Brawndo wrote on 2021-10-13, 14:22:
dormcat wrote on 2021-10-13, 06:11:
Brawndo wrote on 2021-10-13, 04:38:
Everything appears to work, and all for five bucks!
Unbelievable...... I'd never expect a for-profit or even a philanthropist thrift store would have such a low price; only moving sales, selling deceased relative's belongings, or hand-me-down from close friends could I expect such a bargain.
Yeah I don't know why they price the towers so low, they're almost always $5 for the older ones. They could price it at $30 and it would still get snapped up, just not by me.
A few weeks ago I picked up a Core2Duo system in an Antec case for the same price, and they also had a Server 2008 era HP ProLiant server tower complete for $7, which I did not get, though I wish I had and parted it out or flipped it.
$30 is about what the Value Village here will put random system units at, though I've seen $80 for systems that aren't too long in the tooth, not sure the criteria, but probably 4-8 years old. I've bought at $30 a few years back, liked the case. They suffer from part strippers though, if you don't get them soon after they go on the floor, some a-hole will have pulled the RAM and CPU and any other small parts, roughly, maybe breaking clips. I know this from examining a few systems when they were "fresh" deciding I didn't want them, then discovering the same system still there a week later picked to the bones, just motherboard and PSU left. Tool-less and thumbscrew designs have their problems on that score. Boxed stuff you've gotta be quick on too, that gets shredded and scattered real quick.
Goodwills haven't had a system unit in years. I think they send to ewaste. Salvation Army seem to put on sale what they get, but don't get much, and pricing is all over the place... though a modernish system might go in their silent auction.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.