Finally, A Buyer For The Computer I Built

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

I got an offer I accepted on the computer I built last spring and tried to sell all this time. Unlike the woman in February who made a phony offer, this one is real, because he paid for it. I got $500 for it plus $45 shipping. So finally this long struggle trying to sell it is coming to an end soon. Next is getting it to the post office and that is that.

If I had known that buying computer parts, build the PC and sell it for a profit wasn’t going to work, I wouldn’t of done this. I lost money, a lot, and I won’t do this again.

I just wish I can get a job (one of my dream jobs) building computers, but I don’t know where there is one place in this area of Chicago.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

1. You didn’t lose, you learned a lesson.

2. Really can’t find in Chicago?

3. No one is going to hand a job to you. You have to find it.

4. Have you phone book, libary, gone to a tech meetup, google? Stop by computer repair shops?

There is exactly what you are looking for in Milwaukee. Surely their is a similar thing in Chicago, city twice as big.

Look again brother. You will find what you seek. You just have to want it.

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[Solo MAN’S WisdomParticipant]

Congrats RE. Live & Learn.

When women lead, destruction is the destination. -- Me.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Have you talked to these guys?

http://www.comsetcomputers.com/services/chicago-custom-built-computers.aspx

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[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

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[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Don’t sweat it; after I got my FFL the first gun I sold I took a small loss as well. Just stick with it things will improve.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

When you figure what it coasted to ship ($91.72) the eBay fee ($54.50) and the $950 I had in parts, minus what I got for it, I lost $621.83 and 14 months. Yeah, like I’m really going to do this again. I don’t like the idea of investing in something, working my ass off to build it, and in the end I have to give someone else a major discount. F~~~ that s~~~; I won’t do it again. I did my research and it still didn’t matter, I lost.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

There must be a cheaper way to get parts—We have a company in town called Star Tech computers and they routinely sell rebuilds for $400-$500 so there must be a way. No I don’t know what it would be—I know guns not computers.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

There is a computer store in the next town from me, but they sell old and crap parts and they don’t like they’re properly stored. In fact the store looks like a dump. They sell parts from manufacturers that I never heard of. Off-brands, maybe.

I want to build computers at least as a money-making hobby, but I’m not willing to go bankrupt over it. I still can’t believe I spent over $600 to make a sale on an investment that, when I did my research, was suppose to at least make money. Boy do I feel bad, yet relieved at the same time.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[Anonymous 3]

Selling stuff (especially in computer’s topic) is always lossy. You can be happy to get back half of what sum you paid for it. Time works against you. The big, computer parts stores do not have everything on their stock, or maybe a few from popular parts, and they just order the parts from big resellers or from manufacturers, after people order from them. And even if not having big stock it is hard to earn profit.(Stock is, in investment point of view, a huge amount of money on a huge negative interest rate of -50% per 2-3 years.)

For making good “profits”, in point of view from computing power, buying second hand 2-3 years old high end parts and knowing how to test them is good, if you need that part for achieving a personal goal, like improving system reaction time or being able to play a game or calculating something big. If you don’t really need it, don’t buy it. If you buy, get reliable part with good reviews and keep it for 5+ years. Reinstall operating system in every few years. (especially if internet is connected, s~~~, unknown viruses, updates and whatever can somehow slow down computers, that’s my experience.) Buy some good old offline games for a few dollars instead of buying new computer/parts and new games every few years. I’m playing NFS Underground 1 & 2 now, on ultra setings, those are from 2003 I think, and paid like 10$ for the install disk at a second hand website. My GPU is also old, a good old Nvidia Quadro with ECC memory from Ebay, that ain’t gonna fail and can do what I need.

Selling stuff for profit is only possible, if you sell it fast enough and you can add value to the materials that you use. and that’s time, learning, and you have to do it good enough to pay taxes and other costs.

Every young (let’s say <50 year old) human can read and understand a lot on how to configure a computer, and what is compatible, and if someone doesn’t know this, he/she will trust a shop with an office more than someone on the internet.

[KeymasterKeymaster]

This sort of thing is what EVERY successful person will tell you is normal. So as the song goes … “stiff upper lip…. keep muddling through”.

You done good! Congrats on your sale.

And don’t forget the American way.
Why build just one when you can build TWO for twice the price?

You follow?

Maybe you’ll build THREE next time in the time it took you to build one. Maybe that will boost you into profitability. Talk to a banker. 90% of new businesses fail in the first 12 months. It’s not a catastrophe. It’s just one step to success.

If you keep doing what you've always done... you're gonna keep getting what you always got.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9547]

Keymaster wrote:

This sort of thing is what <strong abp=”435″>EVERY successful person will tell you is normal. So as the song goes … <em abp=”436″>“stiff upper lip…. keep muddling through”.

You done good! Congrats on your sale.

And don’t forget the American way.<br abp=”439″>
Why build just one when you can build TWO for twice the price?

You follow?

Maybe you’ll build THREE next time in the time it took you to build one. Maybe that will boost you into profitability. Talk to a banker. 90% of new businesses fail in the first 12 months. It’s not a catastrophe. It’s just one step to success.

No offense, but you scare me when you say that. I’m not going to do it again. I won’t do something that ended up costing me money (a lot) and time (also a lot). It wasn’t worth it in the end. I’d rather work for a company that assembles computers than do it myself where I take all the risks. This experience discouraged away a dream.

https://themanszone.webs.com/

[BlacqueJacqueShellacqueParticipant 6890]

@RE7, I’m with you on this one. You know who makes money building computers now? China.

You know why? Slave labour. You can’t compete with slavery.

I’m glad to hear about your learning experience and commend you for your tenacity to finally sell it. I think you are right on this one. You are beating a dead horse. The days of “DELL” are long through.

Robotics is the future. Programming, maintenance, and repair.

Best of luck to you brother. Thank you for sharing your hardships with us as we’ll all be better off in the know. Peace be with you.

[Anonymous 42]

I know how to fly a computer, does that count? The landings need work.

Sucks taking a loss, but we never complain about the wins!

Can’t win unless you play!

Never throw in the towel, use it as a tourniquet if need be!

[Anonymous 1]

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