Building gaming Pc's & selling them as a hobbie ?

Jordan777

Jordan777

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Hi Guys

I am new to these forms so firstly hello :)

Just wanted to get your thoughts on building PCs as a hobbie and selling them on maybe with ebay etc (1 or 2 a month)

Is there any money is this do you think ??

cheers :D
 
add to this the time spent responding to problems and complaints because 'this doesn't load' and 'this keeps crashing'

Not worth it.
 
SOME money, assuming you can find buyers prior to buying in parts, buy parts then add margin and sell.

How much money is anyone's guess but my guess is "Little to none". It depends whether people see the margin you add for the service you offer as value. You will find those who appreciate the difference between a good custom build and a pre-built off the shelf will have the know how or inclination to do it themselves without the margin.

Anyone who does not know how to do it themselves will not care for the benefits a custom build brings so will unlikely buy into your product/service.

Selling hardware does not make the money, the after-sales service, warranties and all that pap is what generates income.
 
Hmmm..I was thinking of contacting companies producing computer components and buying from them wholesale. I would then sell the items on EBAY. Any money in that?

Do you think OcUK would give me some advice in setting things up?
 
If you garnered the trust of people you know to do it, and they then encouraged others that they know to do it, I don't see why you couldn't make some sort of side-hobby/business doing it. On a large scale, probably not, and you wouldn't make a ton of money, but you might be able to score a few (10-20) people in time, and perhaps even some sort of long-term PC support arrangement with them (charging a monthly fee for an "any-day" callout or a small fee for whatever you do).

You would never compete with any of the larger companies (i.e. OcUK). You simply don't have the resources, time or contacts. But as a side-thing, sure. Although I'm not sure OcUK care much for you taking away potential customers. ;)
 
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Why would someone buy from you over somewhere like OCuK that sell fully build overclocked gaming PC's with a really good discount?

There is no money in it tbh - you can't compete wiht the companys buying in bulk.
 
dude u are talking 1000s of units minimum order and no they wont

Honestly you can build them and slap 50 quid on it and maybe sell it to a family that doesnt have a clue.

Depreciation on computer hardware is usually so much by the time you built it its worth a few quid less
 
There's no money in it. Especially if you're going to sell via ebay.

You need volume and your own store/site.
 
The money you won't make selling them, won't cover the cost of supporting them either. You'd make money cleaning windows or washing cars.
 
Just do bits and pieces for friends/family and if you're good you will have them referring you to others - I've done this for years but gave up as there is very little margin in it.

I never made anything on hardware, only my time, that way I could give them the receipt and if anything went phut then they would send it back.
 
The only way i can imagine doing this is if you were to actually do modding, rather than just build. But even then it's a niche, and probably wouldn't make your wallet much bigger.
 
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