Good prices for ancient used technology and phone/tablet products, and they gave us a fair price for an apple watch.
However, I took a custom desktop I built myself in there a couple weeks ago and they offered me $250.00 for it. The parts cost me $1700 eight months ago when I put it together, and I was looking for $1000-1200 or so, which I think is fair for parts less than a year old.
Anyway, I found a buyer on craiglist and wound up giving him a Ryzen 7 1700X, MSI B350 Tomshawk, Noctua NH-D15S, and 16gb of decent DDR4 ram for $275, and I still have the rest of my system to sell off. It was less than the $450 or so I'd consider the best I could've gotten, but my point is they really need to learn what newer parts are worth and what they can be sold for.
I'd rather think they simply didn't know enough about current tech than think they were trying to con me, but neither is an ideal situation for an electronics business where such things are bought and/or sold.
To be fair, their explanation was that they offer half of what they can resell the item for, but I still don't see why they thought a system with the parts mine had was something they could only resell for $500. If they had offered $500 for it, and then explained how and why they determine their offers, I might have taken them up on it.
I thought that a business might have more time than I could spare to find a buyer and make the most they could from reselling whatever products they might buy from someone, but maybe they were as desperate as I am currently for cash and were hoping for a quick sell and really needed to turn around and get their money back as soon as possible.
Despite all that, if I need a used dell optiplex or something similar in the future I'll happily...
Read moreServiced a laptop for college, and my fiance's XBox S. It cost me over $150 for the XBox job (the HDMI port) plus $50 to fix the power button on my laptop (whenever my battery went low and my laptop died, I could not turn it back on). The man wanted me to keep paying $50 every time my battery went dead ("power-cycling" the worker called it) on my school computer, so obviously the problem wasn't fixed as expected. A month and a half later, the XBox HDMI port was back to not working as before. So, money wasted. And I was almost charged TWICE ($300) for the XBox servicing as a receipt was asked for at pickup. Thankfully I kept it. The electronic itself was only $350 brand new at GameStop, so the pricing at GT is outrageous. Watch being taken advantage of, as now I have both a non-working laptop for college and a non-working XBox S but am out over $250. I am now in KY and was told the "saudering job" for the XBox HDMI port is a $20 fix. I am highly upset with being taken advantage of, and not having working gadgets! Beware of...
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