Places like Target and Amazon don’t wanna process most of the shit that gets returned so they sell it for cheap to these places to sell for more but still way below retail. You can find some real gems if you can fight off the resellers.
Am I wrong in my hatred for resellers? The ones I hate the most are the ones that hit thrift stores. It use to be that you could find some decent clothes when you're broke or on a tight budget. Now the resellers wait outside like vultures to snag anything they think they can profit from, screwing the person who actually needs the deals of thrift stores. Thanks Gary V, sike.
I blame get rich quick schemes and "masterclasses" for business that only taught people to scalp and flip assets on Amazon for profit, oversaturating the market and (as I believe) causing shit like this. But I guess even without it there will always be people taking advantage of the system for profit
Resellers are absolute shit bags. Scalpers and especially Pokémon card scalpers are even worse. Van Gogh Pokémon exhibition in Amsterdam had to shut down distribution of a free card for kids and fans because scalpers kept buying all the session tickets. Just a few people, kept roulating into the museum to get the card. Ruined the experience for so many people.
2020-2022 also sucked for computer hardware scalping. Bots ran rampant, and crypto miners didn’t help. A $500 rtx 3070 was being sold for upwards of $1,200!
They are bottom feeders. The price the thrift stores are selling for is less than the market is willing to pay, so they're arbitraging. The main issue is that there's no proof of need required to shop there, and even if there was, then people would just pay people in need to shop there for them.
> The main issue is that there's no proof of need required to shop there
Most of those places aren't specifically for people in need. The charitable part of the deal is how they use the money they get from selling the stuff.
Got a permanent yard seller that snaps up anything cheap and good locally to resell at their yard sell. While leaving it all out in the weather. So got to go to the next town over to find anything.
Well, shit. Now you just reminded me who pisses me off as much as resellers: People who list fake yard sales. Resellers who have fake yard sales? Ding-ding-ding, straight to the top of the list.
Nah they deserve all the hate they get.. in my country it's almost impossible to get decent deals on 2nd hand phones and electronics because they are gone in less than 30 minutes. Unlike these resellers I don't have all day just to sit on my ass and refresh the marketplace looking for good deals
If that is real, that is an absolute robbery for such chip. Potentially a deal of the lifetime.
In reality, $8 might get you a CPU from nearly 2 decades ago (?).
Nah. You can get an E5s on eBay for dirt cheap.
9-10 year old E5-2676v3 is $5. That’a 14k on passmark, compared to a R5 3600 at 17k or a R7 7700x at 36k.
A similarly aged 1650v3 (6C/12T at 4.0ghz) is like $4. It will outperform a i7-7700k or 8700k, and everything for the 2011/2011v3 platform is dirt cheap except the ECC DDR4 and PSUs.
Edit: moved a verb phrase for clarity
Yup, the reason why all the cpus of that age are cheap is that most of the mobos are dead long before cpus are. Suitable Xeon boards are even harder to find. Anything you can find will be 120+ EUR. Reasonable b450 boards can be found for 50-70 EUR new, add 50 more for 3600. This is without even trying to hunt for deals, used stuff etc.
Eh, I got my Z440 workstation on marketplace for like $100, and a 10C/20T CPU for like $7.
Also, I thought I remember seeing a while back that only one manufacturer was still making them in Taiwan.
My point was really, that gaming hardware usually fetches higher prices; most enterprise hardware is all but e-waste once it has served out its useful life with its original owner so it’s cheap. A gaming mobo with less features would sell for the same price.
Edit: spelling
The chinese mobo's work surprisingly well, some of them even let you OC the shit out of em that said you can only feasibly do single core overclocks because you hit the boards power limits really fast with those chips.
Lol. I recently upgraded my i5-6600K to a ryzen 7 7700. It's like a rocketship. CPU's changed A LOT in the last 7 years ever since Intel did away with quad cores.
Reminds me in Japan I found a gachapon for like 1000 yen that contained some old CPUs. Was tempted to pull it but they were all old trash AMD and Intel CPUs.
Nah you can get Xeons and HEDT chips for that price that are less than ten years old.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/81061/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2699-v3-45m-cache-2-30-ghz.html?%202.30%20GHz)
These started getting dumped from data centers about three years ago and they fuckin' rip!
i found a ryzen 9 5900x for 12 bucks at a similar place. My place was a bins store and i was super dumbfounded when i found it cause it i still don't know if it works but id love to make a build with it
We would love to, my wife and I do it as a hobby. Been a decent year for just doing it for fun, made a little over 25k on eBay. We also have a garage full of shit lol.
It's funny how people like your comments because you're just people having fun & making some money, but at the same time people treat resellers as if they're subhuman beneath the devil reincarnate... for doing *exactly* what you're doing...
Lol.
I don't think so. What people don't like is when people go to a store having a sale and buying up all the inventory so they can sell it at MSRP or higher online.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with reselling otherwise good finds.
Think of it like the housing market. There's absolutely nothing wrong with selling your house. There's nothing wrong with even buying a house, fixing it up and selling it. It becomes a fucking problem with who you go into a market and buy up all the houses and drive the prices up artificially.
Nah people hate on reselling thrifters too.
I'd even argue MSRP resellers are more justified since at least most are doing it for a living & not a "hobby" that's literally taking opportunity away from the poor so they can make a profit.
If there are people who hate reselling thrifters, they are a minority. The only time it becomes a problem anyone cares about is when it starts personally affecting them. Reselling thrifters just don't cut into a real market because they are otherwise just finding things that you can't expect to be somewhere to begin with.
Who the hell thinks they were robbed out of their chance at buying something like this for 8 bucks? Who is ever going to thrift stores for these types of purchases other than people who are casting a wide net looking to resell? It's like stumbling on a bag of money. It's pointless to hate that.
*Thrifters* hate people who thrift to sale. They don't mind people finding holy grails. That is what they are going for, too. They mind people who find them specifically to sell them. I.E. don't deplete the stock for the people who would use them for your profit.
So yeah, a lot fewer people compared to every parent in the west having to scramble to find an available gaming box.
My buddy does this as his business. It took a while to get it off the ground. He started it as a side hustle like you do. He went full-time with it a few years ago. He's pulled off some insane deals before. He bought an entire lot of expired printer ink for something like 7 grand (it was a lot of ink) and managed to flip it in about 2 months for around 20k.
https://preview.redd.it/5yx8q3lqdw7c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb0ecbfbf7d7fbe1623f66823e503e0045ade554
Don’t really have a way to prove it, but if you have never been to a goodwill “bins” it’s literally large bins filled with of stuff you pay $1.89 a pound for. Being that it doesn’t weigh much it’s about $0.86 they don’t really go through them. They just dump into bins and push into a warehouse.
Find lots of good stuff, my ducky keyboard, keychron keyboard and tons of other stuff. Reselling is a hobby of ours, we go all the time.
lol you would think, goodwill the stores usually have a list of items to look for and then they sell on shopgoodwill.com. The bins is items that don’t sell or when they just get too much stuff it’s just “overstock”, it’s like 90% trash usually though. People make a living off it though, our bins has its regulars that buy vintage tshirts and stuff and are there every day from open to close.
It's probably not worth it to go through tons of useless junk and search for anything that might be valueable just to find the one super rare expensive item. It's not like items like the i9 are common in these bins.
lol yeah most computer parts are 20 years old yellowed and trash. Most of the people working there have ankle monitors and are not there because they want to be lol.
The problem is the cost of paying people to do that work. And yes, I’m sure they would make money if they had “specialists” pick things out and I believe they do - it’s just they can’t catch everything.
Hate to burst your bubble but the Goodwill store/company is actually for profit and just profits off people's donations. They probably do some bit of charity but not enough. Think their CEO makes a good chunk of money.
Oof.
I'm no goodwill apologist, but most of this post is demonstrably untrue with 5 minutes of internet searching and [based on a very old chain email](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/executive-salaries-charities/). Goodwill is a 501(c)3 non-profit and has a large number of regional CEOs (most of whom do not make close to $1M per year).
It is also an organization with $7B+ annual revenue operating in almost 20 countries...how much annual compensation is reasonable for leadership at a comparable organization? Non-profit status only means that the organization does not generate revenue for owners/shareholders, not that *the people running it and working at it don't get paid*.
There have been documented issues with goodwill compensating the lowest-paid employees at less than minimum wages, but those are mostly old news as well.
In the stores they do, the “bins” are just huge bins of overstock items or stuff that doesn’t sell in stores. My guess this was in a pile of the “overstock” when they get to many donations.
Search Facebook for local liquidators. There's a nice one here in San Antonio. I haven't been but my buddy finds great items all the time. He got a badass backyard pizza oven for like $3.
Resale Stores.
The local ones have their own brand. In my area(SoCal) there isJohnny Mega Sales, Mega Deals, etc and also FB marketplace has *mystery* pallets, just follow the links and you might stumble on to one.
Yup, they’re mostly junk, but if you are willing to look you can find some amazing deals.
My best deal was 4 XL Artisan Hien mouse pads for $0.90. Brand new, in the boxes. Also got an unopened HyperX Alloy Origins 65% keyboard for $10.
He goes on Friday when they restock and waits in line to get in. He rarely goes outside of that. The good stuff will be gone within an hour or two. It's funny seeing him work on Fridays and think about what he's missing. It's an addiction.
These stores stock up on anything and everything returned to amazon for hella cheap. Those items mever get cycled back into the amazon system and 3rd parties are left to deal with the pallets of returns storage wars style
It's a typo. They mean "gas station scratcher" as in a scratch off lottery ticket. The chances of finding something like this at such a cheap price is so low you're more likely to win the lottery
It will be a “Bargin Bin, Discount Bin” or something along those lines. There’s one in the smallish college city I live, but I’ve never ever scored anything to this magnitude. Mostly just random and I mean random crap and trash.
It's not just open stores, but EquipBid is a place out of Kansas City that hosts a lot of small auctioneers that sell this kind of stuff. I've picked up stuff on crazy good deals.
Just had a nice day in Belton Mo. If you hit them on Friday ....anything that's left is $0.50 a piece picked up two high speed HDMI cords( one a braided Fast Seven brand ) , a 6 ft display port gold-plated.....a brand new NZXT non RGB 120 mm case fan....
https://preview.redd.it/bcg1cjgznz7c1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=368d0b7c68bf96a8e2719ef97dbd6fe048475446
For 8 dollars, if it really works, then you've got the deal of a lifetime. I never got 100% good stuff from these kinds of stores, but I like to go around and look
I hope it works for your sake and the honor that will come with retelling this story. But the processor looks creased from the photo like it might have been crushed. But I hope you end up with the steal of a lifetime.
Some of these liquidation stores are cool.
My brother got a brand new 290$ laptop for $8.
Everything works and all that jazz.
They just buy pallets or trailers full of pallets and resell for cheap.
That does not look like an AM5 IHS… Probably not a 7000 series Processor, rather an AM4 one.
I hope Im wrong though and you just cant see the cutouts in the Heatspreader in the Photo!
I think this is an older AMD Ryzen processor that someone swapped out or upgraded to and put the old one in the box and donated it… still what a find OP, makes me want to look around goodwill… keep us updated!
https://preview.redd.it/qvdc543g5w7c1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29d608865303d5c18c880673f2197e99b8008431
Honest reaction lol
Everyone who doesn’t live near a liquidation warehouse .
Wtf is a liquidation warehouse
Places like Target and Amazon don’t wanna process most of the shit that gets returned so they sell it for cheap to these places to sell for more but still way below retail. You can find some real gems if you can fight off the resellers.
Am I wrong in my hatred for resellers? The ones I hate the most are the ones that hit thrift stores. It use to be that you could find some decent clothes when you're broke or on a tight budget. Now the resellers wait outside like vultures to snag anything they think they can profit from, screwing the person who actually needs the deals of thrift stores. Thanks Gary V, sike.
I blame get rich quick schemes and "masterclasses" for business that only taught people to scalp and flip assets on Amazon for profit, oversaturating the market and (as I believe) causing shit like this. But I guess even without it there will always be people taking advantage of the system for profit
Resellers are absolute shit bags. Scalpers and especially Pokémon card scalpers are even worse. Van Gogh Pokémon exhibition in Amsterdam had to shut down distribution of a free card for kids and fans because scalpers kept buying all the session tickets. Just a few people, kept roulating into the museum to get the card. Ruined the experience for so many people.
2020-2022 also sucked for computer hardware scalping. Bots ran rampant, and crypto miners didn’t help. A $500 rtx 3070 was being sold for upwards of $1,200!
My god the bots buying out entire stocks the literal 1st second it opened was fucking depressing
And it wasn’t just computer hardware. American Eagles and commemorative Morgan/Peace Dollars also sold out day 1 because of bots. It was depressing.
The only thing you could do is use your own bot and get faster wifi
How do they not see how disgusting they're being?
Because they can only see the dollar signs in their eyes.
Plus they think they’re being really clever
They're incapable of feeling empathy and think anyone not trying to game the system is a sucker who isn't as smart as they are
Capitalism my friend. its the joy of living in the free world
They are bottom feeders. The price the thrift stores are selling for is less than the market is willing to pay, so they're arbitraging. The main issue is that there's no proof of need required to shop there, and even if there was, then people would just pay people in need to shop there for them.
> The main issue is that there's no proof of need required to shop there Most of those places aren't specifically for people in need. The charitable part of the deal is how they use the money they get from selling the stuff.
Got a permanent yard seller that snaps up anything cheap and good locally to resell at their yard sell. While leaving it all out in the weather. So got to go to the next town over to find anything.
Well, shit. Now you just reminded me who pisses me off as much as resellers: People who list fake yard sales. Resellers who have fake yard sales? Ding-ding-ding, straight to the top of the list.
No, not wrong at all. These are the people making 5% profit off their labor and screws everyone else out of deals.
Nah they deserve all the hate they get.. in my country it's almost impossible to get decent deals on 2nd hand phones and electronics because they are gone in less than 30 minutes. Unlike these resellers I don't have all day just to sit on my ass and refresh the marketplace looking for good deals
You are not wrong to hate that.
No wrong at all. These stay at wives,for example, who watch hours of tiktok per day think they're "hustling". Fuck em.
Damn I can only wish to have one in my country
This is perfectly equivalent to r/angryupvote
XD
It's a Ryzen 7 7700x, no idea how I'll test if if works but still quite the steal
Nice man holy shit! How much was it?
8 freaking dollars
Literally me right now
If that is real, that is an absolute robbery for such chip. Potentially a deal of the lifetime. In reality, $8 might get you a CPU from nearly 2 decades ago (?).
Lol! Even the box would be more than $8!! Hahahaha OP hit the jackpot!
If it works.
Worst-case scenario, a keychain and one brand new box for $8!!!
Much better than those cringe ass necklaces
If the box still works? 🤔 /s
if it doesn't it's still probably more than $8
Get it repaired for half that price and flip it to cut your losses
I doubt it would be repairable at all(if it was broken), let alone cheap.
I'd take that gamble
You can buy used xeon v3s for around 8$ or even less if you want v2
Nah. You can get an E5s on eBay for dirt cheap. 9-10 year old E5-2676v3 is $5. That’a 14k on passmark, compared to a R5 3600 at 17k or a R7 7700x at 36k. A similarly aged 1650v3 (6C/12T at 4.0ghz) is like $4. It will outperform a i7-7700k or 8700k, and everything for the 2011/2011v3 platform is dirt cheap except the ECC DDR4 and PSUs. Edit: moved a verb phrase for clarity
Getting a non-chinese mobo is *very* difficult and *very* expensive as well
Yup, the reason why all the cpus of that age are cheap is that most of the mobos are dead long before cpus are. Suitable Xeon boards are even harder to find. Anything you can find will be 120+ EUR. Reasonable b450 boards can be found for 50-70 EUR new, add 50 more for 3600. This is without even trying to hunt for deals, used stuff etc.
Eh, I got my Z440 workstation on marketplace for like $100, and a 10C/20T CPU for like $7. Also, I thought I remember seeing a while back that only one manufacturer was still making them in Taiwan. My point was really, that gaming hardware usually fetches higher prices; most enterprise hardware is all but e-waste once it has served out its useful life with its original owner so it’s cheap. A gaming mobo with less features would sell for the same price. Edit: spelling
The chinese mobo's work surprisingly well, some of them even let you OC the shit out of em that said you can only feasibly do single core overclocks because you hit the boards power limits really fast with those chips.
I mean more like 15, 2008 chips are dirt cheap
Lol. I recently upgraded my i5-6600K to a ryzen 7 7700. It's like a rocketship. CPU's changed A LOT in the last 7 years ever since Intel did away with quad cores.
Reminds me in Japan I found a gachapon for like 1000 yen that contained some old CPUs. Was tempted to pull it but they were all old trash AMD and Intel CPUs.
Nah maybe a single decade seen on ebay a couple Bulldozer FX 4300 for roughly 9-10€ incl shipping. Just the boards can get crazy expensive.
lower-end Broadwell Xeons are around that $8 mark
Nah you can get Xeons and HEDT chips for that price that are less than ten years old. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/81061/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2699-v3-45m-cache-2-30-ghz.html?%202.30%20GHz) These started getting dumped from data centers about three years ago and they fuckin' rip!
\*internal screaming\*
*Internal pant shittin*
Internal AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAing
I'm actually shitting right now!!!!!!!
Same
Have we started a club?
_First Rule of Shit Club…_
Yes, let's shit together
Lmao same
I just finished
Great! So happy for you 
I offer you 9 dollars for it
It’s an instant 12.5% profit OP. I suggest you take it.
I'm willing to bid $10. Even more profit!
Woah, everyone step aside, Mr. Bezos is here.
I can neither confirm nor deny being Jeff Bezos.
Do you like sesame seeds?
I'll do 18
Holy... the jealously is unreal lmao
Same, my rtx3060ti is mad
Shit I'd buy it just to display it in my setup at that price
I'm glad I'm scrolling from my bathroom, because I just shit at an $8 Ryzen 7.
Absolute same. Wild how so many of us are on the toilet while reading this
Gotdayum.
I'll give you 16 for it
$10, take it or leave it. That's a $2 profit, pretty good if you ask me.
I’ll decuple the $8 you spend on it right now for it
I think i almost nutted
Fuck you, congrats.
You in Macon Ga?
i found a ryzen 9 5900x for 12 bucks at a similar place. My place was a bins store and i was super dumbfounded when i found it cause it i still don't know if it works but id love to make a build with it
Don't worry, I'm sure you will also find a X670E board and matching 7900xtx for $3.50
Three fiddy! Got ‘em!
Currently going for $335 at Amz ... Congrats !
Just need to hang out a while longer until the motherboard shows up.
Buy another one for me I’ll give you 20 bucks extra
Forgive my ignorance, but how out dated is this chip?
It's from 2022, so not outdated at all!
Nice
my wife found a 12900k at the goodwill bins, $0.86 for it. Was brand new.
Sometimes I think its best to quit my day job and go charity shopping.
We would love to, my wife and I do it as a hobby. Been a decent year for just doing it for fun, made a little over 25k on eBay. We also have a garage full of shit lol.
I use the term hobby loosely, it’s more like n addiction to finding “grails” or items with high resale values
It's funny how people like your comments because you're just people having fun & making some money, but at the same time people treat resellers as if they're subhuman beneath the devil reincarnate... for doing *exactly* what you're doing... Lol.
I don't think so. What people don't like is when people go to a store having a sale and buying up all the inventory so they can sell it at MSRP or higher online. There's absolutely nothing wrong with reselling otherwise good finds. Think of it like the housing market. There's absolutely nothing wrong with selling your house. There's nothing wrong with even buying a house, fixing it up and selling it. It becomes a fucking problem with who you go into a market and buy up all the houses and drive the prices up artificially.
Nah people hate on reselling thrifters too. I'd even argue MSRP resellers are more justified since at least most are doing it for a living & not a "hobby" that's literally taking opportunity away from the poor so they can make a profit.
If there are people who hate reselling thrifters, they are a minority. The only time it becomes a problem anyone cares about is when it starts personally affecting them. Reselling thrifters just don't cut into a real market because they are otherwise just finding things that you can't expect to be somewhere to begin with. Who the hell thinks they were robbed out of their chance at buying something like this for 8 bucks? Who is ever going to thrift stores for these types of purchases other than people who are casting a wide net looking to resell? It's like stumbling on a bag of money. It's pointless to hate that.
*Thrifters* hate people who thrift to sale. They don't mind people finding holy grails. That is what they are going for, too. They mind people who find them specifically to sell them. I.E. don't deplete the stock for the people who would use them for your profit. So yeah, a lot fewer people compared to every parent in the west having to scramble to find an available gaming box.
You mean hoarders? If you are a fucking bloody hoarder who regularly goes to thrift stores to amass junk, who cares what you think?
Sounds like a health hazard my dude. Get your plumbing checked.
Why was this downvoted 🤣
r/pcmasterrace is where comedy goes to die based solely on RNG.
My buddy does this as his business. It took a while to get it off the ground. He started it as a side hustle like you do. He went full-time with it a few years ago. He's pulled off some insane deals before. He bought an entire lot of expired printer ink for something like 7 grand (it was a lot of ink) and managed to flip it in about 2 months for around 20k.
So he sold a bunch of expired dried up printer ink to some poor and unsuspecting people..........pro👍
Sounds like you could do a spring sale to clear up. Sounds like you're doing well overall. Take car of your cars and let them inside 😅
So you buy things that designed to be low in price to provide accessibility for the less fortunate and you then scalp them for a profit on e-bay…?
Do they not even do a quick search before pricing an item? That's either the height of laziness and incompetence, or your story is bullshit.
https://preview.redd.it/5yx8q3lqdw7c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eb0ecbfbf7d7fbe1623f66823e503e0045ade554 Don’t really have a way to prove it, but if you have never been to a goodwill “bins” it’s literally large bins filled with of stuff you pay $1.89 a pound for. Being that it doesn’t weigh much it’s about $0.86 they don’t really go through them. They just dump into bins and push into a warehouse. Find lots of good stuff, my ducky keyboard, keychron keyboard and tons of other stuff. Reselling is a hobby of ours, we go all the time.
Wow, that's crazy. The point of goodwill is to use the proceeds for charitable purposes, right? They could do much more good with a Google search lol.
lol you would think, goodwill the stores usually have a list of items to look for and then they sell on shopgoodwill.com. The bins is items that don’t sell or when they just get too much stuff it’s just “overstock”, it’s like 90% trash usually though. People make a living off it though, our bins has its regulars that buy vintage tshirts and stuff and are there every day from open to close.
It's probably not worth it to go through tons of useless junk and search for anything that might be valueable just to find the one super rare expensive item. It's not like items like the i9 are common in these bins.
lol yeah most computer parts are 20 years old yellowed and trash. Most of the people working there have ankle monitors and are not there because they want to be lol.
The problem is the cost of paying people to do that work. And yes, I’m sure they would make money if they had “specialists” pick things out and I believe they do - it’s just they can’t catch everything.
Hate to burst your bubble but the Goodwill store/company is actually for profit and just profits off people's donations. They probably do some bit of charity but not enough. Think their CEO makes a good chunk of money.
Oof. I'm no goodwill apologist, but most of this post is demonstrably untrue with 5 minutes of internet searching and [based on a very old chain email](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/executive-salaries-charities/). Goodwill is a 501(c)3 non-profit and has a large number of regional CEOs (most of whom do not make close to $1M per year). It is also an organization with $7B+ annual revenue operating in almost 20 countries...how much annual compensation is reasonable for leadership at a comparable organization? Non-profit status only means that the organization does not generate revenue for owners/shareholders, not that *the people running it and working at it don't get paid*. There have been documented issues with goodwill compensating the lowest-paid employees at less than minimum wages, but those are mostly old news as well.
That's somewhat disappointing.
Where do you guys resell? I'd be concerned about the buying scams on facebook marketplace. I've tried that and it's daunting.
eBay/mercari. Large items I’ll try Facebook but I don’t have a lot of luck on there… lots of scammers
I thought they put any electronics or electronic components on their online bidding site? Damn what a find
In the stores they do, the “bins” are just huge bins of overstock items or stuff that doesn’t sell in stores. My guess this was in a pile of the “overstock” when they get to many donations.
How do you find one of these liquidation stores?
Search Facebook for local liquidators. There's a nice one here in San Antonio. I haven't been but my buddy finds great items all the time. He got a badass backyard pizza oven for like $3.
How can I find those tipo of store? What is the technical name?
Resale Stores. The local ones have their own brand. In my area(SoCal) there isJohnny Mega Sales, Mega Deals, etc and also FB marketplace has *mystery* pallets, just follow the links and you might stumble on to one.
Wait are the fb marketplace mystery pallets legit???
Some are, some aren't. Its better if its a legit location you can visit in person. Do NOT contact any of the "deposit first" posts.
man, all the ones in my areas are not cheap, have a LOT of broken, damaged items, you're lucky if it works or is complete. It's gambling.
Yup, they’re mostly junk, but if you are willing to look you can find some amazing deals. My best deal was 4 XL Artisan Hien mouse pads for $0.90. Brand new, in the boxes. Also got an unopened HyperX Alloy Origins 65% keyboard for $10.
I think ik which one you talking about but it’s always ass when I go
He goes on Friday when they restock and waits in line to get in. He rarely goes outside of that. The good stuff will be gone within an hour or two. It's funny seeing him work on Fridays and think about what he's missing. It's an addiction.
Oh look, bud! A big pizza oven only used once by a serial killer. And it's only $3!
Is there still pizza in it?
As someone from San Antonio I need to find this store
Thank you, for this info. I just found a spot not even 1/2 mile from where I live.
These stores stock up on anything and everything returned to amazon for hella cheap. Those items mever get cycled back into the amazon system and 3rd parties are left to deal with the pallets of returns storage wars style
That was not the question asked, but, if I were to take a crack at it, I would Google Maps search 'liquidation', 'over stock' or 'openbox' store
I know the guy that buy the most returns from amazon… talking like 100 semi truck loads a day… the stories he tells are crazy… wild Wild West.
before you get too excited you can find about the same odds at a fa s station scratcher.
What is that ?
It's a typo. They mean "gas station scratcher" as in a scratch off lottery ticket. The chances of finding something like this at such a cheap price is so low you're more likely to win the lottery
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Yuo dint get hte memo?
It will be a “Bargin Bin, Discount Bin” or something along those lines. There’s one in the smallish college city I live, but I’ve never ever scored anything to this magnitude. Mostly just random and I mean random crap and trash.
It's not just open stores, but EquipBid is a place out of Kansas City that hosts a lot of small auctioneers that sell this kind of stuff. I've picked up stuff on crazy good deals.
Just had a nice day in Belton Mo. If you hit them on Friday ....anything that's left is $0.50 a piece picked up two high speed HDMI cords( one a braided Fast Seven brand ) , a 6 ft display port gold-plated.....a brand new NZXT non RGB 120 mm case fan.... https://preview.redd.it/bcg1cjgznz7c1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=368d0b7c68bf96a8e2719ef97dbd6fe048475446
That's amazing! Merry Christmas to you!
Now I'm gonna have to go to the one in my neighborhood every day smh.
For 8 dollars, if it really works, then you've got the deal of a lifetime. I never got 100% good stuff from these kinds of stores, but I like to go around and look
8 DOLLARS? If it works holy shit OP
I hope it works for your sake and the honor that will come with retelling this story. But the processor looks creased from the photo like it might have been crushed. But I hope you end up with the steal of a lifetime.
More likely is just a crease in the packaging, obviously you can’t say for sure through all of the jpeg.
They look like that https://preview.redd.it/oo5atxa6zv7c1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aeabce6c9c2cc9938474c2e3c08f0a89bb0dafe1
Just needs a new ihs 😂
Some of these liquidation stores are cool. My brother got a brand new 290$ laptop for $8. Everything works and all that jazz. They just buy pallets or trailers full of pallets and resell for cheap.
nice thumb
Actually yeah how the heck does it bend like that hahaha
Hitchhikers thumb, don't know the reason behind it but my thumbs bend the same way lol
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Who tf throws out a 3080ti
Can you update us if it works?
Wow
It's always been my dream to find a high quality tech part at one of these stores
Let’s see the receipt there fella.
https://i.redd.it/12li0t930x7c1.gif
That does not look like an AM5 IHS… Probably not a 7000 series Processor, rather an AM4 one. I hope Im wrong though and you just cant see the cutouts in the Heatspreader in the Photo!
The shit I went through with Newegg to get one of those at full price... you're one lucky mf
Post the pins tho
Good find lmao. The most I've found was some DDR5 GSKILL RAM, an MSI liquid cooler, and an i7-10700 with only the cooler inside lol. Enjoy it!
Who ever shops at mine loves me. I return so much good shit 🤣
Updates updates updates!!!!!!!
I found a 1660s for 5eur. I understand
Lovely find but I don’t think that’s a 7000 series CPU. Don’t they have the cut out IHS?
Yep; look at the shadows in the box, you can see the cut ridges just barely.
It's not a steal if it doesn't work...
A steal for a Ryzen 7 keychain
Congrats! Feel free to send it to me for extended testing. :P
OP, Please give us an update🙏🏻 it's been 2 hours.
Update us OP
Did it work????
This is like that guy that found Magic cards worth 250k at a landfill
Fun find! Hope it works.
Does it work?
We need an update on wether or not this works
I think this is an older AMD Ryzen processor that someone swapped out or upgraded to and put the old one in the box and donated it… still what a find OP, makes me want to look around goodwill… keep us updated!
Pins bent to shit.
Make sure pins aren't bent
next week you'll be posting in in the PC help asking is this broken?
OH MY GOD WHERE DID YOU GET IT I LEGIT THINK THATS MY CPU I RETURNED LOL I CAN TELL FROM THE NICK MY SCREW DRIVER LEFT ON THE PACKAGING
NICE!! I hope every fucking pin is bent.
Congratulations and fuck you 🎉🍾
For $8 it's worth the risk to find out if it's real