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hwertz To me that seems FAR too high for a damaged and possibly non-repairable board. If they get takers more power to them I guess. Reply
bloodmutt Computer parts have price gouged to unbelievable levels that even the used parts are unaffordable. Sounds like people are trying to price out civilians from being able to get PCs. Reply
Paul Dodd Definitely overpriced. If you have to use two boards to get one working board, you will lose money, as you won't be able to sell it as new. A maximum of 25% would be fair. If it's such a good deal, why are they not getting doing the repair done and selling the boards themselves? Reply
hwertz Paul Dodd said: Definitely overpriced. If you have to use two boards to get one working board, you will lose money, as you won't be able to sell it as new. A maximum of 25% would be fair. If it's such a good deal, why are they not getting doing the repair done and selling the boards themselves? Exactly. Although I will note, when I worked at the U of Iowa Surplus, we sold Dells by the pallet with blown caps (GX270s have a VERY high failure rate, both because all vendors had a rash of faulty caps at that point in time, and partly because these models ran a LOT of power through the caps and let them run pretty hot, i.e. they probably should have used more or bigger caps). We COULD have recapped on site, we just had large volume coming through, so we left the profits to someone handy with a soldering iron. (Buy by the pallet for $5 a machine or so, apparently the GX270s had the same caps go bad often enough you could buy a cap kit for like $10… or order the invidiaul caps on Digikey and it's like $3 or $4 worth of caps… sell for $100+). So I don't blame them for not repairing boards themselves. Reply
80251 $1700 for a non-functional videocard that may or may NOT be repairable? TIA, but I'll pass… Reply
USAFRet How long before someone comes here with: "I bought this broken GPU. I knew it was broken. How do I fix it?" (we've had that here before) Reply
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