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Menant to make a thread, not a reply originally with this. I spent 50$ on this Gigabyte MZ32-AR0 motherboard to have it shipped from someone on Facebook marketplace, who had no idea what it was. He got it from a friend who owned a data center throwing it out. And he shipped it to me, in a used Amazon box with newspapers as padding, with a random server psu in it too, and a free floating heatsink. There was no cpu cover. It came with bent pins galore. I wrote it off as soon as I saw the damage. He offered a full refund. I declined, told him I knew it was a gamble. Spent all night working on it. Even bought a special magnify glass stand to go and try to fix some pins thinking i would need too. Some how, some way. I got it to fully boot. That's like $800 for $50. Starting to think 50% of the pins in a motherboard are redundant. Stressed for 10 hours, no wobble. I got another epyc motherboard 3 cpus, another heatsink with fan, this time perfectly packaged, all for 150 plus 50 for shipping. Guy said he couldn't get it to turn on. Motherboard was a supermicro h11ssw nt rev 2.0. Haven't fully fixed, but Guy gave me 75$ back because it turns out he told me some misinformation about it. He said it didn't post which is true. But he also never got it to turn on either. This is most likely a pressure thing. If I went to ebay, this would be hundreds of dollars. Probably total 1200 to 1400. I got it all for 175. If you can use the global search and find people who don't know what they have or how to fix it. You can get crazy better deals.
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>>108271336
Let me put you on game anon. I use a site called. browsemarketplaces, no I'm not a shill, any site that lets you search for keywords on fb marketplace works. This one lets you auto change your city, and makes the distance 500 miles. So you can see everything. Then just have decent ratings. Pay with paypal or venmo only. Anything that has buyer protection. 8 times out of 10 they ship and don't try to scam you, but you're buying used tech from people. I would recommend having them use ups or fedex and having the company box the item. Or you wind up with pin damage like pic related. That said like I mentioned it some how still works.
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>>108271349
Ebay I've done for years, but I've never really once got a good deal on there. Its mainly because you can't search for just "motherboard server". You'll be flooded with the expensive results. You also have to deal with the fact ebay will give the recommend prices for items to a user. And taxes and fees jack up the price. Facebook I'm pretty sure runs image recognition on the products from the user photos and silently tags the items. So if i search epyc motherboard, like i did for these, they come up. Despite the fact neither listing uses the eypc or amd tag or name in their posts. You want uninformed people, or people tired of it who don't want it. Ebay will not allow that guy to sell for 50$. It will ask him tons of questions. Then give him a price.
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where i live, even the local marketplaces like fb have hordes of professionals that will clear out any deals instantly to resell. You can still sometimes score something, but only if you are on your computer all the time
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>>108271655
Yes sadly this is true. But they go for bulk most of the time. I sell a lot of pc parts at usually 15 to 20% off what ever they would go for on ebay. I've even just given some stuff away. I work IT and my job will and has just thrown out older computers and laptops. And it irks me to just put them in a landfill. But the thing that annoys me are the resellers. They ask for big 50% discounts to bulk buy, as if thats a deal for me. Then a lot of them straight up ask me if they can make profit with the items. As if I need to do their jobs for them and do all the research. Pic related.
>>108272149
Never heard of it. But unless its like a chinese reseller then it's probably not consistent. You want the most normie sites. Because someone who doesn't care or know much about the stuff aren't going to be on super obscure niche sites. They are going to post it on their 15 year old Facebook account.
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>>108272459
>pic related
lmao wtf, I wonder how to get rid of these people
When I want to give stuff away, I usually list it with a small price (which I waive when they arrive) to weed out a large percentage of no shows
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>>108271336
>Starting to think 50% of the pins in a motherboard are redundant.
A lot of them are power delivery. The CPU can probably work without all of those being present, but it will mean higher current per pin for the remaining ones and I guess if enough power pins are missing the remaining ones may go way over spec and risk burning out or something.
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you should hit the gym. that's what my buddy did. and when he meets online buyers and they go 'so this is $50' he goes 'excuse me?' and they start pissing themselves and give him a discount.
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>>108271655
I've noticed a lot of people are very greedy, like selling 2 year old DDR5 memory for $20 under it's current MSRP. And also like you said, people camping out for good deals just to turn around and flip them.
Still though, for non hot commodities it's better than any of the other classified sites. Ebay tends to converge to exactly market price unless you have the time to work the bids.
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>>108276181
>I've noticed a lot of people are very greedy, like selling 2 year old DDR5 memory for $20 under it's current MSRP. And also like you said, people camping out for good deals just to turn around and flip them.
Are you not smart enough to see the connection between your two sentences?
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>>108276146
I'm pretty sure this doesn't happen unless he's Arnold Schwarzenegger level's of stronk. alternatively, just buy a gun and some pepper spray. i'm too lazy to hit the gym, and even if i did, i'm not up for fighting anyone. id rather just pepper spray them if they start acting wild and shoot them if they charge me.