ThinkpadIL wrote on 2023-08-18, 20:11:

So why not to sell all of that stuff as soon as possible since money can buy anything you need, also things that are outside of your hobby.

Because selling stuff costs time. I'd have to go through all of it and decide what to sell, then test it, make photos, make ads/auctions, communicate with potential buyers, pack it and send it. And none of those actions is fun (for me) but work.
Of course I'll have to do that as soon as possible, but it's nothing I'm looking forward to spending my free time with.

HanSolo wrote on 2023-08-18, 23:32:

ThinkpadIL wrote on 2023-08-18, 20:11:

So why not to sell all of that stuff as soon as possible since money can buy anything you need, also things that are outside of your hobby.

Because selling stuff costs time. I'd have to go through all of it and decide what to sell, then test it, make photos, make ads/auctions, communicate with potential buyers, pack it and send it. And none of those actions is fun (for me) but work.
Of course I'll have to do that as soon as possible, but it's nothing I'm looking forward to spending my free time with.

Well, you always may give it away for cost of shipping instead. In that case you won't need to make photos, spend too much time for making ads and communication. 🙂

I save only the rare parts. Dont buying low-end parts in general.
I have a lot parts around my hobby area. Mostly keep the older pre-pentium stuff.

Dont stock to much up with later systems after Pentium III machines. My intrest is more with the older systems.

I know that fixing things cost time.. But best to do it, just take the time you need to have.

If you make the first decision for collect parts and few year later you selling it, then you didnt make the right decision when first starting collecting it.
I know what it takes to have stuff around and repairing it..

Never going with the route, when needed then buying later. Prices will always going be expensiver over time. So its better to have something around.
If i have parts, that really cant using it, then just going to sell it and make someone happy with it.

Iam running these systems, for my hobby, and its also my part of my collection.

HanSolo wrote on 2023-08-18, 23:32:

ThinkpadIL wrote on 2023-08-18, 20:11:

So why not to sell all of that stuff as soon as possible since money can buy anything you need, also things that are outside of your hobby.

Because selling stuff costs time. I'd have to go through all of it and decide what to sell, then test it, make photos, make ads/auctions, communicate with potential buyers, pack it and send it. And none of those actions is fun (for me) but work.
Of course I'll have to do that as soon as possible, but it's nothing I'm looking forward to spending my free time with.

If selling stuff costs time, then ebay isnt the right thing to do.. Probably its better to get it to someone locally. Faster is just put it in a big lot and take it away from you.

Robin4 wrote on 2023-08-18, 23:49:

If you make the first decision for collect parts and few year later you selling it, then you didnt make the right decision when first starting collecting it.

Or things were bought as an investment in something that interested you at the time, and the time has come to cash in that investment.

Wait...wait...wait... there is hardware we dont need?

Oh you are talking about Macs.

Grem Five wrote on 2023-08-19, 01:22:

Wait...wait...wait... there is hardware we dont need?

Oh you are talking about Macs.

🤣. I have boxes of everything and dozens of computers. I was a hoarder until recently and admit it. When I pass my relatives will hate me because it is all junk to them but very valuable to most of you....

I'm a bit of a packrat (although I tell people I'm a "collector", not a "hoarder") so I hate to throw out still useful items. I store my computer components in either their original boxes or basic component boxes, and stack them neatly. I often encounter times when I need some old component to solve a unique problem, and I'm glad to have one on-hand.

I'm pretty careful about what I buy, so I have very few duplicates of specific components. If I do have more than one, I usually had a good reason for getting a second.

About 20 years ago, I was really into hardware recycling since I had a lot less space to store things. I gave whole computers to other family members based on my unused parts. While I was glad to see someone else get some use out of those parts, I rarely got them back. In recent years, I've ended up rebuying those same parts I gave away for one project or another.

HanSolo wrote on 2023-08-18, 23:32:

Because selling stuff costs time. I'd have to go through all of it and decide what to sell, then test it, make photos, make ads/auctions, communicate with potential buyers, pack it and send it. And none of those actions is fun (for me) but work.
Of course I'll have to do that as soon as possible, but it's nothing I'm looking forward to spending my free time with.

I feel the same but also don't want to throw out working hardware.
If you offer job lots on places like gumtree/ criagslist or whatever you may get lucky and someone will take the lot off your hands.
I sold about 10 servers including rackmount kits, old UPS, filled the boot of my Volvo V70 to a guy.
Another guy who was buying an old Cisco router also ended up taking 2 car loads of old PC's, keyboards, screens, any anything else I was giving away.

I keep all Hard drives, optical drives, Video cards, and some Ram.
Even crappy video cards and ram are useful for testing.
I like having at least one spinning rust drive and optical drive in my PC and while cheep and plentiful now they will die out now that no one uses them.
I probably have more drives then I'll even need but this way I'm covered for those drives that die in storage.

chinny22 wrote on 2023-08-21, 00:45:

I feel the same but also don't want to throw out working hardware. If you offer job lots on places like gumtree/ criagslist or w […]
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I feel the same but also don't want to throw out working hardware.
If you offer job lots on places like gumtree/ criagslist or whatever you may get lucky and someone will take the lot off your hands.
I sold about 10 servers including rackmount kits, old UPS, filled the boot of my Volvo V70 to a guy.
Another guy who was buying an old Cisco router also ended up taking 2 car loads of old PC's, keyboards, screens, any anything else I was giving away.

Nice ! I like that idea. Maybe if I did a "lot" of dupe motherboards or sound cards someone might be interested but not sure how many vintage collectors there are on west coast of USA outside of the rare few I already know about.

I just gave away 4 CRT's I didn't need/have room for anymore. I made a post of facebook and they were gone within 20 minutes to a very happy new owner.

I don't keep CRTs, I don't have any cases that I do not currently use but I store all floppy/hard drives I find (after I wipe them clean).

appiah4 wrote on 2023-08-21, 07:08:

I don't keep CRTs, I don't have any cases that I do not currently use but I store all floppy/hard drives I find (after I wipe them clean).

Yeah, I've only got High end trinitrons left now. I also keep all the floppy, HDD and cdrom drives I come across, especially IDE ones.