Thread: Ebay ftw

I admit it - for a few years now, my wife has been the ebay queen of this house...she's bought and sold various pottery barn .... things and dresses for our daughter and shoes and God knows what else...

well, tonight - I popped my cherry!

I was digging thru some old crap and found some old PC parts...

a couple gigs of old PC3200 RAM and an old ATI x800 AGP video card, to be exact...

My wife convinced me to try and sell them..."Who would buy this crap?" was my response, but I agreed and started listing my first items ever on ebay...

I listed the first 1 GB stick of ram...

I listed the pair of 512 sticks of ram...

and while I was listing the video card, some dude bought the ram!

LOLZ, Ebay got me $50!

WOOT!

I wonder what else I can sell.... this shit is addictive!

hmm.....think a 500 watt power supply would sell?!

Woot - last night while playing TF2 I sold an old 256MB ATI x800 All-in-wonder for $50.

hahahahaha.


awesome.

Originally Posted by ic0n

Nice work, I wish I could find the time to get some of this crap out of my garage and on the market. I replaced a ton of parts on my bike earlier this year and all the stock stuff is in a pile on the floor getting me yelled at every weekend.

Originally Posted by Your_wife

Well if you wouldn't play so many video games you would have time to clean that mess up!

I made about $400 a few months ago selling old useless electronics on eBay.

The best was a 6-disc Pioneer changer that was probably 10 years old that I hadn't used in 5 years. The funny thing is that exact same model was still being manufactured and sold brand new for like $130. I sold it for $150, used and 10 years old. It makes NO sense.

^ what happened to that mgs4 ps3 bundle you sold lol?

I ended up selling one for $600 but after eBay fees, PayPal fees, and shipping I didn't really win much.

I kept the other one which was an awesome deal. $540 @ Wal-Mart after tax... minus $100 Wal-Mart instant gift card received, minus $100 for buying it on a Sony VISA... total of $340. Subtract $60 for MGS4 and I got an 80GB PS3 w/ DS3 for $280. Not bad.

Originally Posted by Veovis

I ended up selling one for $600 but after eBay fees, PayPal fees, and shipping I didn't really win much.

I kept the other one which was an awesome deal. $540 @ Wal-Mart after tax... minus $100 Wal-Mart instant gift card received, minus $100 for buying it on a Sony VISA... total of $340. Subtract $60 for MGS4 and I got an 80GB PS3 w/ DS3 for $280. Not bad.

niceeeeee. it has a SUPER AUDIO PLAYER! use it thats a HUGE factor in wanting to buy a ps3 in my opinion.

Originally Posted by CanadianPersian

niceeeeee. it has a SUPER AUDIO PLAYER! use it thats a HUGE factor in wanting to buy a ps3 in my opinion.

Yeh, that's cool, I guess, although:

1) You need to have a receiver and speakers that you will be able to tell the difference on (I do)
2) Really, how widespread is SACD format now? I listen to a LOT of music, I have an mp3 collection sourced from over 2000 audio CD's... if I can only get 10% of those (optimistic guess) in SACD, why even try? It's not worth it IMO to go out of my way to convert only a small portion of my collection. Plus regular CD format sounds fine IMO. I can tell the difference, but it doesn't matter that much to me. The difference will only exist with newer material anyway, recorded the right way. And most of the best music in existence is from 2-3 decades ago. Even those original recordings remastered to CDA format still can't match a newly recorded CD in today's studios. But that's ok with me, they still sound fine.

Although I will admit I just finished playing through MGS4 and the sound from that game, through my system was phenomenal... rivaled only by some of the newer DTS encoded movies I have.

Not trying to rain on your parade, I just hardly see SACD compatibility as a driving reason to get the system, even being a huge music lover and audiophile. But yeh, it's still cool... although hopefully one day soon there is a high fidelity recording format that gets more successfully adopted. My guess is it will be less "physical media based" and more "file-based"... something that can exist on any medium. To make an analogy to the video world... something many people don't know is you can record HD content to a regular DVD disc. Capacity is just capacity, that's all. And you need the reading bandwidth to be able to stream high quality audio and/or video... but hell a regular DVD could handle any kind of "HD audio" that an SACD could if a standard format were adopted. Hopefully sooner, rather than later, we will move away from disc based media altogether and entirely to wirelessly connected solid state devices, throughout our houses and vehicles and mobile devices that can play all our media without carrying around plastic coasters. Of course, we'll have to fight DRM every step of the way.