Any pc shops buy pc's?

[Charlieboy]

Hello all,

I have a Packard bell for sale and was wondering if there is any pc shops about that buy pc's as think I might have a hard time selling it as nothing seems to depriciate slower than desktops at the minute.

It is:

Packard Bell imax x3516 pc
Windows 7 home premium
Intel core quad CPU Q8200@2.33GHz
3GB RAM
320GB HDD with blu ray drive
32 bit operating system
Packard bell wireless keyboard and mouse

HP 21.5" monitor with built-in speakers

 

[Krispwee]

CEX buy them iirc, rock bottom price though.

 

[Charlieboy]

CEX buy them iirc, rock bottom price though.

Thanks mate I'll take a look.

 

[mad pierre]

Allmost Perfect for a HTPC that.

 

[sbridgey]

I think best buy do part Exchange on stuff, I would wip the ble ray drive out first though

 

[Charlieboy]

Allmost Perfect for a HTPC that.

HTPC?

 

[conneh]

I'll take the chip off your hands.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

No good on eBay as it is ?

Strip it for parts and eBay it ?!

I've no idea about computers, but I'm guessing with W7 on it, it's reasonably new ?

 

[Charlieboy]

No good on eBay as it is ?

Strip it for parts and eBay it ?!

I've no idea about computers, but I'm guessing with W7 on it, it's reasonably new ?

I've had the pc for around 18 months now and it came with Vista and I upgraded it to 7.

 

[Tyler@Ultimate]

HTPC?

Home theatre PC

 

[Tyler@Ultimate]

how much are you looking at btw

 

[Charlieboy]

how much are you looking at btw

£300 ONO

 

[mctw]

Either sell it in the paper/ebay as local pickup only.. Or sell it as bits, seems a shame, but you'll bet more for it!
Oh, and make sure you do a seriously good format on your hard drive, or just remove it completely... I build/rebuild PCs for a job.. you would not believe some of the stuff people leave on thier pcs on Ebay!! I'm sure I remember reading on the news agesssss ago that someone bought a PC with a MOD Missile Data on it... You get the idea!

 

[Charlieboy]

Either sell it in the paper/ebay as local pickup only.. Or sell it as bits, seems a shame, but you'll bet more for it!
Oh, and make sure you do a seriously good format on your hard drive, or just remove it completely... I build/rebuild PCs for a job.. you would not believe some of the stuff people leave on thier pcs on Ebay!! I'm sure I remember reading on the news agesssss ago that someone bought a PC with a MOD Missile Data on it... You get the idea!

Is formatting different to taking it back to factory settings?

 

[sbridgey]

i can recover formatted hard drives so i would remove the hard drive 100%. Problem is new hard drives are expensive at the moment and you won't sell it without one

 

[Wilkeh]

Fancy selling me that blu-ray drive?

 

[BatFastard]

Id advertise in your local ad mag, hoping for someone ignorant who doesn't know about PC's to think he has a bargain.

 

[mace¬]

Whats your p**n collection like on the HD?

 

[Charlieboy]

i can recover formatted hard drives so i would remove the hard drive 100%. Problem is new hard drives are expensive at the moment and you won't sell it without one

Already sold it now to a mate at work

Fancy selling me that blu-ray drive?

Sorry mate too late, as above

Whats your p**n collection like on the HD?

All on my external drive so girlfriend can't find it!!