Is it just me or are second hand PCs and second hand PC components super expensive in NZ? You read about people in Europe and the US getting things like 8th gen intel old Dell OptiPlex ex-lease PCs for <$100 (2017 tech). Meanwhile sticking with the same example, you struggle to find an 8th gen intel CPU (without other components) for less than $300 on trademe and marketplace, and complete systems are like $500+ for 6 year old tech.
I want to upgrade my Plex server CPU from 4th to minimum 8th gen so I can properly transcode h265 video using the modern QuickSync version. I just need a new CPU and motherboard and it seems like I can buy new 12th or 13th gen for similar money as 8th gen second hand.
Preemptive reply to AMD comments. I run AMD on my gaming rig. But AMD don’t support QuickSync.
Not just PC parts sadly. People here seem to think they should get 80%+ of the cost back for their second hand crap all the time. Or they they price like $10 less if it’s a brand new item. I’d rather get some protection from CGA dealing with a retailer than save the $10 buying second hand. Especially if it’s electronics.
Not saying there aren’t good deals sometimes, but reasonable stuff always gets snapped up quick. In your case I would just wait for a decent sale and buy new.
I saw someone selling a 32inch tv that I had 14 years ago for $400. It was nuts
Haha I bet it was 720p with huge bezels too?
Antique! Very valuable!
I just remembered we had old analogue TVs and we put them on trademe, were stoked to get $1 (as opposed to paying to recycle).
Yeah looks like I’ll be waiting for a sale and buying new.
Ye is not cheap. Best is keep looking from FB marketplace, TradeMe, or even from AliExpress? I’ve gotten my Xeon from there at low price but that’s ancient tech.
I’ve been idly browsing local Facebook listings for second hand gear and the same shit sits there for months priced about what I paid for similar stuff years ago - sometimes higher
Yes, we’re usually getting fleeced here. On the bright side we don’t have to deal with a lot of the bullshit US and Europe have to deal with because we’re so isolated.
Seems like not much supply of ex-lease stuff here. PBTech gets a bit but it’s often not cheap. Grays online auctions previously had some bigger lots of IT stuff that went cheaply but you had to be able to pick it up normally.
Also what about cheap Quadro P100 or P400 cards instead, see those going on trademe pretty often.
Thanks I’ll keep on eye out on the quadro cards. Hadn’t heard of grays online auctions. Cheers.
You could try CR Tech in Penrose, they recycle a lot of used computer gear. They sell on TradeMe but you could also just drop in there (they are off Hugo Johnson Drive) and see what they have. I have bought a couple of used laptops there for friends on a tight budget
Is it that everyone are getting things for that price? Or just that someone got a good deal? Because for sure you’ll occasionally come across a good deal that’s outside the norm.
Also remember that most listings on Trademe are the price that isn’t selling. Sometimes I spend months adding things to a wish list and seeing what price they actually sell for (I’m not sure of an easy way to search past sales). But this only works if there are lots of listings.
Not sure. But I often see people recommending buying a second hand dell optiplex or similar for home servers, and it doesn’t seem to make economical sense here. But don’t have any objective data to offer, just an impression.
Interesting point about trademe listing vs actual sale prices.
The listings vs sales price is talked about a lot with regard to ebay, but as I understand it ebay lets you search past sales whereas trademe doesn’t.
You actually can search expired listings! It’s on the old site so no knowing how long it’ll work, and it can only search 45 days back.
Aren’t expired listings the ones that didn’t sell? I’m not aware of a way to search items that did sell.
It definitely includes sold listings - put in “$1 reserve” and you’ll see both sold and unsold!
Oh nice it does! It seems the expired without selling items far exceed sold items, which kinda helps my point that you should ignore asking prices and only look at selling prices.
Supply and demand I guess. They must be selling them to somebody.
