For some context:
My friend got his PC for $1300 from a Micro Center near us, back when they would make Prebuilt PC's. He claimed that when he looked into the components, they totaled at almost $2,000 if one would try to build it themselves; a claim I almost immediately shut down. He said that it was because they no longer made the Prebuilt system anymore at the Micro Center, so they were most likely they were just trying to get it off the shelves and possibly salvage their costs.
Personally, I just assumed that he probably didn't do his research accurately when searching up the components. Naturally, since he and I are both known for being very stubborn, I didn't challenge because it would go absolutely nowhere. I figured rather than salvaging, Micro Center could honestly just take apart the PC and sell the components as open-box products.
But no matter how I look at it, there's absolutely no way that they would sell a PC for $700 less than it's raw cost, aside from profit and builder's fee. I don't know much about PC's but I always assumed it was an irrefutable fact that a Prebuilt could never be cheaper than a DIY build.
My friend got his PC for $1300 from a Micro Center near us, back when they would make Prebuilt PC's. He claimed that when he looked into the components, they totaled at almost $2,000 if one would try to build it themselves; a claim I almost immediately shut down. He said that it was because they no longer made the Prebuilt system anymore at the Micro Center, so they were most likely they were just trying to get it off the shelves and possibly salvage their costs.
Personally, I just assumed that he probably didn't do his research accurately when searching up the components. Naturally, since he and I are both known for being very stubborn, I didn't challenge because it would go absolutely nowhere. I figured rather than salvaging, Micro Center could honestly just take apart the PC and sell the components as open-box products.
But no matter how I look at it, there's absolutely no way that they would sell a PC for $700 less than it's raw cost, aside from profit and builder's fee. I don't know much about PC's but I always assumed it was an irrefutable fact that a Prebuilt could never be cheaper than a DIY build.