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I get this question a lot and it honestly has multiple answers depending on the kind of person you are how patient you can be where you live and your surrounding market for how much should I sell my PC I'm making this video for one specific reason and that's because it seems like after every Craigslist video airs in this channel I get several people asking how much they should be selling their pcs for and for one I don't know where you live so if you live outside the US I have no idea how those markets look I don't know what you should expect to pay new for for said components or said build and let alone used I don't know how your use market is at all there are several factors to consider we're game we're gonna cover those in this video but for one if you look outside the US there's really no point asking me what you should sell your PC for because I have no idea what your foreign market looks like as for US sellers it's still not a black-and-white answer because someone in upstate New York might be able to get way more for their new system than someone in say Southern California so yeah again it's not black and white and I'm gonna seek to cover the variables to consider in this video of course their iron claw RGB wireless sports a custom 18,000 dpi picsArt sensor which you can adjust and get this one DPI increments along with 50 million click tried-and-true Omron switches use a 10 built-in buttons to fully customize your gaming experience and enjoy beautiful zone RGB lighting for a fresh aesthetic in any setup grab an iron claw to be Wireless today from your favorite retailer via the links below so let's throw it a hypothetical and will assess its viability through several different pretext also we're going to assume that you're selling in the US market although you should be able to extend these principles across to pretty much any developed countries market so first up here's our hypothetical I want to assume that the seller in question has a modest bill let's say it's a locked 6 gen core i5 build with a stock cooler a gtx 1066 gig 8 gigs of ram 500 watt psu 500 gig SSD and an NZXT s340 if i went and found all of these parts on say ebay what do you think i could build it for now i know it wasn't super specific on the parts used like 500 SSD 5 and what powers play that's not you know enough it's not what I would expect to find and a Craigslist said I want specific components so I can actually gotten priceless out but let's assume I did that and I found from reputable sellers all the parts and I could build this exact system for 500 USD so that's not bad and look this system could play pretty much anything in 1080p I'm not saying you get 144fps out of it under all circumstances especially from newer titles we are going to be limited to an extent with the quad-core @xu from our core i5 but it's a decent system again for 500 bucks so does that mean then that the seller should ask 500 USD for his or her system on say eBay or Craigslist the answer is no it's your job as the seller to be greedy now out on Greg you're always harping on these craigslist ads these people asking way too much money that doesn't make any sense why would you tell people to do exactly what you preach against in your craigslist series and okay first off 500 bucks obverse $600 is nowhere near worthy of a dedicated Crysis video in science studio I'm not sure about other channels out there but I'd say 600 bucks is a decent starting point and look you shouldn't go into this expecting to get exactly what you asked for expect some haggle that's the joy of the used market it's fun and if both sides come out a little disappointed then it was a good deal overall on top of that asking 600 bucks for a $500 system or a thousand dollars for an $800 system heck or even three thousand dollars for a $600 system like none of that is a crime it's the sellers job to maximize profit and obviously three thousand dollars for a second dollar system is a bit outrageous and that might make its way into a Craigslist video here on this channel but again there's nothing illegal going on there I would never fall someone from making a ton of money on a sale unless they use some deceptive ploy or mislead the buyer when that sale occurred at which point I would call you you know a few names most of the craigslist ads i feature on this channel packed two key elements an insanely high asking price and overconfidence the seller either over inflates the performance metrics or ridicules potential buyers maybe even both but that in combination with high asking price is just a bit ridiculous to me by asking $1000 though for a $500 system and then just listing specs that's not really much to critique I mean in terms of price yeah I can run through each of the components and say this is worth a lot less but that would make for a fairly boring video and I would almost even argue that if the seller sells that said $500 system for $1000 that the buyer probably deserved to be scammed because it's the buyers job to do due diligence investigate the prices of use components in order to make an informed purchase decision if you're not going to buy new and expect retailers to price things fairly then you take that burden upon yourself as the buyer in the used market to do the research if you're uncomfortable with this task or you're just too lazy or maybe just don't know how to research effectively in your market at this point I would almost always encourage you to buy new and this ties in to my second point no two markets are the same I could sell our $500 NZXT system in Florida for 600 bucks whereas in California that same system might sell for 550 or 540 it all depends on the availability of parts and used market saturation if several people are selling similar respect systems and they're all independent each other and there might be a fair degree of competition and prices might be driven a bit lower that's good for the buyer I can say that as a Florida resident there aren't too many places to buy new components save Best Buy and Best Buy is kind of a stretch there I mean sometimes they have decent stock of especially peripherals but maybe not CPUs or graphics cards and other times they have absolutely nothing or totally out of stock of those components so Best Buy is not a very reliable place I would say to buy most of your components although it is an option and probably one of the only options if you do live in Florida we used to have a tigerdirect here I believe we don't have any micro centers I think the closest one is in Atlanta that's a five-hour drive for me and about a 15 hour drive from Miami so this particular situation might drive the prices of used components up right because the availability of new components is rather low it's all simple supply and demand economics I'm not gonna bother you only get all that in this video but you should know that the supply of something is low then the price is generally going to go up in response now my third point has to do with patience how long are you willing to sit on a build or component as the seller so if you're looking to move inventory fairly quick you might want to sell your PC for five hundred and twenty bucks or five hundred and thirty bucks maybe even exactly what you paid for it five hundred dollars right in this context that's okay if you want to just move through components and try out new things that's a totally viable practice in fact that's what I did as a young science to do Channel about two or three years ago when I was in college that was the only way for me to move through inventory without having to shell out tons of money and never really see any of that returned save subscribers and viewership which at that point was not really funding much at all so in the good old days yeah that was how I always had new components on hand because I was willing to buy parts and build systems sell them on Craigslist again for most of the time small markups I think the first build I sold for 550 and it cost me 500 the next build was about 600 dollars and I sold that for pretty sure I broke even on that one and I started to learn the market right and this goes back to the the fact that every market is going to be slightly different RGB was a big thing back then and still is today I mean it's even bigger I would argue now so that was something I tried to include in most of my builds again I always turned that into the budget and I expected to get small returns on that but sometimes I did have to break even now other times I made huge profits I've made 150 bucks I think on one sale it was a six hundred and fifty dollar system I still do free and Radames does that make me a greedy person yeah did I just call myself greedy yeah but not in a ridiculing sort of way and more or less kind of making light of the situation the fact is sellers are supposed to maximize profit does that make you a bad person absolutely not not in my book buyers are supposed to be frugal you're supposed to save as much money as possible does that make you a bad person absolutely not are you a bad person for low-balling somebody no unless it's an insanely low lowbal like if it's a thousand dollar system used and you offer two hundred bucks for it you probably deserve to be called you know an a-hole but if you offer something like $800 for the thousand dollar system there's nothing wrong with that even if the buyer excuse me the seller says firm one thousand dollars no less you can still offer less because they'll probably take less nine times out of ten they'll probably take a little less than their firm bottom dollar now while sellers can be scumbags in the sense that they can over inflate and and I overhyped their builds it's a 4k 60fps gaming PC all around but it actually has a core i3 and a gtx 750ti in it you know I'm talking about we see a few of those on the channel right now and then the buyer could also be scumming in the sense that the buyer could let's say show up to the public place where you're supposed to exchange the PC for the money let's say you agreed on 550 bucks and then the buyer says oh I only have 450 bucks in my pocket looks like yeah we're just gonna have to do 450 instead no that's just you being a scumbag if you gave your word to the seller over a certain price and then you showed up with less than that conveniently then you're just being scumbag and at that point if I was a seller I would just walk away you're not worth my time blacklist a number and ever deal with that person ever again do the right thing and if you agree on something in text it's just good practice to follow through you're not contractually bound to that you're not gonna at least in my opinion be sued for something like that that would be a little insane if everyone was sued for lying there would be lawsuits all over the place and they're kind of autumn but you know it's just the us but yeah don't be a scumbag if you're gonna buy something and you agree on a price over text bring that money with you don't try to haggle last minute like show up with less money in your pocket or some BS it's just not worth it if you're gonna pay something agree to pay it over text over the phone show up get the exchange done with and move on okay it's this it's not worth it like that 50 bucks you might save is just not worth it you're gonna probably end up walking away with nothing seller so this happens to you walk away it's worth it looking you got one guy I already meet you for that sale at that agreed price you'll probably find someone else in the area to do it who's not gonna be as scummy but all right that's how I want to close this one I'm not gonna tell each and every wannabe how much you should sell your pcs for so yeah stop asking not trying to be rude but I can't tell you because for what I don't know where you live I don't know your market I don't have the time to research your local Craigslist and see what other people are asking for their parts and monitor whether or not they're actually selling those goods for those asking prices I have no idea there's no way I could log all of that I just know my area in particular if someone lives around me and asked me that's a different story but I'd rather it be personal and not via facebook Messenger or Twitter or something else but again I want to re-emphasize the fact that as the seller it is your job to maximize profit if you are selling a system don't ask what you think it's worth from use parts alone ask a little more than that you need a starting point if you expect people to haggle it would be dumb to start at the place that breaks you even consider this let's say you have one offer for your 5 meter dollar system at 600 bucks and another offer for $700 maybe you told both of them that you had two different offers for the same price right and one of them said well screw it if he's only offering 600 bucks I'll offer 700 for which takes $700 you would be crazy not to take $700 for that PC does that make you a bad person absolutely not should you choose the $600 offer because you'd feel bad if you took the $700 offer no that's like get that out of your mind that's not a good way to approach business at all it's not a good way to approach life in general maximize profit there's nothing wrong with that you're being greedy yeah but in the use market you kind of have to be there's a lot of competition there's a lot of scumbags out there you don't know how to navigate the waters hope this video helps you to a small extent at least if you have any other questions I encourage you to leave those in the comment section below also I encourage you to leave it comes up or thumbs down this video depending on how you felt about it the information contained within if you haven't subscribed already you're missing out click that red subscribe button and become a member feeling especially fancy and want those extra perks and we'll catch you in 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