Has anyone bought a piece of crap only to on sell it for top dollar?
Been decluttering at home and still never ceases to amaze me how much people pay for others trash!
Trash to Treasure Buys and Sells
bemybubble on 21/08/2020 - 21:13
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I’ve picked up a lot of “old” computers.
They weren’t old, a lot were i5 3000/4000/5000 series CPUs with 5400rpm hard drives, swapped with a cheap used ssd and a fresh windows install and resold for $300-$500 each.
It was a few years ago though.hmm I've got one just like this sitting at home, that i set it up as a spare work machine with an old videocard off gumtree (for machine learning projects). but its just collecting dust
I should probably sell it, but need to figure out how much its actually worth. would be a half decent gaming machine
Got an old laptop for like $20. Upgraded the RAM, swapped out the HDD for an SSD and installed a new battery. Sold for a neat little profit
Yep, bought 23 of something at auction when I wanted only 2. They were no good for me (not even the 2). I paid about $250 for the 23.. Sold them all on ebay for about $100 each.
Worked out quite nice for a stuff up!
That’s magic! What was it?
I bought a few old systems from someone on gum tree (asked for a carton of beer).
Knew from the photo's of the rear they had 3DFX Voodoo cards in them.
Ended up removing the cards (6x V2's, 3x Voodoo 3's_, cleaning them up (were pretty good having been untouched for years), tested them, updating their BIOS, and reselling the pairs on EBay.
That carton of beer made me ~$700 after ebay, shipping fees.
More recently someone threw away some older Apple gear (2x Macbook Air 2014 13", 2x Macbook Pro 2012 15", 4x AC chargers, and a 128GB iPod touch 6th gen) in my recycling bin at work.
Cleaned up the AC charger and cables, and tested them all (ok).
The Macbook air's powered up fine so I used the Apple cloud OS recovery to reload Catalina, and tested them for a couple of days. Battery life was fine, with no issues/visible damage the the systems, or batteries.
Listed them on Gumtree and sold them for $500 each to another Apple reseller.
The Macbook Pro's had dead batteries, so I sourced a couple of OEM units from someone who work for Apple, updated RAM, and SSD from spare parts, and sold them for $700, each.
The only think I kept is the 128GB iPod which works fine and wasn't iCloud locked.
It took very little effort & time to turn them in to $. Amazed at what people consider old/throw away.
This is amazing. I wish I had the know how for something like this
My neighbour threw away a huge beautiful rattan weaved basket. Didn’t sell it but I’ve seen the equivalent at Adair’s for $60.
Tip: Go hunting and see what people throw out