Buying Used Parts

[Brian Boru]

Linus and Jayz put out a couple of videos in the last week on the topic of buying used parts—I haven't watched them yet. My inexpert self would be very leery of going this route, assuming it's not a local known or otherwise trusted source—maybe a case, and some $20-30 items going for $5 where the risk is small.

What do you builders think?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2IugfRMDk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKTlTya0Gm0

 

[Why_Me]

Linus and Jayz put out a couple of videos in the last week on the topic of buying used parts—I haven't watched them yet. My inexpert self would be very leery of going this route, assuming it's not a local known or otherwise trusted source—maybe a case, and some $20-30 items going for $5 where the risk is small.

What do you builders think?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2IugfRMDk

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKTlTya0Gm0

Haven't watched the vids yet but unless I knew the history of said components there's no way I'm purchasing used. With that said the used PC component market is popular in eastern Europe and Asia.

 

[COLGeek]

Over the years, I have purchased a few used parts. Really no issues, but I always keep expectations and purchase price low. I would definitely be leery of any recent GPUs (post mining craze abused items have flooded the market).