PC trade ins

[tigerstyle]

Stated in the second post

Yeah sorry, I read that post, agreed 100% with it, read through the following posts about someone whining away and calling us all stupid, must have got my rage face on then forgot the clarity at the beginning sir! Apologies.

You have something second hand of dramatically reduced value, what do you do? Sell it on the open market for the highest price you can, not just go to one shop to make things simple? Unless you have money to burn. No car dealer anywhere will give you more for a car that you can sell for more yourself elsewhere, unless they have ulterior motives, which of course they all do.

I've got carried away here now...

 

[joemc]

I don't think he is.. He's merely pointing out that if you buy a system for £100 then Sell for £150 (for example) you would then need to support any problems after market. The markup is already low but to add after support plus all the other things that would eat deeply into any profit made.

Trading of such items is normally between experienced enthusiast who know what they are buying and selling at. The market is not really open to non-enthusiast which is a heavy percentage of PC users who a majority would only buy new.

Maybe you could clarify your point? The way I see it, you could buy in 100 old second hand PCs and only shift a small percentage of them. You are then stuck with stock operating at a loss because you've offer that against any margins you've made on new sales.

Your trying to compare this with the auto trade. They have their own trade value to that of general sales. They know their margins and know that cars will shift.. No one wants an old PC.

This is what I meant

I'm guessing this is the reason most places don't give warranty/offer support for 2nd hand products...