[SOLVED] Pricing old PC parts

[a_movingtarget]

Hi all,
I'm looking to sell some PC parts that I'm finally ready to upgrade and don't want them just sitting around not being used. All are fully functional and great for someone out there. I need some help setting a fair price (assuming one exists) and the online reselling sites are whack for the most part and not helpful for being fair to both buyer and seller. Here they are. Any helpful suggestions are appreciated.

AMD FX 8350 Black Edition
Asus Sabertooth 990 FX
Gigabyte HD 6850

 

[sonofjesse]

Check Ebay for sold items, best to sell locally or help a friend built a computer.

I built a FX8350 rig 3 years ago for a family member just for chrome, and its still doing great.

 

[Dj0gany]

So just those 3 things?
FX 8350 ~ 60 euros
Motherboard ~ 50 euros
GPU ~ worth $10, but you can probably sell it for 50 euros with this current situation

Note that these are the prices in my country, and from what i saw on eBay, they arent much different.

 

[velocityg4]

Get your prices off eBay. Look at sold items. Not what people are trying to sell for. Average the price and don't go starry eyed at big ticket sales. Then use that for pricing locally. Starting with an asking price of 10% to 20% higher for haggling room and settling for 10-15% under the sold price. As you don't have to worry about returns, final value fees or shipping costs.

If you still have the RAM. Selling the motherboard, Cooler, CPU and RAM together will be way easier. That's also the way I sell them online so a person gets a full working board. Rather than someone buying it for troubleshooting and demanding a refund when it doesn't work.

In the US

• FX 8350 ~$125
• ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX ~$125-$150
• Radeon HD 6850 $30

 

[Dj0gany]

Get your prices off eBay. Look at sold items. Not what people are trying to sell for. Average the price and don't go starry eyed at big ticket sales. Then use that for pricing locally. Starting with an asking price of 10% to 20% higher for haggling room and settling for 10-15% under the sold price. As you don't have to worry about returns, final value fees or shipping costs.

If you still have the RAM. Selling the motherboard, Cooler, CPU and RAM together will be way easier. That's also the way I sell them online so a person gets a full working board. Rather than someone buying it for troubleshooting and demanding a refund when it doesn't work.

In the US

• FX 8350 ~$125
• ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX ~$125-$150
• Radeon HD 6850 $30

You would pay $250 for almost a decade old cpu/ motherboard?

 

[a_movingtarget]

Get your prices off eBay. Look at sold items. Not what people are trying to sell for. Average the price and don't go starry eyed at big ticket sales. Then use that for pricing locally. Starting with an asking price of 10% to 20% higher for haggling room and settling for 10-15% under the sold price. As you don't have to worry about returns, final value fees or shipping costs.

If you still have the RAM. Selling the motherboard, Cooler, CPU and RAM together will be way easier. That's also the way I sell them online so a person gets a full working board. Rather than someone buying it for troubleshooting and demanding a refund when it doesn't work.

In the US

• FX 8350 ~$125
• ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX ~$125-$150
• Radeon HD 6850 $30

Thank you. I do have the RAM still, and the whole system, actually. I have it all in a Thermaltake Chaser MK-I w/ a Thermaltake PSU (can't recall capacity and it's not easily accessible w/out taking out of case). I would sell it all w/out the SSD/HDD because, well, data etc... Maybe I should go that route. Also running a perfectly fine for me for now (in this GPU market) R9 280.

 

[velocityg4]

Thank you. I do have the RAM still, and the whole system, actually. I have it all in a Thermaltake Chaser MK-I w/ a Thermaltake PSU (can't recall capacity and it's not easily accessible w/out taking out of case). I would sell it all w/out the SSD/HDD because, well, data etc... Maybe I should go that route. Also running a perfectly fine for me for now (in this GPU market) R9 280.

Put a $20 SSD in it and install Windows 10 Home. Since MS lets Windows run in a non-activated free mode now. Why not? If the buyer wants to get rid of the watermark. They can buy it.

Then you have a completed system. Way easier to sell. As now it is accessible to all buyers. Not just tech savvy ones.

You would pay $250 for almost a decade old cpu/ motherboard?

No, the used parts market is odd. That's what those parts are selling for on eBay. Not just what people are asking but actually selling for. Used AMD FX series has always been oddly high.

The op isn't asking what we'd be willing to pay. But what the market is paying. Just like there's no way I'd pay $400 to $500 for a used Rx 580 8GB but that's what they are selling at right now on eBay.

 

[cryoburner]

No, the used parts market is odd. That's what those parts are selling for on eBay. Not just what people are asking but actually selling for. Used AMD FX series has always been oddly high.

Yeah, it's kind of bizarre that most used FX-8350s are currently selling for upward of $120 on eBay, while it was possible to buy them brand new for well under $100 a few years back. I imagine they are selling to people who are trying to breathe some life into old AM3+ systems with even lower-end processors, but at this point that seems like a bad investment. Even a 4-core, 8-thread i3-10100F will wipe the floor with that processor, and can be found brand new for under $120. Userbenchmark is showing the 10100 as being around 70% faster at lightly-threaded tasks, and over 40% faster for heavily-multithreaded workloads. And an i5-10400F for $150 can more than double the FX-8350's heavily-multithreaded performance. Sure, one would need a new motherboard and RAM for those newer processors, but it seems like a better long-term investment.

The prices for those Asus Sabertooth mobos have also held up surprisingly well, and there seems to be a decent number of them being sold on eBay. There's even less reason to be spending that kind of money on an AM3+ board at this point though, since anyone needing a new motherboard should be looking at the current, much faster budget processors rather than anything that will fit into AM3+.

For anyone looking to sell either of those on eBay, it looks like a really good time to sell though, even if you don't try to get quite that much out of them. If priced around $100 before shipping, they would probably sell super-fast, at least in this market.

As for the HD 6850, it might not be as worth bothering with right now. They seem to be selling for around $20-$40 before shipping is added, and that's not as significant an amount as what you would get for the CPU and MOBO. If you don't have another card aside from your R9 280, it might just be worth keeping it around as a spare, in case your graphics card were to fail or something.

Put a $20 SSD in it and install Windows 10 Home. Since MS lets Windows run in a non-activated free mode now. Why not? If the buyer wants to get rid of the watermark. They can buy it.

Then you have a completed system. Way easier to sell. As now it is accessible to all buyers. Not just tech savvy ones.

Combining the parts might be an option, but adding an SSD would probably be a waste, unless one were planning to install everything into a case and ship a larger, bulkier item. I suspect you would probably also make less profit per item when combined. At the prices these parts are going for, it might just be easier to sell them individually. Combining them might make them more attractive to someone building a system, but it cuts out anyone buying parts to upgrade or repair their existing hardware, and there are probably a lot more people looking to upgrade their AM3+ system at this point than there are those looking to buy a complete system with these older parts.

 

[velocityg4]

Combining the parts might be an option, but adding an SSD would probably be a waste, unless one were planning to install everything into a case and ship a larger, bulkier item. I suspect you would probably also make less profit per item when combined. At the prices these parts are going for, it might just be easier to sell them individually. Combining them might make them more attractive to someone building a system, but it cuts out anyone buying parts to upgrade or repair their existing hardware, and there are probably a lot more people looking to upgrade their AM3+ system at this point than there are those looking to buy a complete system with these older parts.

I just mentioned the SSD since the op mentioned having the case, RAM and PSU too. You'll usually get more parting something out. If you wanted something quick and easy to sell locally. You'd put in the SSD and install Windows. As there are way more people looking for a working computer they can boot. Than something nearly complete they have to install Windows on. Making a working computer worth a lot more than a non working computer.

If you are going to sell online and ship. Then definitely part it out. Although some parts may take a while to sell. Especially if you have no seller history. Although usually cases aren't worth bothering with. Especially if the person decides they don't want it and file a return. You'll eat the shipping and lose the case as getting it returned won't be worth it.

People buying an old motherboard are likely looking for a repair part. CPU is likely an upgrade. As is RAM. PSU is either a repair part or someone trying to cheap out for when upgrading a GPU.