Scrap it or Sell it?

I've been sitting on this for about a year now, I had it up at my tech school, trying to figure out what wrong with it, it boots up but can't find hard drives. I was wondering if I should just scrap this or, sell it, if so how much would you guys ask?


HP Proliant DL585 Server


Here's the ebay listing i have up.
HP Proliant DL585 439727 001 Server with Two 146GB HDD Great Working Order 808736770149 | eBay

it can't find hard drives? or is it, you can't tell it where they are? ; ) is it a SCSI, Linux, what's the deal with it?

man I'd pull that listing in a hurry, break it down, and part it out. 90 pounds? it wouldn't be worth 79.95 packaging that thing up to ship. Smaller parts sell better and ship easier

I gotta agree with Bear on this one. It's gonna be really hard to find someone who is willing to pay that much for shipping. If you're set on selling as is, then i would try CL or something else more local. Otherwise i would just scrap it.

Yeah. Well, when I first turned it on when I got it, it sounded like a Jet engine firing up with all the fans. But now it still kind of sounds like a jet, I'll probably just scrap it. I'll post a couple ads on Craigslist and see what I can do.

you have 4 cpu's, some of those machines were sold with 2 cpu's and two empty slots, you'll get 79.95 for 2 cpu's. Sell the RAM seperate, sell the fans and power supplies seperate, sell the mobo, sell every part of that thing, then scrap the case

Is that a G3? I quickly sold the power supplies out of an old G3 server, but no other parts have moved except for the HDs. Parting out is best for ebay.

However...I do see old servers sell on the local craigslist...

My opinion a year is too long to sit on an item. Not saying I don't have any thing hanging around for a year. Sometimes its hard to let go when you think something has better than scrap value.

Im pretty sure, the Hard drives are wacked that I tested with it. Cause I recieved them from the IT guy at our Tech school. They weren't showing up, maybe because the drives were more updated then the server could handle, Idk. It does work, does function and everything of that nature.

you never said if they're scsi or not, those have to be set up, and the machine has to be told where they are. Otherwise it could need something adjusted in setup on the machine. Any hard drive should work on any machine that has connections for it

no offense Kochy, but you're rocking a 91.7% feedback and I don't get a warm fuzzy after reading your listing and your comments above.

anyone who buys this is going to know a lot more about it than you, and they'll find something wrong....these things are thousands of dollars new, so anyone who buys this at this price is operating out of their league...recipe for disaster. "Shipping was more than the unit" or "it arrived broken" and you'll be even lower on the feedback, with paypal calling for a chargeback.

have you asked yourself, if it was still working perfectly, why it became scrap?

If you want that FB score to go up, I'm not sure this item is going help.

woah! 91.7 is an account that needs scrapped, that's over 8 negs per hundred. I start looking away when they have over 2 (negs per hundred)

If you look at the feedback on my account, the latest feedback was from a guy who could barely speak english and didn't read the listing about a Blackberry I recieved in scrap that functioned correctly, worked perfect with an SD card in it, I sold it without the SD Card, the guy bought it with out the SD Card and neg'd me for not working, when he didn't even know what a SD card is. 2nd feedback was new york buyer, bought an item when I went to print the label, it said Unknown error, found out later after calling USPS, that the address was an invalid address. I contacted the buyer, they gave me another address which still didn't work, I told her and she didn't respond back for 4 days and neg'd me. 3rd one I had some office phones up on Ebay, the bidder bid 1 cent on them, I sold them locally which I stated I was also selling locally, and if I sold them locally I would cancel the auction, I sold them locally, and I couldn't cancel the auction, refunded the guys money, and told him sorry about any inconvenience.

I took the the server down, I'm gunna be parting it out. Thanks for the advice guys.

Originally Posted by Kochy

If you look at the feedback on my account, the latest feedback was from a guy who could barely speak english and didn't read the listing about a Blackberry I recieved in scrap that functioned correctly, worked perfect with an SD card in it, I sold it without the SD Card, the guy bought it with out the SD Card and neg'd me for not working, when he didn't even know what a SD card is. 2nd feedback was new york buyer, bought an item when I went to print the label, it said Unknown error, found out later after calling USPS, that the address was an invalid address. I contacted the buyer, they gave me another address which still didn't work, I told her and she didn't respond back for 4 days and neg'd me. 3rd one I had some office phones up on Ebay, the bidder bid 1 cent on them, I sold them locally which I stated I was also selling locally, and if I sold them locally I would cancel the auction, I sold them locally, and I couldn't cancel the auction, refunded the guys money, and told him sorry about any inconvenience.

I took the the server down, I'm gunna be parting it out. Thanks for the advice guys.

Those are all things you've got to deal with Kochy. Not knocking you, but patience in life is a virtue, on Ebay it is a requirement. No speaka de engris? Use a translator if necessary. Printer don't print, use a pen. (always use the address listed with the payment If they don't know their own addy, who will, but complaints to ebay/paypal will be in your favor) Reserving the right to sell locally at the same time it's up for auction doesn't seem like a good idea, possibly using a buy it now price and selling to first buyer could suffice.
Whether it's on Ebay, or in a "brick & mortar" there's always going to be customers who'll need handled with kid gloves, lest you wind up with unhappy customers and a bad rep. Past that point it just doesn't matter who was "right", your name will take a smudge
Good luck getting that worked out man

dude you can get the no communication one off your account...talk with customer service and show the evidence. If you are selling on Ebay and say I am also selling locally, that doesn't fly...it may actually be against the TOS since technically if they win the auction, it is a CONTRACT....that thing goes both ways and if enough money or the right item is involved you can get SUED for performance on that. If you list on Ebay, then list it on Ebay, if you want to sell local, then do that...can't have your cake and eat it too....they will KILL your feedback score...and rightly so.

Every once in awhile you get a negative...all you can do it state your case, get it reviewed, or hell, refund it if the hassle is not worth the $$$....and that happens sometimes. But 1 negative here or there will not hurt you...if you get several and only have say 30 feedback, then yep, that is bad.

Part the things out...the reason I would think the hard drives are not being found is they are ANCIENT...hard drive degrade, so do the cables...that is the culprit alot of times. Anyways....part that sucker out, but let anyone know that is buying that motherboard that you are not sure if the hard drives are bad or the connector on the MB...unless you have a spare SCSI HD laying around.