LOL... yeah she asked me if I wanted it. I said I can take it off your hands if its FREE, but how much do you want for it. She said how about $100. I said its only worth $20 to me as it sits if you take your hard drive. If you sell it with hard drive intact, I can go $40. Could always use a spare 320GB 2.5" SATA drive. She decided to keep it for now and wasn't thrilled that its a not very valuable paperweight. I explained to her that the Laptop was around $450-$500 when new, and if it was running healthy would be worth about $150-$200, but a laptop that wont even post is pretty much a paperweight right now and RAM and Hard Drive are easy to find uses and/or customers for to resell, but the display is less universal and is only worth money to someone who needs that exact replacement which could take a while to sell. She then understood and left with it.
Sometimes I feel like I am on Pawn Shop negotiating with people, but I AM NOT the type that if a person says I need change for a dollar, I say the best I can do is 75 cents! LOL ... Saw that one on a facebook post the one day that cracked me up with a picture of the main Pawn Shop TV Show guy on it.
I think she was thinking that $100 would take the edge off of the cost of a new laptop, but I would lose on that deal at $100 when at most I can see selling parts and making maybe $20-40 on my initial investment which puts its value at $60-$80 to someone who wants a brick to gut or has a clone with a good main board and busted display etc. And trying to sell something to make $20 to $40 is just about a waste of time to me. In the past I have refurbished servers that I acquired cheap and doubled my money on, but its in the hundreds of dollars not gas money unless you drive a Yukon SUV... LOL I have a fuel sipper Honda Civic EX Thank God with todays fuel prices
