Anybody ever do any refurbishing to newer computers?

I most always chose to sell towers locally. The shipping part really drags down your profit, and can also be a pain. Laptops sold better, and shipped easier, but towers to me seldom seemed worth it

Take a look at the part where it shows how many of them this seller sold. They sold for 169.98 each, not 599.98. 169.98 with free shipping, plus the possibility of having to purchase a copy of windows 7 for each machine leaves almost no profit for you.

Each machine has its own key for Windows on it. Thats the key that comes with it from factory, can't ya use that key to reimage the towers? I did that when I built my gaming rig, my old dell computer that I bought from best buy had my windows 7 Home premium key on it, so I borrowed a buddy's Windows 7 install disk, put the key in from my old dell and it worked.

Originally Posted by msearl3244

I am a Certified Microsoft refurbisher and I have to pay around $30.00 for every copy of Windows 7 I put in a machine and even then it has to already have an older valid Windows COA on it from something like Vista or XP.

I'm just wondering about this, but is it a painstaking process to become Microsoft certified to refurbish?

Originally Posted by Kochy

I'm just wondering about this, but is it a painstaking process to become Microsoft certified to refurbish?

Note difficult but if you don't buy enough Licenses in a given time they will cancel your agreement. I know from personal experience.

I might try and get in that if I keep get good newer computers. I always like working on computers so I could hit two birds with one stone. Scrapping and fixing up computers for resale. Gotta love it.

Yeah building new machines is fun but expensive. I enjoyed building my i7 rig. Holy crap to me that's alot but prolly to you it probably wasn't nothing.

Say you become a refurbisher for Microsoft and are able to buy windows 7 installations for 30 dollars a piece. Do you have to pay a monthly fee for the certification or no? Cause I'm looking to sell alot of these computer I got, I already am selling a lot of them in which I already doubled and almost tripled my investment as of now.

Most cities have all kinds of people refurbing slightly older but usable machines. Selling them has more to do with how good you are at sales then the product you are selling.

You can probably do pretty well on those locally! I would Craigslist them for $220 OBO and see what offers you get. Just list it as if you have one system to sell, it is nobodies business that you have many. Offer a mouse, keyboard, and (if you have extra) an LCD monitor with it.

Those PC's on ebay are fetching less than $100 when fees and shipping are considered....you can do MUCH better locally.

Used desktop sales are pretty much dead in many areas, everyone wants a notebook and people are buying their kids cheap tablets from China (or just using cell phones). I used to think it was just kids doing everything from their phones but even my barber who is my age (40's) doesn't have a home computer or broadband, he does what little web browsing he does from his expensive cell phone. Could also be he can barely afford the monthly cell phone bill and not a computer plus broadband.

Yeah I'm doing better on reselling the laptops. I sold about 4 or 5 of them and then I only sold two desktops.