All In one computers??

**hills** · 03-21-2021, 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by kss

Why do you regret picking up mac G5s?! They sell online for a good bit and have a slightly collectable market. Some people online even buy them just to rip the guts out and make a gaming pc out of cause the case it cool (assuming you are talking about the aluminum ones).

There's not much of a re-sell market in this area K. When people do buy something ... they buy new ... and they tend to go to the micro devices like an iPhone or iPad mini. I've listed a number of items on CL over the years and never even has a bite.

That pretty much narrows it down straight to scrap or the MTSV parts sold to a buyer here on the forum. It's pretty remote in this part of the country so shipping is a considerable cost as well. It really bites into the bottom line.

The main thing with the G5's is that they are a difficult tear down for someone that doesn't do them very often. It seems that Apple intentionally makes it's products more difficult to work on. They do this as a means of protecting the aftermarket repair service that they offer. It's a contrary way of doing things but they've always been like that from the get go.

Anyhow that's just my take on it. They're kinda persnickety that way. A sawzall, torch, and a grinder works just fine for making short work of all their foolishness.

Lol ... i guess i don't have much use for a Mac.

**kss** · 03-21-2021, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by hills

There's not much of a re-sell market in this area K. When people do buy something ... they buy new ... and they tend to go to the micro devices like an iPhone or iPad mini. I've listed a number of items on CL over the years and never even has a bite.

That pretty much narrows it down straight to scrap or the MTSV parts sold to a buyer here on the forum. It's pretty remote in this part of the country so shipping is a considerable cost as well. It really bites into the bottom line.

The main thing with the G5's is that they are a difficult tear down for someone that doesn't do them very often. It seems that Apple intentionally makes it's products more difficult to work on. They do this as a means of protecting the aftermarket repair service that they offer. It's a contrary way of doing things but they've always been like that from the get go.

Anyhow that's just my take on it. They're kinda persnickety that way. A sawzall, torch, and a grinder works just fine for making short work of all their foolishness.

Lol ... i guess i don't have much use for a Mac.

I used to only do local sales because I didnt want to deal with ebay or shipping.... now I have 100% flipped. Now I HATE doing local sales, and love doing online/ebay.

Online sales you have a much broader market, and often get things sold for more and quicker/quickly.... Plus with online its all on MY schedule... no scheduling, no meet ups, not going somewhere to meet and them not being interested or just ghosting you and not showing up. Yes there can be some shipping issues and there are for sure other flaws. But I dont like dealing with people and dont like getting jerked around or being on anyone else's schedule. And selling online lets me list them all on 1 day, and ship them all exactly 7 days later on my own schedule. Which is much better than people being like... "oh yea I can meet up some time between 5 and 9pm..." then me moving my schedule around to accommodate and then them changing their mind last min.

I know some have been scammed or swindled, but ill take the 1 in 100 times something goes wrong on ebay over the hassle of local sales, so, that being said, I'd have them bad boys up on the eBay lol