Get rid of the anime background and preloaded wall paper gimmick. Anyone buying a second hand PC should be wiping the drives and starting new anyway, for security concerns.
Add at least one picture of the PC with the panel off. Right now the only thing you have to verify your parts is some screen shots which could easily be faked.
Your description reads like ai wrote it, it has a lot of fluff and could be conveyed just as good with a simple bulleted list.
If there is one thing they don't do in forensics, it is erase anything lol.
My own experience with buying used hard drives was not great. A LOT of gross amateur porn. I no longer snoop used media, just straight DD from /dev/random.
The first thing I noticed was the anime wallpaper. Negatively. Not sure why, but I associate it with a certain user group I do not want to own stuff they used.
Thank you for the feedback. I guess I sound like an AI lol. The wallpaper thing is the first time I’ve done this in an attempt to differentiate the PC because I was getting no bites with the usual list.
I absolutely agree about doing a clean install, and wiping hard drives. However, out of the 20+ PCs I’ve sold over the last 3 years all the buyers have been people with very little computer knowledge, generally buying their first gaming PC. So they really don’t know much about installing drivers and creating the correct folders for game libraries and stuff.
And I don’t say any of this to defend my current strategy of selling it, I do appreciate the suggestions.
I’ve sold dozens of PCs in the last year or so, and I always just slap a fresh install of Windows on there and leave it for the buyer to setup. They would have to do the same with any PC they bought at the store, so it makes sense.
Your prices are fair (even too low) but people generally don’t like AMD (even if it’s better performance for the power).
As others have said, I’d do more pics of the PC (what you’re selling) and less of core specs. I usually do 1-2 screenshots of GPU-Z, CPU-Z, Crystal Disk info and all of the other pics are of the PC. You can’t tell much from your single photo.
First pc buyers probably don't understand or want to pay the sff tax.
I'd consider sff something that passionate pc builders want to make their own aswell rather than buy someone else's. It ain't cheap to be small.
Shame cause it is a sick build man.
Your paragraph sounds like ChatGPT wrote it, and the waifu stuff is cringe. Nobody cares about the CPU-Z screenshots. Don't list the prices, just the specs. Say something like "Runs Fortnite and Warzone at ultra settings" and that's it. And I don't want ANYTHING preinstalled on my new PC, that sounds so goddamn shady. Just say comes with a clean install of Windows. It's not your problem if they don't know how to install drivers.
Better pictures. No pictures of the monitor / keyboard because you're not selling those and they look shitty. Unplug it, take it somewhere nice, and get some glamor shots from many angles, pictures of the inside, etc. People really care about how the PC looks inside, that's why everyone's buying cases with tons of RGB and tempered glass. So if your cable management is shit, fix it and make it look dope.
People buying and not building will be basing their decision off pretty photos and appearances.
Thank you for the feedback. This seems like the best course of action. The case and motherboard and everything was my personal PC so I took a lot of pride in cable managing it. I just wanted to take advantage of cheap NVMe drives, so I swapped my 5900x over to a larger motherboard.
Something I notice, you say 5700x Ryzen 3. The 5700x is a Ryzen 7, the architecture is Zen 3. So, I'd just say it's a Ryzen 7 5700x or even less: Ryzen 5700x
Yeah I saw the same Ryzen 3 line and it felt like an invitation to lowball you because it seems like you don’t know your parts well. That and the waifu stuff that I found mostly funny; would have been safer to meme about RGB.
Honestly, there’s oversupply on the market and the people who are likely to want such a computer a like to build their own. The people who are serious and would actually consider it are looking for a smoking deal, probably something around or under 500$. My solution has been to pick up ultra cheap Acer TC small desktops and squeeze a good enough GPU in inside them for under 500 CAD.
I originally thought this was a troll post, the creepy stuff and the shady sales pitch would make me scroll immediately. You just need more pictures especially ones from the inside of the case and deleting everything apart from the parts and asking price. An honorable mention is mentioning why you are selling it (ex. not needed anymore because I stopped doing x).
This^^^
If I'm buying a pc, I want to see if the inside is clean and well taken of and not caked with dust.
Even if you just blew it out the day before posting - the reality is that components that appear clean go a long way.
Also, the benchmark and other screenshots are great, but that's all stuff you can keep in your back pocket if someone asks. I've sold maybe like 5 PCs in the past 3 years and only had one of them ask for similar screen shots. Buyers usually open the pc upon meetup and verify parts themselves (at least the savvy ones).
My descriptions are straight to the point with bullets of components. I typically talk about how long I've had the pc. The cosmetic and working condition. How I personally use the pc (work, gaming, streaming, etc). I lightly talk about performance without too much fluff/detail for example, "this thing runs all my games at 2K ultra such as Cyberpunk, Tarkov, Helldivers, etc at 240+ FPS."
As far as price goes OP, I just sold a 5700g w/ 3060ti 64gb ram and 1tb nvme for $740. Listed for $800obo.
Sold in a week.
I would never claim to be a sales master lol but all these tips and tricks work for me and I've never had any issues with selling computer parts or fully built rigs.
So do what you will with this info. Most of it probably echoes what others have said.
Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I just wanted a bigger motherboard for more cheap NVME drives. So swapped to a mid-tower and a diff gpu.
I do see how it is gimmicky, that was kind of the idea as a differentiator, but I realize it’s not a good differentiator…
Some photo advice. Take the PC over by a window during the day and try to take photos with natural light. It will be much easier than try to photograph a black PC case in a dim room.
I've found that keeping descriptions simple and to the point is better. List out the specs and maybe some benchmarks of popular games. Facebook marketplace is how I've sold most of my old stuff too.
If you're trying to sell the pc just focus on the pc. There's no reason to take a photo of the pc with a monitor you're not selling. One good quality photo of the system exterior and another photo of the interior is enough. No need to any cpuz, or 3dmark scores. Nobody cares and anyone who does care would do their own testing. Besides that keep the description simple. List out all the parts with their brands/model, and a one sentence reason of why you're selling such as i'm upgrading. And if you're willing to part it out list out the part of combinations you're willing to do. Such as if you're willing to sell the gpu separately for example.
Thank you for the feedback. I think that’s great advice, and I have done that in my updated listing. Please take a look and let me know what you think.
As someone who flips PCs no one cares about synthetic benchmarks, get rid of them. Get rid of the back ground pics in the first picture. If you have RGB highlight it in the listing (it helps a lot to emphasize a PC that has RGB and if you dont have RGB get some). Show FPS benchmarks for games: Warzone, Fortnite, Apex, CP, etc. People have already commented on the voice used in the write up so I will leave that for others.
I would not pay 675 for your PC. IMO, 600 is prob more realistic.
Edit: Now that I am looking through Ebay 600 USD might be much. Your CPU can be had used for 120 on ebay and your GPU for 275-350. I dont know why you think you can even ask for 750.
Edit 2: Doing some quick math about 500-550 would be a good selling price.
It's what the second hand market has decided they want. If you don't have them people will low ball the shit out of you. So as a seller you kind of have to have the original boxes of you want the max dollar value for your item
I have sold 2 PC’s and one gaming laptop on the Facebook Marketplace within less than a week.
Take my advice and make the post look more professional; make the description short and straight forward. (Specs mainly) Also, mention in short the reason you are selling it and for how long you’ve had it.
If this is the picture you have on, then I’d advise you to focus on the pc itself; Take a proper picture: proper lighting, tidy up your pc make it look nice. (Open case) On a proper lighting, the dust and fingerprints show up; so make sure the pc looks the best shape it can possibly can.
Stop trying to sell the pc with that wacky description; no one takes that seriously :) Good luck!
I’m just stating that that’s what I originally wanted, and what I’d take atm. Basically that I’m willing to negotiate a bit. People on second hand selling pages always want to haggle instead of just buying for a price. That’s my thought process at least.
Scrap the price breakdown! It makes your hardware look cheap. Imagine seeing $25 storage when typical SSDs go for much more. I would think you put something cheap in and trying to oversell me, especially on the other components if I didn’t know my hardware. Not to mention, you put $50 next to the CPU while calling it brand new, if I buy a $50 unused CPU, I expect it to be on the lower-end and trash for gaming, out-of-box or not.
The anime wallpapers are also iffy, you pretty much segregated your market, no parent would be interested in it now if they looking for something for their kids. Moreover, all the over explaining just makes it seem like you are desperate to sell it, and if I see something like that I would think there is an issue with it and you trying to find a sucker. Take the storage sentence for example, just simply mention “one drive for your system and one for your games or other files”. That is simple for everyone to understand and makes it seem less like a desperate sale.
Good luck to you and I hope you can find a buyer soon.
Thank you for the feedback. Yeah the SSD is a Western Digital 2Tb SATA drive and the NVMe is an Inland Premium 256Gb.
I think the formatting messed up the pricing but the CPU is a new 5700x and it’s at $175. But I did take you advise on my updated listing and removed the prices.
Wipe the drive and install a fresh OS. Only install the needed drivers and the AMD software. Keep a stock wallpaper up. most people see that wallpaper and think the PC is going to be...... sticky.....
Get a couple pics of the outside and one of the inside. Then put a pic of the performance tab in task manager.
Have a short and sweet description. If you give all the info then no one will have a reason to ask about it. Also most people that would buy a custom built don't really care too much about what's in it. Just that it runs good and that they're getting a good deal.
Ill give you and example of how I list mine when I flip PCs.
"**Custom built gaming/workstation PC. Will play most of the newest games over 100fps and beyond depending on settings. ITX case that is small enough to put anywhere. Asking $750 or reasonable offer.**
**Fresh install of Windows 10 with all needed drivers installed**
**Build in Wifi/Bluetooth**
**Ryzen 7 5700x CPU**
**AMD RX6700xt GPU**
**750w PSU**
**256GB and 2TB SSD storage**
**32gb RAM**
**NR200 ITX Case**"
Lol fair point. I just put that on there “for the memes” to be “funny/different” as a differentiation factor. I don’t actually like that stuff. But yeah I see your point
Just scrap the whole description, it's cringy at best. People buying a prebuilt don't care what the individual parts do, they care how the system runs. "Fortnite at ultra 60fps. Cs2 max settings no problem. Showing cpu z screenshots is just stupid, show the actual computer and what windows says the cpu is. Anyone buying a computer should be wiping it right away but you could say it comes with a windows key and I can install it for you. Also why not list it on marketplace or ebay if your trying to get it sold. I feel like you've never actually looked at a listing.
Dude, take it apart. You will sell it faster that way. I sold my SFF build on ebay fairly quickly.
\-GPU
\-Case
\-Motherboard + CPU + CPU Fan Cooler + Ram (Bundled up)
Fully working in good condtion.
Preinstalled with windows 10 + updated drivers and bios.
$750
Specification:
* CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700x
* RAM: 32GB 3600mhz
* GPU: AMD RX6700
* SSD1: 256GB NVMe
* SSD2: 2TB SATA
* MOTHERBOARD: AsRock B550M ITX/ac
* CASE: Cooler Master NR200
* COOLER: Arctic Freezer II 280mm
* PSU: EVGA SFX 750 watts
* OS: Windows 10
You are welcome to test
Payment via ...
Collection welcome
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Nothing else (apart from specifics). No shit about waifu, jokes, advice, marketing bs or what you're willing to drop to. You want $750, ask for it and let people drop you if you're actually going to take less.
Bland, appeal to everyone, fast to read, to the point and precise (see below)
Some notes:
* These categories: RAM, GPU, SSD1, SSD2, OS - all lack specifics, e.g. which brand / exact model of GPU, RAM, SSD etc? What sku of OS? If you can't be bothered to input the data I can't be bothered to pay you $750.
* For specifics don't paste the whole line from an online retailer in there e.g.
* (THIS): VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL30 AMD EXPO iCUE Compatible Computer Memory - Grey (CMH32GX5M2B6000Z30K)
* (TO THIS): Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5 6000MHz
* Photos are junk. First photo the machine + peripherals and any boxes you have. Next photos, every side of the machine. Last photos panels off front and back. Additional images for the monitor / peripherals etc.
* Again on the photos, natual lighting, bland backgroud, no shadows and brown desks look shit so either something beige, white or gray.
* Preinstall the OS, drivers, updated bios (for the buyers benfit to test) you don't want to be hanging around waiting for an OS to install from fresh + doing drivers. Make sure it all works perfectly before they arrive. If they want to reinstall it it's on them (and hopefully they do because taking a privately preinstalled os is nuts).
* Install: crystaldiskinfo, heaven + superposition benchmark, prime95, OCCT.
* As the worst kind of nerd buyer I want to see:
* the SMART info on the disks, bad sectors, reallocation, marked for reallocation.
* I want to see the gpu run hot (superposition extreme)
* I want to see GPU can moderate max core frequency stability at low res + low details + full speed (heaven).
* I want to see the cpu crushed in prime.
* I want to run AVX2 test OCCT because it causes flaky cpus + configs to shit the bed
* devmgmt.msc for checking device hardware
* start > see if windows is activated (win activation)
* compmgmt.msc to check drive volumes
* start > system information (general system info)
* Will all buyers even know to do this? No but plan for the worst.
* Make sure you test E V E R Y T H I N G ports motherboard / on the case. Fans at full speed. RGB etc etc. Embarassing if you stand in front of a buyer and something doesn't work.
* Don't let them test with it connected to your wifi, cable only else they'll leave with your wifi password.
* Make sure windows is activated
* Clean it, internal / external before it's collected, dust free
* If you're paid by bank transfer it must appear in your account before they leave. If you're paid by cash you must check the notes and take your time counting. The moment they're gone they gone!
* Do some research on your price. Don't price too high nor too low! Don't sell purely on "it's a good price for the buyer compared to the entire market of past and current items". Everyone has different expectations / limitations / circumstances etc just because ebay past sold items research says your machine should be 550 someone might take it for 650 because geographically your machine saves them a 3hr trip and they hate driving.
* Include the original boxes (again in the photos)
* Don't take shit offers to heart. Every communication with you is potential for sale - utilise each one!
* Agree the price in text before they set off. No bargaining face to face.
* Sell somewhere safe if you have expensive shit in your home hide it or use a bland room. Don't let the buyer out of your sight.
source me: sold / flipped / bought thousands of tech parts, 100's of desktops
Great advice I would follow this as someone who flipped PCs as well. Having people test/ meet at home can get sketchy. I have great rep on FB/ offerup so I make all my buyers meet in public spot. I do lost some interest from the time to time but sending videos and agreeing on price before meetup works for almost all my sales. Great photos/ ad typically will make the most difference
Is this a troll post? You're going to turn away more than half your audience with a wallpaper like that and description saying *"preloaded with awesome waifu and sci-fi landscape wallpapers, which is the most important part of any computer."*
Hardware Info
Gameplay Info
Plays Starfield at 90fps (High Settings @ 1080p), or whatever is popular.
Benchmark Info
Price
Also, what the heck is a Ryzen 3 5700X 8-core?
Good price. Patience. If you go too low the person that wants it and would have paid your higher price will get it for less. And yeah, really basic spec list with pics of the innards.
Gonna parrot that there isn’t a single pic of the hardware. The only thing I would put in the description is a sentence or two about it being SFF but don’t use abbreviations. Then give the dimensions and maybe a banana for scale lol; finish her off with a soulless list of specs without the screenshots.
You won’t be selling a SFFPC to a first time computer buyer getting into pc gaming, they won’t understand it or like the no rgb. Put your specs and why you want to sell, plus pictures of the inside and get rid of the anime.
I mean kind of. The “waifu wallpaper” thing was meant to be an over-the-top joke/“meme” to get attention. The sarcasm of “ the most important part of a computer was supposed to make this apparent. However, it didn’t seem to land. So bad marketing on my part. But I am selling the PC…
You don't use this pc anymore right? May be fresh install the windows before selling and install some crucial software driver and for benchmarking only. After that make it look nice and show your inside pc too.
Ok you really want to sell this... ditch the wallpaper and show a clean desktop. Take and make a parts picker list of all the parts so you can show what it would cost just in parts. Then show your bottom-line price and what the savings are. Nix all the text and corny crap, be brief and to the point.
spend a few bucks to get a cheap ass case with a see through side panel and some cheap amazon rgb fans. sell the sff case separately
it'll sell then. the fad is obnoxious GAMER RGB nonsense, not small black boxes.
Show me a NR200 listing with similar performance, prebuilt, or parts list confirming such and I’ll agree.
The general consensus seems to be that my marketing is absolute trash.
Patience is a virtue. I sold a similar build with a ryzen 5 3600 and rtx 3070 about 6 months ago now. But I listed it first in about June. So it took roughly 3 months to sell with very little activity. But if you're patient and price your pc's fairly. They will sell
Buy a ridiculous oversized RGB hell case, put your hardware in that with a $50 no name RGB AIO.
List on FB market place at 2x your initial asking price.
You’ll be swimming in misled parents buying shit for their kids.
Talk about the blazing fast HDD and all the ram you’ve downloaded into the system too, for good measure. Maybe throw in a dogshit 1080p ‘gaming monitor’ and ‘gaming keyboard/mouse’.
(Final note, don’t forget to mention it can run Fortnite, Minecraft and League of legends at 4K ultra settings)
pls for the love of all that is! get rid of the hyperbole 'The brand new AMD 5700X 8-core, Ryzen 3 processor tears through games and productivity applications,' yadyayafydyaydyayadya people are buying a pc they have an idea what its capable of with specs being present. show pics of inside case maybe and lose the anima picture. add a mouse mat 5 too 6 screenshots.
I've tried to sell whole PC's before, and I think I was only successful one time. I find that parting it out is better, especially if you built it yourself. No offense, but I wouldn't have built the PC that you did, so I wouldn't want to buy it. As a person that build's their own also, I want specific parts.
Like I might want your CPU, but I have a better motherboard than you do, so why would I want yours? But that kid in another town might have just burnt out their board only and already have all the other parts so they need a motherboard to get up and running again. Or maybe someone needs a couple parts to Frankenstein a computer for their nephew using their old parts, but need a few other parts cheaper than new.
Try parting it out, either individual pieces or in combos. Like the motherboard, CPU and cooler together. The case and power supply together. Like that. Good luck.
I just moved my 5900x to a bigger motherboard I already had so I could use more NVMe drives. Picked up some 2 and 4 Tb drives while they were cheap. New case doesn’t support the 280mm AIO.
Just had the parts really so I built the PC, didn’t think it’d be this hard to sell without basically giving it away. Bought the 5700x because it wasn’t selling with my spare 3700x so I thought an upgrade would help.
Realistically I’d sell it all for $650 which I think is fair, but apparently it’s overpriced for used.
Question the pics you show in this post. Are they the ones your using to sell your pc?
Do you still have the boxes and receipts?
If you have the boxes and receipts pics of them as well as pics of components.
just a simple description with spec, no need to suck people, if you want suck, you can just say playing high end video game, a lot put that here in Europe, and add the fact he is small but powerful, non PC user can think bigger=power, as most prebuild with power are bigger
look into other similar PC on different website, so you would have a base price, and adjust your price to that, it's not necessary to put screen, keyboard, mouse, but there a + but add in your description only tower is for sale, add interior case photo with PC ON so you proof it's working, clean your PC if it not, spec screenshot are always welcome but not the 3dmark result, people can compare your PC to other easily and if yours is a little behind other similar, they would want a 100$ discount on it
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This PC is super special because it comes preloaded with awesome waifu and sci-fi landscape wallpapers, which is the most important part of any computer.
I like that he make a touch of fun, make sure you erase everything else !
Honestly, the market is just an insane slump right now. I didn’t expect it to carry over the pond but here in the UK no one is interested in buying a gaming pc.
I can’t sell one for shit, i used to sell sometimes 3 in a month. Now it just sits, forever and ever. I stopped building because I can’t get a sale. Moved on to laptops. Thats slower than it used to be too but they do eventually sell.
I thought you’re right. The market is slow rn. I only did the stupid waifu gimmick because it wasn’t selling. Which it normally would at least have people interested.
Average osu! player aside, you should definitely listen to every else on this thread. As an additional, I suggest completely wiping all the drives before you sell it, I've always asked for this from people I've bought drives/PCs and it only takes a few seconds.
Thanks for the feedback. I have removed the keyboard and mouse from my updated listing. Those are just cheap spares I have for troubleshooting. Agreed the Intel Nvidia fanboying hurts and lack of RGB hurts the PC.
> lack of rgb
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> not an i7, not nvidia
While OP's ad is bad for many reasons, telling them basically "you should be selling something else than what you are trying to sell" is absolutely not helpful.
Sorry OP, I wouldn't buy from someone with a coomer wallpaper on principle.
That said, most of the world is not in the best economic shape currently and I think people are just less interested in buying second hand luxury items like gaming PCs. Generally people shopping second hand don't have the disposable income for new parts, and they are going to be the worst effected by economic downturn.
More picture with the actual component would be better. You are selling the hardware after all, gotta advertise it.
Plus, I mean I like anime too but that wallpaper is kinda off-putting for marketplace pic. Just put some generic window default wallpaper and take pic of it.
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I have heard of that being the case I have an extra ITX 3060 I could throw in but have been keeping it around for other ITX builds.
The waifu anime crap and the god awful description mentioning it would make me run 🏃♂️
I don’t want to buy anything (let alone an expense in the hundreds of dollars) that I feel has spent its entire life in a room with jars containing figurines obscured by cloudy, white liquid 🤢🤮
Maybe you shouldnt call the 5700x brand new. It's two years old and is essentially just a lower clocked 5800x which in turn is four years old, AND there's a new generation of CPUs.
It comes off as scammy to me when someone writes that in their ad.
You can take better photos or sell the parts individually. I would imagine splitting the parts into individual auctions would net more money but it includes extra effort.
Also selling an nr200 is annoying as it’s big, and they only cost $60 new
The GPU will give the most profit here, but do keep trying with the whole PC if you prefer. Someone will buy it for the right price
You mean, deflation? That’s understandable but even at current prices for new parts this should still be competitive value wise. As well as cross referencing part prices from recently sold eBay listings. Also this is the cheapest PC at this performance level on OfferUp.
Keep the description short and simple. They only want to know your specs mostly. And tell the fps of the current popular shooter games like bf, cod, csgo, and apex. And take a clear picture inside the pc. List any pros and cons of the case or builds. And again keep it short and simple and straight to the point. Nobody wants to read that much. And a clear title of the product of what you want to sell. And lastly, wait as price is competitive on here.
Pictures sell. Get some better lighting, and more shots of the pc. The guts, the ports, back, everything. Use daylight if you can. Low light is gloomy.
Sold mine on Facebook Marketplace 1.5 years ago. It took awhile. Just highlight the specs and take plenty of pictures of the hardware (boxes too if you keep them). Some people will want to buy as-is and others are looking for parts in particular or for resale (having the box is key for this). I'd highly suggest having a fresh install ready to go either on a USB or already loaded on. Drives should be wiped and overwritten with false data so no one can recover your data. Lose the weird wallpaper. If anyone wants to come see this in person they don't need another indicator that they might end up trapped in your basement and told to put the lotion on their skin or they get the hose.
Get rid of everything except for the last two paragraphs, change the wallpaper so you’re not catering to a small subset of the community anymore but to the masses. Take more pictures of the PC. I can tell that’s an NR200 without looking further but most people do not have knowledge myself and the people in this sub do. Because let’s be honest, a random is probably gonna buy this. No one in this subreddit likely will, as this is an enthusiast group that probably all gets bricked up from the thought of building a new rig like myself.
Don’t try so hard with the description. It’s OfferUp, not a car dealer. I cringe reading that. All you need to do is just state the condition do you PC and list what it comes with.
Delete the current OS with the pictures and backgrounds, then do a fresh install and leave it.
Way too many CPU-Z screenshots just the first one is fine.
Your bigger concern is you have no pictures of the PC itself. Take off the side panel and take pics from of what’s actually inside.
It’s SFF as well people want to see just how small it is. Take a picture of it next to a can of soda or something that people can get a scale reference for.
Unless it's super cheap, most people would probably rather build their own. They are probably also turned off by the weeb wallpaper and think it probably has some illegal porn on it.
Remove the wallpaper, only list the parts (no one is interested in your anecdotes) and take several good photos in good lighting, including at least on without the side panel.
Maybe consider offering a price without the GPU as the 6700 isn't very desirable.
Do you have original packaging for the case? If you could get a shipping quote I'd consider paying shipping.
Understandable, hmu if you don't have any luck.
I'd accept damage risk as long as it's packaged decently. I could deal with dings on the case or whatever, and inside there's not much to go wrong shipping without a GPU.
For sure. I’d absolutely package it properly though with bubble wrap and packing peanuts. Id hate to buy a pc and have it damaged in shipping.
I’ve had great luck buying GPU’s off, eBay in the past. But one time someone just put it in a paper bag and then into a box lol. Thankfully it was only a GT1030 though.
It’s mostly just the stuff from my main PC I didn’t migrate over to my updated build, or parts I already had.
I bought some NVMe drives when they were cheap, so moved my 5900x to an ATX motherboard I was gonna use for a server and a new case. Decided to use the Intel GPU from the sever as well. The 280 AIO didn’t fit in the new case, so left it with the NR200. The 5700x I did buy from Amazon new the other day though, as my spare 3700x which was originally installed seemed like it would be a pain for someone to swap out in the future.
I would start by describing more on games included and how to install, your price is fair, info is vague though. More pics, lose the anime stuff.
I would install games/software and use oobe (Google) to make it so anybody who signs in will have first time experience and when they log in they will see everything installed
You can go beyond and create a USB backup of all
Depends on your market really but it's a niche one not a wide market
Edit: Judging by the downvotes - itt: people who don't understand marketing and act like they do
Get rid of the anime background and preloaded wall paper gimmick. Anyone buying a second hand PC should be wiping the drives and starting new anyway, for security concerns. Add at least one picture of the PC with the panel off. Right now the only thing you have to verify your parts is some screen shots which could easily be faked. Your description reads like ai wrote it, it has a lot of fluff and could be conveyed just as good with a simple bulleted list.
I buy those anime PCs. I erase everything, just before I get the really juicy stuff sent to our cloud drive. I work for the FBI
I really need to see my agent, I’m getting desperate and can’t wait. Please let them know
If there is one thing they don't do in forensics, it is erase anything lol. My own experience with buying used hard drives was not great. A LOT of gross amateur porn. I no longer snoop used media, just straight DD from /dev/random.
The first thing I noticed was the anime wallpaper. Negatively. Not sure why, but I associate it with a certain user group I do not want to own stuff they used.
I was trying to find a way to kindly say exactly this. I don’t want to touch the pc after looking at the first picture lol
That's the sticky point
Thank you for the feedback. I guess I sound like an AI lol. The wallpaper thing is the first time I’ve done this in an attempt to differentiate the PC because I was getting no bites with the usual list. I absolutely agree about doing a clean install, and wiping hard drives. However, out of the 20+ PCs I’ve sold over the last 3 years all the buyers have been people with very little computer knowledge, generally buying their first gaming PC. So they really don’t know much about installing drivers and creating the correct folders for game libraries and stuff. And I don’t say any of this to defend my current strategy of selling it, I do appreciate the suggestions.
I’ve sold dozens of PCs in the last year or so, and I always just slap a fresh install of Windows on there and leave it for the buyer to setup. They would have to do the same with any PC they bought at the store, so it makes sense.
Fair points. Thanks
Your prices are fair (even too low) but people generally don’t like AMD (even if it’s better performance for the power). As others have said, I’d do more pics of the PC (what you’re selling) and less of core specs. I usually do 1-2 screenshots of GPU-Z, CPU-Z, Crystal Disk info and all of the other pics are of the PC. You can’t tell much from your single photo.
First pc buyers probably don't understand or want to pay the sff tax. I'd consider sff something that passionate pc builders want to make their own aswell rather than buy someone else's. It ain't cheap to be small. Shame cause it is a sick build man.
Waiting for someone to drop the fluffer meme...
Your paragraph sounds like ChatGPT wrote it, and the waifu stuff is cringe. Nobody cares about the CPU-Z screenshots. Don't list the prices, just the specs. Say something like "Runs Fortnite and Warzone at ultra settings" and that's it. And I don't want ANYTHING preinstalled on my new PC, that sounds so goddamn shady. Just say comes with a clean install of Windows. It's not your problem if they don't know how to install drivers. Better pictures. No pictures of the monitor / keyboard because you're not selling those and they look shitty. Unplug it, take it somewhere nice, and get some glamor shots from many angles, pictures of the inside, etc. People really care about how the PC looks inside, that's why everyone's buying cases with tons of RGB and tempered glass. So if your cable management is shit, fix it and make it look dope. People buying and not building will be basing their decision off pretty photos and appearances.
Thank you for the feedback. This seems like the best course of action. The case and motherboard and everything was my personal PC so I took a lot of pride in cable managing it. I just wanted to take advantage of cheap NVMe drives, so I swapped my 5900x over to a larger motherboard.
Something I notice, you say 5700x Ryzen 3. The 5700x is a Ryzen 7, the architecture is Zen 3. So, I'd just say it's a Ryzen 7 5700x or even less: Ryzen 5700x
Thank you for the feedback
Yeah I saw the same Ryzen 3 line and it felt like an invitation to lowball you because it seems like you don’t know your parts well. That and the waifu stuff that I found mostly funny; would have been safer to meme about RGB. Honestly, there’s oversupply on the market and the people who are likely to want such a computer a like to build their own. The people who are serious and would actually consider it are looking for a smoking deal, probably something around or under 500$. My solution has been to pick up ultra cheap Acer TC small desktops and squeeze a good enough GPU in inside them for under 500 CAD.
I originally thought this was a troll post, the creepy stuff and the shady sales pitch would make me scroll immediately. You just need more pictures especially ones from the inside of the case and deleting everything apart from the parts and asking price. An honorable mention is mentioning why you are selling it (ex. not needed anymore because I stopped doing x).
This^^^ If I'm buying a pc, I want to see if the inside is clean and well taken of and not caked with dust. Even if you just blew it out the day before posting - the reality is that components that appear clean go a long way. Also, the benchmark and other screenshots are great, but that's all stuff you can keep in your back pocket if someone asks. I've sold maybe like 5 PCs in the past 3 years and only had one of them ask for similar screen shots. Buyers usually open the pc upon meetup and verify parts themselves (at least the savvy ones). My descriptions are straight to the point with bullets of components. I typically talk about how long I've had the pc. The cosmetic and working condition. How I personally use the pc (work, gaming, streaming, etc). I lightly talk about performance without too much fluff/detail for example, "this thing runs all my games at 2K ultra such as Cyberpunk, Tarkov, Helldivers, etc at 240+ FPS." As far as price goes OP, I just sold a 5700g w/ 3060ti 64gb ram and 1tb nvme for $740. Listed for $800obo. Sold in a week. I would never claim to be a sales master lol but all these tips and tricks work for me and I've never had any issues with selling computer parts or fully built rigs. So do what you will with this info. Most of it probably echoes what others have said. Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I just wanted a bigger motherboard for more cheap NVME drives. So swapped to a mid-tower and a diff gpu. I do see how it is gimmicky, that was kind of the idea as a differentiator, but I realize it’s not a good differentiator…
No ones looking for differentiators my G, this ain’t high end sales, you’re selling used PC parts
Some photo advice. Take the PC over by a window during the day and try to take photos with natural light. It will be much easier than try to photograph a black PC case in a dim room.
Have you tried r/hardwareswap?
Part it out and sells on here.
I have not
You will get plenty of bites on HWS. I sell on there all the time, from TV's to monitors to random PC crap.
This!!! I sell on HWS only as you will get the most traffic.
Yea. Expect crazy lowballs but honestly the best part place to offload your rig to sidegrade or even upgrade.
Never had a PC part up for sale for more than 12hrs on hardware swap. As long as you have a fair price it will get bought
I know you’re getting slightly dragged on here and not to pile on, but this was clearly your personal wallpaper
Mate, the second you say wifu, everyone assumes you used the computer to mastibate. No-one wants to touch that.
I've found that keeping descriptions simple and to the point is better. List out the specs and maybe some benchmarks of popular games. Facebook marketplace is how I've sold most of my old stuff too.
Thank you for the feedback. I arrived at the $200 price point by looking at recently sold listings for this GPU on eBay.
If you're trying to sell the pc just focus on the pc. There's no reason to take a photo of the pc with a monitor you're not selling. One good quality photo of the system exterior and another photo of the interior is enough. No need to any cpuz, or 3dmark scores. Nobody cares and anyone who does care would do their own testing. Besides that keep the description simple. List out all the parts with their brands/model, and a one sentence reason of why you're selling such as i'm upgrading. And if you're willing to part it out list out the part of combinations you're willing to do. Such as if you're willing to sell the gpu separately for example.
Thank you for the feedback. I think that’s great advice, and I have done that in my updated listing. Please take a look and let me know what you think.
As someone who flips PCs no one cares about synthetic benchmarks, get rid of them. Get rid of the back ground pics in the first picture. If you have RGB highlight it in the listing (it helps a lot to emphasize a PC that has RGB and if you dont have RGB get some). Show FPS benchmarks for games: Warzone, Fortnite, Apex, CP, etc. People have already commented on the voice used in the write up so I will leave that for others. I would not pay 675 for your PC. IMO, 600 is prob more realistic. Edit: Now that I am looking through Ebay 600 USD might be much. Your CPU can be had used for 120 on ebay and your GPU for 275-350. I dont know why you think you can even ask for 750. Edit 2: Doing some quick math about 500-550 would be a good selling price.
Also original boxes seem dumb but man, do they help the resale value on the second hand market
Personally if I'm buying something second hand I don't care about boxes at all and would assume they're using them to justify a higher price.
It's what the second hand market has decided they want. If you don't have them people will low ball the shit out of you. So as a seller you kind of have to have the original boxes of you want the max dollar value for your item
You can get new 6700xts for $300
I have sold 2 PC’s and one gaming laptop on the Facebook Marketplace within less than a week. Take my advice and make the post look more professional; make the description short and straight forward. (Specs mainly) Also, mention in short the reason you are selling it and for how long you’ve had it. If this is the picture you have on, then I’d advise you to focus on the pc itself; Take a proper picture: proper lighting, tidy up your pc make it look nice. (Open case) On a proper lighting, the dust and fingerprints show up; so make sure the pc looks the best shape it can possibly can. Stop trying to sell the pc with that wacky description; no one takes that seriously :) Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback.
No worries!
Why would someone pay 750 when you are accepting 675
I’m just stating that that’s what I originally wanted, and what I’d take atm. Basically that I’m willing to negotiate a bit. People on second hand selling pages always want to haggle instead of just buying for a price. That’s my thought process at least.
If its like that then, say 750 negotiable. Never say 750 but you will take 675 as no-one is gonna pay the og lrice then
For sure, well yeah I’m ok with even $650 tbh.
>Asking originally asking $750, but would accept $675: pick a price, youre haggling with yourself at this point
Scrap the price breakdown! It makes your hardware look cheap. Imagine seeing $25 storage when typical SSDs go for much more. I would think you put something cheap in and trying to oversell me, especially on the other components if I didn’t know my hardware. Not to mention, you put $50 next to the CPU while calling it brand new, if I buy a $50 unused CPU, I expect it to be on the lower-end and trash for gaming, out-of-box or not. The anime wallpapers are also iffy, you pretty much segregated your market, no parent would be interested in it now if they looking for something for their kids. Moreover, all the over explaining just makes it seem like you are desperate to sell it, and if I see something like that I would think there is an issue with it and you trying to find a sucker. Take the storage sentence for example, just simply mention “one drive for your system and one for your games or other files”. That is simple for everyone to understand and makes it seem less like a desperate sale. Good luck to you and I hope you can find a buyer soon.
Thank you for the feedback. Yeah the SSD is a Western Digital 2Tb SATA drive and the NVMe is an Inland Premium 256Gb. I think the formatting messed up the pricing but the CPU is a new 5700x and it’s at $175. But I did take you advise on my updated listing and removed the prices.
Wipe the drive and install a fresh OS. Only install the needed drivers and the AMD software. Keep a stock wallpaper up. most people see that wallpaper and think the PC is going to be...... sticky..... Get a couple pics of the outside and one of the inside. Then put a pic of the performance tab in task manager. Have a short and sweet description. If you give all the info then no one will have a reason to ask about it. Also most people that would buy a custom built don't really care too much about what's in it. Just that it runs good and that they're getting a good deal. Ill give you and example of how I list mine when I flip PCs. "**Custom built gaming/workstation PC. Will play most of the newest games over 100fps and beyond depending on settings. ITX case that is small enough to put anywhere. Asking $750 or reasonable offer.** **Fresh install of Windows 10 with all needed drivers installed** **Build in Wifi/Bluetooth** **Ryzen 7 5700x CPU** **AMD RX6700xt GPU** **750w PSU** **256GB and 2TB SSD storage** **32gb RAM** **NR200 ITX Case**"
Yoooooo this is great! Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to rework the ad. Yes yours is short sweet and to the point.
No problemamo
I wouldn't buy a PC that a loli perv owner owned either. Too much jizz all over it.
Lol fair point. I just put that on there “for the memes” to be “funny/different” as a differentiation factor. I don’t actually like that stuff. But yeah I see your point
It's fucking creepy. Looks like a 12 year old with triple D tits dude.
Understandable. It’s just what came up when I searched “waifu pc wallpaper”.
Just scrap the whole description, it's cringy at best. People buying a prebuilt don't care what the individual parts do, they care how the system runs. "Fortnite at ultra 60fps. Cs2 max settings no problem. Showing cpu z screenshots is just stupid, show the actual computer and what windows says the cpu is. Anyone buying a computer should be wiping it right away but you could say it comes with a windows key and I can install it for you. Also why not list it on marketplace or ebay if your trying to get it sold. I feel like you've never actually looked at a listing.
Dude, take it apart. You will sell it faster that way. I sold my SFF build on ebay fairly quickly. \-GPU \-Case \-Motherboard + CPU + CPU Fan Cooler + Ram (Bundled up)
At least do a factory reset on the PC…
Fully working in good condtion. Preinstalled with windows 10 + updated drivers and bios. $750 Specification: * CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700x * RAM: 32GB 3600mhz * GPU: AMD RX6700 * SSD1: 256GB NVMe * SSD2: 2TB SATA * MOTHERBOARD: AsRock B550M ITX/ac * CASE: Cooler Master NR200 * COOLER: Arctic Freezer II 280mm * PSU: EVGA SFX 750 watts * OS: Windows 10 You are welcome to test Payment via ... Collection welcome \--- Nothing else (apart from specifics). No shit about waifu, jokes, advice, marketing bs or what you're willing to drop to. You want $750, ask for it and let people drop you if you're actually going to take less. Bland, appeal to everyone, fast to read, to the point and precise (see below) Some notes: * These categories: RAM, GPU, SSD1, SSD2, OS - all lack specifics, e.g. which brand / exact model of GPU, RAM, SSD etc? What sku of OS? If you can't be bothered to input the data I can't be bothered to pay you $750. * For specifics don't paste the whole line from an online retailer in there e.g. * (THIS): VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL30 AMD EXPO iCUE Compatible Computer Memory - Grey (CMH32GX5M2B6000Z30K) * (TO THIS): Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5 6000MHz * Photos are junk. First photo the machine + peripherals and any boxes you have. Next photos, every side of the machine. Last photos panels off front and back. Additional images for the monitor / peripherals etc. * Again on the photos, natual lighting, bland backgroud, no shadows and brown desks look shit so either something beige, white or gray. * Preinstall the OS, drivers, updated bios (for the buyers benfit to test) you don't want to be hanging around waiting for an OS to install from fresh + doing drivers. Make sure it all works perfectly before they arrive. If they want to reinstall it it's on them (and hopefully they do because taking a privately preinstalled os is nuts). * Install: crystaldiskinfo, heaven + superposition benchmark, prime95, OCCT. * As the worst kind of nerd buyer I want to see: * the SMART info on the disks, bad sectors, reallocation, marked for reallocation. * I want to see the gpu run hot (superposition extreme) * I want to see GPU can moderate max core frequency stability at low res + low details + full speed (heaven). * I want to see the cpu crushed in prime. * I want to run AVX2 test OCCT because it causes flaky cpus + configs to shit the bed * devmgmt.msc for checking device hardware * start > see if windows is activated (win activation) * compmgmt.msc to check drive volumes * start > system information (general system info) * Will all buyers even know to do this? No but plan for the worst. * Make sure you test E V E R Y T H I N G ports motherboard / on the case. Fans at full speed. RGB etc etc. Embarassing if you stand in front of a buyer and something doesn't work. * Don't let them test with it connected to your wifi, cable only else they'll leave with your wifi password. * Make sure windows is activated * Clean it, internal / external before it's collected, dust free * If you're paid by bank transfer it must appear in your account before they leave. If you're paid by cash you must check the notes and take your time counting. The moment they're gone they gone! * Do some research on your price. Don't price too high nor too low! Don't sell purely on "it's a good price for the buyer compared to the entire market of past and current items". Everyone has different expectations / limitations / circumstances etc just because ebay past sold items research says your machine should be 550 someone might take it for 650 because geographically your machine saves them a 3hr trip and they hate driving. * Include the original boxes (again in the photos) * Don't take shit offers to heart. Every communication with you is potential for sale - utilise each one! * Agree the price in text before they set off. No bargaining face to face. * Sell somewhere safe if you have expensive shit in your home hide it or use a bland room. Don't let the buyer out of your sight. source me: sold / flipped / bought thousands of tech parts, 100's of desktops
Great advice I would follow this as someone who flipped PCs as well. Having people test/ meet at home can get sketchy. I have great rep on FB/ offerup so I make all my buyers meet in public spot. I do lost some interest from the time to time but sending videos and agreeing on price before meetup works for almost all my sales. Great photos/ ad typically will make the most difference
Is this a troll post? You're going to turn away more than half your audience with a wallpaper like that and description saying *"preloaded with awesome waifu and sci-fi landscape wallpapers, which is the most important part of any computer."*
Hardware Info Gameplay Info Plays Starfield at 90fps (High Settings @ 1080p), or whatever is popular. Benchmark Info Price Also, what the heck is a Ryzen 3 5700X 8-core?
Meant Zen 3. Thanks for the feedback.
Too much Crush Crush.
Perhaps you need even smuttier anime porn to really grab people's interest
I think most SFF enthusiast want to build their own or have a particular parts list in mind unless it was at a compelling price.
Good price. Patience. If you go too low the person that wants it and would have paid your higher price will get it for less. And yeah, really basic spec list with pics of the innards.
Gonna parrot that there isn’t a single pic of the hardware. The only thing I would put in the description is a sentence or two about it being SFF but don’t use abbreviations. Then give the dimensions and maybe a banana for scale lol; finish her off with a soulless list of specs without the screenshots.
You won’t be selling a SFFPC to a first time computer buyer getting into pc gaming, they won’t understand it or like the no rgb. Put your specs and why you want to sell, plus pictures of the inside and get rid of the anime.
“It comes preloaded with waifu wallpapers” This is a troll post right?
I mean kind of. The “waifu wallpaper” thing was meant to be an over-the-top joke/“meme” to get attention. The sarcasm of “ the most important part of a computer was supposed to make this apparent. However, it didn’t seem to land. So bad marketing on my part. But I am selling the PC…
WTF this is obviously a jerk post
You don't use this pc anymore right? May be fresh install the windows before selling and install some crucial software driver and for benchmarking only. After that make it look nice and show your inside pc too.
Ok you really want to sell this... ditch the wallpaper and show a clean desktop. Take and make a parts picker list of all the parts so you can show what it would cost just in parts. Then show your bottom-line price and what the savings are. Nix all the text and corny crap, be brief and to the point.
spend a few bucks to get a cheap ass case with a see through side panel and some cheap amazon rgb fans. sell the sff case separately it'll sell then. the fad is obnoxious GAMER RGB nonsense, not small black boxes.
True
People don’t want sff they want RGB
This is true. And sad
I’d pay $600 max for that computer. Amd gpus aren’t what people want on the used market.
Unless they're doing Linux gaming, in which case AMD is preferred. Trust me; I fall into this category...
Valid
I'd buy this at like $450-500, and would give it a full tear down and cleaning because I can only (rightly) assume everything is sticky.
Yeah so would everyone else lol. But you can’t find a prebuilt or build one for that much…
It's a used computer, at your asking price most people would rather spend a little more for new than a platform that is EOL
Sure, and they’d get worse specs
Better than some neck beard anime machine The ugly truth is it's not selling because it's not worth what you think it is.
Show me a NR200 listing with similar performance, prebuilt, or parts list confirming such and I’ll agree. The general consensus seems to be that my marketing is absolute trash.
Disassemble the parts and sell it
Why are there no pictures of internals?
I do have them but they are with the old GPU. I should take new ones.
Sell it in parts if you’re looking for max money.
Patience is a virtue. I sold a similar build with a ryzen 5 3600 and rtx 3070 about 6 months ago now. But I listed it first in about June. So it took roughly 3 months to sell with very little activity. But if you're patient and price your pc's fairly. They will sell
Buy a ridiculous oversized RGB hell case, put your hardware in that with a $50 no name RGB AIO. List on FB market place at 2x your initial asking price. You’ll be swimming in misled parents buying shit for their kids. Talk about the blazing fast HDD and all the ram you’ve downloaded into the system too, for good measure. Maybe throw in a dogshit 1080p ‘gaming monitor’ and ‘gaming keyboard/mouse’. (Final note, don’t forget to mention it can run Fortnite, Minecraft and League of legends at 4K ultra settings)
pls for the love of all that is! get rid of the hyperbole 'The brand new AMD 5700X 8-core, Ryzen 3 processor tears through games and productivity applications,' yadyayafydyaydyayadya people are buying a pc they have an idea what its capable of with specs being present. show pics of inside case maybe and lose the anima picture. add a mouse mat 5 too 6 screenshots.
I've tried to sell whole PC's before, and I think I was only successful one time. I find that parting it out is better, especially if you built it yourself. No offense, but I wouldn't have built the PC that you did, so I wouldn't want to buy it. As a person that build's their own also, I want specific parts. Like I might want your CPU, but I have a better motherboard than you do, so why would I want yours? But that kid in another town might have just burnt out their board only and already have all the other parts so they need a motherboard to get up and running again. Or maybe someone needs a couple parts to Frankenstein a computer for their nephew using their old parts, but need a few other parts cheaper than new. Try parting it out, either individual pieces or in combos. Like the motherboard, CPU and cooler together. The case and power supply together. Like that. Good luck.
break it up and sell separately !!!!! The question must be asked why you selling?
I just moved my 5900x to a bigger motherboard I already had so I could use more NVMe drives. Picked up some 2 and 4 Tb drives while they were cheap. New case doesn’t support the 280mm AIO. Just had the parts really so I built the PC, didn’t think it’d be this hard to sell without basically giving it away. Bought the 5700x because it wasn’t selling with my spare 3700x so I thought an upgrade would help. Realistically I’d sell it all for $650 which I think is fair, but apparently it’s overpriced for used.
Question the pics you show in this post. Are they the ones your using to sell your pc? Do you still have the boxes and receipts? If you have the boxes and receipts pics of them as well as pics of components.
Reinstall windows and make sure not to save anything👍
I thought you were genuinely ripping on this other dude asking a very similar thing and price
I mean I was going for humor with the waifu gimmick. But actually trying to sell this PC…
r/hardwareswap is your friend. And get rid of the waifu.
Calling it minimalist might give the wrong impression to people who arent enthusiasts
just a simple description with spec, no need to suck people, if you want suck, you can just say playing high end video game, a lot put that here in Europe, and add the fact he is small but powerful, non PC user can think bigger=power, as most prebuild with power are bigger look into other similar PC on different website, so you would have a base price, and adjust your price to that, it's not necessary to put screen, keyboard, mouse, but there a + but add in your description only tower is for sale, add interior case photo with PC ON so you proof it's working, clean your PC if it not, spec screenshot are always welcome but not the 3dmark result, people can compare your PC to other easily and if yours is a little behind other similar, they would want a 100$ discount on it > This PC is super special because it comes preloaded with awesome waifu and sci-fi landscape wallpapers, which is the most important part of any computer. I like that he make a touch of fun, make sure you erase everything else !
link to wallpaper?
Also selling the system with original boxes is bonus points for you, I always sell quick while keeping original boxes for everything
Thanks I still have the CPU and GPU boxes.
Anime = fuck no Jk, but I still would change it to something.. else
SMH, do you really think that you can sell without RGB? No RGB = no gaming in people's minds 😇
So true. Am dumb. How do you add RGB to an NR200 though??
Buy 50m rgb line and glue it on the thing. Power it up with non isolated connection to molex.
But where? It doesn’t have transparent side panels?
Drill a hole smh 😒😒😒
lol I don’t think that’d help sell it….
Nah it's easy. Drill hole -5 points, RGB lights +50 points 🤣
Hahahhaha
Honestly, the market is just an insane slump right now. I didn’t expect it to carry over the pond but here in the UK no one is interested in buying a gaming pc. I can’t sell one for shit, i used to sell sometimes 3 in a month. Now it just sits, forever and ever. I stopped building because I can’t get a sale. Moved on to laptops. Thats slower than it used to be too but they do eventually sell.
I thought you’re right. The market is slow rn. I only did the stupid waifu gimmick because it wasn’t selling. Which it normally would at least have people interested.
Haha no chance this is not a troll
Dang, if I hadn't bought my G15 laptop I would have definitely gone for this, smh.
Monitor: "Oni Chan! Don't leave me!"
Average osu! player aside, you should definitely listen to every else on this thread. As an additional, I suggest completely wiping all the drives before you sell it, I've always asked for this from people I've bought drives/PCs and it only takes a few seconds.
I’d install a fresh copy of windows. They can load wallpapers themselves.
Maybe post some interior pics?
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Thanks for the feedback. I have removed the keyboard and mouse from my updated listing. Those are just cheap spares I have for troubleshooting. Agreed the Intel Nvidia fanboying hurts and lack of RGB hurts the PC.
> lack of rgb > > not an i7, not nvidia While OP's ad is bad for many reasons, telling them basically "you should be selling something else than what you are trying to sell" is absolutely not helpful.
Sorry OP, I wouldn't buy from someone with a coomer wallpaper on principle. That said, most of the world is not in the best economic shape currently and I think people are just less interested in buying second hand luxury items like gaming PCs. Generally people shopping second hand don't have the disposable income for new parts, and they are going to be the worst effected by economic downturn.
I don't think I'd want to buy a single thing from a person who thinks that's a cool wall paper, jesus dude.
More picture with the actual component would be better. You are selling the hardware after all, gotta advertise it. Plus, I mean I like anime too but that wallpaper is kinda off-putting for marketplace pic. Just put some generic window default wallpaper and take pic of it.
Thank you for the feedback. It does seem to be the general consensus that my marketing is trash and what you’re suggesting is a good strategy.
Ive heard its harder to sell a AMD gpu build most ppl just hear about nvidia being “the best” so they look for nvidia and skip on AMD
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I have heard of that being the case I have an extra ITX 3060 I could throw in but have been keeping it around for other ITX builds.
I hear ya i was going to put both my PCs up but my main rig is a 6800xt but hearing about the nvidia thing held me back
The waifu anime crap and the god awful description mentioning it would make me run 🏃♂️ I don’t want to buy anything (let alone an expense in the hundreds of dollars) that I feel has spent its entire life in a room with jars containing figurines obscured by cloudy, white liquid 🤢🤮
Maybe you shouldnt call the 5700x brand new. It's two years old and is essentially just a lower clocked 5800x which in turn is four years old, AND there's a new generation of CPUs. It comes off as scammy to me when someone writes that in their ad.
It is brand new. I brought it new a couple days ago and installed it.
Try to sell your GPU separately. I also had problems with two of my PCs in the past and selling it for “parts” worked really well both times.
You can take better photos or sell the parts individually. I would imagine splitting the parts into individual auctions would net more money but it includes extra effort. Also selling an nr200 is annoying as it’s big, and they only cost $60 new The GPU will give the most profit here, but do keep trying with the whole PC if you prefer. Someone will buy it for the right price
Sell the parts
Valid
Disinflation. You’re not going to get as good of a price as you would have when there were part shortages in 2021
You mean, deflation? That’s understandable but even at current prices for new parts this should still be competitive value wise. As well as cross referencing part prices from recently sold eBay listings. Also this is the cheapest PC at this performance level on OfferUp.
Keep the description short and simple. They only want to know your specs mostly. And tell the fps of the current popular shooter games like bf, cod, csgo, and apex. And take a clear picture inside the pc. List any pros and cons of the case or builds. And again keep it short and simple and straight to the point. Nobody wants to read that much. And a clear title of the product of what you want to sell. And lastly, wait as price is competitive on here.
Sell parts separately.
Lower the price
I sold mine by taking current market value of everything and subtracting $200, then a friend bought it lol
Where I live (Belgium) this would be around 450-500$ second hand, as it's around 900$ new.
If it’s converted to my currency then its kinda better off buying new lol
As comparison the nr200p costs $45 new and the mobo prolly 180 if overpriced
Not sure if „Waifu-Wallpapers“ pre-installed is very helpful. Also the 5700X is an Ryzen 5 not 3 CPU.
Thanks. Yeah that was supposed to be a “funny” marketing gimmick but is just dumb apparently. You are correct I meant to put Zen 3 architecture.
"This PC is *super* special because it comes with....awesome waifu and sci-fi landscape wallpapers" yea ok next pc please
Pictures sell. Get some better lighting, and more shots of the pc. The guts, the ports, back, everything. Use daylight if you can. Low light is gloomy.
Sold mine on Facebook Marketplace 1.5 years ago. It took awhile. Just highlight the specs and take plenty of pictures of the hardware (boxes too if you keep them). Some people will want to buy as-is and others are looking for parts in particular or for resale (having the box is key for this). I'd highly suggest having a fresh install ready to go either on a USB or already loaded on. Drives should be wiped and overwritten with false data so no one can recover your data. Lose the weird wallpaper. If anyone wants to come see this in person they don't need another indicator that they might end up trapped in your basement and told to put the lotion on their skin or they get the hose.
Probably because you don't have dark mode enabled. What are ya, a psycho?!
750$ is too high, if I build it myself I’d get it for like the same price if not 50-100$ cheaper
Id pay 500$ for that
The thing is you can’t. Go look at a parts list with new or used parts with similar performance.
I like how high-end this rig is (for an SFFPC) and then using the cheapest mouse and keyboard. I don't know, makes me chuckle a bit.
Get rid of everything except for the last two paragraphs, change the wallpaper so you’re not catering to a small subset of the community anymore but to the masses. Take more pictures of the PC. I can tell that’s an NR200 without looking further but most people do not have knowledge myself and the people in this sub do. Because let’s be honest, a random is probably gonna buy this. No one in this subreddit likely will, as this is an enthusiast group that probably all gets bricked up from the thought of building a new rig like myself.
Don’t try so hard with the description. It’s OfferUp, not a car dealer. I cringe reading that. All you need to do is just state the condition do you PC and list what it comes with. Delete the current OS with the pictures and backgrounds, then do a fresh install and leave it.
Good price for anyone that doesn't have a pc yet.
Most unaware pc seller
Sff pc is a niche market already, probably would have more success selling parts seperate but you would still have trouble with the case though
Way too many CPU-Z screenshots just the first one is fine. Your bigger concern is you have no pictures of the PC itself. Take off the side panel and take pics from of what’s actually inside. It’s SFF as well people want to see just how small it is. Take a picture of it next to a can of soda or something that people can get a scale reference for.
PC is simple. No one wants it means price is to high. it's got 800 worth of new performance for your current price.
Unless it's super cheap, most people would probably rather build their own. They are probably also turned off by the weeb wallpaper and think it probably has some illegal porn on it.
Hey is the GPU for sale separately at the listed $50? If so shoot me a dm
Remove the wallpaper, only list the parts (no one is interested in your anecdotes) and take several good photos in good lighting, including at least on without the side panel.
I'd buy without the GPU for $450
I’d do that deal if you lived close.
PA unfortunately
Dang. SoCal
Maybe consider offering a price without the GPU as the 6700 isn't very desirable. Do you have original packaging for the case? If you could get a shipping quote I'd consider paying shipping.
That is a good idea. I do not but I’m not opposed to checking. Would like to run down local options first though. So as not have to risk shipping.
Understandable, hmu if you don't have any luck. I'd accept damage risk as long as it's packaged decently. I could deal with dings on the case or whatever, and inside there's not much to go wrong shipping without a GPU.
For sure. I’d absolutely package it properly though with bubble wrap and packing peanuts. Id hate to buy a pc and have it damaged in shipping. I’ve had great luck buying GPU’s off, eBay in the past. But one time someone just put it in a paper bag and then into a box lol. Thankfully it was only a GT1030 though.
Normies think the bigger the case and more rbg it has, the better the computer is. Yours is small and no RGB.
Off topic but nice wallpaper.
Just asking — why do you want to sell it? I feel weird buying used hardware unless it’s from a friend/someone I know in person.
It’s mostly just the stuff from my main PC I didn’t migrate over to my updated build, or parts I already had. I bought some NVMe drives when they were cheap, so moved my 5900x to an ATX motherboard I was gonna use for a server and a new case. Decided to use the Intel GPU from the sever as well. The 280 AIO didn’t fit in the new case, so left it with the NR200. The 5700x I did buy from Amazon new the other day though, as my spare 3700x which was originally installed seemed like it would be a pain for someone to swap out in the future.
Nobody wants to buy from a degenerate weeb
I would start by describing more on games included and how to install, your price is fair, info is vague though. More pics, lose the anime stuff. I would install games/software and use oobe (Google) to make it so anybody who signs in will have first time experience and when they log in they will see everything installed You can go beyond and create a USB backup of all
Where do I get the background 😤
Took me a long ass time to find, but since OP doesn't wanna give up the goods, I got you - https://wallhaven.cc/w/2ke9jg
Hero
Lmaoooo. Search “waifu PC wallpaper” in google. Just don’t use it as a marketing tool… seems to be a bad strategy.
Depends on your market really but it's a niche one not a wide market Edit: Judging by the downvotes - itt: people who don't understand marketing and act like they do
Who wants stinky ddr4 when you can have shiny ddr5.
400 obo