Considering eBay sales

[Lukas Keizer]

So I've been going to some government auctions and military/school liquidation events and I now know that you can buy desktops in pallets of 500 for about $10 each(per computer). If I was to get a refurbisher license I can get licenses for about $30-35 each. I have seen the exact same model sell on eBay for about $110. I checked the sale history on these accounts, and they sell 10-15 units a day! And that's just for that particular unit, they sell others in similar quantities. According to my high quality math ability, that is a lot of profit. Should be closed to 300k profit to be somewhat not really exact. I'm considering doing this. I have the money to start. Poke holes in my research and tell my why I shouldn't do this please.

 

[sna]

So I've been going to some government auctions and military/school liquidation events and I now know that you can buy desktops in pallets of 500 for about $10 each(per computer). If I was to get a refurbisher license I can get licenses for about $30-35 each. I have seen the exact same model sell on eBay for about $110. I checked the sale history on these accounts, and they sell 10-15 units a day! And that's just for that particular unit, they sell others in similar quantities. According to my high quality math ability, that is a lot of profit. Should be closed to 300k profit to be somewhat not really exact. I'm considering doing this. I have the money to start. Poke holes in my research and tell my why I shouldn't do this please.

you can do it second hand business is one of the oldest trades in history ...

by the way not only schools and Gov do this .. all huge Companies do this and sell all ALL their old servers/desktops in containers for as you said 10$ each ... and some do it every 3 years on regular bases ...

 

[Lukas Keizer]

Well, and this is not to show off in any way, but I am an owner of a computer services company, where we are the ones that upgrade them every three years. The majority of hardware we offer is on lease as we have credit lines with some of the big companies. That's not to say that companies don't do that, I'm just gonna have to ask around. Thanks for the help!

 

[sna]

Well, and this is not to show off in any way, but I am an owner of a computer services company, where we are the ones that upgrade them every three years. The majority of hardware we offer is on lease as we have credit lines with some of the big companies. That's not to say that companies don't do that, I'm just gonna have to ask around. Thanks for the help!

Where I live , huge companies have indicator for the value of the hardware , once it reaches a level its value is considered ZERO , once it reaches Zero value in their indicator , they put them all in a container and sell all the container as is for like 500$ believe it or not ... some times it is $5 per unit lol

This is one of the companies I deal with.

if you pull the cpu alone you can sell it at least $25 thats 5 times the profit .

 

[USAFRet]

Usually, but not always, ex govt and military PC's have the hard drive removed. So you have to factor that in.
And out of a lot of 100 boxes, you will not get 100 functional PC's, drives included or no.

 

[sna]

Usually, but not always, ex govt and military PC's have the hard drive removed. So you have to factor that in.
And out of a lot of 100 boxes, you will not get 100 functional PC's, drives included or no.

in General , the RAM and CPU are the parts that never fail and they sell well ... pull them and sell them.

Xeons sell well .

 

[USAFRet]

Usually, but not always, ex govt and military PC's have the hard drive removed. So you have to factor that in.
And out of a lot of 100 boxes, you will not get 100 functional PC's, drives included or no.

in General , the RAM and CPU are the parts that never fail and they sell well ... pull them and sell them.

Xeons sell well .

Yes. Parting them out is probably more $$$, but also more work.

 

[Lukas Keizer]

Usually, but not always, ex govt and military PC's have the hard drive removed. So you have to factor that in.
And out of a lot of 100 boxes, you will not get 100 functional PC's, drives included or no.

in General , the RAM and CPU are the parts that never fail and they sell well ... pull them and sell them.

Xeons sell well .

Yes. Parting them out is probably more $$$, but also more work.

I'm pretty busy already so I plan on having an employee