Get the Most MONEY For Your Old Tech!

How should you go about selling your unwanted gadgets?

[morgan]

He is right about the packaging....recently bought some used PC parts online from some guy named L. Sebastian.
Not only did the package look like it was dropped a bunch of times but the carton smelled like musty old socks and sandals.

[kyletaylor]

0:36 doesn't work... Again!

Put. The. Link. In. The. Description.

[alecubudulecu]

Packaging is good point. I tend to keep original boxes in my basement in a giant container. It really adds value when reselling. Except if small cheap things

[LadBooboo]

I recently bought a Powercolor Golden Sample Rx580 for $120 USD and it's pretty decent for a used item. The box and everything inside came with the card and It even still got warranty from a local distributor till Jan 2121. Wasn't even a mining card, all in all a pretty good deal.

[itsdeonlol]

I NEVER throw out my old tech... I'm a HOARDER!!!

[kizalub]

I would add that if your device has user data or memory, like a phone, PC, Xbox, etc. wipe, delete, format, bleachbit or otherwise remove the storage. Don't give someone your device without removing your personal data!

[thelonesculler]

Can totally relate. The best time to sell a bicycle (at least in the UK) is almodt always during/just after the Tour De France

[Kartin]

"How to provide hardware for scrapyard wars" would've been a better title for the video 🤣

[put]

Scrapyard Wars : Black Friday brawl edition

[jamesmiddleton]

"speaking of Great words" oh god.. ESC! ESC! ESC!!

[killerkip]

For my vintage computer business, I properly anti-static wrap the items and use old bubble wrap. Sometimes I build a box with some scrap boxes. I like to think it's better than buying new cardboard and bubble wrap that will be tossed anyways.

[netsendjoe]

I find that the best way to keep your computer hardware updated is to wait until a time where there is something worth the upgrade and you have some funds available.
The 3 main components are something that you can easily upgrade every several years. Your motherboard, processor, and memory.
You buy high end tech that is not too new, maybe two years old. It's like an investment.
You sell your older tech online and attempt to make back half of the money you spend on new tech so as to offset the cost.
It helps when you keep the original packing materials from your last upgrade and know how to clean your tech.
It also entails having a computer case that will accommodate mostly any configuration that you are going for and knowing how to migrate your hardware and software.
Every so often you get a larger drive, preferably SSD or M.2, or you add drives preferably removable SSD for storage.
Or perhaps a newer graphics card, whenever its memory upgrades its DDR evolution or doubles its size.

[PaulMezler]

For Germans: have a look on rebuy.de might not offer the best prices but it's often close to what you get on eBay. Also it saves you a lot of time...

[Rainbow__cookie]

0:04 well that radio right there can you get like 40$ for
I see it's kinda broken but that retro radios is still worth alot today

[pud_]

I'm from western Canada and we pretty much exclusively use Kijiji.

[Ozymandias]

Old 80s and 90s PCs are rare these days and fetch quite a lot of money on eBay. Even floppydisks cost a lot of money now, the last 3 1/2" floppydisks were manufactured in 2011.

[uniqhnd]

Another tip. Use Linux on your old computers. I'd recommend the Lite or normal version of Zorin OS. Will make your computer feel as good as new.

[almostdarkslide]

Several months ago I wanted to sell an Elgato HD60S. I found some people selling it for 50 bucks starting price on a local auction site. Nobody was buying it, not even a bid. I waited a couples of months and I was able to sell it for 150 bucks! Thank you quarantine :-D

[ZILtoid]

Tip for damaged hardware:

You might can still sell it or "gift it away" (that's how I got my first BTC keyboard), but you have to be active in communities that are specialized for such. People might still can save a few parts from non-working stuff to repair others, and keycaps are pretty notorious for going missing over time.


Tips for keyboards:


- Older regular rubber dome keyboards don't sell for much, and might not sell at all if the membranes are badly oxidized. Conductive rubber domes like BTC, Lite-On, and Maxiswitch can worth up to $10 if they're in good condition (no missing keys, relative cleanness, etc), but don't try to sell them as vintage clicky keyboard just because they have MX mount sliders.
- If everything fails with old keyboards that have discrete switches (especially if the keyboard is either completely dead or near unusable), then just harvest the switches and caps from it. Alps switches and caps worth something, especially the latter, as not a lot of manufacturers kept making Alps mount caps, but Mathias still makes new Alps-inspired switches that are better than Cherry in my option.

[waveformdistortion]

I'm pretty sure Alberta is definitively "west". Craigslist is tumbleweed city, everyone uses Kijiji.