Advice please

[emul8]

I am selling some of my old PC to my brother in law and i need to know if i am asking the right money.
I have allready installed the parts and installed his operating system.

Parts as follows- all boxed

Motherboard
Abit IC7 Max3= £40

Processor
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4ghz HT= £115

Heatsink
Thermalright SP94= £10

Power Supply
Thermaltake butterfly 480wat= £15

Hard Drives
2x 80gig Maxtor Dimondmax 9 Sata150= £30

RAM
2x 512m=1gig dual Corsair XMS PC32000 C2 Pro
+
2x 512m=1gig dual Corsair XMS PC32000 C2 Pro =£120

Fan controler
Cooler Master Aerogate II=£10

So! am i Greedy or Generous

[baronvongogo]

the CPU is expensive, he Could get an intel dual core for that price.

The ram also is too expensive he could buy a 2 gig set for the same price. Considering its 2nd hand the price should be further down.

[scrandman]

£395? Try halving it.

[streetster]

Motherboard
Abit IC7 Max3= £45

£25

Processor
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4ghz HT= £120

£75

Heatsink
Thermalright SP94= £15

£5

Power Supply
Thermaltake butterfly 480wat= £20

£10

Hard Drives
2x 80gig Maxtor Dimondmax 9 Sata150= £40

£30

RAM
2x 512m=1gig dual Corsair XMS PC32000 C2 Pro
+
2x 512m=1gig dual Corsair XMS PC32000 C2 Pro =£140

£75

Fan controler
Cooler Master Aerogate II=£15

£5



Which gives you the grand sum of : £225...

[emul8]

the CPU is expensive, he Could get an intel dual core for that price.

Then he would have to get a dual core motherboard also these CPUs are selling on ebay for more money than i am asking.

The ram also is too expensive he could buy a 2 gig set for the same price. Considering its 2nd hand the price should be further down.

There is 2gigs of ram ?

£395? Try halving it.

Try a sensible reply
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streetster
If you can find me any of the above items for them prices i will give that item to my brother in law free!

Due to the unexpected responce i have reduced every item by a fiver

[baronvongogo]

He could buy a cheap dual core compatible mobo, 2 gig set of ram meaning 2x 1gig. Sorry If I wasn't clear.

[scrandman]

Try a sensible reply

I did. Try not ripping your family off. £200 would be a fair price. £400 is just crazy

Remember second hand means exaclty that. Expect to get less than half what you paid for it.

[menthel]

I have to agree, if you look at my thread you will see how much I got for my stuff: http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=79394

I think you are charging new prices for some of that stuff, eg the ram and hdd. £230 is probably about right.

[emul8]

I did. Try not ripping your family off. £200 would be a fair price. £400 is just crazy

Remember second hand means exaclty that. Expect to get less than half what you paid for it.

For one I am not trying to rip of my family and i resent that remark scrandman!
We both looked on ebay to check prices and when we found items similar or the same i
quoted a price wich was less than on ebay an he agreed only after totting it all up i thought it was a bit high thats why i asked on here

Secondly I paid more than double for all of them components so every thing is less than half price

I have to agree, if you look at my thread you will see how much I got for my stuff: http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?=79394

I think you are charging new prices for some of that stuff, eg the ram and hdd. £230 is probably about right.

£65 for a gig of XMS Pro £15 for a 80gig sata drive are not new prices

You sold all that gear as a full system if you would have split it you would have got more but you chose to sell as one to save hastle .

All my gear was boxed up like new nothing missing at all ready to sell on ebay.
My brother in laws comp died we spent six hours trying to find out what was wrong with it
he decided he wanted all my gear so he could get up and running as quickly as possible.
So we spent another six hours installing and trying to retrieve his data of his raid drives
I certianly do not want to rip him off but also i dont want to rip my self off either.

[menthel]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...MS_Memory.html
Second down?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=71473
£70?

You are probably right about the hdd though!

[emul8]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...MS_Memory.html

Try fourth down!

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...roductID=79913
£84.60

[menthel]

He could just buy something cheaper elsewhere then!

[streetster]

emul8... if you are after money (like it seems), split the system and sell it to someone non-family. get your brother in law to buy a cheaper system.

[ajbrun]

No offence emul8, but why did you make this thread if you're just going to disagree with everything that's been said? I think streetster's right though. Like you've said, on ebay the prices are higher so you will obviously make more money selling it there. You should also consider what your brother in law's going to use it for. Does he need 2gig of RAM for example?

[Stoo]

If your brother in law is happy with the price, then it's okay.

If you think it's too high, then drop it a bit, but otherwise it seems fair.