corsaaa_16v
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I am looking at selling my PC but not sure which way to go about it.
I bought it from a local computer shop as a custom made package and it cost me about £650 18 months ago
Just after a bit of advice on what sort of price to sell it for, where to sell it and the security of selling it (making sure any personal data is not on it anymore)
21" flat screen monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Custom spec PC
Gloss black case with neon lights
Will put the spec up later but any advice much appreciated
Cheers
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Bart
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wont be worth £200 im afriad. The second hand market in most industries has crashed.
Best off selling it to a family memeber or keeping it for spares imo.
Geek Day also 
[Edited on 01-02-2009 by Bart]
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_Allan_
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Sell it in bits and on ebay. People will pay over the odds
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DannyB
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quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_
Sell it in bits and on ebay. People will pay over the odds
Your best option definately, what is the spec of it?
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Eddie.2k
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PC advisor magazine bought a new computers off ebay (sellers wiped the HD) but there personal information can still be accessed from it.
They were able to get bank details and so on, Best thing to do is destroy the HD when selling
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_Allan_
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I wouldn't destroy a perfectly good HD for the sake of worry. I'd challange anyone to recover information from a drive that's been formatted, zeroed, formatted, zeroed and then quick formatted. Standard recovery programs I used found nothing. Short of having access to forensic/FBI equipment I'd think it would be quite difficult.
[Edited on 01-02-2009 by _Allan_]
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corsaaa_16v
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SPEC:
Mirai 19" LCD Widescreen Monitor
Spec of PC
Dual Core 4600 Processor
2GB RAM
250 GB Hard Drive
256 MB G-FORCE 8500 GT GRAPHICS
DVD Re-writer
Microsoft Office 2007
Wireless Internet adapter/NTL broadband with wireless router
Wireless Keyboard and Mouse
What do people think then?
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Ian
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Look for similar completed listings on Ebay or list it on here with a base price of around £200 offers.
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MJFF88
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I'd buy it for £150
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Brett
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A family member wants a PC. Wouldn't be interested in screen, mouse, etc tho, just the base. Don't need the wireless router either actually. How much?
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Doug
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I wouldn't sell a computer with a hard drive in it tbh
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N3CRO
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I sold my last one on eGay for £120 to some dude from London who came and picked it up 
Was worth more but I wanted it gone, it was a custom made show system.
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John
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If you've done a full format of the hard drive that's probably enough for the majority of people who'll try and get anything off it.
I've used a program called autoclave in the past, there's no chance you're getting anything off after the highest level on that.
Even after a format there are tiny traces of what bit it was for multiple writes but you need an electron microscope and i've never got how they'd piece all that data back together even if they read it all.
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Andrew
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Old PCs are genrally not worth much. I'd give you £150 max for it really.
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Originally posted by John
If you've done a full format of the hard drive that's probably enough for the majority of people who'll try and get anything off it.
Don't mean to piss on anyones fire here but run that application on a hard drive and give me the drive. I'll get all kinds off it!
I had a little play with this kind of stuff a while back. Only real way to be sure is to smash the drive up.
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paul.mitchell1984
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propably around the £150 mark tbh imo,
and as above you dont need stupidly good equipment and all singing dancing software to get get information back so long as you have the time and knowlege 
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John
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
Old PCs are genrally not worth much. I'd give you £150 max for it really.
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Originally posted by John
If you've done a full format of the hard drive that's probably enough for the majority of people who'll try and get anything off it.
Don't mean to piss on anyones fire here but run that application on a hard drive and give me the drive. I'll get all kinds off it!
I had a little play with this kind of stuff a while back. Only real way to be sure is to smash the drive up.
If I gave you a drive I had ran autoclave over you wouldn't be getting anything off it.
This smashing up perfectly good drives to protect data is a lot of rubbish.
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Andrew
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Send me a drive in the post mate 
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John
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It's only theoretically possible to get data off a zeroed drive so how would you possibly get it off a drive thats had 20+ passes of alternating 1's and 0's without a lot of time, money and a spare electron microscope.
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Andrew
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As i've said John, send me a drive and i'll pull data off a drive that has had 40+ passes run through. It is still possible to recover at least part of the data.
You would make it harder yes, but an expert could still recover data.
Enough said, if you wish to chat add me to msn: andy_craig@live.co.uk or drop me a u2u. You're ruining a perfectly good thread here.
[Edited on 01-02-2009 by Andrew]
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corsaaa_16v
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Now FOR SALE:
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=478755
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DannyB
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Sell it all seperately, I'll have that case off you.
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deano87
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Sell it seperately.
I needed a new fan on my graphics card. Installed all fine, but as I was putting it back onto the motherboard, I wasn't looking at what I was doing and was putting pressure on a chip - needless to say, it snapped and the graphics card was useless.
I sold it on eBay for spares/repairs for more than the new fan was worth.
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corsaaa_16v
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Might consider selling it seperately
Can anyone give me an idea of what all the bits would be worth seperately?
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N3CRO
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I reckon £30 - £50 for the case and neons.
The monitor will be fetch the most money I'd think.
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corsaaa_16v
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So something like:
£80 for the unit
£50 for the case and neons
£15 mouse and keyboard
£100 desktop system
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