Advice needed on selling a desktop PC

[Finius]

Okay folks, got a couple of bits I'm shifting because of an upcoming house move, and I'm not sure the best way to go about it, but the one giving me the most difficulty is my desktop.

I'm unsure how best to shift it, and was hoping you guys could give me a rough appraisal and also some advice on where to sell it or who to sell it to.

Condition: Good, works well and runs fast, has a fairly clean Windows 7 install on. Major issues are that the case is an emergency hand-me-down cause my other one needed changing last minute and has no front panel to cover it's meshy horribleness, does have a side panel, but can't fit it cause it tends to overheat (sometimes when playing games also does it irrelevant of whether the side is on or not). One hard drive is stuck with a broken copy of windows on in a hidden folder that I don't know how to delete.

Spec: 2.7ghz Amd Athlon 64 Dual core, 4gb Memory, 1gb GeForce 9500gt, 225gbhdd + dodgey 225gbhd w/ approx 220 available, no wifi card, 500w PSU, two disk drives, one not connected.

Will hopefully be sold with a Samsung Syncmaster 2033SW 19in monitor and some mismatched peripherals. Monitor works fine but has two thunderbugs caught underneath it on the left. They're space out and teeny so it doesn't really seem obvious unless you're looking at it.

I don't want to post/ship it cause it weighs a ton.

Advice por favor AFUK?

N.B This is NOT an advert, I do not expect anyone here to purchase it, especially since you all live miles away.

 

[Tariq]

Wouldn't expect to get more than a couple hundred quid for it.

Tech prices drop rapidly... and thats pretty old stuff you're running.

 

[Finius]

To be fair, a couple of hundred would be awesome anyway xD Anything in the triple digits would be cool with me!

Any ideas where to sell it?

 

[Deva]

You might struggle for a couple of hundred. Sometimes the parts can sell for more on their own. Hard to say.

eBay, 99p start, collect in person only, be prepared to just let it go. Make sure the auction isn't too short so people have chance to see it.

You will want to reinstall W7 if you can. No one wants your install and you probably don't want people being able to snoop at all your data. A reinstall isn't guaranteed to wipe everything either, you really need to zero fill it, but that is a bit more complex.

Edit: Pretty sure it would be better to sell the monitor separately. You can put a link on the PC sale page to it.

 

[Finius]

eBay it is...

Installing W7 again might be problematic as my mother got rid of the disk (it had no cover in the case as it was the OEM version, so she thought it was a rubbish blank CD ¬.¬)

I guess we'll see what I get for it!

Will put the monitor up separately and link like you suggested, though I do have a second VGA monitor by dell (a square 19in) so I might sell that actually with the computer since that monitor is worth about a fiver and would probably add some to the overall sale value?

 

[Deva]

Why not, means you get rid of second monitor too.

 

[Tariq]

I have a windows 7 ultimate disc if you want it.

I have no serial key for it.... But therev are ways around it.

I'm back in cov Tuesday... For one day only!

 

[Finius]

Don't worry about it dude, I've decided to just stick this on eBay with a £55 buyout (which covers the deposit on my new desktop), which I figure is cheap enough that it won't really matter if it's been wiped or not...

 

[Tariq]

well.... the user will be able to see all your online banking transactions, passwords, what kind of filthy porno you watch etc if you dont wipe

 

[Finius]

That'd be none then

It hasn't been used on the internet since it's last wipe xD