above door that gives access to six customizable addit on slots as well as a vent has a see-through sidewall so I have a few qualms with this off the bat I want you guys again to comment down below what you think first off maybe you completely disagree with me on this and that's perfectly fine we can have disagreements we can completely disagree about what we think use parts are worth look you know the price of an object is in the eye of the purchaser you know if you if you see the utility in spending 200 bucks on an item I only see a hundred bucks utility in then go ahead and pay 200 bucks for it that's totally fine you know if it's worth it to you buy it I'm not gonna knock on you for that but when people blatantly overpriced products or when people blatantly mislead you or attempt to do so I'm going to probably make a video about it and if I don't make a video about it I will post it to social media and just not not to bash the seller because I'm gonna do my best here to keep the sellers info concealed at least on YouTube I usually just share the link on Twitter when I'm sharing up with people who follow me on Twitter but this is more or less to give you guys the inside scoop as to how I deal with used parts when I buy and sell online I do it all the time via Craigslist Amazon eBay it's something that I enjoy doing and I want to just kind of fill you guys in with how I negotiate rationalize parts especially use part it's kind of hard to put prices on used components so right off the bat an or 50 bucks I'm just thinking in my head right here he's asking way too much and we're gonna go ahead and break down the prices of each component now and see how far off the mark we actually are so we're gonna start first with the power supply here 725 watt this don't believe has an eighty plus rating I've owned this exact power supply I think it was from our brand that originally was called senti this is not a very reputable power supply it actually runs quite loud you will hear the power supply fan just you know when you're playing games what have you which isn't a full load by the way right so games are gonna utilize maybe half to three-quarters of your full CP utilization or some of you have a decent CPU know and then the graphics card to be ramped up pretty high but total system power draw when you're playing games isn't gonna be as high as it would under static illimitable usage so just you know it's something that to take home here is that the power supply is not a good one it will be loud and it's not very efficient on top of that he has eight gigs of Crucial Ballistix sport ram look i'm not gonna knock him on the ram eight gigs is really fine for a you system I recommend eventually upgrade to sixteen but it's not really gonna hit you that hard especially when you're pairing eight gigs of system ram with a four gig GT 730 what you're gonna get to next so this v-max GeForce GT 734 gig card here this is what he is claiming supposedly does a high settings in most games and I'm here to tell you folks that's not true unless you're playing it like the 480p resolution maybe 720p but I would say most games overlaps with some titles that definitely wouldn't run at high settings as low as 720p and I have first-hand experience again with the GT 730 I'm not making this up folks I've benchmarked this exact card I've actually kind of made fun of it and compared it to a really expensive card I think in one video so yeah this card is not something that you just throw into a system really alright check out my sweet system it's more of a budget option and that's okay right we don't expect most people to be able to do out there and drop 500 bucks on the graphics card but it's not something to really brag about and say yeah like I said check out my 7:30 so he's trying to upsell it I think he's trying to make it seem like it's a more powerful card than it is and to the layman someone who's never seen the PC like this at least the inside of one doesn't know the specs and what specs are capable of outputting in terms of FPS that person might be mislead so when he says here I'm assuming it's a guy that you can play games at high settings quote-unquote I'm more or less just kind of how dare you you know like why are you trying to persuade people that this system is more powerful than it actually is because anybody who knows anything about these graphics cards knows that the 730 isn't anywhere close to what you'll need to play and let's say 1080p which is the most common gaming resolution out there by far according to Steam surveys nowhere close to that high settings in 1080p unless you're playing like a super old game like The Sims which ok fine maybe a 730 is good for that now I'm not sure if this person just can't spell there are plenty of typos and you're pretty obvious ones but on top of that it just almost seems so blatant that he's intentionally misspelled something he just doesn't care about what he's selling and that's a red flag for anybody looking to buy something from a seller try to make sure they at least know what they're selling otherwise you might be suckered into buying something that is probably not what it seems on paper or at least in the pictures so in zkt that's not a company that exists that I know of it's NZXT this case is from a reputable company do them a solid and at least spell their name right let's see here's a double D blue one terabyte hard drive he misspelled hard drive whatever he has an MSI 970 a motherboard and he actually had the audacity to say aftermarket processor fan with AMD FX 6300 and of course it's gonna pitch the fact that it's a six-course cpu even though the way aim he did this it's not really a 6 core CPU in terms of what utilizes what what resources are available to each core there we have a video on this by the way if you're more interested but that aside this aftermarket quote unquote cooler that he's sporting here is as stock as anything if it's aftermarket then it's literally a replica the stock fan that's included in the CPU case so yeah you're gonna you're not gonna have a fun time overclocking the system at all and not the CPU and if you even care to overclock the GP I'm not sure how that would go why there but it looks like this is a pretty small form factor in GT 730 the aftermarket processing cooler whatever he's calling Africa processor fan and that's so is the fan aftermarket is a whole cooler aftermarket it just doesn't look good it looks really fishy and it looks just bare-bones so he's trying to upsell right and aftermarket cooler but I don't think it's one so and then one internal back mounted fan I don't know where it is in the pictures maybe it's further back but nonetheless doesn't change my mind the system looks ok I mean it's not a pretty system by any means but it's definitely overpriced so here the parts 725 watt power supply I would say between 30 and 40 bucks 8 gigs of ddr3 we're just gonna say 60 bucks this is all used by the way I'm just kind of throwing these parts out here so we're at $100 total now for the RAM and the PSU a GT 730 let's just look that up right now it looks like these are going anywhere between 50 and 90 dollars the four gig ones are a bit more expensive as you've probably assumed so let's just say use 60 bucks so we're at a hundred and sixty dollars and now we have a case from NZXT it's a it's a rather old case actually look for this for one my first PC builds ever in The Guardian and we're just gonna say 20 bucks it's pretty cheap pretty old so we are at what now one hundred and eighty dollars one terabyte WD blue hard drive it's used so taking that into account let's say 30 bucks it's given 25 percent off so 30 bucks plus $180 210 bucks and then we have the FX 6300 with the motherboard so this is where it's gonna be pretty subjective I wouldn't pay any more than 20 bucks for an FX 6300 and yeah that's probably pushing it in my book still because Verizon 3 is such a good value right now and that motherboard may be 40 bucks so 60 bucks for the CPU and motherboard that comes out - what are we at now 180 210 270 or so USD and let's throw 10 bucks in for an extra fan just because I feel pretty sorry for the price at this point yeah the system is pretty cheap and he's trying to sell it like it's just a really expensive system so if you again know anything about used parts do ten seconds worth of research on a used site like eBay where everyone's trying to sell everything especially graphics cards right now you'll know after just 10 seconds like I said that the system is severely overpriced it's not even like remotely overpriced like it's so high this guy probably thinks to himself you can get somewhere close to eight fifty four right so when you lowball in which our version of a lowball is actually gonna be justified because you can build a system used for considerably cheaper than what he's asking for it he's gonna think that you're just being a jerk and asking way lower than you should so people like this with this kind of like complex where they think that they're right and they think that the price is justified are never gonna understand why you would offer 300 bucks for this switch that's that's pushing it so again I want to reiterate the fact that you might not agree with the way I've broken down the price here you might not think this guy's being misleading you might just think he's a genuine guy trying to make a quick buck and whatever that that's that's beside the point what I want you to take away from this is that if you wanted to do this yourself you could do it for a lot less you don't have to deal with somebody like this trying to mislead you and sucker you into thinking you have a really good system when you actually don't and this is why knowledge is I mean they call it knowledge right Tai Lopez you guys but the reason why knowing this stuff upfront is important because you know what you're actually buying you know what your money is worth and what you can get for your money and when you decide to spend a turn fifty bucks on a system like this you're just throwing money away literally you're giving it as somebody's gonna be irresponsible with it more than likely so look don't jump on you know Facebook or whatever and harass this guy if you do find him I don't want that if some of these videos are meant to do I don't want to incite violence or have you guys threaten this guy or just give him a hard time that's not what this video is about it's about you guys learning how to deal with but just ads like this online you just ignore them usually but you know if you find that someone's asking more than you think it's worth don't be afraid to throw a price out there that you'd be willing to pay for the product if it's insulting to the guy then don't worry about it move on you know there's there's nothing wrong with asking lower than what somebody wants for a product on a site like Facebook marketplace or Craigslist the longer you're not absolutely lowball on the guy just to take advantage of them so to keep things short and sweet I'm gonna hear from all of you in the comment section below again if you disagree with me especially let's duke it out down there give this video a thumbs up you got us cool thumbs down for the opposite or if you hate everything about life that's right folks it is a back should click that red subscribe and if you haven't already and stay tuned for more content like this this is science to do thanks for learn this you
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