Have you ever purchased second-hand desktop PC components?

[Solitude]

Yes...my entire pc is second hand lol

+1

Except for the power supply which was replaced.

 

[Stormer12]

99% of the time. Carbonite for the win

 

[PhireSide]

Yes. Anything except hard drives

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Hard drives only new, everything else will almost always be bought second hand or free.

 

[Mack_1]

Yes, CPU and Memory.

 

[DeathStrike]

Most people do the reverse

this was back when I just started working. and needed gaming pc on budget. so got other parts new and got a cheap second hand card. worked great. later upgraded to a new card.

and now I have a gaming laptop.
with the old pc now a media server.

 

[bpdube]

Of course , you can get a great deal for a much more reasonable price

 

[The_Assimilator]

Yes, literally the entire PC I'm typing this on (except for the case and peripherals) was bought second-hand, as was my PC before that, and the one before that... I literally haven't bought a CPU or motherboard brand new since Athlon XP days.

 

[Deon1962]

Never

 

[sand_man]

Yeah, all the time...

 

[macedon]

yes, sometimes if the price is right.

 

[Colin62]

No

 

[Wut]

Yeah I have bought a second hand SSD drive.

 

[pegpluscol]

old vs bad

Have you purchased second-hand components (graphics card, processor, hard drives, etc.) for use in your desktop PC?

Yes, if it's better than mine that's bust.

 

[dibongz]

Yes

 

[FLHEM]

No

 

[zdesignzi9250]

Nope, i like peace of mind

 

[Activ8CT]

No, wouldn't trust them at all.

 

[Rouxenator]

Many, never had issues until my last (and final) purchase on BidOrBuy.

Guy sells me a defective drive, make me return it and then claim it was damaged in the mail. R850 loss for me

Never doing business on BidOrBuy again, but I will happily buy used PC hardware elsewhere like here in the classifieds and on Gumtree.

 

[GoneWithTheWindows]

Many, never had issues until my last (and final) purchase on BidOrBuy.

Guy sells me a defective drive, make me return it and then claim it was damaged in the mail. R850 loss for me

Never doing business on BidOrBuy again, but I will happily buy used PC hardware elsewhere like here in the classifieds and on Gumtree.

Not letting this one go ey :wtf: