I’ve just sold a Dell OEM GeForce 700-series graphics card for £35 + fees + postage (ie. actual £35 in my pocket)
Personally I think that is a lot of money for such a card, but it’s way less than market rate, and I got the card cheap in a job lot, so I’m happy and the buyer is happy.
This little hobby business of buying and selling old computer tech is never going to make me money, but it subsidises my own interests. Basically the stuff in these job lots that I buy which I want to keep is essentially free, and I quite enjoy cleaning up & refurbishing cards that need it. I buy job lots of stuff that are sold “as is”, test and verify them, clean up and sell the ones that work as being “tested and working” and strip the ones that don’t work for parts. Sometimes I make a bad purchase but on the whole I break even.
I don’t have the electronics skills to fix a card that is dead, but if a working card comes in with a seized or broken fan, or is missing screws or standoffs or brackets, I now have the spares to fix that. And if it is running hot I am happy to re-paste and re-pad.
I had a decent MSI card come in with a broken fan which I bought cheap as “spares or repair but probably works” and it did indeed work and I had just the right fan for it. In fact I had an entire heatsink and fans assembly for it that was in better condition than the one that was on it, so that was a simple swap.
If a low profile card comes in with only low height brackets, or only full height brackets, I also have the spares to resell it with both sets of brackets. I buy the brackets cheap from AliExpress. Some require an extra hole that is not on these cheap brackets so I use my pillar drill (aka bench drill or drill press) and a jig I made to drill the extra hole.
Anyway, if you want to buy any of my stuff then it is on eBay and I am addictive_tendencies there
https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/addictive_tendencies
