I love when people try to make it seem like you're getting a deal when they tell you the msrp prices of 6 years ago. people are delusional

For meeting up: a lot of police stations now have designated areas either in their building or parking lot for Facebook marketplace meetups. Always encourage that if it’s an option

pro tip: if it says "high end" it ISN'T high end. no, your 1650 and 3060 is not high end, and the msrp you overpaid has no meaning.

Back when I sold my used stuff I priced it around 50-60% of the original price. Most people who messaged me asked if it was for parts or is it broken since it was the cheapest on the marketplace. 😅

After your video I decided to look at the marketplace just to see what they had and the first one I came across was a listing for an "MSI godlike" mobo and the picture was of a gigabyte board. And the others I saw had absolutely ridiculous pricing for old hardware.

Dude that 6750 xt build is solid for 500. Thats insane. Prebuilts for that would be like $1200

“No low balling, I know what I got!!”

At 7:35, where you see that price discrepancy between listings, it is important to note that one was 8GB and the other was a 16GB model. The one in that PC has the 16GB model.

I find myself thinking I am a bad pc dad for the rigs I built our sons. Then I see these things J is looking at and I realise my standards are just really high. Our 6 y/o uses a 6700xt with a Ryzen 5 5700x and cost well under £1,000 letting me know how all over the place your prices are. Some of these rigs Jay looked over were genuine budget gamer scabby , smoke crack, rigs. Cheers for the look.

Not sure about elsewhere, but our local police department is a popular spot to meet for high value meetups. Failing that, a major store parking lot during the day, with someone with you :)

Very nicely done, explaining this all to people. Over the years my Laptops, and lab servers, have been Refurbished or used. I haven't had any real issues.

"Trust your gut" is great advice. I've learned over the years to trust mine because it always ends up being right.

I will say, pay attention to videos such as this, and learn to make informed decisions. Prebuilts are nice, but not always efficient. I always trust what I build over what can be bought.

Hey Jay, you are right about people selling damage system trying to get fast cash. I have a few part around the house and I'm able to build good used system to sell at a good price at times. I always tell the person to come and test system / parts out before you buy it. Plus I also stand by my builds for service if needed. I've been doing this for years. I have not had one of my system die or return to me at all. (Thank God ) Now I have use some of the used parts to upgrade a few older systems in my day. Now I do have a few people that comes just to have a system cleaned

Interesting stuff man.. always nice to have a flip through the second hands, even if you're not buying.. it gives perspective.

This is fun. Do more of these!!!

Legendary! Thank you for your honesty 💙

Thanks Jay this gave me some good insight for listing mine for sale!

Thanks Jay

Much love man, hope you doing well :D

Love the video. I purchase from recyclers or companies that specialize in acquiring computers in bulk and reselling. I find purchasing from an individual they tend to be delusional on what they want to make of the sale, I know most people want to get a good sales value but you want an honest value not a delusional value IMO.

New fan here. Gotta say after building gaming pcs just casually for over 15 years now I learned so many new things in your videos. You guys are hilarious and I appreciate all you guys do. I have the exact same laugh as the guy laughing at you in all your videos 😂. It sounds like an echo when Im laughing at him laughing at you lol. Sending you good vibes man. Hope to see you in good health. 🙏

That 4060ti was a 16gig model - the other you found prices on were 8gig and 16gig ... Great vid as always ... :D ...

I would say that a very big red flag is sellers posting stock photos from the manufacturer instead of photos of the actual product their are selling. I have fell for that before where the seller ends up selling a product that is too damaged. The other red flag would be sellers announcing a price that is too small for the value of the product (like that $1 guy), then acting offended when someone offers them what they are asking and keep trying to up the price on you when you make an offer. I usually filter those low values because they are either faulty/damaged products, scams that target your wallet or your data, or delusional sellers. Thank you for the video Jay and team.

Needs to be Longer or More Often vids PLEASE these are really great content Jay.

I enjoyed this video a lot, it was interesting and fun to watch!

Probably already mentioned, but FB won't let you ship items for over $500, so some people just put that as the price and then tell you the real price over chat...though they usually call that out in their ad.

thanks jay

I only sell stuff for cash,in my small town we have an online in person meetup spot at our local PD that's monitored so I only meet there and never had any issues.

And I thought the few bucks I was originally going to ask for the second system I built out of my old left over parts was asking too much. I guess it was just best I decided keep it because it's eventually going to be a games server when possible. :)

This was actually really entertaining. I would love to see Jay do more of these and lowball some more bros.

Secondary SFF build I just put together from mostly used parts.. Fractal ridge + b550i aorus pro ax = $195 shipped from ebay 3700x = $115 shipped from ebay IS67xt cooler = $42 new from amazon 1tb p3+ = $free with amazon points 2tb sn850x = $90 new from ebay 32GB lpx @ 3200 = leftover from prior build 5700xt raw II ultra = $100 from fb marketplace open box sf850 = $84 from ebay Sold a few parts from the prior secondary frankenstein machine I had before this so subtract ~$150. It's been great, I take it to friends houses for game nights. Waaay more portable than the pure base 500 machine that this morphed into.

Very useful, thanks Jay

I really enjoyed this video. thanks guys

Vary helpful video of the know how's of shopping used online.

rite on j ty for the video hope your doing well

I got a PC for a friend on Facebook marketplace with a B550, Ryzen 5600, 3070, 256gb ssd, 750 watt psu, and 16gb of RAM for $640. It's not a crazy crazy deal, but I'm happy with the set up, and the case was actually clean. Optional stuff I picked up was an ethernet cable, GPU sag thingy, and I threw in an old 1tb SSD and a 1tb HDD I had laying around for extra storage. He's gaming on his old TV, so it's really only going to be pushing 60fps at 1080p. But he has so many avenues to upgrade, I'm pretty proud of the snag.

Paid $700 w/ a 2 year warranty for my new 3090 last year and i couldnt be happier. These recent generations haven't been enticing enough for an upgrade.

Thanks for this entertaining and enjoyable video.

Great video, I'm not in the market for used but good info!

This was a fun video, seeing what you would price these pc as. I guessed about the exact same price you gave for all the buids

Hey Jay. Love the content you put out. Hope everything is good. I was wondering if you can do 2 videos…1 explaining some of the right Ifixit bundles. And 2…any chance for a tv review maybe LG…the ones you go with.

My current rig was a 4th gen intel with a gtx780 I got from a buddy in 2018. Since then I’ve slowly upgraded every part, mostly with used components. Now it has a 3600 and a 2080 super with 32 gigs of Ram. Only thing original is the case and the Blu-ray drive lol my next purchase will be a higher-end 5000 series for my b450 board, either a 5800x3D or a 5900x.

If you're shopping, please make sure to look at the laptop market. I have seen multiple great sales and open box deals on laptops with 4050s and 4060s, and those mobile GPUs will embarrass many desktop GPUs from the 10 and 20 series (and even some of the 30-series). The 4060 mobile is not significantly slower than a 3060 Ti desktop.

I look for really good deals on older tech, I got an i3-4130 system, spent 20 bucks on an i7-4771 and extra ram, popped in a 1050 and it's a good little system now

What are these sketchy comments from sketchy profiles with sketchy profile pictures. Hmmmm!!!

That intel i5 and gtx1660 comments was really helpful. A work colleague got ripped off by a prebuild company, they don't know much about pc's and got an intel i5 9th gen, 16gb ddr4 and a gtx1050ti. No speeds or anymore details given as to what i5 9th gen on the website 🤦‍♂️

I've been doing online buy & sale PC deals since 2010, I have gained very good experience meeting new people and dealing with them, sometime i go to their place and sometime they come to my place, that's how i have been building my PCs ever since.

I sold a older gaming pc with a Phenom II X4 955, 8gb ram, and an r9 270 last week for $35. Even really old stuff can still have some life left in it. All depends on what you want to use it for.

Seeing these makes my build look like a steal. Built over a year ago Oct 22, 5700X, two NVMe 1TB drives, 3070 Stryx, MSI B550 MB, 32GB RAM that matches the best speed for that CPU. Parts were not bought at one time. I also don't just play video games. Cost with tax rounded. Asus Strix 1000W PSU $204 Antec DF700 Flow Case $97 Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Gen 4 SSD + G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB $248 Samsung 980 NVMe SSD $115 AMD Ryzen 5700X $219 Cooler Master Hyper H410R CPU cooler $33

The $450 ryzen is basically what Ive just bought in the uk from a cash generator place, but I paid £300/$380 usd, plan is to upgrade it slowly over the rest of the year. Will be a massive upgrade for me, currently using a dell xeon 1270 with a 1060 in it.

Love your takes on the used market. Im lucky not to be so budget bound that I need to shop used. I prefer having the guarantee, but I have sold a few items. Latest my old 3060 to a Ukrainian refugee. Nice guy BTW. I always only sell face to face as in wanna look the other in the eyes and hand over the item without the shipping hassle. Never have had issues.

If your patient and willing to drive a decent way you can get some really good deals. I always meetup at Walmart or somewhere with a lot of people. Also if you know about PCs and what to look for, non-working PC can be really good deals. A good bit have simple issues.

Did my recent upgrade on the used market specs are a Ryzen 9 7900x,nzxt b650e motherboard,EVGA xc3 3080 hydro copper,4+ TB m.2 western digital 2 Tb x2, 96 GB ddr5 g skill trident ram, and the icing on the cake was watercooling got a 2 Ek radiators a lian li reservoir/pump, 3070 waterblock (selling cuz I don’t have the card) and 3 bottles of coolant and a Asus Rog monoblock for 80 guy was awesome tbh best deal ever got proof of everything I know UKposts comments be skeptical payed 800 at the end of the entire upgrade! Architecture student that’s why I needed that much juice for my system

Smiling! I don't go by date especially in marketplace, I see the same listing from week to week that say, listed a day ago. That when you put 100 mile area and you get listings from 2000 miles away.

After seeing this video I really want to see a fallow up video but for home servers and how someone can get a cheap server going to learn on/ upgrade.

Congratulations on 4M subscribers

OH SNAP!!! Look at you using the EVGA X20 !!!

I play and work with GTX 1070 Ti in my rig right now, testing it for a week after I repaired it. I play 1440p Fallout 76, it maxes out the framerate (72 FPS cap). It is NOT a bad card!

my tip for shopping the used market is to know what you want. if you have time to browse then you have time to do your homework. compare prices online for the lowest and if you find that they're about the same, haggle. depending on what it is, you could (hypothetically) save either $10-50 or 10-50%. for example, i just picked up 2 monitors the other day, asking price was $150. did my homework and they accepted $100. now i got a triple monitor setup that matches perfectly in aesthetics

Really nice video with relevant content. Scary that you even need to concider robbery in this case. It has never be on my mind after hundreds of private trades in DK.

I do these kinds for young folks getting into Gaming, AMD R5500(OB), 16GB 3200 (new) , MSI B550 Gaming X wifi (OB) , NZXT 340 (own light use), Corsair 550w Mod Gold (OB) , 1TB m.2 SSD Solidigm 41 (new), 4 random argb fans (can't remember) , Windows 11 licence, RX6650x GPU (new cheapest), runs about £500, which is a real value here in UK. I Hate scammers!

I have a brand new high end water-cooled 486 with a 1200 baud modem for sale. Mint. Seriously though, this was fun. I think anyone that's looking to save money on a PC should just build it themselves. These listings are soooooo sketchy...

My dad taught me from the moment I got into buying my PC parts that if and when I sell them, I need to accept about a 50% loss every time (note, we're talking about parts used for years, not parts I use for

I always buy/sell at the local PD. Our PD has “e-commerce” parking spots with cameras and audio.

7:44 I'm actually running that Asus 4060 Ti in my system right now. bought it in February as an upgrade from an Asus GTX 980 😅

Something to consider when getting Intel 12th, 13th or 14th Gen.. Jay goes into it often but if they have a high end motherboard, it is quite likely there is CPU degradation from high OCs from folks that know how to or worse high voltage from folks that don't do any optimizations.. just points to ponder. I read folks on the forums complaining about their CPUs degrading often.

I always get so much out of your videos

Jay can you do a short video talking about cablesmods and how their cables work? I just recently upgraded my PSU to an ROG, I had an Asus Tuf and it had cablemod wires, I’m wondering if I could use those same wires on my new psu.

I found a sff build with a 7800x3d and rx6800 for 1000 bucks, seemed like a solid deal

I am amazed you haven't done a sponsored video with Jawa when it comes to PC building.

I got lucky and bought two “broken” gaming PCs for $200 each. One was valued at $400, the second, a Corsair Obsidian Super tower with complete water cooling, purchase was valued at $1200 on the low end.

Yo bro, could you review the JGINYUE AMD B650i ITX motherboard? Also what ram is best for the board? I'm not too knowledgeable about PCs, but I've heard it's a great option for budget gamers. Would love to hear your thoughts on its performance, features and how to set it up.

thx

Just done a build with a 5600 and 6750 XT for around £600, don't think I did too bad. All new too.

I still run a 3770k oc'd to 4.8 all core with 16 GB of 2400 mhz g skill ram and a rtx 2080. No real concerns so far since the most intense game I play is wonderlands/borderlands 3. Edit: I managed to snag everything minus the case for around $600 right around the start of "the pandemic." I'll upgrade once I get a newer cpu/ram/mobo combo used for around $200.

The 6750xt is a great deal mine I got for Xmas new with tax was 379 , if I was still in CA id pick it up the system

I only wanted am5 for the future I’m not upgrading yet but the option is there

I know this video is geared more toward people looking to offload their used PC's but there are also many PC flippers and Local builders like myself on these platforms that build PC's for profit. Some folks don't market themselves as such but their prices may appear a bit higher because your paying for their expertise in sourcing the parts, building and testing the machine to make sure it's stable. It's not a bad way to make some side cash as long as your not trying to pull a fast one. I also wanted to comment on the "New Build Comments". I think its fair to call a build new as depending on the parts that are used because GPU's and CPU's have longevity in them and if the rest of the parts used in the system are new it is essentially a new system especially if it's been tested for stability and thermals. The build is technically new because the builder sourced the parts and Built the system and tested it. In my listings I mark which parts are new and used if any so there is no confusion. If it's a build I just cleaned up and tested then yes that would be marked as used.

Micro Center has a good deal on a bare bones system right now. 740 bucks gets you a X670E Hero motherboard which is 650 bucks on the site by itself. A asus mid tower case, a 1000-watt Tuf power supply and a 360 mm AIO Asus model. 1500 bucks' regular price for over half off now.

I bought a $300 1080Ti that turned into a 2080 after an RMA in 2020. I got the most lucky deal on a 1080Ti then because it was before the market skyrocketed and they also didn't have 1080Ti to replace mine with so I got upgraded to a 2080 and I have had it since, the warranty is definitely gone but shit, it had a warranty that transferred owners and even though the damage was my fault ASUS ROG replaced my card that only had the RGB controller blown on it for not wanting a potential fire. Props to the company for taking this action even years ago and that's why I will always buy ASUS ROG parts until I have a bad experience enough to deter me.

Just on the 4060 Ti section 7:43. The price you compared on google, the $600+ card is 16GB and the $300+ is an 8GB cards.

No Jay Shouting out Victorville 🤣. Thats my home town hahah

Jay, I'd love to see a video talking about selling and buying high end pcs. Like custom watercooled computers because I built a bunch of watercooled computers and am getting very not good prices because I think people don't understand what a custom loop costs. Jmi idk

i just got a all white custom pc with a 3080 all white. i7-13700K. 32 gigs t-force ddr5 ram. lian li O11 DYNAMIC RGB case. liquid cooled lian li. all fans lian li rgb. gave him 900 bucks and my steam deck. what a steal.

I don't think many people should be shopping for a used PC but if they're browsing for second hand markets, browse for used parts as that's more likely to be legit since people swap pieces quite frequently.

When it comes to meeting in public to make the sale - ask to meet someplace with a lot of cameras, like a McDonald's lobby or the local police station. My local police has a designated spot right in front next to the front door where you can meet to do internet sales.

You say that you doubt older parts aren’t new but I’ve got spec for sale that has a R5 2600 and RX6600 on a b450 and all posts are new and still have all the boxes

writing my name and take picture of it is brilliant. haven't thought of that.

Do a video buying some of these systems and testing out if they were worth the price or not?

Hey Jay! Could I make a request for a video? I'd like to see a video testing a custom bios for the 7900 gre. Thanks!

Someone near my area was selling their entire streaming set up for $1500. While the tower wasn't top of the line (R7 3700X, 32gb 3200 ram, B550 board, 2070 super, 2tb nvme) it also came with TWO 1080p 144hz monitors, 1080p 60 webcam, & keyboard & mouse, so yea. Lol. Asked him why he was selling everything, said he was moving to Sydney.

I cannot tell you how crazy some of the deals are where I live, (Cape Town, South Africa) especially on the FB market. I've seen some of the worst combinations of parts with a price tag that people just pulled out their behinds.

Check the make of PSU on the PC cultist list as a cheep PSU can be an issue. Getting your goods, use the car park police out side of a police station. (Surveillance Cameras.) Also ask, some stations will say use our lobby.

Back when I had my ASUS 1660 Super (about 3 years ago), I was getting medium to high settings on games in 1440P. I think I was playing Death Stranding a lot at that time and I did get those settings with a steady 60fps even though everywhere you looked people were claiming it as a 1080P card. It would probably not get that now with some of the newer titles coming out, but to flat out say it can’t do it is false. I don’t think the guy in that posting was trying to be misleading at all. You even said at the beginning of your video that it all depends on what you are trying to play.

really... so youll pay 300 to a brand for a monitor to break it... but wont pay a fair price to private seller and... some people have more money than sense

That last one with the 5700x and 6750xt. Thats a good deal.

I gotta tell ya Jay, i'm rocking a 1070ti and i get 115 fps in palworld with gpu running 92-98%. with a ryzen 5 5500 gpu to throw on top of it. Playing diablo 2 i can get 90ish on average. Playing Hogwarts i get about 70. it really is all over the place when all 3 games run the same gpu usage.

That would be a good for Folding @ Home. The $1000 one.

3:16 That's more than a brand new gaming PC from the store with a 5800X3D and RX 7600 (standard parts, not OEM crap). Or same price for a 5800X/3060Ti. (cheaper cases yes, but...)